This is ‘tomorrow,’ and my thoughts are
continued from yesterday. It is the day of the Lord.
The subject at hand is heaven — both
Hell and Paradise. On the Lord’s Day, I continue with the attributes of
Paradise.
Where is Paradise? There are hints in
the Bible. Abraham was promised the land from the Nile to the Euphrates along
the sea; what is now then fertile crescent. It may be the bow in the sky that
Noah saw in the clouds at the time of the Noahic Covenant (Gen 9:12-14). We
often think of a rainbow, and perhaps it was, but it could also be the fertile
crescent arising from the clouds after the rain. Was Noah seeing Paradise, not
on Earth, but aloft in the heavens? That does make sense!
All the Covenants should agree as the
Estate of God is always the same. It was never about the land along the
sea but the Promise along the Yaral Ha Yarden, the “River of the Jordan”
— “even the Garden of the Lord” (Gen 14:10). It seems that as Abraham and Lot
came out of Egypt they looked toward the Garden of God. They were indeed, but
perhaps it was not the Garden that is now the Dead Sea but the Estate of God
along the River of God but aloft in heaven.
Isaiah the prophet saw the same Garden
in his vision:
Look unto Abraham your father, and
unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and
increased him. For the Lord shall comfort Zion: He will comfort all her waste
places; and He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the Garden
of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the
voice of melody. (Isa 51:2-3)
Zion is an uncertain place. Zion
seems to be the City of God in heaven, not Jerusalem here on Earth.
I submit that Israel was never the Promised ‘land’ but a place in heaven where joy, gladness, thanksgiving, and melody can be found. That place already exists, but in the end, the Garden of the Lord shall indeed come down:
And I saw a new heaven
and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and
there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down
from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I
heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with
men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself
shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying,
neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. (Rev 21:1-4)
I am gathering the characteristics of
the Garden of God. The Garden of the Lord is a place without death, sorrow, or crying. That suggests that Hell is a
place with those things.
Therefore, residents of the ‘new heaven’
cannot see across the great divide. This very moment, they are safely tucked
away in the ‘Abraham’s Bosom’ (Luke 16:23). The Book of Jasher reveals
that the Kingdom of Abraham was not the land, for he merely sojourned there,
but a kingdom in another realm, not as even the Garden of the Lord, but the
actual Garden of the Lord.
The gate to the Garden of the Lord is
only achieved at death, and indeed, death is the portal to Paradise. Paradise
is as near as death and the Cross guards the portal. The ‘living,’ as define by
the world, are not welcome there, excepting Elijah and Enoch who went there for
the purposes of God.
John saw the Garden of the Lord in God’s
revelation to him: “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” (Rev 22:2).
So, just where is the Garden Paradise?
It is perhaps above the foundation, ‘Jerusalem’ — the ‘Foundation of Peace.’ It
is right there, but in another realm. It is an invisible Garden but for
those with keen eyes; those who see the things of God even with their eyes
closed. Saul did that because his brute nature changed. And Jesus renamed him Paul.
Paul was regenned by God above (born again), the Person Jesus, by then on the
throne of God.
While in the Garden, so said Eve after
she became degenerate, we had bright eyes and could see into the heavens: “When
they were in the Garden, they were filled with the grace of a bright nature,
and they had not hearts turned toward earthly things” (1 A&E 2:4).
God said that because of sin, “I
deprived you of the bright nature in which you then were” (1 A&E 6:5). That
was ‘death;’ when their natures changed. They were once glorious like God but
after sin they lost their glory; they came “short of the Glory of God” (Rom
3:23), just as sinners are to this day.
The conversation continued: “But after
your transgression your bright nature was withdrawn from you; and it was not
left to you to see things far away, but only near at hand; after the ability of
the flesh; for it is brutish” (1 A&E 8:2).
Before sin — trespassing on the Estate
of God — Beneath His forbidden tree, they were before glorious and afterward
brutish, having the behavior of an inhumane animal.
They were cast out of the Garden Paradise
but where was it? Was it to Hell or to another place? Obviously, since the
Garden of God will someday come down to its foundation, Adam and Eve were cast
out of the paradisiacal Garden into the physical world. Things were different
here than the heavenly Paradise, as enumerated in Genesis chapter three.
Their new habitat was opposite of Paradise in heaven and full of death, sorrow,
and crying.
Therefore, where is Paradise? Certainly
not here, it must be in heaven and that it is. However, it is just part of
heaven; the other part is full of death, sorrow, crying and such. You might
think life is hard here, but you are entertained all the while grieving, to
keep your spirits up while you are slowly dying. Satan has prepared you for
Hell in a very humane way for his brutes.
That Adam and Eve went from glorious to
brutish says much. Their natures changed and their inner identities — their
genomes — were altered to another kind, a mutation of Adam and Lucifer, whose
inner identity was the Beast. I strongly believe that the glorious Genome of
God was altered and so called, ‘humanity’ is part inhumane to the extent that
we are not as God designed us.
