will hide from the presence of the Lamb at his second coming (Rev. 6:15–16), so Adam and Eve “hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God” as he entered the garden to judge them (Gen. 3:8).6 Not only was Adam’s delinquent judgment of Satan ironically turned into his own judgment, but now he who had been commissioned by God to “subdue and rule over everything that moves on the earth” was subdued and ruled over by the creeping serpent, to whom Adam had delivered his crown. And he who was to rule
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