WHAT GOES ON IN PARADISE STAYS IN PARADISE
Sins are trespasses. One
time, I fished on another person’s property, thinking it belonged to the coal
company who did not care. I did not know that I trespassed, but I had. It was
accidental. The problem is that I never questioned whose property I fished
because I wanted the satisfaction of catching good fish. Trespassing on that paradisical
lake was all about me. I had gone onto property that was not mine without
considering whether it was some person’s or some companies. I rationalized that
it was okay to go where I should not go because I assumed that nobody would
care.
Everyone cares about their property,
and most would allow me entry just by asking. Others would say, Don’t go
there because it is mine. The reasoning is inconsequential because the
command is emphatic!
The first recording of trespassing
came from God; God planted a Garden, and appointed Adam as the keeper. He
commanded the keeper to keep his Law: “The tree of the knowledge of good and
evil, thou shalt not eat of it” (Gen 2:17). Neither “Adam” was to eat of the
tree, and he told the male that was the Law. As the keeper of the Garden, the
male Adam should have posted “KEEP AWAY” but he did not. Eve, the female of
Adam’s kind misunderstood, and she trespassed. Eve was the first to “die”
because she either rationalized that God was gracious enough to forgive her, that
she was misinformed, or that she knew better than either Adam or God.
Sin is essentially thinking of
oneself of knowing better than God. For instance, my neighbor called Christianity
a “fairy tale” whereas God calls it His “Bride.” He knows better than God, hence he has made
himself “God.” Adam and Eve did the same thing, but soon, when God came, they
conversed with the One True God — the “Word” — pre-incarnate Jesus to whom they
listened.
Both ate of the fruit. Eve ate
because she had been beguiled — lied to — and Adam ate because he thought God
had lied. Why so? Because Eve was still alive although she had eaten of the
forbidden fruit. She had trespassed and nothing seemed to have happened.
Did God care about the fruit? No;
He cared about their safety. He knew that Satan would be there to deceive them.
It was not His tree that he was worried about but the two people that He had
planted in the world. The point here is that rules are not selfish commands but
regulations that keep people safe from Satan. Hence, the Ten Commandments are
the “NO TRESPASSING” signs that are not for God’s satisfaction, but for mankind’s
safety for them to avoid close encounters with alien beings of a third kind.
I trespassed to hunt mushrooms. I
sneaked in around the “KEEP OUT” sign. Why was it there’ to keep me away from
mushrooms or something else? Within that property was a dangerous cave. The
sign was to keep innocent people from danger in the cave! Furthermore, the land
belonged to another person, and I had no right to be there. The mushrooms, the
same as the fish in the previous incident, belonged to someone else.
The entire cosmos belongs to God,
and mankind has no rights to explore His property. However, God does allow His
people to roam wherever he allows them to go. His “Estate” is more than land,
either visible or invisible, but wherever mankind might go. His “Estate” is His
rules. Sin is the violation of His rules; after all righteousness is the “economy”
on His Estate.
You must understand what uprightness
is. Eve failed to understand that righteousness is whatever pleases God, and
that we are in His best interests as “Husbandman” of the Estate (John 15:1).
Husbandry is (1) “the care, cultivation, and breeding of crops and animals,”
and (2) “management and conservation of resources”
The Estate, without question,
belonged to God for “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Gen
1:1). From nothing, God made it all; the entire Estate belongs to Him! Atheism
is essentially saying that mankind owns all that exists and can go wherever they
desire to go. If God does not exist, they are not trespassing at all. Thusly,
mankind think they are free-range creatures and can do whatever they want. Eve
surely thought that as she trespassed. She did not trespass onto God’s property
because that was not the Law but disobeyed His only command. Hence, trespassing
is not so much where you go, but respecting the rights of the authority.
God wants us to go wherever we
want to go but wherein there is no danger for us not disrespect for Him. Was
God being selfish with His produce? Not at, all; He only desired to keep the Garden
safe from harm and those two humans were His favored “plants” from whom He
asked to provide a good crop — to multiply (Gen 1:22).
God was the Husbandman and His
way was taking the “soul” that He had made and planting His Holy Seed into it;
then watching if grow. As it turns out, Eve became the “husbandwoman”… “Adam
knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a
man from the Lord” (Gen 4:1). Eve lied twice: (1) She deceived Adam into
thinking that Cain was his son, and (2) it was not from the LORD GOD but her
new “lord,” Lucifer. The “Serpent” had beguiled her, and she would indeed die
because she was like the old creature rather than the humane kind.
