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Good Garden Seed is Heaven Sent
Every good and perfect gift comes down from above, from the Father of
Lights with whom there is no variableness or shadow of turning! In Genesis,
the seed book of the Bible, we find that God is in the planting business and
not only does He plant bio-diverse gardens filled with beautiful and
interesting trees to refresh and supply those gardens; He plants an
abundance of Rivers to create watersheds to nurture and water those
paradises! And these streams in the desert are only the beginning seeds of
rivers that converse the Earth, once it is divided! Little wonder the
followers of the Creator sing: “Rejoice in the Lord always and again I say
rejoice.” We can be thankful for what God brought forth and also that He did
not introduce GMO’s to confound, frustrate, and destroy His masterpiece.
Isaiah 2:4 says, “And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke
many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their
spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more.” As a young man, when God quickened
these words unto me, our nation was just leaving Vietnam. They abandoned
countless tons of metal in the form of war machines there and God had me
look at how much agricultural implements such as plows and pruning hooks
could come from such a waste.
I had previously been employed by a large casino and now that I had become a
Christian I did not want to continue with that career. I had seen far too
many lives destroyed by gambling but then the Holy Spirit instructed me to
get involved instead in agriculture. When I asked Him how I could do that in
a big city, He told me to try landscaping. Immediately God did a miracle and
I became a landscaper for a growing firm which became very large and in
demand.
Some people think they are better than God because they think working with
the soil is too low an occupation. In fact God Himself was eager to plant a
garden. He never was led to produce a manufacturing corporation or a
diversified Mall, not even a slaughterhouse, thank you God, just a garden.
It is a rewarding and inspiring kind of work. The first garden on earth was
planted by the Creator Himself, as I have said and it was called The Garden
of Eden which means delight or pleasure.
“A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was
parted, and became into four heads.” (Genesis 2:10) Much of the topography
and geography of lands in the middle-east shows that it probably was made up
of sand in many areas. Today most theologians believe Eden’s garden was
enormous and indeed in order to grow every kind of tree that was beautiful
to look at and had fruit bearing seeds would require a humongous tract of
land. This is particularly true because various species require differing
elevations, and therefore temperatures, humidity and soils. Mangoes and pie
cherries have completely different needs as an illustration. Many types of
seeds have differing requirements regarding temperature and lighting needs
to germinate! God gave us a full cornucopia of fruits and vegetables,
herbs, nuts, and grains, which some people would destroy for temporary gain
at the expense of those of us, who the Creator charges with protecting!
I have experienced agriculture in sandy or desert areas. Squeeze some sand
in your hand and you will find that it is soft in a different way than soil
filled with humus. Plant the seed and meet the need. If the sand is fertile
then just add water, step back and watch the earth and the Spirit bring
forth life. If there is no river in the desert, life is almost impossible to
sustain.
Eden’s first river was called “Pison” and means “dispersive.” The Pison
passed through places where there was gold and many precious stones. This
indicates prosperity. It split into a total of four heads and these other
rivers were called: Gihon, Hiddekel and Euphrates. Gihon means a river of
paradise. Yes, two are better than one. The third river, Hiddekel, is the
Tigris River. Tigris refers to tigers. When tigers run into a herd of
antelope, or a flock of ostriches, brother do they scatter these herds and
flocks! But the creatures, no matter how aggressive, will soon be led
by a little child. They will drink together, all of them, and no one will
harm them! God’s sons will remember that their Heavenly Father put them in a
garden and they shall enjoy bean trees, bread fruit, figs, and water cress
to name a few…not in Heaven, but on the restored Earth. Such revelations are
not demonic drug trips or fairy tales, but they are realities of the future
rapidly becoming the present!
The Tigris River, one of the four heads, appears to have distributed or
scattered its water over many areas. When water in the desert is not
distributed it either creates a stagnant lake or merely a route to the sea.
When water is widely distributed, trees begin to grow along side of it and
gradually migrate away from it as their shade develops. The trees not only
grow and spread, but they create watersheds which prevent erosion and hold
the water in the earth rather than allowing it to fill the ocean which may
be even thousands of miles from its source.
The river Euphrates which is the fourth listed in Genesis 2:14 means a
rushing river or to break forth. No matter what the Euphrates nourished or
re-hydrated, it rushed from an elevation of approximately 11,000 feet to
2,200 feet at the place where the Keban Dam now stands. Every spring, snow
melt and rainfall fills the Euphrates for its long journey some of which is
actually white water. This part of the Euphrates is also called, Kara Su and
Murat Su Rivers. It could have easily carried tree seeds and others to the
sea where it could continue to be floated to other parts of the earth.
