effects of disobedience. Iniquity, death, disease, poverty, earthquakes, famines, pestilence and more entered the earth. There was a loss of divine order and authority. Adam’s firstborn learned to hate, envy and murder. The enemy had taken the authority God had given for protection and provision and turned it against all creation, using it now for destruction and death. A man forfeited his position of authority; therefore, only a man could restore it. Thousands of years later Jesus