WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN

As with any posting from anyone I do my best to try to communicate what is on my heart the best that I can. Please take all matters to the Lord in prayer. It is NOT my will that anyone be deceived. The enemy is after all of us, including me! I pray the Holy Spirit bears witness to all of you. If not then it could be for a different time in your walk with the Lord. DO NOT ACCEPT WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT DOES NOT REVEAL BUT PRAY INTO IT. God bless the saints of the Lord and may the fullness of His love and spirit dwell and manifest richly within you.

We tend to only embrace the thought of “sin” but we do not completely understand what really took place. How do we get better understanding? We use ALL of the Word of God as the New Testament testifies to the Old Testament and visa versa!

So let’s examine and expound on scripture. I will place my comments between lines of scripture so it’s easier for you to see what is going on here in the Spirit realm. I am sure there is much more than I will reveal but what I am going to focus on is just how subtle and cunning the serpent really was.

Genesis 3:1–24 (NKJV)

The Temptation and Fall of Man

3 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”

² And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; ³ but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ”

⁴ Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. ⁵ For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

The very first thing which is not stated is that even Adam and Eve needed faith to believe what they did not totally understand. How do we know this? Well what is death where there never was death before? Adam and Eve had NO first hand witness, personal knowledge or experience of what death was! This statement about death was something they had no knowledge of but that is what the serpent was presenting them! So the serpent attacked them from lack of knowledge. Please reflect on the once saved always saved as that is what the serpent implied by surely you will not die! The Lord tells us that His people perish because of lack of knowledge! This is why the Lord has me to tell people “have you asked the Lord”. With all of the false preaching saying that the Lord only speaks through the Written Word is a lie. How do we know that, the Word was God Breathed! It came from the mouth of God, all of creation was spoken into existence! Our Lord Jesus is ALIVE NOT DEAD and still speaks today! God is the same yesterday, today and forever more.

What was the flood where there was no rain or waters coming up from the ground? You see without faith it is impossible to please the Lord. Notice that is New Testament scripture. Now what is not obvious because of the cunning nature and forked tongue of the serpent deception was easy to be portrayed. What the serpent did was represent himself as God without them even knowing! You see who does Satan desire to be? Satan wants to be God and Satan was representing “self” that is why Jesus tells us to pick up our cross and die to “self” as Satan was representing himself and not the TRUE LIVING GOD. What eyes is the serpent speaking about? Surely Adam and Eve were not blind. The serpent was referring to the “eyes of your heart” as Paul states may the eyes of your heart be enlightened. That statement by Paul is referring to restoration of the TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST JESUS. These eyes are spititual! This means the knowledge of the True Living God was removed from Adam and Eve! Thus Satan has blinded the whole earth, new Testament Scripture! Okay, let’s continue. Notice the statement knowing good and evil! Why is good presented first? It is a lie masquerading and disguised as truth. We know from the scriptures that Satan calls good evil and evil good. So by presenting it as good it was actually evil! In addition the Lord Jesus tells us that a good tree can not bare bad fruit and a bad tree can not bare good fruit! Jesus is telling about what happened in the garden! When Jesus was up on the cross and the Father put all the sins of the world upon Jesus what did the cross represent? The cross represented the works from “the tree of the knowledge of good and evil”! Jesus was on that tree destroying the power of that tree! Holiness and righeousness overcame sin as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil represented the “likeness and image” of Satan! That is why Jesus said without holiness it is impossible to see the Lord. The power of that “tree of the knowledge of good and evil” was overpowered rendered ineffective to the Spirit of the Living God! That is why the Holy Spirit departed before the death of Jesus on the cross. Death did not have a hold or power over us any more! A born again child of God can only overcome by the COMPLETION of sanctification by the power of the Holy Spirit. What happened on that tree was absolutely incredible!

Acts 5:30 (NKJV)

³⁰ The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree.

Hebrews 12:14 (NKJV)

¹⁴ Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:

Matthew 7:17–20 (NKJV)

¹⁷ Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. ¹⁸ A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. ¹⁹ Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. ²⁰ Therefore by their fruits you will know them.