People as diverse as singer Gloria Gaither and writer Rudyard Kipling have
exalted the belief that God’s intention was to spread Eden all over the
earth and possibly beyond. As I have already mentioned without water the
spreading of life and the maintenance of it is impossible. Eden stands as a
preeminent reminder that received the Word of God on where we began, and is
a monumental clue to where we are going!! Jesus promises to give us the
water of life freely. Drink up!
The Church is the gathering together of the called out ones. Real fellowship
is focusing on the things of God. What God planted in His garden on the
earth will belong to the manifested sons of God forever. Daniel 7:18 says,
“The saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom
for ever, even for ever and ever.” It is our responsibility as the body of
Christ who should only do what they see the Father do to maintain all the
species in His garden and never permit even one of them to become extinct.
Therefore, the Church in the Green is opposed to genetically modified plants
which can eliminate through cross breeding and cross pollination the very
species God created and left as an inheritance for us as the inhabitants of
earth.
I understand how divided the US is. An international writer on the influence
of Christianity in America recently had a guest speaker who said that world
views on environmentalism and global warming is tearing America apart. He
said there are two views: one is that man is the parasite of the earth and
the other is that man is the steward of the earth. My position is that man
who is a co-worker with God and led by the Spirit and the Word is qualified
to be a steward. The humanity that disobeys the Gospel of the Kingdom and
rejects it is a parasite. I have to credit the speaker with saying that God
put Adam in a garden. We can’t find a better starting point and at least the
KJV acknowledges Adam was to keep it and that word means to conserve and
preserve and fence it about. He also mentioned that only two kinds of people
exist on the earth; those who are motivated by greed and those who are
motivated by the gospel.
I do not have anything to boast about, but I know I have tried to never be
motivated by greed. While others in my past profession, over my life time,
have tried to earn the maximum possible amount for their profession, I have
always wondered how I could give my clients the lowest charges for their
benefit. I always sought to get some degree of increase, but greed was never
a factor.
Today we are faced with GMO’s and the church is opposed to GMO’s on the
basis that in places like Canada the farming of GMO’s has cost many farmers
both their occupation and their land. The poisons used to kill the herbal
competitors on the land seems to have done more damage than good. Some
corporate farmers claim they have a right to make a profit, but I believe
the Bible teaches they do not have a right to any increase for destroying
the earth and killing animals that have access to such crops because of lack
of adequate fencing. Those who farm genetically modified organism’s put
themselves in conflict with the direction God is leading us by His Word. God
is not mocked. Whatever a man sows that shall he also reap. What we sow
today, will impact our futures! We as a church are opposed to the planting
of genetically modified organisms because they threaten the garden of God
which He planted. They cross pollinate and the characteristics of GMO’s are
often not completely known, kept secret and nearly never made public without
a court case. Such careless actions that impact the creation dishonor the
Creator and ignore His rules governing the care of the planet.
You cannot call yourself a Christian while ignoring the Word of God and
selecting only certain scriptures to embrace. Everyone who claims he is a
part of Church in the Green is open to the teaching of God’s Words and
encouraged to do nothing less than embrace them. When we are all brought to
the place where we serve God with one accord, it is apparent that speaking
the truth in love, and holding fast the faithful word are two of the ways in
which we can learn to serve with our brothers and sisters. Apparently the
majority of states feel it is their right to completely destroy plant
species that compete with agriculture in case after case. Plants that are
treasured for their medicinal properties as well as nutritionally desired
are totally eliminated, when possible. Chinese Yam for example, has been
grown since the beginning of time and is not only a delicious table
vegetable which serves as the main ingredient in soups and stews and is a
tasty low-glycemic replacement for white potatoes but is perennial and
medicinal. One of its many uses is in treatment of Type II diabetes. Perhaps
this is because it does not suddenly turn to sugar in the digestive tract.
This is placing important parts of God’s creation in peril and He does not
take such activities lightly.
Destroying species because they are not native is ridiculous. Once, all
species were native only to the Garden of Eden. Abad and Shamar have no
place, according to the scriptures, in the hands of fallen man. Abad and
Shamar were designed to be implemented by those who were in the likeness of
God (partakers of the Divine Nature) and were in daily fellowship with the
Creator. These are those which have ears to hear what the Spirit says and a
heart willing to perform the will of God. The will of God, as some very
bright spiritual teacher stated, is the Word of God.
Let us all be workers together with God by all speaking the same thing,
exactly what His Word says and not waiting till the earth shakes and the sky
thunders and the Planet we know is broken into little pieces. God not only
loved us enough to send us His Son, He loved us enough to make us a paradise
garden and supply us with true non-hybrid seeds to plant!