RETURN TO EDEN, PART 2

Return to Eden, Part 2

           The Father never intended for His children to be in any kind of bondage.  When He set man in the protected place He had prepared.  He gave man the authority and complete dominion over everything that could enter in (Genesis 2:15).  Man was to rule, tend and keep the garden, or, “The Place of Blessing” the Father had granted him.

            The term “dress” the garden, in the Strong’s Concordance #5647, one of the meanings is worshipper, to keep, expand, prepare, husband man, brings to pass.  Man was to receive of the blessing with which God had blessed them and to take total authority to expand the place of blessing until it was to cover the whole earth.

            By committing the act of treason and joining himself and his wife to Satan, he transferred that authority over to Satan. (Luke 4:6-8) When Satan tempted Jesus on the mountain, he stated that everything of the habitable world was his.  The authority and dominion that God had given Adam had been transferred over to Satan in that one act of treason in the place of abundance.  Now the blessing had stopped and the corruption the enemy had begun.  Man was separated from God, death had entered into him and was transferred through his union with Satan to every child that would be born from that day on.  Man had to be removed from the presence of God because of the sin nature of His children.  The blessing stopped and the curse (because of the nature of Satan) began to function. (Genesis 3:17). God said, because of you, the earth will no longer do as it was created to do.

            Immediately, the Father began a plan that would not only forgive the trespasses of Adam, but would destroy the barrier between Him and His family.  He would, through Jesus, totally redeem mankind to total restoration, back to the Eden He has so carefully prepared.  (Genesis 3:15).

            Our Father had set a course and a way to come back to everything He had intended for His family to enjoy.  As you read through the Word, watch the careful plan of God to total reconciliation.  As He awaited the appointed time to send Jesus, He made a way for Himself to enter into the presence of His children.

            He had to be extremely careful about what He did because of the sin nature of the family.  Leviticus 17:11 lets us know that the life is in the blood.  As He required the blood of bulls and goats, the life of the animal would give (at least temporarily) life back to those who where dead in trespass and sin.  Only by this blood could you come near to God.  God was very limited as to how far He could come into the presence of His family.  If He came too close, it would destroy the things that He loved the most.  Very carefully, He laid the groundwork for restoration.  Step by step and word by word, He laid out a plan that the Holy Spirit could move on.  Word by word, he spoke the perfect plan of restoration.  After he had spoken the whole of what was needed, “that word became flesh and dwelt among us”, He had the perfect Lamb.  According to the law of Leviticus 17:11, now the blood of his own Son would restore life back to those who were once dead could be made alive now by His own blood.  This was a plan that had to be so precise that there was no room for error, He would have only one shot at bringing salvation to His family.  If anything went wrong, If Satan saw through His plan, He wouldn’t get another try.  I Cor 2:7-8 Had Satan seen through this plan, He would never have crucified the Lord of Glory.  Now that, by His word, He was to bring about a way back, nothing could stop the work of Calvary, except for Satan to try and stop what had already been done by the same lie and deception he had used in the beginning.

            The return to Eden had now been laid open for all that would believe and enter in.  The road map was all that Jesus stood for.  John 14:6 Jesus said, “I am the way and the truth and the life”.  When He said, “I am the way”, He signified that through His sacrifice He would lay open the return to Eden, back to the very presence of the Father Himself.  No longer any sin, but total restoration back to the abundant life He created for us and created us for.