Hi Mike,     
How’s everything? I’ve been looking for the spiritual significance of Eve adding to God’s commandment in Gen 3:3.  I’ve been looking at your papers on wrath. This is a topic that’s difficult for me to discern until I study the offerings. You make some pretty good points. Well, whatever God has planned, if it be wrath or no wrath, I’ll say Amen. 
 Thanks,
M____

Hi M____,
Thank you for your question.
You say:
“I’ve been looking for the spiritual significance of Eve adding to God’s commandment in Gen 3:3.  I’ve been looking at your papers on wrath. This is a topic that’s difficult for me to discern until I study the offerings. You make some pretty good points.”
Thank you for the ‘vote of confidence,’ but of course we both know that what I think is worth less than nothing unless it is also in agreement with “what is written.”
You are exactly right that one will never understand the subject of God’s wrath and why it is always poured out “on the Jew first”, until you come to understand why there is both a sin and a trespass offering. Those sacrifices are part of “what is written.” Read the entire series on The Law of The Offerings if you truly want to know what is the mind of God concerning His “wrath against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men.”

Rom 1:16  For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Rom 2:9  Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
Rom 2:10  But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
Rom 2:11  For there is no respect of persons with God.

“There is no respect of persons with God” proves that this is speaking of spiritual Jews and spiritual Gentiles.
It is a constant source of amazement for me how those who believe in the false doctrine of ‘fullness now’ can tell me that the Bible is not the word of God and at the same time quote the scriptures as if they were reliable and conclusive. Actually it is not that much of a mystery simply because that is exactly what a serpent with a forked tongue would naturally do.
The underlying reason we all tend to subscribe to that doctrine is so that we can look down on “what is written” as insufficient, and as “lacking in fullness,” simply because it does not say what we want it to say. In so doing we both add to and take away from the Word of God. In so doing we both take away our blessings, and we add to our curses, simply because…:

Rom 1:18  For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

… and…

Rev 22:18  For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
Rev 22:19  And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

Our mother Eve, just like mankind as a whole today, bought into the serpent’s lie that she and Adam were actually immortal souls which could never die. The serpent had managed to convince them that they were really immortal spirits like their Creator God, but that they were temporarily held within a mortal body. The serpent had convinced our mother Eve that she was a spiritual being having a physical experience, and that she would really never die. Her physical body might die, but Eve herself was a spirit, with a soul inside a body, just like her Creator, who was also an triune being.
The Truth, of course is what mankind will not acknowledge: “Dust thou art… and if Christ be not risen then they that are asleep in Christ are perished.” That is to say that if there is not a resurrection of dead people, then we have no hope simply because we are really, just as God told Adam and Eve, mere dust until the resurrection of the dead.

1Co 15:16  For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
1Co 15:17  And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
1Co 15:18  Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
1Co 15:19  If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable

For several years after seeing that Christ had told His apostles that He would come back in the person of His Father to comfort His disciples (read Is There a Trinity? on iswasandwillbe. com), I wondered why the doctrine of the trinity was the single most important doctrine in all of Christendom? It wasn’t until a man in South Africa sent me a link to a writing of William Law in which Mr. Law pointed out that in order for man to be “created in God’s likeness,” mankind must of necessity be a triune being, like his Creator.

Gen 2:17  But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Gen 3:19  In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Mr. Law’s false conclusion is a perfect example of how a wrong premise will always lead to a wrong conclusion. There is no Truth to the doctrine of the trinity. The Truth really is that “there is but one God, the Father:”

1Co 8:6  But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and [ besides this “one God, of whom are all things,” there is also] one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

This is a direct parallel to the fact that all men are of Adam yet all men come “ by a woman” by Eve.

1Co 11:8  For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
1Co 11:9  Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
 
1Co 11:11  Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
1Co 11:12  For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.

It was all the direct result of Eve adding to God’s Words “Thou shalt not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,” and at the same time taking away from God’s Words, “Thou shalt surely die.” Eve added “neither touch it,” and she took away “thou shalt surely die.”
But it was all intended to be done because God had provided a sacrifice for Adam’s sins “from the foundation of the world.”

Rev 13:8  And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Hope this answers your question.  Thanks for writing,
Mike