A Time of Firsts

I was reading through Gen. 3-5 and it struck me that in these 3 books, we have a few 'firsts' in human history. I have read over these passages so many times and never stopped to take in what this truly means. Of course, we begin with the first blatent disobedience to God by man. (I like to think that I would never have fallen for that pathetic story from Satan, but we have the benefit of context and we fall for far less everyday.)We have the first lie in history (Gen. 3:4-5). We have the first death in history with the death of the animals to clothe Adam & Eve's shame - symbolic of Jesus' death that would cover all of our shame. We have the first human death, and it is a murder no less.(Gen 4:8) And finally we have the first natural death in the death of Adam.(Gen 5:5) What must life have been like to the first people? Can you imagine the terror that people must have felt to see Adam die? Or to realize how far they had fallen to see a brother murder another? All of this because of one lie! Thank you Jesus for the price you paid to save us from our sin.
-jes