Curse ארר

To Adam and Eve, along with everyone following after them instead of ט֖וֹב מְאֹ֑ד very good we have not only מות death hanging over our heads but in the meantime our word for today ארר curse. It is used 63 times in the Hebrew Bible, our Old Testament. The basic idea of this word is that it is something that is placed over you that is heavy. And we definitely see in chapter three of Genesis that life becomes a whole lot heavier than it was before Adam and Eve’s sin and rebellion against God. And let’s not forget ourselves because we have contributed to making life here heavier than God wants it to be. The curse ארר involves pain in childbearing, conflict in the marriage relationship, and work will be a whole lot harder in two senses. More effort will be required because the return will be less and the work required will be painful. Then after all of these challenges or ארר curses of this life are over what happens? We go back in the ground, we die מות. Wow, that is depressing because this was not the life God created for us to live in. No, his life was one that was ט֖וֹב מְאֹ֑ד very powerfully good. It is important that we remember this because this life can make you do what Adam did and blame God for his gift of Eve. Instead of remembering that he was the problem. As we all have contributed to making this life more of a curse than a blessing. But the good news is that Jesus is the solution to the curse because he became the curse for us so that we can have eternal life through his death in our place. And we can enjoy this now even in this fallen messed up world we currently live in because we have been raised to live with Christ in the heavenly realms even now. We live in two places at once if we are in Christ.