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There are many things, which have been written about the Garden of Eden. Most who try to do so, write about the Garden of Eden without understanding that Yahweh works in patterns, and although we see from Scripture that He has the right to change His mind about a certain decision, however His character or pattern never changes.

Mal 3:6 For I am Yahweh, I do not change. Because of this, you sons of Jacob are not destroyed.

Once you understand that the Garden of Eden was indeed in Jerusalem, the center of the earth, in Yahweh’s Holy Mountain (Mount Zion) (Ezekiel 28:13-14), many other points of Scripture become most clear. Eden was ground zero to Yahweh for His creation. Eden is also indeed a literal place, but it is also a state of mind. The Hebrew word picture for Eden is “to be in the presence of Yahweh”. Eden is indeed an eternal state. Most theological teachers have unequivocally assumed that Adam was the only human being created on creation week and that every other human ever born was directly born from Eve, who also came out from Adam.

However this theory is false and not biblically grounded! The purpose of this lesson is to show that because most people have not understood the creation account in Genesis they have missed out on the very reason why Adam was created. The very purpose of man.

And if Yahshua was indeed the second Adam as Scripture states, and we are to follow in His every action and deed, then we need to know what Adam’s purpose was. Why did he fail and how did Yahshua succeed in redeeming back to us, what Adam lost?

Let’s look at the creation account to find the purpose of man.

Gen 1:3 then Elohim said, Let light be! And there was light.

Gen 1:4 And Elohim saw the light, that it was good, and Elohim separated between the light and darkness.

Gen 1:5 And Elohim called the light, Day. And He called the darkness, Night. And there was evening, and there was morning, day one.

Gen 1:6 And Elohim said, Let an expanse be in the midst of the waters, and let it be dividing between the waters and the waters.

Gen 1:7 And Elohim made the expanse, and He separated between the waters which were under the expanse and the waters which were above the expanse. And it was so.

Gen 1:8 And Elohim called the expanse, Heavens. And there was evening, and there was morning, day two.

What is the pattern that Yahweh institutes each day of creation?

COMMENT: First of all, in each of the creation days Yahweh first states “let there be” to create something and then He forms the creation into what His will is. The pattern is always first simply stating ‘let there be’ and ‘it is’ and then, molding the newly formed creation into what His will is. So with this in mind now let’s take a look at Genesis 1:26-27 on day six of creation.

Gen 1:26 And Elohim said, let Us make mankind (Adawm) in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creepers creeping on the earth.

Gen 1:27 And Elohim created the man (H’ Adawm) in His own image; in the image of Elohim He created him. He created them male and female.

Does Scripture clearly state in Genesis 1:26-27 that the creation of mankind was plural?

COMMENT: In the original Hebrew it clearly states Elohim said let us make mankind (plural) in verse 26, and then separates H’Adawm (the man, singular) from mankind in verse 27. It is interesting that almost all translations put the word ‘so’ instead of the word ‘and’ starting in verse 27, to change the meaning to a continuum instead of adding what He made from verse 26. Also, in verse 27 after Yahweh states that He created Adam in His own image it states directly after that He created ‘them’ male and female denoting the “them” not being Adam, but different multiple people than Adam.

Also, if you look in the Hebrew, which you cannot get from the English is that the word “Adawm” is plural meaning ‘man and female humans’. However, whenever Yahweh is referring to one specific person from mankind who we know as Adam, He used the term in Hebrew ‘H’Adawm‘. So in verse 26 Yahweh creates male and female human beings, however this cannot be referring to Eve as Eve is not created here, but is formed later when Adam is sanctified in the Garden and taken from his rib. This also sets the precedent that fruit can only be borne for Yahweh when one is sanctified away from worldliness.

In Hebrew whenever the perfect article is used in this sense it is always delineating ONLY one specific thing or person. Let’s look at the following scripture to proof this.

Isa 7:14 So, YAHWEH Himself will give you a sign: Behold! The virgin will conceive and will bring forth a son; and she shall call His name ImmanuEl.

