·        Adam and Eve were part of creation which God declared to be “very good.”  They were innocent until they listened to Satan and allowed doubts about God’s Word to cloud their judgment.  The ground was cursed because of their sin.

·        The beautiful, perfect abode of Adam and Eve had to be vacated; and they moved into a condemned residence when they ceased to believe God and followed Satan’s deceitful advice.

·        God, being omniscient, knew that His first couple would move from their house of innocence into the condemned building bringing all of their future posterity with them; and He had a plan already in place to rescue them and restore what they lost.  They were created by Love (God is Love), and Love would renew them.

·        Jesus is the Door out of the condemned building (John 10:9).  He doesn’t want anyone left in the building when it is destroyed (2 Peter 3:9, 10), but each tenant must make his own decision to leave.  They will be given ample warning and time to vacate the premises before the implosion.

·        Once a resident leaves for a safe place, he then is required to have the attitude of his rescuer, Jesus.  Just as God loved and had mercy on him, he is to love and show mercy on others.  “…forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors” (Matthew 6:12).  He will attempt to rescue others from the doomed building.

·        Un-forgiveness is a deadly sin. “But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses” (Matthew 6:14).  Failure to forgive is to return to the condemned building, climb under the warning tape and re-enter a doomed place.  Unfortunately, some who re-enter the building will influence others who might be weak to accompany him, bringing wide-spread destruction.

·        Why would anyone prefer to live in a place that IS doomed for destruction when they have a good choice and chance to leave and enter a place of safety where Love dwells?  That’s a question that many will ask themselves throughout eternity. 

·        Leave now!  The destructive devices are in place, God has set a time and the condemned building will be destroyed.  Then never again will it be a danger to the redeemed nor be inhabited.  They are safe in the dwelling place that Jesus went to prepare. “In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so I would have told you.  I go to prepare a place for you” (John 14:2).

·        One of the cursed sins the Lord looks at is ‘Robbing God’ (greed).  Malachi 3:8 reminds us that to “rob God” (withhold that which belongs to Him) is a cursed building that will shut up all the blessings that God promised those who were obedient.  That building too can be vacated by releasing what belongs to God and be good stewards of what God has put in our hands.  We can move into a place of blessings prepared by Jesus instead of living in a cursed residence.  To Love God is to obey Him.

·        Jesus paid for our sins, so they are His.  Since He paid for them, He owns them; we owe Him for them.  The only way we can settle the debt is to leave the condemned residence by the Door, accept His death at Calvary where He made the transaction of love, forsake our sins and follow Him to Life.  Unless we settle the debt by leaving the building, we are in danger of having to pay for it ourselves at judgment—with death, eternal separation from God and lose all that He plans to bless us with for all eternity.