Heavenly Messages about (or from)… (Unless
otherwise indicated, Jesus speaking. If you should be confused by the
fact that Jesus speaks of some of the Old Testament characters as if He
had been there, just take into consideration the verse where He said,
"Before Abraham was, I Am." - John 8:58)
…Adam & Eve
I tried to spare Adam & Eve
the fall, but that's just the way humans are: They've got to give in to
their cravings until they grow wise & mature enough to resist the
temptation.
One of the main causes for
things getting worse is man's lack of appreciation for the good things.
The disability to ever be 'content in whatsoever state' they are...
And, just like with Adam and Eve, when they don't appreciate what
they've got, I might have to take it away from them & let them fall
into a situation that makes them a little more desperate, a little more
appreciative.
I gave Adam the garden, but I didn't take over the gardener's role for him. That was his part.
You wonder, how come, if I'm
all-knowing, that I still have to test people? Why did I have to test
Adam & Eve or Abraham with Isaac? Well, those are just the rules of
the game, if you'd like to call it that, for I have purposely set
Myself not to know certain things so we can find out.
When Adam & Eve ate of the
forbidden fruit, they didn't die physically, but they let the Devil
snuff out the flame of their spiritual life through their disobedience,
and it took a long time and lots of hard work and effort to re-kindle
it again, only to shine even warmer & brighter in their hearts
afterwards, never again to be taken for granted.
To look for details that
"aren't so" in My Word is one of the Devil's oldest tricks. "Hath God
said so? Ye shall not surely die!" And he was right: they didn't. At
least not right away. But the punishment was there, & I tell you,
it was worse for them than death. When death finally came for Adam
& Eve, it was like sweet relief from the pain & suffering they
had brought upon themselves & the whole World by choosing to
believe the Devil's lie over My Word.
So, the Devil will always find
something I said he can point his finger at & gleefully say, "See?
Not true!" to get you to discard the whole message, so you won't
believe & receive it, but rather believe his version. But you'll be
the one suffering the consequences. Whether you'll die right away or
later: you will know one day that your death - your spiritual death
& decline - occurred the moment you chose to doubt My Word &
disobey... you were just buried later.
As perfect as things were in
the garden of Eden, at one point, they just weren't satisfied with it
anymore, humbly having to care for the garden, having to obey God...
no, there were some more glorious promises, that sounded a lot more
exciting... "what was it the serpent said about, 'ye shall be as gods'?
- Now THAT sounds interesting. After all, don't we deserve some of that
attention ourselves for all our good hard work? Why do we have to give
all the glory & attention to God?..."
So, the age-old question
remains: who are you going to believe? The serpent? Telling you, you
are gods yourselves, worthy of attention, glory & praise whenever
you crave it, because you are good & you deserve it? Or Me & My
book that says that you are all sinners & there is nothing good
about yourselves, but the heart is deceitful above all things &
desperately wicked?... Meaning that, if you believe & obey Me,
& humbly do as I ask, you WILL receive My praise in due time, &
I will supply all your needs for love & affection, but as soon as
you start focusing on your needs, your desires & wants & they
become your prerogative, that's the moment you lose it all.
Look at the drastic results of
Adam & Eve's choice to listen to the Devil in the Garden & eat
of the forbidden fruit: all mankind is still paying the consequences
for that after 6000 years!
Adam was observed by the entire
Spirit World to see how he would tend & care for what he had been
put in charge of: the Garden and Eve. Unfortunately, he didn't manage
to protect Eve from disobedience, as one book author brought out, but
idly stood by while he listened to the serpent seducing her & thus
had to be demoted to tending harder terrain than the lush garden of
Eden.
Eve also had to adjust &
cope with a few sacrifices. The children she had borne before the fall
had come without any pain, but from now on she was going to deliver
children in pain...
Ever since the Garden of Eden
the Devil has managed to persuade you people to rather believe in his
voice than mine, because his option is usually the one which sounds
more attractive to you! There is apparently more in it for you, if you
choose the Devil's option of disobedience. But is it really so? There
seemed to be more in it for Adam & Eve to choose to eat of the
forbidden tree: more knowledge, a new taste, and the serpent even said,
"Ye shall be as gods"! Now, THAT sounded interesting! But what was the
reality? Curses, pain, thorns & agony ever since, in trade for
paradise.
Even Adam & Eve, the 2 most
perfect people ever created, under the most perfect conditions, were
not completely happy & satisfied without acquiring heavenly hearts
first, the pure hearts that simply come through the purging process of
this life.
