Yes—everything changed immediately for Adam and Eve.
Their eyes were opened to their nakedness, they felt shame, and they hid from God. Beyond that, sin and death entered, they were separated from the daily walk with God, and their whole existence came under the curse. God did not change; Adam and Eve did.
Genesis 3:7 — This verse records the first visible change: their eyes were opened and they knew they were naked, so they sewed fig leaves together.
Genesis 3:21 — God responds to their changed condition by making coats of skins and clothing them, a covering they could not provide for themselves.
Before the Fall, Genesis 2:25 says that Adam and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed. After they ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, Genesis 3:7 says their eyes were opened and they knew that they were naked, so they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons. Genesis 3:8 then records that when they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. Later, Genesis 3:21 says that the LORD God made coats of skins and clothed them. The change is clear: they moved from unashamed nakedness to shame, self-covering, and hiding, and then received covering from God Himself.
Les teaches that immediately after Adam and Eve partook of the forbidden tree, they saw their human nakedness and sewed fig leaves. But when they heard the Lord coming, those fig leaves just fell into nothing, so they ran and hid because even with their fig leaves they were in no shape to meet their righteous Creator. Les emphasizes that God did not give up and go back to heaven. He found them, called out, "Adam, where art thou?" and restored them. Les calls that mercy and grace. He also teaches that when Adam and Eve came out of the garden it was a totally different situation: in the garden they knew no sin and no death, but after the Fall sin and death had entered, they were separated from their daily walk with God, and they were under the curse, having to work by the sweat of the brow with thorns, thistles, disease, and insects. Les also points to the difference between their fig-leaf covering and God's covering. God made them coats of skins, covering their physical nakedness, and then the last three words of Genesis 3:21, "and He clothed them," point to spiritual clothing. Finally, Les connects this changed condition to all of Adam's children: they are dead in trespasses and sins, walking according to the course of this world, and are by nature children of wrath.
Les points out that the fig leaves Adam and Eve sewed "just sort of fell into nothing" when they heard the Lord coming down the path, so they ran and hid. He explains that even with their fig leaves, they were in no shape to meet their righteous Creator. Scripture records this in Genesis 3:8, where Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
Les stresses that God did not give up and say, "I can't find them; I'm going back to heaven." Instead, God found them, called "Adam, where art thou?" and restored them—Les calls this mercy and grace. God then made them coats of skins, covering their physical nakedness, and the final phrase "and He clothed them" points to spiritual clothing.
Les teaches that coming out of the garden was "a totally different situation." In the garden they did not know sin or death; after the Fall, sin and death had entered, and they were separated from their daily walk with God. They were now under the curse and had to work by the sweat of the brow, facing thorns and thistles, disease, insects, and all the things the curse brought in.
Les connects the changed condition of Adam and Eve to every child of Adam. He explains that all are "dead in trespasses and sins," walking according to the course of this world and the prince of the power of the air, and are "by nature the children of wrath." The Fall did not just change Eden; it changed the natural condition of the entire human race.
Humanity as Children of Adam
Les teaches that Adam's descendants are spiritually dead in trespasses and sins, walk after the course of this world, and are by nature children of wrath.
The Immediate Shame and Hiding
After sinning, Adam and Eve immediately saw their human nakedness and sewed fig leaves; when they heard the Lord, they hid because even covered they were not in shape to meet their righteous Creator.
God's Covering Instead of Fig Leaves
Les notes Adam and Eve did not make the animal-skin coats—God did. The coats covered physical nakedness, but the language moves beyond that to God clothing them.
Life Outside the Garden Was Totally Different
Les teaches that when Adam and Eve came out of Eden it was a totally different situation because in the garden they knew no sin and no death.
The Pre-Fall Baseline
Les describes Eden before the Fall: Adam and Eve were so sinless that even in their naked state they were perfectly comfortable in God's presence—showing the purity they later lost.
Changed Circumstances, Unchanging God
Les summarizes the change: sin and death had entered, they were separated from the daily walk with God, and life was no longer the easy existence of paradise; God did not change, Adam and Eve did.
The Spiritual Meaning of God's Clothing
Les teaches that after God made coats of skins to cover physical nakedness, the last three words "and He clothed them" point to spiritual clothing.
Expulsion and the Curse's Practical Effects
Les teaches that because sin had entered, they had to be removed from the garden and live by the sweat of the brow under the curse, including thorns, thistles, disease, and insects.
Genesis 2:25: And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
This is the pre-Fall baseline: Adam and Eve were naked without shame in God's presence.
Genesis 3:7: And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
This is the first recorded change after they ate: they became aware of their nakedness and tried to cover themselves.
Genesis 3:8: And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
The change led to fear and hiding from God, even after their fig-leaf covering.
Genesis 3:21: Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
God responded to their changed condition by providing a covering, which Les says points beyond physical clothing to spiritual clothing.
Ephesians 2:1: And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
Les uses this verse to show that the Fall left Adam's descendants spiritually dead.
Ephesians 2:3: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Les cites this verse to describe the natural state of Adam's children: by nature children of wrath.
Because immediately after eating, their eyes were opened and they knew they were naked, so they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons. Les notes that those fig leaves fell into nothing when God came, so they went beyond covering themselves and hid.
No. Les teaches that God found them, called "Adam, where art thou?" and restored them. He calls that mercy and grace. God also made them coats of skins to cover them.
They went from the easy existence of paradise to living under the curse, working by the sweat of the brow, and facing thorns, thistles, disease, and insects. Sin and death had entered, and they were separated from their daily walk with God.
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