Genesis Study #8 2/21/09

The Garden of Eden

OF= out from within

Garden= our mind

PLANTING= a fixing, a fastening, a "planting" of something in our "gareden" or our mind.

I want us to look at what most of us has thought to BE a literal, earthly place. What the church has taught us, unknowingly, IN ERROR. The Garden of Eden IS NOT what we have thought it to be. For more than 2000 yrs, man has been searching for a place called, The Garden of Eden; and yet not found it. The Garden IS NOT a literal, earthly piece of land somewhere in the Middle East. Just as we are finding out that WE are not what we have been taught, all of our life, just a earthly human being, WE ARE FINDING OUT MUCH MORE. We have found that we are FROM ABOVE, not of the earth. We are Spirit Beings who are bringing heaven and earth TOGETHER. We will see more about US, as we find out more about the Spirit realm that we came from. As we see more truth that has been hidden from us, from the foundation of the world, we will come to realize who and what we really are, and we will UNDERSTAND this truth.

As I said, the first chapther of Genesis IS THE CREATION OF GOD. HE CREATED ALL THAT WAS CREATED IN CHAPTER ONE. And as we saw in Gen 1:31, EVERYTHING was created BY GOD (Eloheim) and EVERYTHING was perfect and good in His sight. He was PLEASED with all that He saw in chapter one. This is STILL THE WAY HE SEES EVERYTHING, BECAUSE HE KNOWS THE BEGINNING AND EXACTLY HOW THE END WILL BE. THE END WILL BE AS HE CREATED IT IN THE BEGINNING. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE WILL BE THAT WE HAVE LEARNED TO BE AND DO ONLY WHAT HE DOES. EARTH IS OUR LEARNING PLACE. OUR AWAKENING PLACE. IT IS THE JOURNEY THAT WE ARE ON, RETURNING TO OUR ORIGINAL BEING. Symbolically, earth is also our body.

As I have said, in chapter one of Genesis there was no such thing as "evil". Duet. 32:4 "He is the Rock, his work is PERFECT; for all His ways are judgment: a God of truth and without INIQUITY, just and right is he." Do you understand this? HIS WORK IS PERFECT. ANYTHING that out natural eyes see; that our natural mind says, that is seen differently than being perfect, IS ERROR OF THE CARNAL MIND!! As we go through "the Garden", we will come to understand this.

THE GARDEN IS THE BEGINNING OF DIFFERENT THINKING, DIFFERENT FROM THE GOD THINKING.

GEN 2:8, "And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden: and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil."

Take notice of WHO did all of this, that is spoken of, in this verse. The LORD GOD. US. WE did the "planting of the garden" And notice it was US who began the beginning of "good and evil".

Ok, we are going to be looking up the MEANING of some of these words, from the original language that they came from. We must also, see this scripture with the SPIRIT MIND and not the natural mind, to see what is really being explained to us, in this scripture. What we are being told, in this scripture, is the story of OUR LIFE; where we began; how we came to be in the state of mind that we are in now; who made all of this possible; and why it happened.

I want to ask a question before we begin with the understanding of this scripture. Does God ever make a mistake? Is there anything that God does not know? Can any kind of trick be played on God? The answer to all these questions IS NO. God IS ALL KNOWING. THERE IS NOTHING THAT GOD DOES NOT KNOW. YOU, ME OR ANYONE ELSE, can never fool God. So remember this as we look at this scripture.

Now, the first thing that we notice in verse 8 is what? THE LORD GOD PLANTED A GARDEN. It was not God (Eloheim) of chapter one, that planted this garden. We must remember ALL OF GOD'S WORK WAS FINISHED< WHEN THIS GARDEN WAS PLANTED. (Gen 1:2-3). Is this clear to you? God had done HIS CREATING and HE RESTED, HE WAS FINSIHED WITH HIS WORK. We must also remember that all that God (Eloheim) created He created in the SPIRIT REALM.

The creating of THE LORD GOD was created in the PHYSICAL REALM, or what we call the earthen realm. The creating by God (Eloheim) was and is PERFECT. So He has no reason to keep on creating, His creating is finished and will remain as HE created it; it is US, the Lord God who does not see as God sees and keeps on creating, trying to make the earthen realm what we think God wants it to be. It is us, the Lord God, that when we see something that we THINK is evil, or different from the way God created it to be, try to change it from bad , back to good. But, you see, we are SEEING with our natural mind and natural eyes, so we do not see it as God sees it. We, as the Plural Eloheim, created and have been creating out of doublemindedness. God's creation and thinking NEVER CHANGES, only ours does. God sees no evil, it does not exist. Re-read chapter one of Genesis and see if you see ANYWHERE, evil. It is not there. So if God does not see it, when we see it, it is all an illusion.

