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The first thing Noah did when he got off the ark was build an altar and offer a sacrifice. God was pleased with the sacrifice and said,

“I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”

The flood was a harvest of judgment

It is estimated that between millions and maybe billions of people perished in the flood. All of their hopes and dreams perished overnight. A man’s lifespan was cut to 120 years. The people of that day suffered because of the curse on the ground because of Adam’s disobedience. It didn’t have to end that way.

The Garden of Eden is a place of worship. Hebrews 8:1-2, says

“Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the of the Majesty in the heavens. A minister of the sanctuary, and the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitch, and not man.”

When did God pitch this sanctuary, this true tabernacle, and not man?

Genesis 2:8, “And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed”

God planted two special trees. The tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Adam’s responsibility was to dress and keep the garden. He wasn’t supposed to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. He was supposed to dress the tree.

Adam had permission to freely eat from any tree in the garden. Nevertheless, he was not allowed to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. That tree represented his sacrifice of worship.

God came to visit Adam in the cool of the day. Adam heard the voice of God walking in the garden. God calls out for Adam. Adam, where are you? Adam knew he was supposed to meet God at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

After Adam ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, he experienced spiritual death. He did not die a physical death until many years later.

How do we know this was the harvest season?

All creation works on the basis of seed time and harvest. This is a repeated pattern and constant cycle. Genesis 4:3 says that in the process of time, two brothers offered a sacrifice. They offered a sacrifice in the harvest season.

Abel offered a more excellent sacrifice than his brother Cain. Abel was a keeper of sheep, and he offered the “firstling” of his flock and the fat of it. The definition of “firstling” is “The first agricultural produce or animal offspring of a season.”

Cain offered the fruit of his land. He persisted in the old order. God dealt with Cain about his offering. God corrected Cain. He said, “If you do what is right, will you not be accepted?”

Hebrews 11:5 says, Enoch was translated so that he should not see death. God was pleased with Enoch.

Here are a few facts about God

He is the original Architect, Hebrews 3:4

All things were made by him, and without him was not any thing made that was made, John 1:3

All things consist in him, Colossians 1:17

He upholds all things by the word of his power, Hebrews 1:3

Creation’s Seed Time Harvest from Genesis through Revelation

Genesis 2:1-4, God planted a garden eastward in Eden. He sowed seed.

Genesis 1, through Revelation 21, represent a process of time called the generations.

Genesis 2:4,

“These are the generations of the the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.”

There were many seed time harvest seasons in between the first sowing of the seed and the final harvest.

In Revelation, Chapter 22:1-2, creation is in full harvest. Paradise is the Garden of Eden, in full harvest. You have the throne of God and the river of life flowing out of the throne of God. You have the two trees that God planted initially in the Garden of Eden. You have the tree of life in full bloom. It yields a monthly harvest. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil is represented as the Lamb of God. He is seated on the throne of God.

God places the Lamb of God on the throne of God. This act tells you how important sacrifice is to God.

The concept of sacrifice couldn’t have existed unless God created it in the beginning!

John 1:29, John the Baptist said, ‘Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world!’

One final thought:

According to Genesis 3:24, God drove Adam out of the Garden of Eden. He placed the Cherubim in the Garden. The Cherubim is a class of angels associated with worship. 2 Samuel 6:2: He is called the LORD of Hosts, who dwells between the Cherubim.

God loved the world so much that He sacrificed His only begotten Son. Whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Grace and peace!

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Adam’s primary job as far as the Garden of Eden was concern, was dressing the fruit. Adam made presentation of the fruit that fell from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. This was his sacrifice of worship.

Two things among many happened

1. The land was cursed, God said, “And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: curse is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt eat of it all the day of thy life.” Genesis 3:17 (KJV)
2. God placed Cherubims, “So drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way, to the tree of life.” Genesis 3:24

You have to keep going back to the beginning to understand why things are the way that they are! Adam broke covenant. He ate instead of serving. Adam was driven out of the Garden of Eden. This was because he had access to the tree of life. Doing so would have caused him to live forever in a spiritual fallen state. In Genesis 3:23-24 (KJV)

“And LORD God said, Behold man, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand , and take also of the tree of the life, and eat, and live for ever: Therefore the LORD sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.”

