Some cannot see the Garden of God. For them the Bible is their “god.” The Bible is merely the parchment, vellum, or paper on which the Word of God is recorded. Hence, the Bible is the “paper” on which men have written the inspired Words of God. (2 Tim 3:16). That word is “scripture,” or document, on which the journal of God is written. That writing is God’s theopneustos — the Breath of God.
To understand God’s Breath, we
must turn to the Torah wherein “breath” is ruaḥ — the Spirit of God.
Now to turn to science to support
the spiritual world; science, by definition, does not investigate things unseen
nor that cannot be measured. Hence, the spiritual world is beyond the science (supernatural)
in that science investigates only the natural. In other words, there is a realm,
or Estate, that exists that has gone unexplored.
Genesis is an account of the
Husbandry of God. In the beginning, all that existed was God alone. As John
wrote, God was all alone, and as such all things were made by Him. God is not a
physical substance, but of a Substance that we call “Spirit.”
The Spirit is the Power of
God that exceeds all things. God used that Power, in the beginning, by doing
first things first. In the beginning (Gen 1:1) is “rank one.” God was establishing
an Estate that was meant to be paradisical, or glorious. God pre-existed all
things and is an unmade entity. He is “the alpha and omega; the beginning and
the ending” (Rev 1:8) because He always was, is, and shall be. Hence scripture
is the journal of God that He breathed life unto from beginning to the ending,
from Genesis to Revelation.
In begins with God’s Will. That
can be taken two ways: (1) a legal document or (2) the faculty of decision
making. God decided to make a plantation and grow all types of things. That was
His Will, given the opportunity to do so or not. To legalize His Plan
for His Estate, God wrote His Will, by the hands of man, but transmitted by
inspiration. That original will was the Torah or the first five books of the Old
Testament. The codicil to that will is the New Testament. It explains the Testament
of God.
Now let us consider how
inspiration operates. It is the “sense of agency” that provides to us the “sense
of ownership.” The writers of scripture have a sense of ownership, and most
credit Moses for writing the Torah. However, Moses was not there to write the
will of God, so God breathed unto Moses the truth. As such, Moses sensed
God as the Agent who provided the information. In a sense, if not actually, God
took Moses on a journey from the beginning of existence to his time.
It may have not been physical
like Enoch’s, but nonetheless, Moses apparently saw God preparing for and
building His Estate which began with two people in a Garden that had dimensions
and natural things. There were no unnatural things in the Garden, but somehow
one unnatural thing crawled through the portal from another realm. That
new existence called itself “The Bringer of Light” (Lucifer) but rather brought
darkness; that which God had divided from the Light (Gen 1:4).
The only scientific conclusion
that seems possible is that God divided the natures of glorious man from the
fallen angels. They were of a different “semen,” or genetics. God made man a
little lower than the angels which is implied since the Body of Christ was of
the same substance. Not that the flesh of Jesus was deficient but “lower” in
the sense that it was lacking something. What Jesus lacked was the genetics of
the angel kingdom. His human form was with both human and Divine genetics as
the gens of man and the gens of God, as “son” implies.
The word “son” means genetics.
As an example, the Julian Caesars were the “Sons of Julii,” meaning that their
kind was of the genome of Julii just as Jesus was of the family of David. Genesis
is all about genetics, or generation. Generation of what? All things; first
off, the substances for the unseen and the seen — “the heaven and the
earth” (Gen 1:1), the former of which science neglects.
Then God made things.
Ostensibly, in chapter one of Genesis, God made the souls of mankind by
breathing His Spirit into a vessel. Jesus called His vessel a “cup” in the
English version (Mat 26:39). Mankind refers to that vessel as the “soul.” That soul
was planted in chapter two of Genesis. It is God’s “journal” of how He
planted the Garden in this world. It is a book of husbandry with the journal
that goes with the Garden of the Lord.
The Spirit within the soul of man
was the Image of God. It was the very Genome of God; the same Genome that He
seeded in Mary to transport the Soul of Jesus into the adama (ground) of
Mary.
As the “Son of Man” Jesus was the
Son of Adam, hence Luke wrote that genealogy. Jesus was placed into the realm
of the Earth by planting the Genome of God in the womb of Mary (her innermost
world) just as in the beginning. Those in Christ are part of the new
crop on God’s Estate.
Perhaps it is obvious that men are
as trees. Anyone into husbandry knows of hybridization. Jesus was a new
hybrid of man; the hybrid that God intended all along! That hybrid was glorious;
Jesus was the perfect “Tree” that would never wither!
