"The billiard shark, whom anyone catches, His doom’s extremely hard. He’s made to dwell in a dungeon cell, In a spot that’s always barred. And there he plays extravagant matches, in fitless finger stalls. On a cloth untrue with twisted cue, And elliptical billiard balls."

Because of Adam’s one sin, sin and all its messes came into the world for everyone. Life would be hard from then on. The ground would be hard. Work would be hard. Marriage would be hard. Having babies would be hard. And death would be really hard. What a rotten day – the second worst day in the history of the world.

And yet, before you close this book and crawl under your covers and cry, you need to know that just as all the bad things began to happen, God’s promise was beginning too. He promised that one day there would be a Snake Crusher to flatten that slimy serpent and save his sinful people. A war was about to begin. But God had already guaranteed that because of a great one to come, the good guys would win.