Man does not live on bread alone

Mt. 4:4 Jesus answered, “It is written: `Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’“

Ge. 2:7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
Ge. 2:8 Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.
Ge. 2:9 And the LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground — trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

2Co. 5:1 Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
2Co. 5:2 Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling,
2Co. 5:3 because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked.
2Co. 5:4 For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

There are two parts to a human being: the earthly tent in which the man lives, that is the earthly body, and the soul or the inner being. As Ge. 2:7 says, God began the creation of man by first of all forming the earthly body, and then breathed into that body His Holy Spirit and man became a living soul. In Ge. 2:8-9, we see the garden that God created to provide food for man that He had created. The Garden of God also had two parts: there were trees that provided food for the earthly body and two trees that provided food for the soul.

Ge. 2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;
Ge. 2:17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.”

One of the two trees that can provide food for the soul is actually poisonous to the kind of body that Adam and Eve had, before the fall of man. I believe that Adam and Eve had the kind of body that Jesus possessed after his resurrection. For this reason, God warned man to never eat from the poisonous tree, else he would die.

Ge. 3:6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
Ge. 3:7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized that they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

Man eventually ate from the poisonous tree, which God had warned him never to eat from, and immediately became naked. This nakedness means that man lost the heavenly body that he had in the beginning and his soul had no body to cover it. As we can see from 2 Cor. 5:3-4, that is what happens when a human being of today dies. When a human being dies, the soul becomes naked, having no covering or tent to live in.

Re. 6:9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained.
Re. 6:10 They called out in a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?”
Re. 6:11 Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been was completed.

In Re. 6:9-11, we can see the souls of people of God who had been slain because of their faith in God’s word. God ordered that each of them be clothed with white robe or heavenly body. Big question is, what happens to souls of people who do not die on the side of God? Who is there to clothe those souls? How does it feel for a soul to remain endlessly naked? Is that what hell is all about?

We notice in Ge. 3:7 that as soon as Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, they noticed that they were naked and immediately sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. They were able to do this because of the extent of development their souls had attained before the fall of man, as a result of their closeness to the presence of God. They had acquired some level of divinity. The fact that they quickly made some low-quality coverings for themselves shows how uncomfortable it is for a soul to be naked. Apostle Paul alluded to this in 2 Cor. 5:4. The mortal fear that a human being experiences when he comes face to face with death is actually the horror the soul experiences at the possibility of becoming naked.