It is more than a spiritual change, but
with much depravity; Calvinists would call it ‘total depravity,’ but since it
can be reversed by regeneration, there may be some glory remaining in our decrepit
kind. That should humble you and is God’s first step to recovery.
The change in the nature of Adam’s kind
from glorious to physical as well, was revealed by God to them when they lived
in a cave where the Light of God was hidden from them:
But as they felt great trouble from the food they had eaten, and to which they were not used, they went about in the cave saying to each other: "What has happened to us through eating, that this pain should have come upon us? Woe be to us, we shall die! Better for us to have died than to have eaten; and to have kept our bodies pure, than to have defiled them with food." Then Adam said to Eve, "This pain did not come to us in the Garden, neither did we eat such bad food there. Thinkest thou, O Eve, that God will plague us through the food that is in us, or that our inwards will come out; or that God means to kill us with this pain before He has fulfilled His promise to us?" 5 Then Adam besought the Lord and said, "O Lord, let us not perish through the food we have eaten. O Lord, smite us not; but deal with us according to Thy great mercy, and forsake us not until the day of the promise Thou hast made us." Then God looked upon them, and at once fitted them for eating food; as unto this day; so that they should not perish. Then Adam and Eve came back into the cave sorrowful and weeping because of the alteration in their nature. And they both knew from that hour that they were altered beings, that their hope of returning to the garden was now cut off; and that they could not enter it. (1 A&E 45:2-7)
Therein, Eve said, “Better for
us to have died than to have eaten; and to have kept our bodies pure, than to
have defiled them with food."
Food defiles the body. How so? It
causes excretion and excretion is the decay of organic material. There could be
no decay in the Garden Paradise because decay is death. “But,” you ask, “Did
they not eat organic herbs while in Paradise?”
No, they apparently did not even
though English scripture says, To everything, “wherein there is life, I have
given every green herb for meat: and it was so” (Gen 1:30). It is true that He
did not give herbs to eat. He gave something else for this was in heaven, as I
believe, because chapter one of Genesis seems to be the creation of Paradise in
heaven.
God did not give them anything green
but a “vacuity of color”
What food glistens? There are
many known today but one peculiar substance was good for food when the Hebrews
were in the wilderness — manna from heaven. “When the dew that lay was gone up,
behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small
as the hoar frost on the ground” (Exod 16:14), describing the manna that would
sustain them. Hoar frost glistens; and so, did the heavenly food of the Garden.
Just what substance was the
manna? Job answered that with a question; “Has the rain a father? or who hath
begotten the drops of dew? Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost
of heaven, who hath gendered it?” (Job 38:28-29).
There is much ‘meat’ in that
thought! The manna was heavenly rain that poured from the Father. It was Living
Water provided by God, just as Jesus said, “He that believes in Me, as the
scripture has said, out of His belly shall flow rivers of Living Water” (John
7:38), ostensibly to sustain them.
God provided to the Hebrews Living
Water and He did so with Adam and Eve in the Garden Paradise. In fact,
according to the Books of Adam and Eve, the waters of the Garden sustained
life. It is written, “To the north of the Garden (of Eden) there is a sea of
water, clear and pure to the taste, unlike anything else…” (1 A&E 1:2). Somehow,
that water flowed from the belly of God just as life flowed from the belly of
God by which life went into him.
Manna was surely crystalized water
from heaven and was grace given by God. What was in it is just a guess, but
according to Job, God had “gendered it”! It was water from God, and in
scripture, water in the Hebrew is mayim, a euphemism for ‘semen.’ No, it
was not biological semen with sperm within each cell, but the genes of God within.
Not only did that Living Water
provide life, but sustained it as well, and so it does for those who ‘drink’ of
it, according to Jesus.
Now back to the ‘Bread of Life’ —
manna from heaven: if left uneaten it would decay and stink, so each person was
to eat just the right amount to sustain him or her (Exod 16:8-9). “They
gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun
waxed hot, it melted” (Exod 16:21). This ‘bread’ did not require digesting but
would just evaporate. In Paradise, nourishment seems to have been by a
type of osmosis, in contrast, although similar, that the food for plants is light.
With that said, Adam and Eve ate
no solid food and if they did, it was when they sinned. Soon, Eve had a bellyache
so massive that it tormented her, “"What has happened to us through
eating, that this pain should have come upon us?”
Then Adam said to Eve, "This pain did not come to us in the Garden, neither did we eat such bad food there” (1 A&E 45:3-4).
Then God looked upon
them, and at once fitted them for eating food; as unto this day; so that they
should not perish. Then Adam and Eve came back into the cave sorrowful and
weeping because of the alteration in their nature. And they both knew from that
hour that they were altered beings, that their hope of returning to the Garden
was now cut off; and that they could not enter it. For that now their bodies
had strange functions; and all flesh that requires food and drink for its
existence, cannot be in the Garden. (1 A&E
45:6-8)
Who knows who wrote that and
when? However, that they were altered beings agrees with Genesis 4:1. Eve
created Cain who was of the Wicked One. She was the ‘mother of all living,’ not
Adam the father of all!