God placed Cherubims in the Garden of Eden facing east because that was probably the direction facing the throne of God. Cherubims are connected to the worship of God. They were a place holder until Jesus’ sacrifice had been made.

The Sacrifice

“God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perished, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16 (KJV)

What is it

It is a dominion over which a king reigns. Saudi Arabia is a kingdom. It is a land over which a king reigns.

An example is King Charles, the king of England. My generation knew him as Prince Charles.

Lots of people are confused about the kingdom of God.

The Kingdom has its own government. Its own army. It has an economy. Administration. It is governed by laws. It has representation, for example, Jesus is called a high priest forever. It has a throne room and an altar. It has a sacrifice. Jesus the Lamb of God!

Jesus said, It is then Father’s good pleasure to give us the kingdom. But what does the kingdom mean? What advantage is it adding to your life if you don’t understand its meaning?

Early believers understood the significance of the kingdom. They asked Jesus, “… Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?” Acts 1:6

The apostle Paul stated in 1 Corinthians 4:19-20,

“But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power. For the kingdom of God is not in word, but power.”

He also shared in Romans 14:17, “For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.”

So many Christians are living way beneath their privileges. They could be healed, but they look to the medical establishment.

Even if the medical establishment is easy to access for healing, give faith a try. It’s about learning and developing. This is what the disciples did when they walked with Jesus.

Grace & peace

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God foretold the defeat of the Serpent in Genesis 3:15

God said to the Serpent, “The seed of the woman shall bruise thy head.”

The definition of “bruise” as used in scripture carries the meaning of being overwhelmed, to snap, and break.

If you follow this seed through scripture, you will see it started with a promise to Abraham and Sarah. God made a covenant with them. He took a ninety-nine-year-old man. He took a barren ninety-year-old woman. He gave them the strength to bring forth a son. He called him Issac, which means laughter. God gave them land and seed that became a blessing to all people.

Jesus, the seed of the woman, appeared. He taught them the kingdom and what partnership looks like. In Luke 10, he illustrated. He saw Satan fall from heaven like lightening.

The Trap

If the princes of this world had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

That He would set free the human race from eternal damnation and slavery to Satan

He presented himself, the right time in history. The Roman yoke was cruel

He won the hearts of the people. His triumphal entry into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey, to fulfill the prophecy from Zechariah 9:9:

“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”

He cleansed the temple, He turned their tables over and drove out the herd. He sat and taught the people.

God put a Judas on his team. Jesus said, “Have I not chosen you and one of you is a devil.”

God did all this to destroy the wisdom of the wise and bring nothing the understanding of the prudent.

“For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness. But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, the wisdom of God.” 1 Corinthians 1:22-24

God created the structure.

God created the house.

“For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.” Hebrews 3:4

According to Genesis 1:11-12, God created the seed on the third day of creation. God certifies the process was good, see verse 12. The seed-to-harvest system will stay with us for a long time after debt no longer exists. Revelation 22:1-3 reveals the tree of life. The leaves are for the healing of nations.

The seed time harvest process will be with us a long time after debt no longer exist. Revelation 22, says, the tree of life bear twelve kinds of fruit each month. The leaves of the tree of life are for the healing of nations.

(Just a thought: Is not the tree of life enough for the healing of the nations?Adam used the leaves of the trees of the garden as tincture. Sores had begun to break out in his body. He knew the leaves had healing abilities. God prophesied in Ezekiel 47:11 that the leaves of the trees are for the healing of the nations. The green leafy material may be some new type of clothing

God is called LORD of the Harvest

Seed has unlimited potential. It produces on a supernatural scale.

Seed honors God and God honors seed. Adam’s generation dealt with the curse of the ground. They struggled with the ground to get it to produce, Genesis 5:29.

In Genesis 8, The first thing Noah did after getting off the Ark was build an altar and offered a sacrifice to God. God smelled it and was pleased. Noah was fulfilling part of Adam’s responsibility, by offering that sacrifice.

God made a new covenant, and he promised never again to destroy every living thing. He also promised not to curse the earth, because of man’s sin. He said, ‘as long as the earth remains seed time harvest shall not cease, summer and winter shall cease.’ He set the rainbow as a sign of the covenant. This rainbow is present now around his throne in Revelation 4:3; this is an example of partnership, an unshakable partnership.

