The God of heaven and earth, the One who is called creator, is the first and will be the last idol.
The first idol existed in the Garden of Eden. The Garden was a sanctuary, a meeting place where God and Adam fellowshipped.
The secret of this revelation is that it started in a garden, and it will end in a garden, and it is here where one of the grand secrets of the Garden of Eden unfolds. To understand the beginning, go to the end.
Revelation 22:3-4,
“And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: and they shall see his face and his NAME SHALL BE IN THEIR FOREHEADS.”
Notice that God’s name shall be in their foreheads, meaning that every thought of the imagination will be on God. The next verse (Revelation 22:5) says there will be no night, no need for artificial light. No need for the light of the sun, for God gives them light, and they shall REIGN forever and ever.
There will be no more darkness, lack, sickness, disease, war, pain, or sorrow. There is no need for doctors, lawyers, and bankers. There is no need for insurance of any kind. The promise is that you will reign. You will be at the top, not the bottom. Why? The relationship has been restored.
An idol is something that is worshipped. An idol occupies a person’s every waking moment. The idol takes over consumes a person. When Adam and Eve chose to eat the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, their focus was changed from God to the tree! They saw that the tree was good for food, pleasant to the eye, and good to make one wise!
They ate the fruit, and the curse was born. True worship was perverted.
ALTHOUGH, in the beginning, God gave Adam was described as “very good” has now become a curse. What he gives us now is very good; BUT still, by choice becomes a curse.
Although God paid for our sins in full and gives us access to the tree of life, the idol still reaches its hands out to us. The idol promises wisdom, power, and pleasure!
The idol takes many shapes and forms: money, sex, drugs, relationships, people, places, things… (Fentanyl, sex trafficking, gaming, education…)
The Lamb of God, the sacrifice, gives life. There was a sacrifice in the beginning in the Garden of Eden. It was called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
The sacrifice of eternity is called the Lamb of God! This sacrifice can be eaten as in Communion, John 6:54
“Whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
Eternal Life; the breath of God, the Spirit of Life, the Tree of Life; rivers of living waters are descriptive terminologies of the stuff we call “life”.
“He that hath the Son hath life.”
The river of life flows from the inside out, John 7:38
The Gift of Life gives life, and it was originally designed to touch all creation, Genesis 2:10, originally called the river of God. In Revelation 22:1, it is called a pure river of water of life coming out the throne of God flowing in the midst of the street of it.
God put the river of life inside of us. See John 4:13-13. It is and was designed to spring up into every area of our life satisfying every need. Life touches death and heals it. It flows out of you.
I had an interesting thought today. I went to Home Depot this morning, and a thought about traffic flow came up in my heart. Thank God for streets and traffic laws because without them, life would be very complicated, and we couldn’t get anything done. Well, there are streets in heaven, and the Bibles says the streets are made of gold. Streets in heaven and earth are designed for traffic flow. Seeing God created all things, and without him, nothing was made. God created streets to facilitate flows.
God of heaven is desperately wanting to get the heavenly flow of life to you. See John 7:37-38, ‘in the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out… If any man thirst come to me and drink. If any man believes out if his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water!
In my upcoming post, I want to look deeper into the idol. It impacts us in so many areas of our lives. The idol promises life, but it doesn’t have the power to sustain it!
Grace & peace!
Secrets from the Garden of Eden 