Fall. Just realized why the season of leaves turning color is call 'Fall.' Not because the leaves are falling off the trees, but the Fall of human. In Genesis Adam and Eve disobeyed God by eating the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. After that, 'the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.; Then in verse 3:8, 'in the cool of the day' they 'heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden.' See, the season they sinned, or fell, is when the weather turned cool (not the hot wind from summer nights). Hence, the name.
Come to think of it, they spent their first winter outside of the Garden of Eden. No wonder God had to make 'coats of skins' to 'clothed them.' (v. 21)
p.s. who says we can't wear animal skin? But I must say I'm against hunting down animals even to their extinction for their skin. That is not a responsible way to manage the world, which is God's mandate for men.
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