Because the Tree was so excellent
and splendid, God transplanted the Tree into Paradise (Luke 23:43). But that “Tree”
is not grounded. It is like a tree walking as Bartimaeus saw it.
God planted a Garden for two.
That was His lesser plantation that would suffice until things multiplied. Now
the Garden of God is a great city with dimensions, substance, and mass in
another realm; it is “New Jerusalem” (Rev 3:12).
Jerusalem means “foundation of
peace”
New Jerusalem is a regeneration —
a Re-Genesis of that Garden, now a city, in another realm. God’s Estate has
grown from two adama to a multitude of living souls, requiring a city to
house.
The word “multitude” in scripture
means more than many people. It does mean “abundance” in the Garden, but
in the Greek of Jesus’s time, it meant all different kinds, or families, of
people; those with different genetics; even Samaritans who were of numerous
genetics and were a hybrid people because of miscegenation. Mainly they came from
the replanting of the Cuthites from near Babylon into the Holy Land of Israel.
The point therein is that the “Garden” was growing tares (unwanted vegetation)
in the midst of good “trees.”
The ”good Samaritan” means that
the nature of that hybrid was different than the multitudes. He had a different
and goodly genome with a nature to be admired. Generally, the Samaritans were
considered rubbish in the Garden of God.
Now for the plantation that God
built and the location of His Estate. God described the extents of it to
Abraham. It is the fertile crescent going from the Nile in Egypt to the Euphrates
River. (That may be the “bow” that Noah saw in the distance from the mountains of
Ararat.)
The Jordan River, in the Hebrew,
is “Naral Ha Yarden” — “the River of the Garden.” Eden, as can be seen
from extant names, goes from the land of Dan (originally) west of Jerusalem to
the Gulf of Aden (Eden) near the city of Aden in present-day Yemen. Hence, Eden
was the land mass now called the “Mideast” with the Garden of God in the
center.
“The Lord God planted a garden
eastward in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed” (Gen 2:8). He
had sowed the man (Adam) in His Image (the Genome of God), and God formed it
into a shape that He desired; then God transplanted what He had produced and planted
the man (Adam) into the ground (adama) so that Adam was of the same
substance as the dust. That should be measurable and has been. The body of a
person has the same composition as the earth and in the same amounts. That is the
science!
God planted many things — all
things — in His Garden and mankind was just like the other plants except for a
few things: (1) soul, (2) mind, (3) different genomes, (4) and a closer
relationship with the Creator. Sin despoiled those things and now our thoughts
are not God’s thoughts nor our ways His Ways (Isa 55:8). Sin changed the nature
of the plants in the Garden; even trees now die as consequences of sin.
Lot saw the land from his
position coming out of Egypt, “Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain
of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere before the Lord destroyed Sodom
and Gomorrah, even as the Garden of the Lord.”
Where is the Garden nowadays? It has
perished. It is still there but is now unrecognizable because all the beauty of
it has been corrupted. The plain of the Jordan was not like the Garden of the
Lord; it was once the Garden of the Lord, and the Jordan was the River of
God.
The foundation of the Garden remains
here but its existence remains aloft, or in another realm. Someday, the Garden of
God with its “trees,” along with the Tree of Life will come down, or at least
be revealed through the portal that is the door to beyond.
The Book of Jasher reveals
two important things: (1) That Abram was transformed to Abraham in the fire of
Ur, and (2) that afterward, Abram was removed by God from that awful “hell” to
Paradise in Canaan. Therein, Abraham was a king, but the Canaanites still ruled,
becasue they recognized that the Kingdom of Abraham was not of this world. Hence,
because of the Abrahamic Covenant with his “seed,” or genetics, those who died
prior to the advent of Jesus rested in “Abraham’s Bosom” (Luke 16).
Until Jesus came, Abraham was the
husbandman of God’s Garden, and a keeper of living souls. He was a tertiary “Adam”
of which Jesus was the “Last Adam” (1 Cor 15:45). Other “Adam’s” were Seth,
Noah, and Moses, Joshua, and David.
As Jasher reveals, Abram,
by the grace of God, had been provided new incorruptible flesh. His genetics
changed the “old creature” into a new creature, and the Garden was renewed.
The “Tree of Life” describes very
well the Substances of God. Imagine a tree. What you see is Jesus. What remains
unseen is the Root of that Tree. It is of a Substance that differs from the Base
itself, but both are still “trees.” Without the trunk (the “Vine” of scripture),
the tree is still a tree, but it is beneath the surface for there is where its
genes reside. The root is a potential tree.
