Many are in search of the Holy Grail, but it remains undiscovered because the vessel of Jesus is the “Grail” that held the true Wine. Many have also searched for the Garden of Eden but to no avail!
Just where is the Holy Grail? It is inside Christians who have drank the blood of Jesus.
Just where is Paradise? It is where the “Holy Grail” resides. It is from where Christians “drink.”
Does it matter where Paradise is? I think so, because God showed Abraham Paradise, and then gave it to him and his seed. That would be Christians! Many who shall inherit, go to see their inheritance.God took Abraham to Paradise to see the gift that He would grant and deed to him.
It mattered to God that Abraham glimpse Paradise before it was destroyed, and know where it is and what it was. Abraham got a preview of Paradise before it was taken away to heaven. If it matters to God what I am to inherit, I care! Now for a little peek of Paradise so that you can see the “prize” as if it is in hand. [i]
Whatever happened to the Garden? In scripture, it was there, then poof, after the flood, the Garden of Eden seemed to have gone away. Throughout the New Testament, when the righteous died, they arose. The best example is Jesus Himself. He was “carried up to heaven.” [ii]
But also, when Jesus died, “The graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many” (Mat 27:52).
The dead arose from the ground and were alive again. Then they were resurrected with Jesus. Surely, Adam arose from grace beneath Calvary and when Jesus arose to the heaven, Adam arose with Him. That day not only did the thief be carrid with Jesus to Paradise, but perhaps Adam, John the Baptist, and many of the patriarchs of old arose with Jesus!
Jesus was carried up to Heaven. Who carried Him? Jacob was given a clue it seems: “And (Jacob) dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it” (Gen 28:12). Angels, perhaps, carried Jesus up to Heaven.
Who carried those who had been in the grave? Perhaps the same angels carried them up the same “ladder” that Jacob saw. The Holy Cross was most assuredly Jacob’s ladder and the stairway to heaven!
The “ladder” is mobile. It is always where Jesus is! Jesus was with Jacob in Bethel, and He was with mankind in Calvary. If anyone is a Christian, Christ is in them, and the ladder to heaven is right there!
The proposal is that God works wonders in two stages. The first stage is to raise the dead from the grave to the surface of the Earth, and stage two is from the earth to the heaven.
Death ushers in stage one. Examine the evidence: “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord” (1 Thes 4:16-17). Those in the grave will arise first, they will gather on the face of the Earth then those alive will be caught up with them. Stage two is rising to heaven.
Now examine the Garden of Eden. It is no longer on the face of the Earth. It is likely that the Garden was buried in the deluge of Noah’s time because afterward, Eden was passed through by various patriarchs with no mention of the Garden. The Garden died! Only its “foundation remained.” Jerusalem means “the foundation of peace,” and the Jordan River is in Hebrew, Naral Ha Yarden— “the River of the Garden.”
But where is the Garden? It is perhaps buried under the layers of history in Israel. Not just Israel as it is known today, but Israel, the Kingdom of David.
Lot and Abraham arrived from Egypt with great wealth and found themselves in what would become the Kingdom of David. Now consider scripture again:
10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar. 11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other. 12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom. 13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly. (Gen 13:10-13)
Abraham and Lot found Paradise. “Jesus” met them there in His Kingdom. He was called at that time, “Melchizedek,” King of Peace. He was without father or mother. He had been there all the time since the flood.
Look at those passages. Lot looked and saw several things: (1) The River of the Garden, (2) that the great cities were even as the Garden of the Lord, and (3) like Goshen in the land of Egypt, whose westward boundary was the Nile, was the Promised Land.
There is one problem with the English translation. “Even as” is not in the original Hebrew. Lot saw the Garden of the Lord, not just a plain that resembled it. The southern part of the Garden of Eden had laid buried. Melchizedek had begun to prepare the Garden for the arrival of Abraham and his seed. God would again plant his seed in the fertile earth and multiply living souls. Abraham brought “souls” with him from Haran to plant there! [iii]
However, there was a problem; tares were growing in the Garden! It was full of weeds and required weeding.
Note that Canaanites dwelt in that land. They were as much as squatters in the Garden of Eden, and that land was full of weeds. Melchizedek was there as “King” to govern the weeding out, and Canaanites were the perfect servants assigned to the job!
Abraham was the seed of Shem. Those seeds from Haran were likely Japhethites. After the flood, God made a promise, “God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant” (Gen 9:27).
After the flood, earth covered the Garden of Eden. It remained buried until God sent His Son and His servants, the Canaanites, to resurrect the Garden of Eden. Abraham saw stage one!
Where would that Garden be? Not in Ur, but where else? Off the Sea of Eden below the River of the Garden. Lot and Abraham had found the Garden and found grace there as Noah had found grace. The Name, “Grace” in both instances is God manifested, or preincarnate “Jesus.”
The Garden had, had two people. Now there were many. Great cities had been built to house the great population. The canopy of the Garden of Eden had been replaced by tents and even great buildings. Cities had emerged. God had again prepared a place for His people.
In like manner, since the cities of the Garden have perished, God has rebuilt Paradise again; to wit: “In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also” (John 14:2-3).