Debt

The world is in 315 trillion dollars in debt.

The United States is 38 trillion. Six billion is added daily.

Debt undermines the partnership arrangement with God.

God’s creation is based on partnership.

The borrower is servant to the lender, Proverbs 22:7.

“Debt creates a relationship of obligation and control where the borrower is subject to the lender’s authority. Taking on debt gives the lender power over the borrower’s financial decisions and future, as the borrower’s income must be used to to repay the debt, limiting their freedom.”

Debt reduces your seed and your harvest

Debt works on you 24 hours a day, seven days a week

Debt is addictive

It goes against God’s plan to make you the head and not the tail. God’s instructions in Deuteronomy 28:12

“The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heavens to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.”

“The borrower i

You got to have a revelation

Jesus said, ‘They that follow me shall not walk in darkness but have the light of life.‘

What life is he talking about? Eternal life! The original source of God, the breath of life, an infinite power source. The gift of God is living waters, John 4:10-14. Rivers of living waters. The living waters flowing out the throne of God. Come to the waters and drink freely.

The seventh day of creation was designated, set as for every human being to experience the free favors, the blessings, the works of his hands. The seventh day of creation is an act of love. God’s plans are perfect

I spent ten years or more ministering the gospel in three facilities, the Wayne County Jail, Dickerson Detention Facility, and the Detroit Rescue Mission. It wasn’t hard to get people to pray the prayer of faith in Christ, to believe in salvation. Wayne County was a place where inmates were waiting for court cases. Dickerson Detention Facility was a minimum security prison where people were serving short prison sentences for things like drug offenses, traffic violations, theft, and carrying a concealed weapon. The Detroit Rescue Mission is a homeless shelter for people who were who had no place to call home.

The common issue among this population was a lack of financial support. They had no source of income. Some could not find jobs. They stole and stripped houses to put food on the table.

I had to try to help them see that God was their support and that he would meet their needs. Lots of times the inmates had grandmothers and parents praying for them. That one issue has been around from the beginning of time.

Poverty is a generational inheritance. If you as a born-again Holy Spirit-filled believer have never been taught that Jesus died you might have an inheritance, Acts 26:18. You modeled lack and dependency. They had no way of knowing that God is/was a provider.

A common complaint that I hear constantly, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. No matter how glorious the promise is or how faithful God is to his word, it is almost impossible to get people to believe God wants to prosper them and that he has already made provisions in place for them.

PRO-VISION

God already made provision for the vision. For example, God provides supernatural seed for the vision. He gave Adam and Eve dominion over the works of his hands. God set aside the seventh day of creation as a Sabbath. A day when he invited Adam to enjoy the bounty of the work of his hands. Yes, we know Adam messed up everything. But God never walked away from his original intent going as far as sending His Son to die on the cross to redeem man back to his original purpose. Now, here are a few things that God has provided:

“Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?” James 2:5 (KJV)

People who read this promise, first don’t recognize that God is no respecter of persons. God is good to all. People don’t know the difference between a government and the kingdom of God. People are mentally stuck in the government of man and are unable to see the benefits and blessings of the kingdom of God. For example, the Kingdom of God is present with us every single day, functioning in the realities that affect our livelihood. Jesus put it this way if God provides for the lilies of the field, the fowls of the air, are you not of much more value?

When Israel came out of Egypt, God brought them out with silver and gold and not one feeble person among three million people. Psalms 105:37. God commanded the clouds to shade the people from the hot sun by day and he provided a fire to give light at night, Psalms 105:39. He gave them manna for their food and he gave them water out of a rock.

Psalms 103:1-5, He forgives all of our iniquities and heals ALL of our diseases. He redeems our life from destruction and he crowns us with loving kindness and tender mercies. He satisfies the desires of the heart with good things and he renews our strength.

God executes righteousness for all who are oppressed

James 1:11, says the rich man is like a flower, he shall fade away in his ways.

Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are currupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of the sabaoth.” James 5:1-4

We are going to be recipients of the greatest transference of wealth the world has ever seen. Everything that Satan has stolen through fraud and deception is about to be restored sevenfold. And we might be right in the midst of that restoration. All of the forced labor in the fields of slavery is going to be released. The cries of the laborers have entered into the ears of the LORD of Hosts, the LORD OF ANGEL ARMIES.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

“God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation.”

