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The truth about the garden of eden

The garden could be likened to a womb:
4 reasons: up till now the earthly location cannot be found, It is a place where everything good on earth is located Gen. 2:8-15. Every of it content has eternal consequence (name given to animal remain the same; once the fruit was taken, no reversal). Adam had no understanding of earthly desires (no need); he never knew he was lonely, even after God provided a helper, there was no urge to know her
Adams death in the womb was at full maturity. How? It is in the practice of God to test his work after he has perfected it. God was already testing Adam (he gave him animals to name; the names he gave were accepted by God) and Adam was passing

It is the wisdom of God
The knowledge we need to judge the world and angels is not the knowledge of good and evil but the knowledge of wisdom. Genesis 2:8-9 And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. God out of his wisdom planted all the trees, one of them led to the fall of His treasured creation. Same way, Jesus in His wisdom chose 12 disciples, one of them was the son of perdition that betrayed him. Maybe it is a path of wisdom and devil fell for it. May be everything was the path that wisdom chose. No wonder God searched everywhere for wisdom did not want to let him off His sight (Job 28:23-7); no wonder Jesus was crucified before the foundation of earth (1Peter 1:19-20, Rev. 13:

The tree of life
Prov. 3:13-8. It is a tree of vitality, it gives life. Its fruit is just like breast milk to a baby, its composition do change to suit the need at any particular time. How? They take fruit from every tree save one Gen. 3:1. Meaning they have been eating fruit from the tree but they were hindered from taking from it after they fell because as at that time, the fruit gives vitality for life eternal. Gen. 3:22-4. The tree of life is the tree of righteousness. It is a place where you draw the strength of God. Yes it is the bible, Yes it is the church, Yes it is the prophet of God. 1 Cor. 2:7-10

The fall
Eve was a part of the first man that was already transcending into the real world, she draws her vitality form the man. Devil could only relate with Eve and not the man, God deals directly with the man. The womb was meant to produce a man that can function on earth but man took short cut and therefore he had no need for the womb again. To the system of the womb he became dead and he should not have access to the nourishment of the womb. His preplanned transition from the womb to the field became an expulsion which was very painful and traumatic. The woman being the one with fault was cursed to have an experience of what it felt like (her birth pang was greatly incryheased) **that was Eves purnishment not woman, there is always birth pang but hers was greatly increased.

Expelled but not rejected
Right from inside the garden, he was clothed by God. After his expulsion, God led him into tilling of the ground to teach him that his help could only come from his source- wisdom (what was left of him was just a degrading body).
The ground has been prepared for the real Adam (it has completed its own course of preparation) but since what came out of Eden was a different Adam, it was cursed Gen. 3:17
What could have taken few minutes/hours/days/years in the timing of the garden took thousands of years before it could be declared as finished. The fruit of the tree of life taken before the fall was only able to sustain the life span of human for a while during which it degrades; part of the process of degradation is sickness, cancers, demonic attack because human body has lost its glory and now seen as prey

Remedy for sadness

May be sometimes you are not just happy, or you suddenly become jealous of someone, or you are sad over your state in life. It simply means you are not getting the desired fruit and it could be so disturbing and the truth is it hurts. Sadness is emotional pain associated with, or characterized by feelings of disadvantage, loss, despair, helplessness. The day a man failed is not the day he repeated a class but the day he lost courage. It is ok to be disadvantaged but what is worst is to have a feeling of disadvantage. A man that is disadvantaged could be pulled up but a man than has the feeling of disadvantage will resist every attempt for help. The fuel of poverty is the feeling that follows it- what you fight first is not the poverty but the feeling. It is not your fault that you felt pain because of the trauma but it is your fault that you remain sad over it. The pain is superficial but the feeling is deep down in your heart. Sadness is a fruit in the heart that produces a state of mind that is bad for progress in life. That you fall is biblical, it only confirms you as righteous, so you just have to stand up as a new person. You need to understand that you are not meant to be unhappy because you have everything. God watches over you. You dont even have to worry

Give yourself a second chance:
you are the one that will stand up on your own, even if someone is pulling you up you have to release yourself to be pulled up. That is the time you need to be strong in the word. The way to do that is to forget the past; part of forgetting the past is to forgive. You might start on the same level with someone who is now your boss; forget the past and start treating him as one. What you dont appreciate in other people you dont get, forgive him for surpassing you and work in NOW. Study in the light of Gods word to know where you failed. Giving yourself a second chance is as though you are just starting (no past) but now as a better well equipped person than the first person. Holding onto the past- hatred, envy, strife- will push you deep into pit of misery.

You are a new person:
person refers to personality- a way of thinking, doing things. Your person means your identity, your attributes that makes you to be you and not another. It has changed and that makes you NEW; not for negative (revenge) but for positive- better well equipped. Your driving force is not hatred but love. Your chronological age may be 50yrs but that is not your real age because your life starts now. It is somehow for a 50 yrs old man to just start schooling but for a new person it is right.

Walk in the blessed path:
a changed attitude or person does not guarantee an expected end; what guarantees it is the ability to learn from those that are successful. We all have the tendency to repeat the same mistakes. There is a way that seems right but the end is death. Life is too short to gamble with. The fact that you get a second chance is a privilege which many dont get. You cant afford to treed based on your sight again. Walk in the destined path. God took the path first, left his footprints for us to see and follow. The footprint is his word and the path is the path of righteousness. On the path, he dropped everything you could ever need.

Adapted from www.christianlifeissues.com

Trinity

Not a word found in the bible but a term used to simplify the Godhead in the bible. Jesus recognized 3 persons that are important- the father, the son and the HG. And the bible also tells us that they are one. In the beginning we understand that God the father used the word let us. How could this be, could it be that God is not one as the bible says.

It is the path of wisdom
Same way it was for man that the woman was taken out of man and the two remains as one, so it is with the son and HS with the father. Wisdom presented 3 personalities in the Godhead to us in redemption

Roles
The father proposes. The son arranges the order of things. The HS accomplishes it (Job 26:5, Ps 104:29). The father approves it (it is good). The father is not complete as Godhead without the son and the spirit. The spirit is an aspect of Godhead formed into a whole. The HS is the power of God. The word is an aspect of Godhead formed into a whole prov 28:22-23.the word is the wisdom of God. The father is the head; both the HS and son are subject to the father and all the 3 of them are one



The father is always in need of companion
Both the spirit and the son cannot leave him at the same time. When one is on assignment the other stays with him. When jesus was sent, both the father and the spirit were together Isaiah 48:16. Before the HS was released to commence his ministry, Jesus had to go to the father. In the beginning when the HS was hovering the face of the sea, the son was with the father Gen 1:2, prov 8:30, john 1:1,3


The ministry of HS
Monitoring and ensuring what God has set in place
There is no difference between OT & NT manifestations of HS but some things are different- God was far away in OT but very near in NT, so most things were known in minute part in OT but in NT we are in the kingdom and we know things better. However for the HS, it doesnt matter if God was far away or near, it does its work (people of faith still received Christ even before he came, Hebrews11:23-26) thereby producing fruit. But the closeness to God matters to man- hope, assurance of the promises of God, fulfillment of Gods promises. In the NT our spirits were recreated, it became alive, able to relate with God. The HS also came to dwell in us.

Adapted from www.christianlifeissues.com