That Tree grew and was revealed
when God came in the flesh. The Vine grew from that Root and Almighty LORD GOD is
the “Root,” according to the inspiration to Paul, “If the firstfruit be holy,
the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches” (Rom
11:16).
The “root” means the genes.
Like Jesus is of “the root of David,” He is also of the Root of God, the
Progenitor. Note the “gen” in progenitor. Paternal “Father God”
provided the Genes for the Garden and in the beginning, man was meant to be the
very Image of Him.
The DNA is the very identity of
any organism and the DNA divides the kinds. Adam was made in the Image of God
with the same identity as Yahweh. To this day JHWG, most of JHWH, remains in
the DNA of mankind.
Now for the fruit of the Tree of Life; there are twelve in manner, all of one kind of fruit (Rev 22:2). The KJV names only nine, but the Vulgate all twelve: charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity, mildness, faith, modesty, continency, and chastity (Gal 5:22-23). Those are not twelve different fruits but one fruit, or the characteristics of the nature of a righteous person. On the other hand, the fruits of the forbidden tree are many:
19
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery,
fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft,
hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21
Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell
you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such
things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. (Gal
5:19-21)
Those works and the fruit, are
the produce of the Tree of Knowledge and the Tree of Life respectively, and they
are genetic. The works are the worldly nature of brutish people whereas the
fruit is the nature, or genetics, of those in Christ.
Yes, we were all “born this way”
as Lady Gaga sings, but that is with a sinful nature. To change the way we are,
then the Spirit of God must breathe life unto the lost before they are regenerated
and with that the reception of the genes of God to bear His kind of fruit.
Therefore, the Bible is the
written Testament and Will of God. It is what happens to His Estate since He
died, When Jesus died, the Will of God was probated. He shared the entire Estate
and now Christians are adopted children of God, being endowed with the very
Genome of God by the Power of His Spirit. Again, God breathed life into
lifeless souls.
To be fellow heirs to God’s
Estate, we must be children of God. No, God will not remold us in a womb again
as Nicodemus discovered, but Jesus will engender us from above with the very
Image of God.
What about sin? It is in the
flesh, and it will perish, but those in Christ will receive new incorruptible
flesh — and be a genetically pure new creature in Christ. Jesus will
share His genes with all who shall receive them!
What if they do not?
But He (Jesus)
answered and said, “Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted,
shall be rooted up.” (Mat 15:13)
Whether called “trees” or more generalized, “plants,” God — the Root — will refuse His Genes to all those who reject Him and His Garden. None of the Estate will be theirs because they have withered to death, not accepting the conditions of God’s Will.
Plants wither. Adam did not die
immediately; he withered to death in 930 years. Now, the moment anyone
is born, for a time, they grow, but as the prepubescent disappears, the teen
begins to wither. We all wither to death unless God steps in and engenders the
lost to make new creatures in Christ, with the nature of Christ in them. (Is it
just ironic that time is measured in carbon decay and that organisms, including
ours, is carbon-based DNA?)
The Hebrew word translated “trees” means
“stock,” in general and may refer to “the descendants of one individual”
So, was the “tree” a tree? The
Bible is about people, not trees. It is about human beings, not plants, whether
they be tares or fruits.
So, when anyone thinks of the Tree of
Life, he should consider the genetics of God that have been passed down through
the ages, as Matthew 1 points out from Abraham to Jesus, or as Luke 3,
from God down to Jesus.
You are a plant that God planted. You
began with a soul made before the foundation of the world, and in God’s time,
He planted that soul in His Garden.
That soul can either grow into an
acceptable plant, as it should, or wither and die. Withering living souls fall
away and die (Heb 6:6). God seeds the Garden but the Christian, like Adam,
Noah, and Abraham; must be the “husbandman” in the manner of the Master of the Estate.
Lastly consider the destiny of the plants:
15
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly
they are ravening wolves. 16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do
men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 17 Even so every
good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil
fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a
corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 19 Every tree that bringeth not
forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 20 Wherefore
by their fruits ye shall know them. (Mat 7:15-20)
How to recognize the hybrid of trees? By their fruits. Paul revealed to the Galatians how to identify trees, and with Jesus gone to Paradise, Paul became the “husbandman” of the Garden of God, and we are the “trees.”
Jesus was walking along, "When he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, 'Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away" (Mat 21:19)
We must all bare fruit - the fruit of the Spirit, or we too shall wither and fall away (apostasy).
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