Clearly, here, the sign is not just that a virgin would give birth but THE VIRGIN, “H’Almah”, only one specific one. If you were in Israel and asked someone in Hebrew “ayfor mikdash” meaning “where is the sanctuary? “the answer would be “eyzeh mikdash”, or which sanctuary; but if you stated “H’mikdash”, then they would say, Jerusalem. Mikdash can mean any sanctuary, but H’ mikdash with the perfect article “H” before the word can only mean one specific one; being the sanctuary of Yahweh in Jerusalem.

So here in verse 26 of Genesis 1, Yahweh creates mankind, or male and female humans, but then in verse 27 He separates H’Adawm, a specific human man for a specific purpose, as we know. These two verses conclusively show there were other human beings created on day 6, as H’Adawm was separated after the male and female humans were created in verse 26. So even if Eve was indeed formed from Adam later on day 6, it still would have been after the original creation of male and female humans in the previous verse 26. If you look in an interlinear Bible you will see the word Adam being plural meaning mankind (male and female) and H’Adawn, meaning only the man, or one man, Adam.

So, if we simply take this scripture for exactly what it is saying without any preconceived ideas or adding to Scripture what is not there, then we must be honest and admit that this scripture is very clearly showing other humans (male and females) being created on day six of creation week. It is somewhat hypocritical to use Genesis 1: 26-27 to say that there are two members in the Elohim family (let us make man in our image), due to the pronoun being plural, and then, ignore that the pronoun for the creation is also plural (He made them).

Is Genesis written in chronological order?

Gen 1:1 In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth;

Gen 1:5 And Elohim called the light, Day. And He called the darkness, Night. And there was evening, and there was morning, day one.

Gen 1:8 And Elohim called the expanse, Heavens. And there was evening, and there was morning, day two.

Gen 1:13 And there was evening, and there was morning, day three.

COMMENT: When we read the creation account, clearly it is chronological as Yahweh is clearly showing what had to be created first (light out of darkness), and ends each day of creation week showing day 1, day, 2, day 3, etc.

In addition, when we look at creation week, we clearly see that it had to happen in six literal days, as each thing that was created on the preceding day needed the creation from the next day to survive. This also totally refutes the erroneous theory of evolution.

On day three Yahweh created plants bearing fruit and seeds, and on day four He created the sun, moon and stars (and the pattern of the sun and moon cycle), which plants need for photosynthesis (absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen) in order to grow and survive. Then on day 5 and 6, He created the fauna (insects, birds and animals) to cross pollinate these plants, and then the human beings that would need the food from these plants to survive. Therefore, everything was done in judicial order and indeed the Genesis account is chronological, precise and accurate.

So clearly, we see from Genesis 1: 26-27, that it is plural that Yahweh created them, “male and female”. This cannot simply be referring to Adam and Eve as Eve was not created, but formed from Adam, and was not taken from his rib at this point yet.

When Cain is cast outside of Eden are there other human beings living in the area he is going to?

Gen 4:10 And He said, What have you done? The voice of the blood of your brother cries to Me from the ground.

Gen 4:11 And now you are cursed more than the ground which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. Me from the ground.

Gen 4:12 When you till the ground, it will not again give its strength to you. You shall be a vagabond and a fugitive on the earth.

Gen 4:13 And Cain said to Yahweh, My punishment is greater than I can bear.

Gen 4:14 Behold! You have driven me out from the face of the land today. And I shall be hidden from Your face. And I shall be a vagabond and a fugitive on the earth. And it will be that anyone who finds me shall kill me

Gen 4:15 And YAHWEH said to him, If anyone kills Cain, he shall be avenged sevenfold. And YAHWEH set a mark on Cain, so that anyone who found him should not kill him.

Gen 4:16 And Cain went out from the presence of YAHWEH. And he settled (This Hebrew word can also mean to settle & marry) in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

Gen 4:17 And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. And he built a city, and he called the name of the city according to the name of his son, Enoch.

COMMENT: If we simply read this Genesis account for what it says there are several facts that are undeniable.

1. Cain feared being put out of the presence of Yahweh.
2. Cain feared that people would try to kill Yahweh actually had to put a special mark on Cain so that all of civilization that lived outside of the confines of the Garden of Eden, in the world, would not kill Cain or be punished. The word in verse 15 for anyone is all inclusive alluding to many people of some sort of a civilization.
3. Cain went and moved to an established place called Nod, where people already lived and he found a wife and was The Hebrew word for “to dwell” which is ‘yashab‘, literally means to settle somewhere and marry.

