"And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein," ISA 35:8.

Notice that as the result of the fall of Adam, there is no "way". Man has fallen and become polluted in sin; and God, in His holiness and justice, cannot pardon that sin.

God is too Holy to allow His justice to be marred. His justice requires that every sin be punished with death; because He told Adam and Eve that in the day that they ate of the fruit, "Thou shalt surely die," GEN 2:17b. Death was the penalty placed upon sin, and man sinned.

We read in 1TI 2:14, "The woman being deceived was in the transgression." Notice that the woman was deceived. We see so much deceit in our world today. Wherein was the woman deceived? By the way of rebellion, she could become equal to God.

In GEN 3:5, Satan spoke to Eve and said, "For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil," GEN 3:5b. Satan was telling her that she would then grow in knowledge, and her eyes would be opened to know good and evil.

What happened next is told in GEN 3:7, "And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked." This brought a gulf between God and man; there was no way. But our text says, "And an highway shall be there, and a way...."