Blaming Others
And the man said, “The woman whom Thou gavest to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate.”
Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate” (Gen 3:12-13).
The man said that it was the woman\’s fault. The woman said that it was the serpent\’s fault. Since God put the serpent in the Garden, she was in fact implying that the whole thing was God\’s fault. Man has been trying to blame God for his problems ever since. This only leads to a deeper human depravity.
The three major perversions caused by the Fall were: 1) self-centeredness, 2) hiding, and 3) blame-shifting. If man had stopped at any of these points and begun turning back to God, the Fall would not likely have led to the depth of corruption to the human race that it did. If we will stop before this progression has fully developed, and turn to God, it will prevent us from likewise falling into a deeper problem.
When anyone sins, they will usually follow these same steps. First, they become self-centered, which causes them to try to hide, and start blame-shifting. The deeper the corruption, the more difficult it is to be helped out of our problems. The usual procedure for dealing with sin was dramatically demonstrated by President Clinton\’s response to the exposure of his affair. First he tried to hide it. Then, in a most interesting television address to the nation about the issue, he tried to actually pin some of the blame
The number 6 is the number of man.
- When God created the first righteous man (Gen 1:26-31); He saw that everything was very good. Pray that the Lord will use you & yours, and His church to make the difference everywhere: anything that is already good will change to very good, you will always leave people and places better than you met them (Joh 10:10, 1Joh 3:8)
- On the other hand, fallen man leaves everything and everyone he comes in contact with worse than he met them (Gen 6:5-11, Eccl 7:27-29, Ps 106:29). Everywhere he goes he attempts to do three major things: 1. Doing away with God, 2. Self-exaltation, 3. Self-glorification. If the number 6 represents each attempt, we end up with 666. This is the number of the antichrist according to Revelation 13:18. Pray that you, your family, business, the church and the nations will be delivered from the influence of this mark of the beast until the appointed time.