As you may have noticed, Jesus taught His followers to pray. In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. With these words, He was calling on His Father to once again restore His Kingdom rule and culture on Earth as it has always been in Heaven; and as it had been in the Garden of Eden at the beginning. Now the question...What was the Lord God's Kingdom on Earth like? What was life like in Heaven's earthly post, God's "Garden colony" on Earth?
Essentially, Eden was a direct reflection in the natural realm of Heaven in the supernatural realm. For one thing, it had land--territory. Every kingdom must have territory, for without territory there is nothing for a king to rule over. Although invisible, the supernatural realm of Heaven is vast and infinite; much larger than the natural realm visible to human eyes. Eden was a physical realm with physical territory. That is why the Lord God did not create man first. He created the Earth first so that man would have territory to rule, which makes sense. Adam and Eve ruled Eden and the entire created order, just as the Lord God ruled in Heaven.
Another thing was, Eden shared a common language with Heaven. Any nation or kingdom needs a common language or else it will begin to lose national and social cohesion. Adam and Eve shared a common language with their Creator. They conversed openly and easily with Him in a completely transparent relationship and always knew exactly what He expected. All that changed when the pretender took over. Even though all humans spoke a common language with one another for many centuries, until the Lord God confused their speech at the Tower of Babel and they lost their ability to understand and speak God's language, the language of Heaven.
Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
That is why, when we are outside the Kingdom, we do not understand what God says and no longer knows what He expects. One characteristic of Kingdom life is that we can speak and understand the language of the Kingdom in a way that those outside the Kingdom cannot.
Eden also shared the laws and constitution of Heaven. But I will continue this in part II.
Matthew 6:9-10 Genesis 11:1-9
~~W.R. Luchie
Essentially, Eden was a direct reflection in the natural realm of Heaven in the supernatural realm. For one thing, it had land--territory. Every kingdom must have territory, for without territory there is nothing for a king to rule over. Although invisible, the supernatural realm of Heaven is vast and infinite; much larger than the natural realm visible to human eyes. Eden was a physical realm with physical territory. That is why the Lord God did not create man first. He created the Earth first so that man would have territory to rule, which makes sense. Adam and Eve ruled Eden and the entire created order, just as the Lord God ruled in Heaven.
Another thing was, Eden shared a common language with Heaven. Any nation or kingdom needs a common language or else it will begin to lose national and social cohesion. Adam and Eve shared a common language with their Creator. They conversed openly and easily with Him in a completely transparent relationship and always knew exactly what He expected. All that changed when the pretender took over. Even though all humans spoke a common language with one another for many centuries, until the Lord God confused their speech at the Tower of Babel and they lost their ability to understand and speak God's language, the language of Heaven.
Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
That is why, when we are outside the Kingdom, we do not understand what God says and no longer knows what He expects. One characteristic of Kingdom life is that we can speak and understand the language of the Kingdom in a way that those outside the Kingdom cannot.
Eden also shared the laws and constitution of Heaven. But I will continue this in part II.
Matthew 6:9-10 Genesis 11:1-9
~~W.R. Luchie
