"Of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;"
Ground also implies human existence where disobedience sown by one man brings a bumper crop of misery. Labor is wasted and famine and pestilence are ever waiting to come in. Tree of life judged man who ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. What good is to use killer weeds and have the forever chemicals in the water you drink? What good is to save a burning brand out of fire only to have it set your own house in fire?
Only God is good and who is restoring the world ravaged by sin. "He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil." ( 1 John 3:8). The West is as much compromised by the works of the devil. We often heard ad nauseam the six millions Jews perishing in the holocaust. Do we hear as much of lives lost by the West. In 1943 was the Bengal famine owing to the wrong policies of Great Britain. Three million lives perished by their policies. Have they even publicly acknowledged their guilt? It is thus nations have shown their hypocrisy.
The West has thus interfered in the 'Jewish question' of the last century to see another kind of ethnic cleansing and genocide now going on before them in the present times. Growing up complacent and being complicit in their crimes does not leave the future generation free from guilt. It is sin where faithless generation shall flounder in the moral morass of their fathers. It is what law of sin demands the devil's due since sinful man is a servant to the devil.
The ground is only one part. Without considering both ground and the heavenly places carnal wisdom gives the ungodly a wrong prognosis. War on terror in Iraq led to something least expected. It has been thus from the beginning.
God didn't want to curse Adam and Eve so He cursed the ground/earth instead, Genesis 3:17 "And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;". He also cursed the serpent, verse 14.
That curse ended with Noah, Genesis 5:29, "And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed."
Amen. The earth abides forever because it is the visible world framed by the word of God.(He.11:3. Ec.1:4) Fulfilment of the world unseen, the divine Will is signified by the earth.
The curse falls on the ground where the law of sin operates. The ground is a closed system so dust to dust works. In the new heaven and new earth is similarly given to the saints redeemed from the earth because they are under law of the Spirit and freed from curse and condemnation. For them Gal.3:13-14 works. "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree." In Re.21:24 we read that "And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it." God makes a distinction between these two laws. So the new heaven and new earth are a sign for them, thereby fulfilling the words of Isaiah, 'we are signs and wonders'. The city on a hill of the parable.
In order to keep this we have outer darkness introduced which under the day of regeneration is just qualified as earth instead of 'ground' and it is to which Re.21:24 refers. The nations moving eastwards after the great flood is mentioned when the river Euphrates is dried, "that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared."(Re.16:12)From the fall of man the people were on the move and those rejected Jesus and the Gentiles are all part of it. There is much more going on besides the Law of Moses and the nation of Israel who rejected the blessings God under the covenant (Ge.1:28). We were called in his Son and our selection is by grace and the fruits being our works abiding as his branches.
"Of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;"
Ground also implies human existence where disobedience sown by one man brings a bumper crop of misery. Labor is wasted and famine and pestilence are ever waiting to come in. Tree of life judged man who ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. What good is to use killer weeds and have the forever chemicals in the water you drink? What good is to save a burning brand out of fire only to have it set your own house in fire?
Only God is good and who is restoring the world ravaged by sin. "He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil." ( 1 John 3:8). The West is as much compromised by the works of the devil. We often heard ad nauseam the six millions Jews perishing in the holocaust. Do we hear as much of lives lost by the West. In 1943 was the Bengal famine owing to the wrong policies of Great Britain. Three million lives perished by their policies. Have they even publicly acknowledged their guilt? It is thus nations have shown their hypocrisy.
The West has thus interfered in the 'Jewish question' of the last century to see another kind of ethnic cleansing and genocide now going on before them in the present times. Growing up complacent and being complicit in their crimes does not leave the future generation free from guilt. It is sin where faithless generation shall flounder in the moral morass of their fathers. It is what law of sin demands the devil's due since sinful man is a servant to the devil.
The ground is only one part. Without considering both ground and the heavenly places carnal wisdom gives the ungodly a wrong prognosis. War on terror in Iraq led to something least expected. It has been thus from the beginning.
God didn't want to curse Adam and Eve so He cursed the ground/earth instead, Genesis 3:17 "And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;". He also cursed the serpent, verse 14.
That curse ended with Noah, Genesis 5:29, "And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed."
Amen. The earth abides forever because it is the visible world framed by the word of God.(He.11:3. Ec.1:4) Fulfilment of the world unseen, the divine Will is signified by the earth.
The curse falls on the ground where the law of sin operates. The ground is a closed system so dust to dust works. In the new heaven and new earth is similarly given to the saints redeemed from the earth because they are under law of the Spirit and freed from curse and condemnation. For them Gal.3:13-14 works. "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree." In Re.21:24 we read that "And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it." God makes a distinction between these two laws. So the new heaven and new earth are a sign for them, thereby fulfilling the words of Isaiah, 'we are signs and wonders'. The city on a hill of the parable.
In order to keep this we have outer darkness introduced which under the day of regeneration is just qualified as earth instead of 'ground' and it is to which Re.21:24 refers. The nations moving eastwards after the great flood is mentioned when the river Euphrates is dried, "that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared."(Re.16:12)From the fall of man the people were on the move and those rejected Jesus and the Gentiles are all part of it. There is much more going on besides the Law of Moses and the nation of Israel who rejected the blessings God under the covenant (Ge.1:28). We were called in his Son and our selection is by grace and the fruits being our works abiding as his branches.
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