It can be hypothesized that God raised Paradise from the flood, and Canaanites were the servants that rebuilt Paradise right there on the River of the Garden in the Garden! John saw the finished product:
1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 3 And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him… (Rev 22:1-3)
Finished product? Certainly! The Canaanites, even under Melchizedek, built shoddy cities. They were very much more brothels than peaceful canopies. Those cities were built by sinful human hands and did not have the “boiler plate” so to speak. God founded Paradise with His own Hand (Jesus), but this time God used the dirty hands of Canaan. Canaan had planed his accursed seed in the earth in Paradise. Something would need to change!
Abraham and Lot were sent to Sodom and Gomorrah to plant the seed of Abraham. Rather than obey God’s Plan, Lot went there to plant his own kind of seed. He was not part of the promise that God planned. It turned out the same way again!
If you remember, Lucifer planted his seed in the Garden of Eden in the womb of Eve. Cain was “of the wicked One.” [iv] Then after the flood, Ham planted his seed in his wife, from the seed of Cain, and Canaan was born. Mutated beings were sown in the Garden of Eden. They were mostly of the Wicked One who had both the DNA of Adam though Eve and Lucifer.
God planted His seed in barren Sarah and both the seed of God and Abraham would repopulate the Garden. “Tares” and grow in the Garden again as before. And because of that, the ground would need “plowed!”
With that said, God supplied two angels to cleanse the soil in those cities. [v] All the while, Abram and Sarai, him acting as husbandman and her the vine, sowed their own seeds. Sarai had no place to grow the vine, so she chose Hagar. Ishmael was added to the “tares” that already defiled Paradise! Just like Adam and Noah before, Ishmael became a husbandman and sowed tares instead of good seed.
Then along came God and provided a Plan for Abram. He renamed him, “Abraham” and made his seed “good” if sewn in His “ground.” The barren womb of Sarah was the right and good ground! They too found grace just as Adam and Noah long before.
Here was their chance; the bad seed of Canaan would see the opportunity to defile their seed again. Their intent was to plant more “tares” in Sodom and Gomorrah.
God’s angels in heaven neither marry nor are given in marriage. [vi] So here come two angels to Paradise, heaven on Earth before it was defiled. They would not be able to “couple” (marry) with anyone, but Canaanites desired to plant their seed in the male angels. That would defile God and further mutate Adam’s kind.
Adam was reprieved by grace. However, because of that, Satan also desired to get under his and Eve’s skin that was provided by God to jab their flesh. He wants the flesh of Adam and Eve, not the Flesh from the Lamb of God! Satan always wants to penetrate righteous flesh beneath the protection of God, just as with Job and many others. So, here he goes again!
The males of Canaan’s kind desired to penetrate the Angels that God had sent whether they be males or females. They preferred to disgust God by having carnal knowledge with God’s male creatures. If they were successful, but they could never be, then again, supernatural and natural seed would diminish God’s creatures. They did not care that they could not, but the pleasure of it all would diminish God. Homosexuality is an abomination (disgusting) to God. [vii]
When we were children, Dad and us children would burn off the previous crop that had died out, then plant good seed. Burnt ground is called “new ground.”
Because Canaanites sought to plant mutated seed in Paradise, God just burned Paradise to the ground. It remains dead to this day! It is beneath Jerusalem and all the cities of Israel, and the edge of the Garden is the Dead Sea and the desert surrounding it. That is where Satan “planted” Judas who would be his son. Iscariot is populated by the “sea people,” the Palestinians; not from the Mediterranean Sea but from the Dead Sea!
God created New Ground on which to build rebuild Paradise.
Now back to the two steps as previously discussed: First, God raised Paradise from the ground and placed it back where it had been on Earth, on the same foundation. Then, God rebuilt it again in Heaven. The fire that burned Sodom and Gomorrah was the consuming fire of God. [viii] The “fire” that perished Sodom and Gomorrah was the Holy Spirit of God. [ix]
The Fire of God, when it consumed those sinful cities, carried Paradise to the Third Heaven. There it remains and has been rebuilt on “new ground.” Sodom, the harlot, is now gone, and New Jerusalem has replaced Sodom as the great city. But rather than on unholy ground, New Jerusalem will come back to its foundation in Jerusalem — “the foundation of Peace” — the city of Melchizedek, the city of Jesus!
Perhaps, God did use two stages to carry Paradise to heaven, just as with those dead in Christ. Abraham was there for stage one, and his “Seed” Jesus for stage two. Melchizedek was there to serve Abraham in the first stage and came again to prepare for us a place in heaven with Jesus. When Jesus was resurrected, the place was prepared. Paradise had laid dormant for 1000 years, and when Jesus arose, “Melchizedek” again prepared a place for the seed of Abraham.
Do you not understand? It was never about the promised land, but about the City of God in heaven by the Tree of Life on the River of God!
John was shown that when he was given a vision of Paradise: “And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb” (Rev 22:1). And guess who was there? Abraham with Lazarus in his bosom! [x]
That was the same “bosom” from which Abraham had tried to plant his own seed in Paradise, [xi] but it turned out that God planted His seed in Sarah! [1] It certainly looked like Abraham’s bosom in Paradise, but all the while, Lazarus was in the Bosom of God; you know — the same one from which Adam found grace when he was created! [xii]
(picture credit: The Times; "Don;t call them naf")
[1] For my explanation of that, see my commentary: https://kentuckyherrin.blogspot.com/2021/06/happenings-in-abrahams-bosom.html
No comments:
Post a Comment