People automatically tend to
think that they would never be as dumb as Adam and Eve to allow
themselves to fall for the Devil's lies, but that's already the first
lie they swallowed right there: "Oh, I'm never gonna be that dumb!"
Well, you might have another surprise coming on that one, when you'll
find out one day how often and how easily you fell for the Devil's
fairy-tales! Adam & Eve will look like heroes to you then, by
comparison!
Just like with Adam & Eve,
what's got to change is your own ungrateful attitude of your own heart,
& you must learn to appreciate & praise Me for the little
things, even if they're not perfect, in order to really learn to
appreciate the better & eventually the best & perfect things!
There are too many people out
there who defend nothing but their own little truth. That's the result
of Adam & Eve believing Satan's lie at the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil, "Ye shall be as gods." The problem is that when you have
millions or even billions of little "gods" running around &
everyone of them having their own "truth," it's pretty hard for those
who are not as conceited to find out what to believe in and what really
is the truth.
Blaming Eve, or womankind in
general continuously for the result of what happened, is one of the
causes for a lot that's going on in the world, & one of those
devilish schemes I'm trying to expose right here: the Devil tempts you
to blame them and you become resentful. He gives you an excuse for not
loving them and you fall for it! There IS no excuse for failing to
love! To love is the one and only commandment.
Adam wants to impart to you some of the lessons he's learned!
Compared to the purity Adam
& Eve had experienced in the Garden, all else was husks. All they
wanted was get back to the garden, and the thrills and pleasures of
this sinful world were only shadows in comparison.
But you can look forward to the
Garden & you can start enjoying the wholesome, pure ways of loving
of the future right now, & be aware of not letting any of the
defilements of the world enter in. Keep it pure!
The real thing is the spirit.
The flesh is the counterfeit, the fraud, the fake... the reign over the
realm that the Devil promised Adam & Eve. It's a little playground
where you're able to play "god" for a little while... until you get
tired of it & decide you prefer to let Me take over that part in
your life again.
Some of the things you know
today weren't necessarily always clear to all the angels. When Adam
& Eve ate of the forbidden fruit, not all of them were aware of the
fact that this was what had been expected. So, these things can be a
test of faith sometimes. When it seems like God has failed, only those
who loyally believe in their hearts that He really IS infallible can
keep believing, trusting and obeying Him.
But why should I withhold the
same freedom of choice that I gave Adam & Eve from the Church*? Why
should I painstakingly see to it that the Church is "perfect," without
the option of failing, (and I'm talking about every single individual),
when that is the overall, grand plan? You see, the plan is to show how
I can use you, how I can work through you, in spite of your weaknesses.
* (Referring to no part of organized or established religion, but the
Church as in the original meaning of the word, "ecclesia," "the called
out ones," the chosen body of believers, who choose to go God's way.)
In the Garden of Eden the
situation was too perfect, too smooth, too easy for them, there was no
need to get desperate, they felt no need to watch out for temptation,
to seek Me as fervently as Adam did after the fall.
You all have the same
great-great-great-great-great....grandfather, Adam, and after that,
Noah, so, you're all one big family, so to speak. Now it's your choice
whether you want to accept your place in that Family and do what you
can to help your brothers & sisters or not. Or whether you prefer
to play the Devil's game & do it his way: "I take care of myself,
and if that means I have to take something away from my 'brother,' I
will not hesitate to do it!" Then you can join his family, but it's not
going to be anywhere near as fun, and the rewards aren't going to be
near as good as they are going to be for those who choose to be on My
side & do it the loving way, the helping way, the considerate way.
It's not difficult to disobey
My voice, as you find out from the story of Adam & Eve in the
Garden! It didn't take the Devil a lot of persuasion. The only question
is, have you been falling for his lies & his tricks enough times to
have learned the lesson of what truly is best for you, to be able to
resist his temptations? Or are you still not any smarter, any wiser,
& still fall for his input, his version of the story, his
alternative, his compromise?
The bad times draw you closer
to Me, make you realize you can't do it without Me, make you
appreciate Me and the fact that I'm around. Life in the perfect
environment, the Garden of Eden, wasn't exciting enough in the long run
to keep Adam & Eve from the temptation of disobedience. As long as
everything was so easy & perfect, they didn't really realize how
badly they needed Me.
Just as I had put Adam in
charge of the Garden, and in charge of the animals, I had also placed a
certain responsibility on him over Eve. It's not as if women weren't
responsible for making their own choices, but men are still responsible
to help women make the right choices, or at least their wives. In fact,
everyone of My children & brides is responsible to help others and
each other to make the right choices, that's what being a "brother's
keeper" is all about.