Where did this civilization come from that lived outside of Eden? Where did the city of Nod come from, where did the woman come from that Cain married as well as a full civilization that he feared would kill him?

COMMENT: The biblical answer is most clear that these were a remnant of the human beings that where created in Genesis 1:26. It is absolutely inaccurate and adding to Scripture, to simply say, that “Adam and Eve conceived all these people” when Scripture does not give us one word to confirm that, and it would actually contradict Scripture.

Gen 4:18 And Irad was born to Enoch; and Irad fathered Mehujael and Mehujael fathered Methusael; and Methusael fathered Lamech.

Gen 4:19 And Lamech took two wives to himself the name of the first was Adah; and the name of the second was Zillah.

Gen 4:20 And Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of those living in tents, and raising livestock.

Gen 4:21 And the name of his brother was Jubal; he was the father of all those playing the harp and the organ.

Gen 4:22 And Zillah also bore Tubalcain, the hammerer of every engraving tool of Copper and iron. And the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.

Gen 4:23 And Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, you wives of Lamech; listen to my words; for I have killed a man because of my wound, and a young man because of my hurt.

First, we see the genealogy of Cain and once again, many women that were married that had to come from somewhere. Scripture never even remotely states that these women were born of Eve. Now, let us look at what happened after all these people were born and after Cain already was marked. He went to a civilization called Nod that already existed and he got his wife thereafter. Let us look at what happened next after Cain killed Abel.

Was Seth the first child born of Adam and Eve after Cain killed Abel?

Gen 4:25 And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son. And she called his name Seth, for Elohim has appointed to me another seed in place of Abel because Cain killed him.

COMMENT: When you look at the biblical genealogy, which is so important and cannot be inaccurate as Messiah will come from this lineage, here and only here at this point AFTER Cain killed Abel, is Seth even born. In addition, the scripture clearly states that Adam and Eve called him Seth (meaning Substitute) because he was a replacement for Abel. If Adam and Eve had already had hundreds of other children, why would not one of them have been a replacement for Abel, and why is it NEVER mentioned in the Genealogy of Genesis 5? It is very clear from Scripture that Eve had Cain and Abel, then Abel was killed and Seth replaced Abel. Scripture is very clear that there are no other children who are being born to Adam and Eve between the birth of Cain and Abel and the birth of Seth.

As a matter of fact if you simply do a chronology from the time of Cain and Abel being born, to the time of Cain being cast to the nations out of Yahweh’s presence, there is clearly not even enough time for Adam and Eve to pro-create a whole other civilization. If you look at the Genealogy in Genesis 5, you will see that at creation people did not pro- create and have children for roughly 70 to 100 years or more after their birth. Possibly, since they lived to 900 years old, their reproductive systems were not even mature enough to procreate and to have children before this age.

Gen 5:3 And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years and fathered a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and called his name Seth.

Gen 5:4 And the days of Adam after he fathered Seth were eight hundred years. And he fathered sons and daughters.

Gen 5:6  And Seth lived one hundred and five years, and fathered Enos.

Gen 5:7 And after he fathered Enos, Seth lived eight hundred and seven years. And he fathered sons and daughters.

Gen 5:9 And Enosh lived ninety years and fathered Cainan.

Gen 5:10 After he fathered Cainan, Enosh lived eight hundred and fifteen years, and he fathered sons and daughters.

Gen 5:12 And Cainan lived seventy years and fathered Mahalaleel.

Gen 5:13 And after he fathered Mahalaleel, Cainan lived eight hundred and forty years. And he fathered sons and daughters.

Gen 5:15  And Mahalaleel lived sixty five years and fathered Jared.

Gen 5:16 And after he fathered Jared, Mahalaleel lived eight hundred and thirty years. And he fathered sons and daughters.

Gen 5:18 And Jared lived one hundred and sixty two years and fathered Enoch.

The above scripture is the legal genealogy of which our Savior Yahshua came from and therefore must be accurate, and it clearly states in verse 3 that Seth is the firstborn child of Adam. Cain killed Abel and so he was disqualified from having the right of the firstborn and NO other child is named being born before Seth is named here as having the right of the firstborn. This clearly proves from Scripture THERE WERE NO OTHER CHILDREN or they would have been mentioned in the genealogy. ONLY AFTER Seth is born does it state that Adam fathered other sons and daughters.