Cain was so altered that God
marked him, hopefully by the mark of God, not Satan, or perhaps it was! (Gen
4:15). Cain was the first being to come short of the glory of God, and
something outwardly changed that would be obvious to keep him from being
killed. To this day, the so-called ‘Adam’s kind’ resembles Cain. Perhaps Cain
was the first alien man (‘Is in the Hebrew, not an Adam.) He was
a sort of man, literally another existence
Scripture continues to back that
hypothesis: Jesus explained to his tricksters, “Do you not therefore err,
because you know not the scriptures, neither the power of God? For when they
shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but
are as the angels which are in heaven” (Mat 12:24-25).
In heaven, angels do not sexually
couple and therefore, if the Garden was in heaven, and I believe it was, Adam
and Eve never coupled, but outside the Garden, Adam saw Eve couple with
some thing (Gen 4:1). She had sexual intercourse for the first time, and
it was not with Adam! With that said, in heaven, without the need to procreate
themselves, they would need no genitalia — they would need no ‘guns’ that would
fire the fiery darts of the Wicked One, if you get the gist of it all.
Angels did not couple in heaven,
but with the ability to shape-shift, they could couple when on Earth, and they
did before the flood. (Gen 6:4). (Marriage is coupling.)
In heaven, angels are angelic,
but in the world, they appear as humans (Gen 19:1-5), and guess what? Those angels
ate while they were on Earth. They had the digestive tracts to consume
food, although in heaven they would have eaten manna — food from God.
So let me draw a mental picture
of the human soul: (1) It would look angelic and would absorb light. Think,
now, of chromosomes in every cell of the body that too are like hoar frost on
the ground and are the vessels for the ‘seed’ of God, what we now know as DNA.
(2) They would have no digestive
tracts and no reproductive organs. Neither would they have urinary tracts nor even
a heart. Why would a pump be needed when God was right there, providing Virtue
in His very Dynamics. No lungs would be required because life was not from
oxygen but breathing the Breath of God to maintain life, and furthermore with
that, no heart would be required.
(3) There would be no structure required
to support ‘Protoman’ because there would be no gravity in heaven.
(4) Since man is animated (living)
they would have motion. It seems that I am describing a ghost and as such, our
soul is much like a ghost. In fact, the Spirit of Jesus in His vessel (The ‘Cup’)
is the Holy Ghost of the dead man Jesus. When Jesus was glorified at death
(John 7:39), His Person was revealed as the Holy Ghost manifested. He revealed
to over 500 that the Holy Ghost is as much Him as the Body of Jesus is the Christ.
(5) Adam and Eve would be
transparent — naked. “They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not
ashamed” (Gen 2:25). They were “smooth” and “bare” (ibid) and without
pudenda. No wonder they were ashamed and covered their genitals. Genitalia is for
them doing the multiplication as Eve implied when she said, “I have gotten a man
(extant being) (Gen 4:1).
(6) Like Jesus, each would look
like himself or herself. When Jesus was baptized, the Holy Ghost came on Him in
“bodily shape” (Luke 3:22). That Glorious Being was finally recognized as Jesus
in Emmaus.
(7) Just as the ghost of Jesus
had the motion of a dove, Adam and Eve would have no wings, but could overcome
the gravity of their world if it even had any. They could move about without
impedance.
(8) Their love would not be erotic
in any manner but only goodwill toward each other and God, as Jesus suggested
with the Greatest Commandment.
As you might predict, I am also describing
those who are born again by the blood and water of Christ; those whose ‘flesh’
will be incorruptible.
Think back on Eve. What ailed her?
She had a blood issue. Her identity had changed to be almost like the brutes.
What she consumed made her more like the old
creature, the Beast, than the creature that God had made so glorious like
Himself.
Our flesh is a curse. Now imagine
yourself without flesh. How would Satan ever tempt you? He would do it with
thoughts, albeit there would be much less to tempt with!
(9) Imagine now a ghost with a mind.
Its mind would be with the Thoughts of God because our curse is that our “thoughts
are not His Thoughts” (Isa 55:8). How much work need we do in heaven? Nothing,
because God takes care of all things. How much work do we need to do to get
there? Nada, because here, for Christians, God will take care of you! Our flesh
will never be a burden in heaven for not only will our shame — the penis — be circumcised,
but all our flesh if it is given as an offering to God.
(10) What do you now see without
all the encumbrances? You see Christ in
us Christians. And with us so transparent, our thoughts will be as well; and our
language as in the beginning, which were not in words, but thoughts. There will
finally be silence in heaven, excepting praises to God. With that said, there
will be no sinners in heaven because they do not cherish glorification enough
to give up their fleshes.
Thank you for reading and
considering my thoughts. Thank you, Bill Wilson, for testing me.
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