The Apostolic Gardens

The Apostolic Gardens

1. Yahweh blessed the humankind and said, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, subdue it and have dominion over it.” The man was commanded to change the remaining barren earth into a Garden of Eden. Yahweh’s original Great Commission has not gone out of date (Gen. 1:28).

2. In the Garden of Eden (Delight), Adam’s (means mud) relationship with Yahweh, with his wife and with the creation, all was in perfect harmony.

3. Adam was commanded to keep the garden and guard it. Adam failed, allowing Satan to deceive Eve. (Gen. 2:15)

4. Yahweh put two trees in the Garden, the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge. Any fool would have chosen to eat the fruit of the Tree of Life and live forever. But that meant submitting to the will of the Creator. Adam chose to do his own thing and disobeyed (Gen. 6:3; Gal.6:7).

5. The moment Adam rebelled; the Spirit of Yahweh left him. His carnal eyes opened up and his spiritual eyes closed down. Both spiritual and physical death thereby passed upon all humans. (Rom. 5:12; 6:33)

6. Adam lost the abundance of the Garden for just one fruit. He also lost the relational equation with his Creator, with his fellow beings and with the creation.

7. Mankind’s relationship with the land suffered. He has to till the land, which produces thorns and thistles, and eat bread earned by the sweat of his brow.  Gen. 3:17-19

8. The woman was cursed with painful childbirth. She is no longer co-equal, the man now rules over her (Gen. 3:16).

9. Yahweh made an animal sacrifice and clothed Adam and Eve. He blessed the woman that through her seed a savior will come. It was Mary’s seed that bore the Messiah.

10. Yeshua shed his blood and made us Royal-Priests to the nations. He has given each one of us a domain as our eternal inheritance to subdue it and bring in Yahweh’s kingdom. (Rev. 5:10; 1Pet. 2:9; Ps. 2:8)

11. The woman (the church) now needs to put on sack cloth and ashes and repent until the Spirit is poured out and replicate the Garden model, 1. Fountains of living water and the restoration of wilderness into fruitful garden. 2. Justice to the poor. 3. Righteousness, with right relation with a. The Father, b. With fellow humans and c. With the creation. 4. Peace and 5. Security. (Isa 32: 1,2; 9-18)

12. Yahweh’s end vision is to see the whole earth being restored in to the Garden of Eden with Kingdom values of love, joy, peace and justice. Isa. (Chap 11:5-9; 65:20-25)

13. Millions of those entering the kingdom are mired in poverty and its devastating effects. They require churches that serve as catalytic agents of holistic change.

14. “There is much food hidden in the land of the poor.” Break the curses and make fallow land drip with milk and honey. One of the best ways to love your neighbor is to send home grown fresh fruits and vegetables from your apostolic garden. (Prov. 13:23; Amos 9:13,14)

15. The history of the earth begins and ends in the garden. The most enduring sign of the Kingdom is a man sitting with his neighbor under the shade of his fig tree and sipping tea made from the healing leaves of the Tree of Life (Zech. 3:10; Rev. 22:2).