Also, if these people living in Nod and other places were the children of Adam and Eve, why would they be living entirely separate from their parents and why would Scripture never even remotely hint that Cain was related to his wife?

As a matter of fact, if we look at the following scripture, we can see that at creation Yahweh set the different people each in their own borders. He had chosen the family of Adam to bring His Torah to the rest of the families of the earth, after he would have been trained to do so.

Deut 32:7 Remember the ancient days, consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will declare to you, your elders, and they shall say to you;

Deut 32:8 when the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance; when He separated the sons of mankind, He set up the boundaries of the peoples, according to the number of the cherubs of Elohim.

Deut 32:9 For YAHWEH’S portion is His people; Jacob is the lot of His inheritance.

Does Yahweh hate incest, and condemn in His Word any form of incest?

Lev 18:1 And YAHWEH spoke to Moses, saying,

Lev 18:2 Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, I am YAHWEH your Elohim.

Lev 18:3 You shall not do according to the doings of the land of Egypt in which you lived; and you shall not do according to the doings of the land of Canaan to which I am bringing you; nor shall you walk in their statutes.

Lev 18:4 You shall do My judgments and you shall keep My statutes, to walk in them; I am YAHWEH your Elohim,

Lev 18:5 and you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, which if a man does, he shall live by them. I am YAHWEH.

Lev 18:6 None of you shall draw near to any relative of his flesh to uncover their nakedness; I am YAHWEH.

Lev 18:7 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father or the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness.

Lev 18:8 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is the nakedness of your father.

Lev 18:9 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, born at home, or born away; you shall not uncover their nakedness.

Lev 18:10 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son’s daughter, or your daughter’s daughter; you shall not uncover their nakedness, for theirs is your own nakedness.

Lev 18:11 The nakedness of the daughter of your father’s wife, begotten by your father, she is your sister; you shall not uncover her nakedness.

Lev 18:12 You shall not uncover the nakedness of a sister of your father; she is a relative of your father.

Lev 18:14 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother; you shall not draw near to his wife; she is your aunt.

Lev 18:15 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness.

Lev 18:16 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it is your brother’s nakedness.

Lev 18:17 You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter; you shall not undertake to uncover her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter; they are her relatives; it is wickedness.

Lev 18:18 And you shall not take a wife with her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her lifetime.

COMMENT: We know the Torah to be the very character of Yahweh, and we can prove quite easily that the Ten Commandments were laws from creation. In addition, in principle every law in the Torah was there in the Garden of Eden from creation as an extension, in one way or another of the Ten Commandments.

If that being the case, then, how are we to believe that Yahweh preconceived the entire human race through incest, something that He calls abominable and sin. This fact alone absolutely proves that Yahweh created other human beings at creation week, besides just Adam.

Satan has cleverly concealed the very purpose of Adam’s creation and in turn has most in the world to believe that Yahweh has a double standard. As we read in Malachi 3:6, “I am Yahweh, I change not”. This does not mean He does not change His mind on a particular decision as mentioned, but what it means is that His character, from which the Torah was written, does not change. You can also be assured that Yahweh did not preconceive His very creation to be born in incest; a practice that His very Word says is abominable.

Are the practices mentioned as incest in Leviticus 18 the statutes of Yahweh or the gentile nations?

Lev 18:1 And YAHWEH spoke to Moses, saying,

Lev 18:2 Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, I am YAHWEH your Elohim.

Lev 18:3 You shall not do according to the doings of the land of Egypt in which you lived; and you shall not do according to the doings of the land of Canaan to which I am bringing you; nor shall you walk in their statutes.

Lev 18:6 None of you shall draw near to any relative of his flesh to uncover their nakedness; I am YAHWEH.

COMMENT: The statutes mentioned as incest in Leviticus 18 were not statutes of Yahweh but were abominable practices of the pagan nations around Israel. Yahweh would never preconceive the world to be created through incest if it is a practice of the gentiles that He hates and calls abominable. Some have wrongly assumed that maybe at creation it was not so wrong to have incest, and simply due to genetic structuring, that it later became sin. This reasoning is from Satan and it is the same reasoning, which the adversary used to deceive Eve, saying that it was not wrong to eat the fruit, which Yahweh said not to eat and the same reasoning some use today to condone homosexuality. Incest is a perversion of true love in the family setting and is abhorred by Yahweh.

