Will we ever see a Paradise earh?
Picture in your mind, a Beautiful Paradise-Like Park, planted by the God of the Universe, who himself is perfect in all his ways. A garden of superalitive breath-taking Beauty. Imagine you're watching, as he places a perfect righteous Man in that garden to cultivate it and to take care of it. All around are beautiful fruit Trees- Food for the man to sustain himself with. Every variety of fruit one can imagine-the Air is fresh and permeated with the fragrant aroma of the various fruits growing on the Trees. The Garden is filled with little animals scampering here and there, around all of the Trees. The Sun is warm, a light breeze is blowing stirring the leaves on the Trees.
Beautiful colored Birds are nesting in the branches of the Trees, caring for their young fledglings - a corus of melodious sounds, as they sing, each one their own song- while feeding their young -
You notice the Man has the animals all gathered around him, giving each one its own particular name - then as you watch, the Man lies down to rest falling into a deep peaceful sleep - as he sleeps, you notice his Creator is forming a Woman for the Man out of one of the Mans Ribs, so the Man will be like the Animals and have his own mate and not be alone as he has been for awhile- the Man awakes to find he's no longer alone, and is delighted with his new mate, so both are very happy in their little paradise -
Their Creator, one day, blesses his pair of perfect humans and instructs them to mutiply and fill the earth, and they proceed to carry out their makers command, and both are filled with the joy of living in a beautiful Paradise like Park-
Then one day, as you're watching and listening, you overhear their creator telling them about two Trees. One in the middle of the Garden, that was a constant guarantee of life, and one other, that if they touched that Tree, they would die, as well as any future offspring. They were told, from every Tree of the Garden, eat to satisfaction, but don't touch the other Tree. So, they had food in abundance. They would never want for anything, and they would continue on living as long as they stayed away from the other Tree. They had it all! They lived in righteous human perfection, in that gloriously beautiful garden.
The Creator though had a wicked Son, who he had appointed to watch over the garden, and as this Son watched the pair in the Garden from day to day, he began to desire the worship they paid to his Father, so he schemed and planned a way to get them to violate his Fathers express command not to touch that Tree.
Having powers beyond human ability, he took on the form of a serpent, and while the Woman Eve was alone in the Garden, this wicked Son, knowing the Woman was the weaker of the Two induced the Woman Eve to eat of the Tree they were told not to touch. This wicked Son, contradicted his Fathers words, and told the Woman she would not die if she ate of the fruit, but would become like his Father. She would have her eyes opened and be like his Father. Knowing good and Bad. He caused her to believe, that her creator was holding back from her and Adam something that would be of benefit to them. The Woman Eve began to look upon the fruit and noticed it was something to be longed for and desirable to look upon; so she ate of it. When her husband came on the scene, she gave some to him, and without hesitation, he ate of it. When the Father came on the scene they hid away from him because they both knew they'd done wrong.
The Woman Eve was misled! Adam was not misled! But now terrible trouble and woe would begin; first for Adam and his Wife Eve, then for the entire human race. The wicked Son had murdered the entire human race by his actions; now, rather than having continued life to look forward to in a beautiful paradise-like park; thousands of years of death, mourning, sickness, and pain krept into the scene. Human suffering beyond imagination, would have to be endured. The paradise had been lost, as was the life of the entire World. Among the family of Adam and Eve, Abel was the only righteous one among them, who worshipped his God in gratitude for all that he had done, and would yet ever do. That worship too had ended when Abel's brother Cain put Abel to death. Along with everything else that was lost, true worship had been lost as well. That is, worship in perfection.
As Jehovah had told the Man, he would die if he touched the Tree, and true to his word, Jehovah sentenced Adam to death; telling him: "In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for dust you are and to dust you will return." That, now, was the fate of all Mankind, who would ever come to be, because now, because Adam fell into sin, Mankind would inherit from Adam all he was able to pass on, and rather than pass on Life, or the opportunity for such, he past on a legacy of sin and death. {Genesis 3:19} {Romans 5:12}
So! True Worship, in the paradise garden-like-park; the life of the World; had to be restored, and right there in that Garden Jehovah made provision to do exactly that. This can be seen from the sentence Jehovah passed on his wicked Son, who had made himself satan the devil.
