What is it?
Man’s system started the day Adam ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. That was the day Adam diverted from the original vision of Genesis 1:27-28. Adam’s generations are summed up in Genesis chapter 5:3. “And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth.”
Adam lived 930 years and he died. He birthed offspring in his image and likeness. Seth generations birth created a revival among men in that they began to call on the name of the LORD.
In Genesis chapter 6, God judges Adam’s generations. They had corrupted themselves upon the earth. There was a group of people called the sons of God who had become great and mighty in the earth. They took as many wives as they chose. They probably build dynasties that compete with other dynasties. The Bible says these men were men of renown. Every thought of the imagination of the heart was only to do evil. This is the beginning of man’s system.
Let us make a name for ourselves
Noah and his family, eight souls were the only ones to survive the flood. God basically gave Noah and his sons the same set of instructions he gave to Adam. God commanded Noah and his sons to multiply and filled the earth. God blessed Noah and his sons. He made a covenant with them. They prospered and grew. They were of one common language and speech. There was tremendous level of unity and agreement. God said, ”The people are one and nothing shall be impossible for them which they imagine to do.’
God said, “… Let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another speech.” I think it is important to point out the statements of partnership. The people said, let us! God said, the people are one and have one speech and nothing shall be restrained that they imagine to do. God said, Let us go! God always works out of partnership
Noah’s sons departed from the vision by deciding to build a city and make a name for ourselves.
“And they said, Go to, let us build a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.” Genesis 11:4 (KJV)
Let us make a name is the beginning of much sorrows. All things were are and were created for God’s pleasure. God confused their language and scattered Noah’s descendants across the earth.
The people became separated into communities. In Abraham’s day, these groups or nations banded together and fought wars, see Genesis chapter 14!
Egypt became a mighty nation. God called Abraham to separate from his family. God made a covenant with Abraham to give him a seed and land. We know Abraham’s seed by the name of Isaac. Isaac begat Jacob. God changed his name to Israel. Israel begat twelve sons which became the twelve tribes of Israel.
There was coming a severe seven year famine upon the earth. God sent Jospeh to Egypt to make provision for the children of Israel.
God warned Pharaoh of Egypt in advance through a series of dreams. Nobody could interpret these dreams but Joseph. Joseph not only interpret these dreams but he also understood what should be done. Pharaoh promoted Jospeh to the highest office in the land. Joseph became a mighty prince in Egypt. Pharaoh of Egypt was only more powerful than Joseph when he was seated on the throne.
Jospeh started building storage cities to store grain during years of abundance. During years of famine, Joseph opened the grain solos. All nations came to Egypt to buy corn. When Joseph gathered up the monies in Egypt, the people offered their livestock and their land. Finally the people sold themselves to Pharaoh to be his slaves.
Jacob and his family ended up going to Egypt to survive a severe seven year famine that would grip the earth.
Israel and his family went to Egypt. They were treated as royalty. They were given the best land.
As the years advanced, there was Pharaoh who knew nothing of Jospeh. Children ofIsrael grew in large numbers. Pharaoh saw this explosive growth as threat to Egypt’s sovereignty. Pharaoh feared that Israel might side with their enemies against them. Pharaoh came up with a plan to limit the growth of their numbers by having the male babies cast into the Nile River. He eventually he made the Israelites slaves.
The system that Jospeh set into place during seven years of severe famine is no working against them. Jospeh’ system is still functioning in our day. How do know this, the religious system of Jospeh day was not taxed or sold. In day, the Church system of our day is tax exempt and according to Genesis 47:22, the fields of the priest were exempt from being sold. The priests were provided for by Pharaoh’s government.
Jospeh’s System
Jospeh’s system gathered all the wealth and land into the hands of one person, pharaoh of Egypt. His system also made all the people of Egypt Pharaoh’s personal slaves. Joseph didn’t have to use weapons to make people slaves. Starvation was the motivating factor that forced people to sale themselves into slavery. This system becomes the foundation upon which all future man based government is formed.
“And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end.” Genesis 47:21
The people of Egypt surrendered their herds and farm lands, their only means of production. Jospeh moved them to cities. They probably switched over to a market economy. In the United States, 3% of farmers provide enough food for people of this country. There are special interest groups who are buying up all the farm land and rental properties. People will own nothing and depend upon the government for everything.
“Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land. And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones. And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.” Genesis 47:23-25 (KJV)
The Promised Land
God never leaves himself or his people without provision or representation. God called a man by the name of Abraham and made a covenant with him. God gave him and his wife Sarah a seed in their old age. The name of the seed was Issac. God made a covenant with Isaac and gave him a seed by the name of Jacob. God made a covenant with Jacob and changed his name to Israel. God called a man by the name of Moses to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt into a Promised Land that flowed with milk and honey. God makes a covenant with Israel and he gives them an inheritance.
The promised land is a typed and shadow of the garden of Eden. It flows with milk and honey. It is fed by the fountains of living waters, Jeremiah 2:13; 17:13.
God set up a system whereby everyone is given an inheritance, a plot of land. It was called the Promised Land, a land flowing with milk and honey. God set up a partnership. He gave them a system of partnership and worship. This system of partnership/worship is based upon the original system of partnership/worship that existed in the garden of Eden.
The crowning glory of the Promised Land was that the eyes of God are always upon it from the beginning of the year even unto the end of it. God would give the land rain in its due seasons and plentiful harvests. He would send grass to their cattle. He promised to bless all the works of their hands. All the nations would witness the glory of God.
“In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.” Judges 21:25
In those days, there was total freedom. The land was governed by judges. The people came to judges to settle their differences. There was no king until the people demanded a king. In demanding a king, they rejected God that he should not rule over them. The people wanted a man to go before them and to fight their battles. God told the people what kind of king would rule over them. See 1 Samuel 8:10-18. The king would take, take and take.
“Nevertheless, the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us; that we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.” 1 Samuel 8:19-21
The first king of Israel, Saul was a weak king. He was driven by the opinions of the people. The second king, David, was a courageous king. In his hands, God establishes Israel as a nation. It was during David’s administration, that provisions for the first temple would be gathered. When Solomon ascended to the throne, he successfully build the first temple.
But Solomon, in the course of his administration, effectively stripped the Israelites of their inheritance through heavy taxation to finance his extravagant lifestyle. Solomon’s son, Jeroboam reigned over Israel after Solomon’s death. The people came to Jeroboam and said,
“Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee,” 1 Kings 12:4 (KJV)
Jeroboam said,
“… My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.” I Kings 12:14 (KJV)
In Romans 12:1-3, God tells us be not conformed to this world but be transformed by renewing our minds on the word of God so that we can prove what is that good, acceptable and perfect will of God. I remember where this scripture became clear to me. I was outside of a computer store and I was thinking about buying something on credit. God revealed to me, in that moment, that I was willing to come into bondage of debt to that corporation. I literally felt myself coming under their control. I was willing to sell myself and bind my future to a corporation for a momentary benefit. I was conforming to the world’s system.
1 Corinthians 7:23, “Ye were bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.”
We have also obtained an inheritance, being delivered from the power of darkness and translated into the kingdom of God’s dear Son, Colossians 1:12-13
The world’s first global system
God gave a world ruler by the name of Nebuchadnezzar a dream. He had a dream which he couldn’t remember. He called the wise, astrologers, magicians, and soothsayers to reveal the dream and its interpretation. No one was able to reveal the dream or its interpretation so Nebuchadnezzar gave an order that they should all be killed. Daniel convinced king Nebuchadnezzar to delay this order. Daniel promised that God would reveal the dream and its interpretation.
Nebuchadnezzar, in his dreams, saw a great image. The image was of a man of excellence, bright and glorious. The image head was made of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass. His legs of iron and his feet of iron and clay. There was a rock cut out without hands that hit the image upon its feet. The gold, silver, brass, iron and clay were broken into pieces and driven away by the wind. The stone became a great mountain that filled the earth.
Daniel explains to Nebuchadnezzar the image represented the kingdoms of men. Man’s system. Daniel said Nebuchadnezzar was the head of gold being a king of kings. Each succeeding kingdom would be inferior to the precious kingdom. The kingdom would be destroyed by a stone that becomes a mountain and fills the earth. The final system that takes the place of the system of man will be the government of Jesus Christ. After Jesus puts down all rule, he will deliver the kingdom to God and become subject to him.