Do you realize the serious repercussions of statements such as above? Do you realize in verse 22 of Leviticus 18 that homosexuality is also mentioned in the same context as incest? Are we to assume that maybe the sin of homosexuality is not so bad either, but also evolved to be abominable? To say that incest was acceptable and considered not to be sin in the Garden of Eden, but evolved into an evil practice later due to genetic breakdown, is proving evolution instead of Yahweh’s creation, which had absolute morals from the foundation of the world. Be assured of one thing, if Yahweh states in His Word in Leviticus, the 18^th chapter that incest and homosexuality are an abomination, then it was an abomination at creation and it is still an abomination today.

Mal 3:6 For I am YAHWEH, I do not change.

Until we come to understand the pattern (mind) of the working of Yahweh, we will never truly be one with Him. Yahweh is not like man that He can lie and His eternal character never changes. Incest and homosexuality were always something abominable in His sight and He most certainly DID NOT create the world in sin because of Adam and Eve’s fall.

What is the significance of Yahweh taking Adam out from the rest of creation in verse 26 and bringing him into the Garden to train him?

Gen 2:8 And YAHWEH Elohim planted a garden in Eden to the east; and He put the man whom He had formed there.

COMMENT: First of all, we must understand that this truth shows us the parallel that as Yahweh took Adam and sanctified him in the Garden of Eden, away from the rest of society that this pattern has never changed for believers to be sanctified away from the world. It clearly shows us that as long as we are in Eden (the presence of Yahweh) that we are safe and in His will.

Now let’s look at what Yahweh said when He created man.

Gen 1:26 And Elohim said, let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creepers creeping on the earth.

Gen 1:27 And Elohim created the man in His own image; in the image of Elohim He created him. He created them male and female.

Did you notice that Yahweh said to Yahshua, let us make man in our image, according to our likeness? However, when He created them it only says that He created them in His image, not His likeness, why is this? Because being created in His image simply means, being created and looking as the Yahweh family looks. In Revelation 1 we see that Yahshua has a head with hair, He has eyes and feet and hands just as we do who were made in His image.

However to be made according to His likeness, this is speaking of His character, and this is not something that can be given by instantaneous fiat. Character is something that has to be learned and taught through experience. Only Adam was to be made in Yahweh’s image and likeness by being sanctified in the Garden of Eden and this is where Adam was to come in to teach that likeness to the rest of humanity.

What was Adam’s job supposed to be in Genesis?

Adam was created and told in Genesis 1:28 “to be fruitful and multiply and fill the land”. If you look up these words, you will find out that they literally mean, “to bear fruit and multiply and accomplish to fill the land.” This is another extremely important pattern of Yahweh. The physical land of Israel is somehow connected to just about every covenant in Scripture.

COMMENT: At creation, Yahweh set aside the land of Eden as the training ground for His first servant and priest, Adam. However, He also intended that after Adam would learn His character through His Torah, which was in principle through the Ten Commandments at creation, and the very part of Yahweh’s character, that Adam would go back outside of Eden and bring the good news message of His Torah and salvation to the rest of His creation. When Yahweh told him to bear fruit and multiply, He was not merely speaking of Adam and Eve’s own pro-creation, as Eve was not even formed yet, but was primarily speaking of Adam bringing those others of His creation who were outside of Eden into covenant relationship with Him. Then, ultimately, Eden would expand and cover all the earth, as the other humans would enter Yahweh’s covenant.

Isa 11:9 They shall not do evil, nor destroy in all My holy mountain. For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of YAHWEH, as the waters cover the sea.

Remember, Yahweh works in patterns and does not change. We also see this very pattern that started with Adam to also be with us as believers today. We are created in the world outside of Eden as Adam was, and then Yahweh calls us to His truth (back to Eden). Then we are to go back to the world and bear fruit by sharing our salvation with others.

John 17:15 states ‘we are to be in the world but not of the world.’