Uttering one of the most momentous statements of all time, one that Jehovah knew would require the death of his dear Son, and many of his companions, covering thousands of years, before finally being settled; Jehovah passed sentence on satan the devil, in these following words, with all of his heavenly sons looking on, who would be anxious to know how their heavenly Father would deal with this great tragedy, they heard their heavenly Father utter these following words to satan the devil:
14 "And Jehovah God proceeded to say to the serpent: "Because you have done this thing, you are the cursed one out of all the domestic animals and out of all the wild beasts of the field. Upon your belly you will go and dust is what you will eat all the days of your life. 15 And I shall put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed. He will bruise you in the head and you will bruise him in the heel." {Genesis 3:15 NWT}
From that time forward, there wouild exist a hatred, between the seed of Jehovah's Heavenly Woman, and the Seed of satan the devil; whereby brutal persecution would be heaped on Jehovah's Faithful worshippers, and as stated by Jehovah, his dear Son received a heel wound at his crucifiction, but much later would crush the head of satan the devil as he threw him into the lake of fire and destroyed him forever; thus fulfilling Jehovah's words to have satan bruised in the head. {Hebrews 11:1-40} {Acts 7:54-60}
This crushing in the head of satan will be done after the Thousand year reign of the Christ is over when satan is let loose one more time to mislead the Nations, as John in the Revelation account shows us; when he then is put out of the way for all time to come, and everything at that time will be restored back to its natural order. Paul will tell us about that next: {Revelation 20:7-10}
24 "Next, the end, when he hands over the kingdom to his God and Father, when he has brought to nothing all government and all authority and power. 25 For he must rule as king until [God] has put all enemies under his feet. 26 As the last enemy, death is to be brought to nothing. 27 For [God] "subjected all things under his feet." But when he says that ‘all things have been subjected,’ it is evident that it is with the exception of the one who subjected all things to him. 28 But when all things will have been subjected to him, then the Son himself will also subject himself to the One who subjected all things to him, that God may be all things to everyone." {1 Corinthians 15:24-28 NWT} {Revelation 20:7-10 NWT} {Matthew 25:41}
Everything now is restored back to its natural order, and Jehovah is once more seated on his Throne, with all Mankind, returned to perfection, and in perfection, Praising in worship this glorious God. A time when the words of the Psalmist will have very real meaning to us all: A time of unprecedented joy, as once again every breathing thing is praising Jehovah.
"Praise Jah,
YOU people! Praise God in his holy place.Praise him in the expanse of his strength. 2 Praise him for his works of mightiness.Praise him according to the abundance of his greatness. 3 Praise him with the blowing of the horn, instrument and the harp. 4 Praise him with the tambourine and the circle. Praise him with the stringed dance.
Praise him with strings and the pipe. 5 Praise him with the cymbals of melodious sound.Praise him with the clashing cymbals. 6 Every breathing thing—let it praise Jah.
Praise Jah, YOU people!" {Psalm 150:1-6 NWT}
And what does it mean to praise Jehovah? Why, it means to Worship him, as we see"
PRAISE-
"To express warm approbation of, commendation for, or admiration forTo extol or exalt; worship.
6 "And I saw another angel flying in midheaven, and he had everlasting good news to declare as glad tidings to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation and tribe and tongue and people, 7 saying in a loud voice: "FEAR God and give him glory, becausethe hour of the judgment by him has arrived, and so worship the One who made the heaven and the earth and sea and fountains of waters." {Revelation 14:6,7 NWT}
Some may feel this hour of judgment denotes bad news, but to the contrary, this was the day Jehovah had set to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness; this was everlasting good news declared by this Angel for all people tribes and tongues. Remember too, the last enemy death was to be brought to nothing. The very best of News!
Paul will tell us about that now:
31 Because he has set a day in which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and he has furnished a guarantee to all men in that he has resurrected him from the dead."
It may well be that Adam and Eve didn't worship Jehovah in that beautiful Garden, but there's no doubt this entire World will be. The Psalmist said: "Let every breathing thing praise Jehovah. If someone, or something isn't, it will mean it isn't breathing, when this beautiful paradise-like- park is restored, and it definitely will be restored.
We learned from John 17:3 that taking in knowledge of Jehovah and Jesus Christ meant everlasting life; so it stands to reason at some point in time Jehovah, of necessity, would have to impute everlasting life to some. It is my belief, that when satan is let loose one last final time, to mislead the Nations once again, and actually does mislead a great crowd of individuals, this will constitute a final test on Mankind, and those who resist satans last attempt to mislead them, will prove themselves worthy for everlasting life, and because of passing that test, will have everlasting life imputed to them. That is why this everlasting good news is everlasting. They have one the prize of life! The last enemy death is now, brought to nothing. After-all, isn't that why the Christ had to die, so everlasting life could be bought back, because of being lost in the garden of Eden? That is what Adam had lost! Everlasting life! It had to be restored, it was, and will be! To any who desire to reach out for it. {Revelation 20:7-10}
What is our future? A beautiful Paradise-Like-Park will be restored for all of us to live in. Christ died to ensure that hope for all of us. How could it ever fail?Wannabe