Understanding Eden (Poem, Part 1)

 

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In the beginning, God created all things, perfectly.

For and by His Son, Jesus, they all were created. ¹

With mankind in Eden, He finished His works, blissfully,

 After satan and devils fell from Grace, degraded!

When He was done, before The Lord took His due rest,

He spent time with Adam, training him for his job.

As lord of Eden, he was glorified and blessed.

So with The Lord, Adam and Eve got to ...hobnob! 

 

The Earth, enjoying her creation perfection,

After on her satan and all devils had landed,

This, following their Heaven-wide insurrection.

But again, by evil, she would soon be upended!

In just about a thousand years, Adam was dead,

The price of his willful, sinful disobedience.

In that short time, all across the land, sin had spread.

Man’s first millennium, stained by people’s imprudence.

To purge the Earth of man’s disdainful stain,

All life would be slain by a flood The Lord would send, ²

But to one household, Grace He would ordain.

In these twin blows to Earth, do you perceive a trend??

From both the fall of all devils, and sins of all mankind,

Earth took the full impacts, cosmically, spiritually.

In both, The Lord responded with His works, by God assigned,

Twice returning Earth to creation perfection, awesomely! ³

By His Earth works, after there, devils had fallen,

The Lord blessed both the Earth and man …Eden, garden-like.

By His flood works, that removed the Earth’s sin’s burden,

Once again, The Lord blessed them both …the world, Eden-like.

Yet twice more, in The Bible it is well-predicted,

That The Lord will bless both the Earth and man.

After with tribulation they both are afflicted,

He’ll return, all sin and devils to ban. ⁴

As global Sovereign, with His saints, for a thousand-year span,

Jesus will again refresh Earth to her creation glory.

From before creation, all along, this was God’s hidden plan:

For a thousand years, Earth and man in His …third Eden story.

Friends, this is likely the purpose of Christ’s Millennial Reign,

To achieve what’s portrayed in two Eden histories,

After under sin’s heavy weight, both the Earth and man did strain:

Creational beauty and bliss …after tragedies.

So let’s review:

The first Eden was a garden, before man’s sins.

The second was Earth, after the flood God had purposed.

The third will be Earth, after Armageddon ends.

That’s not all. The wise know a fourth Eden is promised!

So could God’s garden have been a mere seed,

For fruits that human history would bring forth,

Three times of bliss after His judgments deeds,

Three Edens pointing to …an eternal fourth??

Descendants of those in Eden 1 and 2 we all must be,

And ancestors of those who will inhabit Eden 3.

Only for born-again saints who from sin's wages Christ set free,

Has God reserved Eden 4 …throughout eternity! ⁵

Question: Do you have your reservation?

NB: While most writings on the Garden of Eden focus on mankind’s fall from Grace. Eden is much more about The Lord doing exactly what He said He does:

I am in the Earth exercising Grace, Judgment and Righteousness.

(Jeremiah 9:23-24)

Think: Each of His four Eden-type experiences …follow judgments! The first Eden followed judgments on fallen angels. The second Eden-type followed global judgments on sinful man, and removed sinfulness from the Earth. The third Eden-type, at the end of the Armageddon War, will follow global tribulation judgments. The fourth Eden-type will follow the Great White Throne Judgment of all humans who will have ever lived, and who rejected God’s Grace-based salvation. 

Like I said: THINK!

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¹ See: Hebrews 1:2, 2:10 and Proverbs 16:4

² In the flood, God purged man’s sin from the Earth. Only after Christ’s sacrifice on Calvary’s cross could He purge sin from man. HUGE differences! See: Humans’ DNA Hacked (Poem)

³ See: A Good Black Hole? 

⁴ See: Zechariah 14 and Revelation 20 

⁵ See: Earth’s Next Versions (Series) and Human History Ages (Series)