Adam and Eve had already come
to know the good, the truth, everything I had presented to them, which
I had declared as good. For them to eat of the fruit of the tree of
knowledge of good and evil meant for them to discover the other side,
the darker side, the knowledge of that which was not good and was not
the truth: the knowledge of evil and of that which is a lie. That's all
Satan really had to offer: the lie, the illusion, that which man thinks
he knows.
The knowledge of evil, the
"knowledge" that Satan brought into the world by tempting Adam &
Eve to disobey Me, is nothing but an illusion; a lie; a deception. They
may think it's fact, and they may call what they consider knowledge to
be reality, but reality as I know it is something quite different.
What happened is that they
swapped programs. The first one was the "good" program, My program, the
program of truth, but it didn't satisfy them.
man has always needed a cause
to fight for, and thus, something to fight against; some challenges and
adversities to tackle, before he was ever going to be able to truly be
happy, and that's what's happening in this life.
If it all comes for free, if it
all comes too easily, then they tend to take it all for granted, and
thoughts start popping into their minds of "what if I were my own
boss?" So, down here, on earth, everyone can experience that "what if"
game, of what happens when I'm not in charge.
Of course, while you're at it,
and if you should ever get fed up with it, you can switch to a
different mode again, the mode of accepting My leadership, after all;
My guidance & My loving light for your life.
The Enemy always makes what
you've already got look like nothing, compared to all the elusive
things he would offer you, ever since Adam and Eve in the Garden. They
didn't know they were living under the most perfect circumstances
possible right there, they fell for Satan's lie that there was
something better than that, and that they deserved something better
than that, which I was withholding from them, and consequently, things
got a lot worse!
Adam had to tend the garden of
Eden, and you've got to tend the garden and guard the flame of your
heart! You've got to protect your garden, your plants from blithes and
make sure they're being watered plenty, and you've got to keep that
fire in your heart burning!
Like Adam, you walk through
this savage garden, surrounded by all the animals, some of which are so
much bigger and taller and stronger than you, equipped with greater
survival skills, but you don't find your mate among them. But suddenly
you wake up one day and find next to you one just like you to accompany
you through this life's journey, to love and be loved by, to share with
and learn with and from, as well as to teach, or simply to sit at My
feet together and learn from Me.
Everyday is a little bit like
the first day, when understanding and clearly seeing and hearing first
began... It's not as if everything you learned previously is all there,
right away, but you have to re-activate that knowledge, that
conscience, re-establish your tie of love and trust with Me... That is
somewhat part of your handicap, with which you must live. There is no
way around it: you must spend that time daily with Me, or you'll just
drift off in the meaninglessness of mere survival, the way so many
others do, living lives without meanings.
"Giving up is just about the
equivalant of the original sin." Adam & Eve gave up resisting the
temptation, they gave up resisting evil, they gave up making that
effort to strive to obey Me at all costs... They gave up on believing
Me and chose to believe the Devil's lies instead.
Sometimes all you've got to do
is hold on to the right thing when you've got it: the truth, the right
way, the good work, and refuse to give up, refuse to be distracted and
stopped, no matter how hard the Devil will try.
It sounded pretty convincing to
Adam and Eve, when the Devil told them that they weren't really going
to die if they ate from the fruit of that tree. And the fact that they
didn't die physically right away made it a lot easier for them to
continue falling for the Devil's lies plenty of times after that. It
took them learning to see more than just what your carnal eyes will
tell you to distinguish that I had really told them the truth, that
spiritually, they had died on the day they had eaten from that tree,
and that it was the Devil who was the deceiver and liar, not I.
But just as in Adam and Eve's
case, unfortunately it usually takes most people some similar,
eye-opening experiences and lessons about where the path of
disobedience, the path of the Enemy's deception, will lead them.
I never meant for you or anyone
to try to figure it all out by themselves. Ever since Adam, I've always
wanted man to look to Me for guidance and reference, to show him what's
going on, what went wrong, and how he's gotten himself into a mess that
only I can fix, when it all comes down to it.
Humanity is one big family,
everything anyone does always affects the others in a way: you all
proceed from the same ancestors, Adam & Eve, who proceeded from Me,
and thus, you're all connected, as much as the illusion of many
separate entities may seem real. It's true that not all may be children
of God yet, but it is your duty to see to it that they get a chance to
become children of God.