Now when you partake of “the tree” you partake in the “image and likeness” of that tree! So that is why Jesus came to restore us into HIS “image and likeness”. You are either a tree of righteousness or a tree of the image and likeness of the devil! That is why Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden so they could not touch the tree of life. That is also why Jesus told Mary do not touch me I have not ascended.

John 20:17 (NKJV)

¹⁷ Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.’ ”

1 Timothy 5:22 (NKJV)

²² Do not lay hands on anyone hastily, nor share in other people’s sins; keep yourself pure.

⁶ So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. ⁷ Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.

How do we appear before the Lord according to the New Testament without being born again? In line 7 above it says their eyes were open means their hearts were opened and full of darkness rendering no SPIRITUAL knowledge of the TRUE LIVING GOD CHRIST JESUS. This is why Paul says may the eyes of your heart be enlightened meaning let the light and knowledge of Jesus into your heart. God is a spirit!

Ephesians 1:18 (ESV)

¹⁸ having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,

Hebrews 4:13 (NKJV)

¹³ And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

Genesis 3:7 (KJV 1900)

⁷ And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

I purposely added Genesis 3:7 KJV to make a vital point but I will not be expanding on that now. Why do Freemasons wear aprons! They worship Lucifer and the fallen nature of humanity! Why do I hear Christians say it is okay to be a Freemason and a Christian! What fellowship does a Christian have with the unfruitful works of darkness. Some of today’s worldwide ministries are Freemason’s claiming to be Christian organizations! They use outward works to appear fruitful by providing housing/shelter, food and emergency relief. Jesus revealed to the Pharisees that they cleaned the outside of the cup but NOT the inside of the cup! What do we know about a cup? How about the cup of sin, wrath, etc. These false Christians that are Freemason ministries even call for corporate prayer for global peace and repentance. The Lord laughs at this as they mock the Living God as the Lord closes His ears to their prayers! They are not in righteous standing with the Lord! If you are not in right standing with the Lord your prayers will not be answered. It is all a HEART MATTER WHICH IS NOT PREACHED!

Luke 18:9–14 (NKJV)

Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector

⁹ Also He spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: ¹⁰ “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. ¹¹ The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men—extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector. ¹² I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess.’ ¹³ And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’ ¹⁴ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Isaiah 59:1–2 (ESV)

Evil and Oppression

59 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save,

or his ear dull, that it cannot hear;

²  but your iniquities have made a separation

between you and your God,

and your sins have hidden his face from you

so that he does not hear.

How does Isaiah 59 apply to today’s church! It must apply in significance as we do not truly see much power in the church today. Do not confuse signs and wonders performed by demonic spirits as true manifestations of the Lord Jesus. Pharaoh’s magicians performed signs and wonders.

James 5:16 (KJV 1900)

¹⁶ Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

BACK TO GENESIS

⁸ And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

Light penetrates darkness and people do not come to the light.

John 3:19–21 (NKJV)

¹⁹ And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. ²⁰ For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. ²¹ But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”

BACK TO GENESIS

⁹ Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?”

¹⁰ So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.”

¹¹ And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?”

You are not naked if you are clothed in robes of righteousness, but those are only provided and given by the Lord Jesus! The prodigal son story in Luke.

Hebrews 4:13 (ESV)

¹³ And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

Luke 15:21–22 (NKJV)

²¹ And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

²² “But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet.

Isaiah 61 (NKJV)

The Good News of Salvation

61 “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me,

Because the Lord has anointed Me

To preach good tidings to the poor;

He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,

To proclaim liberty to the captives,

And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

² To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,

And the day of vengeance of our God;

To comfort all who mourn,

³ To console those who mourn in Zion,

To give them beauty for ashes,

The oil of joy for mourning,

The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;

That they may be called trees of righteousness,

The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.”

⁴ And they shall rebuild the old ruins,

They shall raise up the former desolations,

And they shall repair the ruined cities,

The desolations of many generations.

⁵ Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks,

And the sons of the foreigner

Shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

⁶ But you shall be named the priests of the Lord,

They shall call you the servants of our God.

You shall eat the riches of the Gentiles,

And in their glory you shall boast.

⁷ Instead of your shame you shall have double honor,

And instead of confusion they shall rejoice in their portion.