The same pattern was with Moses. He was born in Egypt (world), and then was called out to the wilderness at 40 years (sanctified) and then called back to Egypt to rescue the rest of Israel.

What did Yahweh have Adam doing in the Garden of Eden?

Gen 2:15 And YAHWEH Elohim took the man and put him into the Garden of Eden, to work it and to keep it.

COMMENT: The word to “work” literally means to serve or be a servant of and one of its meanings is actually to even worship. The word “to keep” in Hebrew is “Shamar” and literally means to guard and protect, and is the word that is used in Exodus 31:16, for how we are to guard and protect the Sabbath day. It is also the word used in Genesis 26:5 when Yahweh is telling us why Abraham was blessed to enter covenant with Him because Abraham guarded and protected His Torah. Adam was to be the guard of the priesthood from Eden, and this is probably what caused Satan’s jealousy to rebel.

Therefore, what we see is that from the Garden of Eden there was a priesthood that was established, not to do sacrifice, but to worship and bear fruit for Eden to expand. The word in Hebrew for sacrifice “korban” literally means to “draw closer to through relationship”, not killing an animal. Only after Adam and Eve sinned against Yahweh and chose the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (which was to have free will and choose for themselves what is good and what is evil) did Yahshua as the eternal Melchizedek High Priest have to kill an animal to clothe them and set a temporary precedent for the killing of animals to cover sin. This was set only until the time of reformation when He would come and pay for all sin through His blood and remove the penalty for mankind.

Since Yahweh does not change, does He have the same pattern of sanctification for believers today as He did for Adam in the Garden of Eden?

1st John 2:15 Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

1st John 2:16 because all that which is in the world: the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

Gen 3:6 And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and the tree was desirable to make one wise.

COMMENT: The pattern has stayed the same since the Garden of Eden. Yahweh sanctified Adam to be called into Eden, away from society, just as we as believers are to be sanctified away from the world today. Adam was then to learn the Torah from Yahshua Himself, to bring Yahweh’s commandments to the rest of society and to bear fruit to Yahweh and multiply and expand Eden to cover all the earth.

How striking the parallel is between Eve’s sin in Eden by not keeping herself sanctified and John’s warning to believers today.

Let’s look at another striking parallel from Yahshua’s instruction to Adam to bear fruit in Genesis 1, 2, and 3 and Yahshua’s command to His true disciples today.

Gen 3:17 And He said to the man, Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree about which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat from it, the ground shall be cursed because of you; you shall eat of it in sorrow all the days of your life.

Gen 3:18 And it shall bring forth thorns and thistles for you, and you shall eat the plant of the field.

Gen 3:19 By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until your return to the ground. For you have been taken out of it; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.

After Adam sinned, he was told that now he will not have good fertile soil any longer for his job of producing fruit for Yahweh’s Kingdom, but the fruit would have to be born through thorns and thistles. Look at the parallel that Yahshua told about the conditions His disciples would have for bearing fruit.

Mark 4:3 Listen! Behold, the sower went out to sow.

Mark 4:7 And another fell into the thorn-bushes, and the thorn-bushes grew up and choked it; and it did not yield fruit.

Mark 4:9 And He said to them, The one having ears to hear, let him hear.

Mark 4:11 And He said to them, To you it has been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of Yahweh. But to these, those outside, all things are being given in parables,

Mark 4:12 that seeing they may see and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand, lest they should be converted, and the sins be forgiven to them.

Mark 4:13 And He said to them, Do you not know this parable? And how will you know all parables? The sower sows the Word.

Mark 4:15 And these are those by the wayside where the Word is sown. And when they hear, Satan comes at once and takes away the Word having been sown in their hearts.

Mark 4:16 And likewise, these are the ones having been sown on the rocky places, who, when they hear the Word, they immediately receive it with joy,

Mark 4:17 And they have no roots in themselves, rather are of a short time and when affliction happens, or persecutions because of the word, they are quickly offended.

Mark 4:18 And those which were sown into a thorny place are they who hear the word,

Mark 4:19 And the cares of the world and the deception of riches and the rest of the other lusts enter in and choke the word and it becomes without fruit.

Mark 4:20 And these are those being sown on the good ground, who hear and welcome the Word and bring forth fruit, one thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundredfold.