After Daniel interprets Nebuchadnezzar, he decided to make a golden image of himself and commanded everyone, when they hear music of any kind to bow down and worship the image. Nebuchadnezzar’s plan succeeded until Daniel’s companions; Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego refused to bow.
Nebuchadnezzar commanded that they should be cast into a furnace heated seven times hotter. The request was urgent and the pressure to bow was probably unbearable, yet they refused to bow to the golden image. They were clothed in extra clothing. He wanted to inflict the maximum amount of pin as possible. The soldiers who cast them into the fire lost their lives in the process. However, God saved the three Hebrew boys alive from the fire and Nebuchadnezzar acknowledged the Lordship of the God of Israel.
God rule in the affairs of men
God gave Nebuchadnezzar a second dream. It was not a good dream. God warned him of his pride and arrogance. The message of the dream was that the living might know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men. He gives it to whomsoever he wills.
“This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men,” Daniel 4:17 (KJV)
Daniel counseled Nebuchadnezzar to break off his sin by doing righteousness and by showing mercy to the poor. Twelve months after Nebuchadnezzar had the dream, he walked in the palace of Babylon and said,
“The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty.” Daniel 4:30
While the words were still in his mouth, a voice from heaven said, ‘The kingdom is departed from you.’ Nebuchadnezzar was driven from men and dwelled among the beast. He was given the heart of a beast, he crawled like an animal until that period of his judgment was finished. The Bible says, when his understanding returned he look up and blessed the most High.
Jesus was constantly confront by the system of man
Matthew 21:23-27; Who gave you this authority?
Parable of the householder, Matthew 21:33-46. The stone which the builders reject is become head of the corner. The kingdom is taken from you and given to another who will bring forth the fruit of the kingdom.
God remains true and faithful to his original vision even though man persist in his own ways.
Distinct Characteristic of man’s system
A distinct characteristic of man’s system is, it starts out with a noble idea but ultimately it makes slaves of people. The American Revolution of 1776; one of the grievance that ultimately lead to war was a tax on tea. Today, everything is taxed and doubled taxed. There are taxes and fees on everything. People have become slaves of governments. The Antichrist System will start out the same way. The world will praise him for his ability to make peace and then he will make everyone receive a mark to be able to buy or sell.
One last illustration
One last illustration, I am writing this only because we are in this period of time where the debt of the United States is 34 trillion dollars and we have reach the place where the interest on this debt has reached a trillion dollars every 100 days. We are also living in a time where a generational mindset has been trained to borrow money as a means of financing their lifestyle. American student loan debt is 1.77 trillion dollars. The total credit card debt is 1.13 trillion dollars.
We are living in a time where the generational mindset has been trained to borrow money! Many people are mortgaging their homes to finance their lifestyle becoming slaves of man’s banking system. Israel started out free, having received a land flowing with milk and honey, a prototype of the garden of Eden and ended up in debt to man’s system.
Other men have our lands and our vineyards
Nehemiah 5:1-5
“And there was a great cry of wives against their brethren the Jews. For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live. Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth. There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards. Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and our vineyards.“
Nehemiah 5:1-5
Solomon said something very profound which I want to quote, He said, “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” Ecclesiastes 1:9 (KJV)
There is nothing new under the sun. That which has been done shall be done. Human history repeats itself. We are in a cycle that is going to take us into the global system of the anti-christ. There are ten kings who will surrender their power to the beast, the anti-christ. As these kings surrender the sovereignty of their nations to the anti-christ, people see it as a blessing.
“For God hath put in their hearts to fulfill his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.” Revelation 18:17 (KJV)
God always make a way out for us
Go back to God’s original plan, partnership! The seventh day of creation was ordained of God, set aside, sanctified to be a creation day of partaking the bountiful blessings of God. The original system is called the kingdom of God. It is a kingdom system that cannot be moved or shaken by sudden events! The system that God put into place on day one of creation is called the kingdom of God. It is also this system that will take us into eternity.
“Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.” Hebrews 12:28 (KJV)
Grace & peace!
Excerpts taken from the book, “Secrets from the Garden of Eden, God’sBlueprint for Eternal Life”
Secrets from the Garden of Eden 
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