If we see another religion, or another believing of a different denomination, we THINK that they are wrong and we are right. So we try to change them and their beliefs. IF that doesn't work, we start a war, all IN THE NAME OF GOD, which is NOT of God in any way. Their God is the same God that we have.

"Therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith you are called. With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; endeavouring to keep the UNITY OF THE SPIRIT (notice, it does not say SPIRITS) in the bond of peace. THERE IS ONE BODY, and ONE SPIRIT, .....ONE LORD, .....ONE GOD AND FATHER OF ALL, WHO IS ABOVE ALL, AND THROUGH ALL, AND IN YOU ALL."

It is the SAME SPIRIT that others depend on, just as we do, it is the same GOD that others worship, that we worship; it is the same LORD that THEY ARE < JUST AS WE ARE THE PLURAL ELOHEIM< THE LORD GOD!! ONE, ONE, there is only ONE. It is man's interpretation that says, "oh they worship another God". I don't care what others call their God, there is only ONE GOD and He is the God of all people!! Think about it, here in America, millions have their own name that they call God. BUT regardless of what anyone calls Him, there is only ONE GOD. You see, we are LEARNING TRUTH, others are too, and we will come together IN ONE TRUTH, as we make our journey, here on earth, BACK TO WHO GOD SAYS WE ARE!! This is HOW we learn to love EVERYONE!! By knowing, even IF THEY DO NOT KNOW, that person's True Identity. is the same True Identity that ours is. How can we not love them IF they are made of the very substance of God Almighty Eloheim? We do not have to agree with their way of life, but we do have to love them because WE know who they truely are, within themselves. It is just that they are STILL UNTIL THE INFULENCE OF THE NATURAL< EARTHLY< CARNAL MIND. While we are awakening to the using and following of the SPIRITUAL CHRIST MIND. There are some that we have to love from a distance, BUT, WE MUST LOVE THE PERSON THAT THEY TRUELY ARE. We cannot love ourselves if we don't love them. Why? Because we are ONE. None of us are separated from another, except in our thinking. And remember, ALL WILL NOT come into this knowing of their True Identity at the same time. There is and has always been a FIRSTFRUITS COMPANY OF PEOPLE who will learn and then lead the rest of mankind into HIS LEARNING. This is what is happening between you and me. I am awakened to our True Identity and am sharing it with YOU. ALL of you will not grasp this truth, right now, but those who are open to the Spirit WILL TAKE HOLD OF IT. It IS NOT LINDA sharing with you, it is the LORD GOD that God created me as, HIS REFLECTION. So, Linda cannot take any glory for this. It is GOD APPEARING AS and THROUGH LINDA. He has more for Linda to awaken to, but, YOU will awaken in your time too. Maybe some of you have awakened to even more than I have. BUT IT IS ALL HIM!! He is all in all of me, all of all in you, so it is HIM that is awakening US.

So here in Genesis 2:8, we see that it was THE LORD GOD who planted the Garden. You can see here, that it is the physical that the Lord God is creating in. God created the "garden" in the Spirit, the Lord God created the "garden" in the natural realm. Now, this natural realm, does not just mean this earth. It also includes the earthly MIND. Anything that pertains to the physical, earthly, fleshly us, is the creating of the Lord God. OK. Do you remember what the word "OF" means? Keep this in mind. "OF" means, "out from within". The creating OF God comes from the Spirit (out from within the Spirit). The creating of the Lord God comes (out from within) the natural mind. We will see how our natural mind is being changed BACK to the Spirit Mind of Christ as we look into this 'Garden."

We saw that God (Eloheim) created MAN (mankind) in His own IMAGE. So, we know that when mankind was created, the ONLY MIND that mankind had, was the CHRIST MIND. GOD'S MIND. We also know, that mankind KNEW ONLY GOD. Mankind did not see himself any different from God. ALL THAT MANKIND KNEW WAS GOD. Mankind did not know "evil" because mankind came OUT FROM WITHIN GOD, MADE OF GOD'S VERY SUBSTANCE and there was no "evil" in God. So there was no evil in mankind either. All that mankind was, was a reflection OF GOD. Mankind was the PLURAL GOD. The Eloheim. Remember, "Eloheim" means "plural God." Look back to Duet. 32: 4. What does it tell us? It says, "God's work IS PERFECT". God created us PERFECT. He still sees us as PERFECT, in HIS IMAGE. WE ARE THE ONES WHO SEES DIFFERENTLY!! We see a dilusion. A "manmade" way of seeing, instead of the way God sees. I will get a little ahead of myself here, but what did God say to Adam and Eve when they had eaten of the tree that they were told NOT to eat of? They said, "we ate of the tree and NOW we are naked." And what did God answer them? He said, "WHO TOLD YOU that you are naked?" You see, they had the choice to eat of the tree of knowledge of GOOD AND EVIL or NOT to eat of it. The minute they ate of that knowledge, their God Mind fell away from them. They started THINKING with the carnal mind. And what did they see, that God DOES NOT SEE? They saw EVIL. God does not see evil.