Whatever was in that fruit,
mutated her genes. Perhaps the genetic mutation was not from the figs but from
the semen of the fiery serpent! It is learned from the Books of Adam and Eve
that after sin, the two could eat of a gigantic fig but were afraid. They still
thought that the fruit was the trespass when the trespass was listening to
Satan rather than God. They had believed the lie; they had consumed
misinformation: The Serpent said to the woman, “Ye shall not surely die” (Gen
3:4). In other words, Death is not for certain, so go ahead. Is that
what we think when we sin against God to this day? People are not certain that
there is a God and a Hell wherein to die!
Death is not the flesh, but the
soul. The soul is eternal and hence cannot be killed, but it can be tormented,
so continual tormenting of the soul is “death.” That is the penalty, not for
trespassing, but disregarding the Laws of God that He posted for our safety.
God only had one Law in the Garden.
What was it? Do not go where I warn you not to go. Why that one Law?
Because God had Goodwill for His two plants. Yes, God planted the two Adams —
male and female — to multiply and produce. With that said, non-binaries and
homosexuals are trespassing on the Estate of God. They do not belong in the Garden
of God and certainly cannot be watered by the Holy Water of the Spirit of God.
They are as dead to God because they have trespassed on His Estate where they
do not belong.
That the cosmos is God’s Estate
should be obvious because He is “Existence” — “the begging and the ending” (Rev
1:8). He was the only viable reason that there is an existence. Anyone or
anything else is an Existential threat because it attempts to snuff out God. Therefore,
trespassing can be denying that there is a God and people are free to go
wherever they desire to go.
That thought is Satanism: “Do
what thou wilt; that is the whole law” (Anton LeVey). Trespass freely is the
whole law, and as Adam found out, that idea causes a very slow but certain
death.
Trespassing, therefore, is doing
what you want to do without regard to the “NO TRESPASSING” sign, ostensibly the
Tablets of Stone with ten No Trespassing warnings on them. As it turns
out, you are free to trespass against those laws but beware, the onus is on you
to prove that you are more powerful than Satan. They are warnings to stay away
from the booby traps that Satan has set for his “fiery darts” (Ephes 6:16) to
penetrate your flesh and into your soul.
Jesus taught the Lord’s Prayer. It is His prayer to you and your prayer to Him:
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Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the
kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. 14 For if ye
forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: 15
But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive
your trespasses. (Mat 6:13-16)
The command to not eat was to
preserve God’s Garden of Living Souls — His most prized crop on His Estate.
Jesus said to pray, “For thine is the kingdom.” The reason for staying away
from evil is the same today as in the beginning; it is God’s Estate and what he
says goes!
His Estate is more than the Holy
Land of the mid-east and even more than the cosmos. God’s Estate is in the hearts
of men. The followers of Jesus are the “traveling church” and the disciples of
Christ are His traveling Estate. By going against others, you may have trespassed
because Christians are heirs of God, and the Estate of God is destined to
become theirs.
To rob Christians of their well-being
is like stealing their shares of the Estate of God. To have goodwill toward God
is agape love for God. To have goodwill toward the heirs of God is like
loving God, the Father whose will is that none should perish (John
3:16). Trespassing against others is violating their possible rewards to the Estate
of God. The last to become a child of God gets as much as the first. Like Eve,
if you trespass against Adam, then, your trespassing is as bad as Adam. Adam
hearkened to the voice of Eve (Gen 3:17), causing Adam to trespass as well,
with them both in danger of losing the Estate of God. Thus, causing others to
sin is trespassing against the Will of God.
One short story: A woman in
church, and elderly lady, testified. She made a driving error, and the man subsequently
made an obscene gesture toward her. She did not become angry because she knew
that she had done wrong. She asked God to forgive her for causing “that poor
man to sin” as she said it. She innocently trespassed by accident, causing the
man to trespass against her. That was the sin of Eve, and God had grace on her,
but not without consequences… her nature changed and thereafter she could
multiply her way with the pain of childbirth (Gen 3:16).
“Death” was more than killing the
soul but the nature of her kind, or species, changed. Before, God had done all
the multiplication His way; now with the new knowledge of the carnal beast, Eve
would bear her young like the beasts, and not God, but she would provide for
God a man. She had become subservient to her new “husbandman” — the Devil. She
was cursed to do things the way the beasts do it.
So, stand warned. Be upright. The
Will of God is for your safety while on His Estate. Leave if you will
but do so at your own peril.
Adam and Eve were cast out of
Paradise because they failed to recognize that it was God’s Estate and His right
to either keep or cast out as He pleases. You will finally discover that on Judgment
Day when God tells those known for trespassing, “I never knew you: depart from Me,
ye that work iniquity” (Mat 7:23).
Note that God does not say, You
that have sinned, but you that work iniquity. Those workers are
those who continually work against God by trespassing wherever they go — as if
the world belongs to them just because they exist. Iniquity is the
sinful nature that those who prefer trespassing like the beasts.
(picture credit: WBTW)
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