John8:19(Amp) says, "Then they said to [Jesus], Where is this Father of Yours? Jesus answered, You know My Father as little as you know Me; If you knew Me, you would know My Father also."
Many of God's children still debate the "mystery" of creation and Eden, saying they are "Parables." They question why God made mankind and gave him dominion over all this earth. Some wonder why there were two trees in the Garden and who was in control of them and why? And, how did the serpent get into the Garden of Eden?
If you don't know God, then you don't know the mystery of these questions or know the answers to them. Did God intend for Adam to fail or did Love give Adam free will to choose for himself? Let's remember that Jesus was and still is, the Word of God and that He was crucified before the foundation of the world.
When God put forth His Word over Adam and this earth, it was irreplaceable and "forever settled." When God spoke His Word, there was no other choice but to "watch over it to perform it." The Word was made flesh, which was crucified and fulfilled in Jesus. God's Promise of His Word was made to man and it still stands today, just like when He spoke it.
God's Word, Jesus, is still in place like it was in the beginning, whether or not we know or believe it. Heb.1:5,6(Amp) says, "For to which of the angels did God ever say, You are My Son, today I have begotten You, established You in an official Sonship relation, with Kingly dignity? AND AGAIN, I will be to Him a Father and He will be to Me a Son?"
Verse 6 goes on, "Moreover, when He brings the Firstborn Son AGAIN into the habitable world, He says, Let all the angels of God worship Him." It was God's Word that brought His Son to begin with and it was His Word that fulfilled itself when God said, "Today I have begotten You." The "again" is the fulfilling of God's Word when He said, "Let Us make man in Our Image and Likeness," that created him.
God didn't crucify Jesus before creation and before making mankind. His Word created mankind and it was His Word that maintained itself through Jesus, the "Word made flesh," which cannot fail and is exalted even above His Name. Psalm138:2(Amp) says, "I will worship toward Your Holy Temple and praise Your Name for Your Loving Kindness and for Your Truth and faithfulness: for You have exalted above all else Your Name and Your Word and You have magnified Your Word above all Your Name." If His Name is not good and proven, then His Name wouldn't hold honor either.
When God made mankind and put forth His Word which created him, then God's Word was on the line to perform what He had spoken about mankind and His Word, Jesus, which brought forth mankind into being and was crucified in order to uphold what the Father spoke and was exalted even above His Name. Mankind would need to be in the true Nature of God, in order to be in His Image and Likeness. God gave mankind a will, so he/she could make decisions and be sons and daughters, not servants. God didn't make puppets who would be obedient to the one who pulled the strings. God made sons and daughters who would walk with Him out of love, honor and respect. God made mankind to be His family and not servants.
Adam had free will to choose for himself, just like we do today. We're free will agents, who make the decision to walk with God as sons and daughters. Through Jesus, we decide to accept God's offer or deny it. God's Word has given us this right. The serpent in the Garden wasn't a tool God used to test Adam and Eve. Adam failed to use the authority God gave him, to guard and protect the Garden. Adam. instead, allowed the serpent to enter.
1Cor.3:9(Amp) says, "For we are fellow workmen, joint promoters, laborers together with and for God; you are God's garden and vineyard and field under construction, you are God's building." Like it was with the First Adam, through Jesus, we've been placed back into what the Father did in the beginning. We have dominion restored through Jesus. We have the same job that Adam had and are to guard, tend and keep the garden like Adam was to do.
Prov.4:23(Amp) says, "Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of Life." The serpent is still loose and uses the same weapons against God's children. We must guard the Garden God has chosen. Matt.18:19(Amp) says that what we "bind or loose, is what God will bind or loose." Our job is to guard and protect our garden, and not allow the serpent to enter. Even today, we find there is a Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. God never told Adam and Eve they couldn't partake of the Tree of Life in the center of the Garden, but the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Adam and Eve had the choice and we have the same choice today. Jesus is the Word and Spirit, and the Tree of Life. The Tree of Good and Evil is still here too, as is the same serpent.
Rom.8:6(Amp) tells us, "Now the mind of the flesh, which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit is death, death that comprises all the miseries arising from sin, both here and hereafter. But the Mind of the Holy Spirit is Life and soul peace both now and forever." Both Trees are still present today, so we must guard our hearts and choose to eat from the Tree of Life that God offers.
Gal.6:7-8(Amp) says, "Do not be deceived and deluded and misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at, scorned, disdained or mocked by mere pretensions or professions, or by his precepts being set aside, he inevitably deludes himself who attempts to delude God. For whatever a man sows, that and only that is what he will reap."
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