"PS 139:12, MT 5:45, "Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee: but the night shineth as the day: the darkness AND the light are BOTH ALIKE TO THEE." This is David, talking to God. You see, the reason darkness and light are the same to God, is because HE KNOWS that out of the darkness LIGHT, TRUTH, HIS TRUTH, will be learned by us. So God does not see darkness, sin, evil, WE SEE IT because we look and understand with the carnal mind, NOT the mind of Christ. And we see EXACTLY what we are looking to see. When we look for evil, or wrongness in ourselves, we will find it. But, that is changing in us. We are beginning to see, that all IS as God says it is, NOT AS WE SEE IT WITH CARNAL MINDS. We take HIM at HIS WORD, not what our eyes tell us. We are awakening to the True Identity of each person on this earth and we SEE them with Spiritual eyes. We SEE Who they really are, and we are learning that WHATEVER they are doing; however, they are living, we know that it is because they don't know their True selves and are living in a dilusion, and not in the Truth of themselves, and they ARE LEARNING THEMSELVES.. BUT, praise Him, they WILL COME TO KNOW THEMSELVES, either on this earth or when they leaave and reside in the invisible realm UNTIL they are called back into a body that death cannot touch. WE MUST begin to see as God sees. We are coming back to the Truth that WE ARE HIS IMAGE; we ARE HIS REFLECTION.

MT 4:44-48, "But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven, for He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust. For if you love them which loves you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if you salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? BE YOU THEREFORE PERFECT, EVEN AS YOUR FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN IS PERFECT."

It is not God who sees your brethren as unjust, it is US that sees them as unjust> Why? Because they dont believe as WE believe. It is not God who sees our brethren as our enimies. It is US that sees them as enimies. It is not God who sees our brethrens as evil, it is US who sees them as evil. God did not tell us to not recognize our brethrens of different beliefs, WE tell ourselves, "don't recognize them, they believe differently than we do". No, God does not see them as we have seen them in the past. He sends HIS RAIN on them as well as us. He makes His SUN to shine on them as well as us. He sees them just as He created them, just as He does us. One thing that God showed me, was this; just as WE are awakening to Truth that the church has never taught us, there are others who are being awakened also. But not all can openly admit what is changing in their way of thinking. Some would be killed if they said they beleived in "God or Jesus", instead of Allah, or Buddah, etc.. God is not just awakening Christians, He is awakening some in ALL parts of the world. And God is NO RESPECTOR OF PERSONS, He loves them just as much as He loves us. He loves the atheist, just as much as He loves the most religious Christian. He KNOWS that each and every one of us is on our journey BACK to living as Him, in His Image, as His Reflection seen on earth. Yes we have to love all, regardless of their lifestyle or their beliefs. It will all change, in HIS TIME>

And at the end of that scripture, what did God tell us to do? BE PERFECT AS HE IS PERFECT!!!! He is saying, "BE WHAT I MADE YOU TO BE!!" "BE MY LIFE IN THE VISIBLE EARTH REALM." He told us to be, what we really are, not what we have believed we are.

Let me add this, too. We call Him Father. The bible calls Him Father. But we must come to accept that He IS NOT OUR FATHER. Yes, that is how we have known Him, in this carnal, religious realm. We know Him as Father, because this is all that we have been taught. But in reality, HIS REALITY, He is not our Father, He is us and we are Him. And remember, MAN wrote the bible, not the disciples, not Jesus, but MAN. Think about this; 1 Timothy 3:16 tells us that God manifested in the flesh. And as you read that entire scripture, we are being told things, that we have known as JESUS doing; but where it says, "God manifested in the flesh......" insert the word "God", in front of all that it tells us that GOD did. Your mind will instantly tell you, "well , these are things that JESUS did", which shows us WHO JESUS REALLY WAS. And of the sacrifice that God made to become flesh, and come to this earthen realm.

Ok, so the first thing we saw in Gen. 2;8 is that it was the Lord God who planted the Garden. I want to look at the meanings of some of these words as we go through them. I will be looking in Strong's Concordance, in the Hebrew Language, to get the original meanings of the words. I am sure that as you see the meanings of these words, your thinking will change. Remember MEN TRANSLATED their meanings from the original meanings to meanings that they THOUGHT would make understanding more easy for us, but in doing so, they CHANGED the meanings into half truths.

