Les Feldick Bible Study

What remedy did God provide when He cursed the creation?

When God cursed the creation, He provided a remedy: it would come through the Redeemer, through the Son, and through the seed of the woman. Creation was subjected in hope, awaiting the day the curse will be lifted, as Paul writes in Romans 8.

Les teaches that as soon as the curse fell, the present-day ecology was set up, where one species feeds on another—leopards stalking deer and birds robbing other birds' nests. That is not how God originally created it; it is the result of the curse. But God came back and declared He had a remedy: redemption through the Redeemer, through the Son, and through the seed of the woman. Paul writes in Romans 8:20-21 that the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of Him who subjected it in hope. All creation is aware of this subjection, and the day is coming when the curse will be lifted.

Romans 8:20

For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

More Questions

What did God promise at the moment the curse fell?

The moment the curse fell, God promised a Redeemer, which is what Genesis 3:15 following the curse refers to.

Why was creation subjected to the curse unwillingly?

Creation was made subject to the curse unwillingly, because it had nothing to do with Adam's sin.