Solomon calls this wealth transference vanity and vexation because he stole the people’s inheritance to finance his extravagant lifestyle through oppression and taxation, 1 Kings 12:4 & especially verses 16. This wealth transference is vanity and vexation to those who have stolen the wealth.

If believers all over the world could get a vision for wealth transference and begin to cry out for justice and judgment, we would see one of the greatest moves of God in our times.

Haggai 2:4-9

Yet now be strong, O Zerrubbel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Jishua, son oif Josedech, the gigh priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work: for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts: For thus saith the LORD of hosts; yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; and I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts. The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts. The glory of the latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.”

Again, what place is God talking about Mark 10, the hundredfold return; the first being last and the last being first.

Hebrews 8:1-6, Jesus is seated on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty of the heavens. He is a minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle that God pitched and not man. Jesus has obtained a more excellent ministry by which he the mediator of a better covenant was established on better promises.

ONCE MORE

God shook the earth in the days when he brought Israel out of Egypt. He revealed his glorious acts for all nations to see.

“He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.” Psalms 105:37

We have come to God the judge of all

“And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. Dee that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. WHEREFORE WE RECEIVING A KINGDOM WHICH CANNOT BE MOVED, LET US HAVE GRACE, WHEREBY WE MAY SERVE GOD ACCEPTABLY WITH REVERENCE AND GODLY FEAR: FOR OUR GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE.” HEBREWS 12:24-29 (KJV)

We are witnessing judgments breaking forth in the earth. We are seeing destruction by fire. City systems are being shaken to the core.

I pray that the immigrants who came to the United States to seek a better life could recognize the promises that God extends to them. They can transform their lands and communities.

I pray that they can get a revelation of the true riches that God offers because it is not money, silver, and gold. It is eternal life, the breath of GOD. GOD TOOK THE RIVER OF LIFE AND PUT IT ON THE INSIDE OF YOU. JESUS CALLED RIVERS OF LIVING WATERS, JOHN 7:37-38.

IT IS THE WELL OF LIVING WATER THAT SATISFIES EVERY THIRST, JOHN 4:14

THIS RIVER IS THE PROMISE OF POWER, MIRACLE-WORKING POWER OF ACTS 1:8

THIS IS THE WATER THAT FLOWS OUT OF THE THRONE OF GOD, REVELATION 22:1

THIS IS THE SUBSTANCE THAT ENABLED JESUS TO OFFER HIMSELF AS A SACRIFICE.

“HOW MUCH MORE SHALL THE BLOOD OF CHRIST, WHO THROUGH THE ETERNAL SPIRIT OFFERED HIMSELF WITHOUT SPOT TO GOD, PURGE YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS FROM DEAD WORKS TO SERVE THE LIVING GOD?” Hebrews 9:14 (KJV)

The Force of Life is a testimony in and of itself

What if the people fleeing from violence and oppression knew God because God says “…I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.” Jeremiah 9:24

The key issues are not about how much money you have. It is not about how much wisdom you have or how much influence to have! God offers eternal life. Jesus said, the thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy but I am come that they might have life and have it more abundantly (JOHN 10:10)

One final thought: If we believe the witness of man, the witness of God is greater! If I laid hands on a sick person and they were healed immediately, that is a witness of God’s power. Eternal life is a witness to the resurrected Christ!

“If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God which He has given concerning His Son. Whoever believes in the Son of God has this witness in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made Him out to be a liar, because he does not believe the testimony that God gave about His Son. AND THIS IS THE TESTIMONY: that God has given us eternal life, and this LIFE is in His Son. WHOEVER HAS THE SON HAS LIFE, and whoever does not have the Son of God does not have LIFE.” 1 John 5:9-12 (NKJV)

What if those who feel stuck, and without hope, receive the gift of God, eternal life, the life of God!

The Spirit of Grace fulfilling covenant promises!

Grace & Peace

2 Timothy 3:1 Know this, there will be terrible times in the last days. The Lord Jesus is coming soon! Repent, believe in the gospel, and be born again!

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