[067]. A Message From A Poem – Eden’s Garden And Gardens Of Significence

[067]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – EDEN’S GARDEN AND GARDENS OF SIGNIFICENCE

This poem is an examination of the Garden of Eden, mainly dealing with Satan’s temptation and man’s fall into sin. There are a lot of teachings that derive from this account in Genesis 3 and in the poem I try to bring many of them out.

A fair body of what is termed “Christian literature” does not treat these early Genesis chapters as literal, but push the idea that the accounts of Creation and the Fall are allegorical or mythical or derived from pagan sources. In fact the whole of Christian belief depends on these chapters.

Revelation teaches about the new heavens and new earth (so the creation of the first is accepted). Jesus based heterosexual marriage on Genesis. Paul accepted the first man Adam in order to teach about the second Man Adam. If these first 3 chapters of Genesis were myth or illustrative, then John, Jesus and Paul were deluded and were passing on deception to us. The whole of Christian doctrine would come crashing down. This applies too to any who claim to be Christian and accept evolution, for it is a lie straight from Satan. You deny the scriptures and I don’t believe any evolutionist is a Christian.

{{Revelation 21:1-2 “I saw A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH, for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea, and I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.”}}

{{Matthew 19:4-6 He answered and said, “Have you not read, that HE WHO CREATED THEM FROM THE BEGINNING MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE, and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall cleave to his wife and the two shall become one flesh?’ Consequently they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”}}

{{1 Corinthians 15:45-47 Also it is written so, “THE FIRST MAN, ADAM, BECAME A LIVING SOUL.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, then the spiritual. THE FIRST MAN IS FROM THE EARTH, earthy. The second man is from heaven.”}}

{{Romans 5:12 “Therefore, JUST AS THROUGH ONE MAN sin entered into the world, and death through sin, so death spread to all men, because all sinned –“}}

In this poem, after a full examination of the Fall, two other gardens are considered – Gethsemane and the “garden” of the LORD’S Kingdom.

I hope you enjoy this poem and can derive teaching and blessing from it.

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EDEN’S GARDEN AND GARDENS OF SIGNIFICENCE

Satan came when all was perfect;

Came along with all his charm.

Came to Eve - a trusted creature -

One that had not brought her harm.

Eve knew not of a transaction

Done before in serpent’s mind -

It allowed itself the agent;

Satan’s evil will aligned.

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In the garden with its beauty,

In tranquillity was Eve.

Target of vindictive evil -

Satan set out to deceive.

Wretched serpent! Evil creature!

Vehicle of perniciousness;

Justly cursed for its involvement: -

Act of such maliciousness.

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Satan’s guile was very cunning -

Raised with Eve temptation’s doubt.

“Hath God said?” was just sufficient;

No need there to bring more out.

But the doubt found lodgement in her,

And she added to God’s word:

“Neither touch it,” she appended.

Not from God those words she heard.

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Hateful enemy is Satan,

From creation’s distant past.

The anointed cherub was he -

Rebel one from heaven, cast.

Beelzebub, the putrid tempter;

Lucifer, the shining one -

Came to Eve as truth enlightened.

Through temptation she was won.

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Satan’s agents were most active -

Pride of life and lust of eyes.

“Fruit to make one wise as God is.”

Multiplicity of lies.

Eve, in listening, gave an entrance

To the devil’s wicked scheme.

Only did she realise later

What the serpent’s words would mean.

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Tree of knowledge - good and evil;

Of that fruit they both did eat.

Granted to them - good and evil,

But through that they knew defeat.

Good they knew but not accomplished;

Without power to perform.

Evil (could not be avoided),

Now controlled them as the norm.

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God expelled them from the garden -

Disobedience was theirs.

In the world now cursed and weedy,

Mankind lives with loss and cares.

What a bitter harvest follows

When God’s word is cast aside;

When the tempter’s voice is heeded;

But in God’s will, not confide.

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Beauty of a planted garden,

(Darkest night, Gethsemane),

Not for human eyes to look on

With the Lord in agony.

Failure in old Eden’s garden

Brought distress on everyone.

Victory in that night’s garden

Launched the race that Christ would run.

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Day was ending in a garden,

When a caring couple came.

Sorrow marked their heavy footsteps;

Love responding to His Name.

There they placed the Second Adam

In a tomb of silent rest.

Angels guarded that choice garden

At the Father’s prime behest.

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But that place of sorrow altered

On that resurrection morn.

Angel voices spoke the gladness -

Triumph of that new day's dawn.

In that garden an appearing,

Of the resurrected Lord.

Mary Magdalene was priv’leged

There to view her Christ adored.

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Earth will bloom one day with beauty

When the Lord sets up His throne.

Israel is the choicest garden

With the Christ among His own.

Then the child plays near the cobra;

Viper’s den will harmless be.

Serpents there throughout His Kingdom -

From destructiveness, set free.

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Gardens speak of special places

Right through mankind’s history.

Man has ruined, through rebellion,

Places made for God’s glory.

Sin destroyed what God created,

But the Saviour did restore,

And achieved the greatest blessing

Through His blood for evermore.

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5 July 1999 Ron Ferguson 8-7-8-7 D