Therefore in their land they shall possess double;

Everlasting joy shall be theirs.

⁸ “For I, the Lord, love justice;

I hate robbery for burnt offering;

I will direct their work in truth,

And will make with them an everlasting covenant.

⁹ Their descendants shall be known among the Gentiles,

And their offspring among the people.

All who see them shall acknowledge them,

That they are the posterity whom the Lord has blessed.”

¹⁰ I will greatly rejoice in the Lord,

My soul shall be joyful in my God;

For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation,

He has covered me with the robe of righteousness,

As a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments,

And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

¹¹ For as the earth brings forth its bud,

As the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth,

So the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

GENESIS CONTINUED

¹² Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.”

What do people do these days? They hold others accountable for their own faults, problems and hardships. There is no repentance in blaming others! There is no denying your own wickedness! There is no excuse for sin!

GENESIS CONTINUED

¹³ And the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”

The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

You will not be able to blame your pastor or anyone else for your own rebellion and itchy ears!

¹⁴ So the Lord God said to the serpent:

“Because you have done this,

You are cursed more than all cattle,

And more than every beast of the field;

On your belly you shall go,

And you shall eat dust

All the days of your life.

Notice Satan shall eat the dust of the earth. Did you know the devil is a spiritual carnivore? Adam was created from the dust of the earth and Satan shall eat the dust of the earth! How does Satan “feed” off from us and get power? He “feeds” and gets empowerment by the works of the flesh as in Galatians 5.

Galatians 5:16–26 (NKJV)

Walking in the Spirit

¹⁶ I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. ¹⁷ For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. ¹⁸ But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, ²¹ envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. ²⁴ And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. ²⁵ If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. ²⁶ Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

Now when we walk in the Spirit, the Spirit is our Sabbath living in Christ Jesus and the works of the flesh have ceased! The Sabbath is not a day of the week under the New Covenant! Jesus is our Sabbath when we live and walk in the Spirit! “Go and sin no more”!

Matthew 12:1–8 (NKJV)

Controversy Over Sabbath-Labor

Mark 2:23–28; Luke 6:1–5

12 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. And His disciples were hungry, and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. ² And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath!”

³ But He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: ⁴ how he entered the house of God and ate the showbread which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? ⁵ Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless? ⁶ Yet I say to you that in this place there is One greater than the temple. ⁷ But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless. ⁸ For the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”

GENESIS CONTINUED

¹⁵ And I will put enmity

Between you and the woman,

And between your seed and her Seed;

He shall bruise your head,

And you shall bruise His heel.”

Enmity means warfare!

enmity

■ noun (plural enmities) the state of being an enemy; hostility.

GENESIS CONTINUED

¹⁶ To the woman He said:

“I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception;

In pain you shall bring forth children;

Your desire shall be for your husband,

And he shall rule over you.”

1 Corinthians 11:3 (NKJV)

³ But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

Ephesians 5:22–25 (NKJV)

Marriage—Christ and the Church

²² Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. ²³ For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. ²⁴ Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,

1 Timothy 2:12–15 (NKJV)

¹² And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence. ¹³ For Adam was formed first, then Eve. ¹⁴ And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression. ¹⁵ Nevertheless she will be saved in childbearing if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.

GENESIS CONTINUED

¹⁷ Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’:

“Cursed is the ground for your sake;

In toil you shall eat of it

All the days of your life.

¹⁸ Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you,

And you shall eat the herb of the field.

¹⁹ In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread

Till you return to the ground,

For out of it you were taken;

For dust you are,

And to dust you shall return.”

²⁰ And Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

²¹ Also for Adam and his wife the Lord God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.

²² Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”—²³ therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. ²⁴ So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

We read in line 19 that Adam was created from the dust and to the dust he would return. This is the results of the forbidden fruit. This has nothing to do with a natural death it is referring to a spiritual death. The spirit of the Lord had departed from dwelling within Adam and Eve. Hence the name Ichabod, the glory departed. Ichabod is the modern day church void of the true SPIRITUAL representation of Jesus! In line 17 the ground was cursed. I once saw a post of a “money exchanger” in Israel marketing a tour of Israel on YouTube and he pointed and said there is where David walked in the valley of the shadow of death. I rebuke him in his comments and I said you have no revelation of truth. That is not the valley of the shadow of death, the whole earth is the valley of the shadow of death! The whole earth was under the curse not just the land of Israel. A saint is surrounded by people who are physically alive but spiritually DEAD TO CHRIST JESUS, THEY MUST BE BORN AGAIN! So what is happening NOT only in the modern church as well across the whole earth all this evil is manifesting and calling itself good! That is a combination of the Great Apostasy with those who were never born again to begin with! Once saved always saved is from the pit of hell! Please read my three postings on the lies of the pre-tribulation rapture. It is from the Devil and the Babylonian doctrine of “I WILL ASCEND” which is of Lucifer!

1 Samuel 4:21–22 (NKJV)

²¹ Then she named the child Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel!” because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband. ²² And she said, “The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured.”

Here is scripture that not only describes Adam spiritual state when he partook of the forbidden fruit being as Ichabod but it also refers to a “CHILD” and the glory has departed from Israel! In Isaiah 9:6 a child was born! I believe by referring to Israel as a child it is in direct correlation with either you as a PERSON are of Jesus redeemed by His blood and resurrected by His indwelling Holy Spirit or you are not of Jesus as the glory of God is not within you!

Isaiah 9:6 (NKJV)

⁶ For unto us a Child is born,

Unto us a Son is given;

And the government will be upon His shoulder.

And His name will be called

Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God,

Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Ephesians 3:14–21 (NKJV)

Appreciation of the Mystery

¹⁴ For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁵ from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, ¹⁶ that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, ¹⁷ that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, ¹⁸ may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height—¹⁹ to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

²⁰ Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, ²¹ to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

2 Corinthians 3:18 (NKJV)

¹⁸ But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

These scriptures tell us the real Israel is not a physical land or state but a redeemed people in Christ Jesus who are born again! As I have written in my Jesus vs The Pharisees post Jesus turned the Pharisees over to the wickedness of their own hearts by calling them hypocrites seven times. Seven is the number of completion. Please read that post as Jesus told the Pharisees they would search out for one proselyte (convert) and make that convert twice a son of hell! You see there is a great commission for the devil! Then there is the commission of Apostles! There were two active commissions working at the same time in the state/nation of Israel when the incarnate Christ Jesus was in Israel. That is why even then there were many Antichrists. A moment ago we confirmed that Israel was a “child” and that “child” was Christ Jesus incarnation/birth so Israel is human and not a land, state, nation or province! What is a born again Christian called, A CHILD OF GOD! What is the world battling over now? The United States is a “kindred spirit” with the nation of Israel. Ask yourself and seek the Lord which “great commission” the USA is in allegiance with and if the USA is in allegiance with the commission of the Pharisees. What spirit is operating in our government and nation! We are NOT one nation under the true living God Christ Jesus. WHY DO THE NATIONS CONSPIRE AGAINST THE “ANOINTED ONE” CHRIST JESUS.

Matthew 23:15 (NKJV)

¹⁵ “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.

Hypocrite—one who puts on a mask and feigns himself to be what he is not; a dissembler in religion. Our Lord severely rebuked the scribes and Pharisees for their hypocrisy (Matt. 6:2, 5, 16). “The hypocrite’s hope shall perish” (Job 8:13). The Hebrew word here rendered “hypocrite” rather means the “godless” or “profane,” as it is rendered in Jer. 23:11, i.e., polluted with crimes.¹

Psalm 2:1–8 (NKJV)

The Messiah’s Triumph and Kingdom

¹ Why do the nations rage,

And the people plot a vain thing?

² The kings of the earth set themselves,

And the rulers take counsel together,

Against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying,

³ “Let us break Their bonds in pieces

And cast away Their cords from us.”

⁴ He who sits in the heavens shall laugh;

The Lord shall hold them in derision.

⁵ Then He shall speak to them in His wrath,

And distress them in His deep displeasure:

⁶ “Yet I have set My King

On My holy hill of Zion.”

⁷ “I will declare the decree:

The Lord has said to Me,

‘You are My Son,

Today I have begotten You.

⁸ Ask of Me, and I will give You

The nations for Your inheritance,

And the ends of the earth for Your possession.