This word "planted"; in the Hebrew language is: nata, pronounced "naw-tah" and it means; to strike in, to fix in, to fasten. In the natural, when we are studing or trying to learn something, WHERE DO WE FIX, or STRIKE or FASTEN a thing to? TO OUR MIND. We study, we seek, and as we go along we FIX a thing into our mind. We FASTEN a thing to our mind , so that we will remember that thing. We STRIKE that thing in to our mind. Therefore, we PLANT a thing that we consider "truth" into our mind. And if what we PLANT in our mind is in error, what happens when we water a plant? It grows. Well it is the same with a teaching that was taught to us in error. Our BELIEF in the error, is the water that keeps it growing.

One thing I want to say here is this: for EVERYTHING in the natural, there is a SPIRITUAL MEANING, A SPIRITUAL TRUTH about that thing. What we THINK with the natural mind; there is a TRUTH, a SPIRITUAL TRUTH about that thing in the Mind of Christ. We have been told that we have a CARNAL MIND, right? But what does God tell us? He says, "YOU HAVE the Mind of Christ". ( 1 Cor. 2:16) He DOES NOT tell us that we will SOMEDAY have the Mind of Christ, He says "you HAVE the Mind of Christ". The religious church system has told us that we are sinners; we can do noting; your thoughts are not God's thoughts and all other things, but this IS NOT WHAT GOD TELLS US and we have BELIEVED MAN and what does the Word tell us about what we believe? "as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he". We have believed what man taught us, so we have lived as man has lived, while all the time, we were/are the opposite of what man has taught us. And think on this: IF we are man, and not Spirit, then we GET EVERYTHING THAT COMES WITH THE FLESH REALM: sickness, death, pain, sorrow and all the rest. But, don't worry, WE ARE AWAKENING!! Hallelujah!! We ARE A SPIRIT BEING and all those things cannot touch a Spirit. That is one reason we are seeing some illnesses fall away from those who are awakening to the truth of their Being.

So, as the Lord God began his creating, he planted a garden. Where did he plant it? Where does the work of the Lord God take place? In the earthen realm; in the carnal realm. The Lord God "fastended" a BELIEF or thought, in his mind. This was the beginning of the changing from the Christ Mind to using the carnal mind. This DOES NOT MEAN THAT GOD(ELOHEIM) DID NOT KNOW THAT THIS WOULD HAPPEN!! God knew everything. HE KNEW that the man that He created in His image, KNEW ALL because HE WAS IN GOD FROM THE BEGINNING; BUT, HE KNEW THAT THAT MAN HAD NEVER CREATED; NEVER USED ALL THE GOD POWER, THE GOD THINKING, THE GOD BEING, AND THAT THAT MAN WOULD HAVE TO LEARN TO USE , IN ORDER TO BE WHAT MAN TRUELY WAS MADE AS. I remember when these truths started rising up within me. I would sit and talk to God and I would tell Him, "oh I know this, and I know that". And He gently said to me, "YOU DON"T KNOW A THING UNTIL YOU EXPERIENCE THAT THING". What words of wisdom they were to me. You see, we can learn from another; we can memorize things they teach us; we can remember what they have told us, BUT, it is ALL HEAD KNOWLEDGE UNTIL THE SPIRIT LETS YOU EXPERIENCE THE TRUTH.!! As we began to receive UNDERSTANDING of these things in OUR SPIRIT, WE LIVE THESE THINGS. They become a part of OUR LIFE. That is when we EXPERIENCE THEM. They CHANGE not only our thinking, but the way we think, the way we live, the way we TRUELY ARE. This is why, I say to you, no matter what I teach you; TAKE IT BEFORE THE SPIRIT WITHIN YOU and receive the EXPERIENCING that they are TRUTH. ONCE THE SPIRIT SHOWS YOU A TRUTH, NO ONE OR NO THING CAN TAKE IT AWAY FROM YOU, IT BECOMES A PART OF YOU and the more it becomes a part of you, the more OF GOD IS SEEN AND HEARD FROM YOU, because it is truely HIS LIFE THAT IS BEING LIVED THROUGH YOU.

planted= a fixing, or a fastening or a "planting" in the mind.

garden=THE MIND is our Garden.

I am going to stop right here and in the next part of this study of Genesis, we will start where we left off today.

God bless, and I call forth the understanding of the Spirit in this study that we are doing. I call forth the Mind of Christ to rise up within you, to show you TRUTH. You will find that what we are being showed, is ABOUT OURSELVES; the MORE WE LEARN OF HIM, THE MORE WE KNOW ABOUT US.

His love, Linda

It is understandable for a child to be afraid of the dark; but, why would an adult be afraid of the LIGHT?

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