This is an extremely telling parable that Yahshua is equating directly back to Eden. First let us look at the parallel scripture in Luke 8:11 and see what this parable is really speaking of.

Luke 8:11 And this is the parable: The seed is the Word of YAHWEH.

Back in Eden, Yahweh said that the plants had not risen yet because there was no man to till the ground (Genesis 2:5). We clearly see that the seed is the Word of Yahweh. Then, in verse 7, Yahshua is equating the curse of Adam and the thorns and thistles to the fact that he did not bear any fruit. In verse 11, He is equating to those being chosen by Him today to return to Eden, that we know the mystery of Yahweh’s Kingdom as Adam was told by Him, but to those “OUTSIDE” they are taught in parables, because they don’t have eyes to see. Exactly the pattern we saw in Eden that until someone could come and teach them, the people outside of Eden, although having less accountability were still without knowledge of the truth.

Rom 10:13 For everyone, “whoever may call on the name of YAHWEH will be saved.”

Rom 10:14 How then may they call on One into whom they have not believed? And how may they believe One of whom they have not heard? And how may they hear without a preacher?

Rom 10:15 And how may they preach if they are not sent? Even as it has been written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news of peace, of those preaching good things.”

Let us look at Mark 4:15, which is a direct correlation going back to Adam and Eve. For although they heard the word directly from Yahweh, Satan immediately came and stole the word, that was on their heart. Then, here is the clincher. In both verse 18 and 19, we can clearly show that thorns and thistles are those that are choked by deception and lusts, and then, produce no fruit.

This is exactly how Satan deceived Eve.

This was all part of Yahweh’s plan as Yahweh knew when He created Adam, that being flesh, he would not be faithful and be able to overcome without total faith in Yahweh. Nevertheless, Yahweh also knew that someone had to go outside of Eden to bring His commandments and knowledge to the rest of creation. Therefore, in a way, Adam’s fall gave precedent for the need for a second Adam (Yahshua) to have to come to save all of mankind.

Rom 11:11 I say, then, did not they stumble that they should fall? Let it not be! But by their slipping away came salvation to the nations,

Yahweh used the falling away of Adam and Eve and their being cast out of Eden as an opportunity to bring His Word and name to the rest of creation; the same way as He did with the casting away of the nation of Israel in Romans 11:11. We just read in Romans 10:13 that one must call on the name of Yahweh to be saved. Now look at what Genesis 4:26 states after Adam was cast out of Eden.

Gen 4:26b Then it was begun to call on the name of YAHWEH.

If you look up the word “begun” in Hebrew it is “Khalal”, it most likely means to profane, or to break ones word and when we look at the flood shortly after this, it is clear that Yahweh’s name and Word were not accepted after Adam and Eve’s sin and the curse that followed.

Are true baptized disciples of Yahshua today commanded to bear fruit as Adam was in the Garden of Eden?

Mat 7:16 From their fruits you shall know them. Do they gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

Mat 7:17 So every good tree produces good fruits, but the corrupt tree produces evil fruits.

Mat 7:18 A good tree cannot produce evil fruits, nor a corrupt tree produce good fruits.

Mat 7:19 Every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and is thrown into fire.

Mat 7:20 Then surely from their fruits you shall know them.

John 15:1 I am the True Vine, and My Father is the Vinedresser.

John 15:2 Every branch in Me not bearing fruit, He takes it away; and each one bearing fruit, He prunes, so that it may bear more fruit.

John 15:3 You are already pruned because of the Word which I have spoken to you.

John 15:4 Remain in Me, and I in you. As the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, unless it remain in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me.

John 15:5 I am the Vine and you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, this man will produce plentiful fruit because without me you are not able to do anything.

John 15:6 Unless one remains in Me, he is cast out as the branch and is dried up; and they gather and throw them into a fire, and they are burned.

John 15:7 If you remain in Me, and My Words remain in you, whatever you desire you will ask, and it shall happen to you.

John 15:8 In this My Father is glorified, that you should bear much fruit; and you will be disciples to Me.

COMMENT: Clearly, we can see that nothing has changed in the order of Yahweh since the Garden of Eden. Just as Adam was to be sanctified in Eden, and then go and bear fruit to Yahweh, so also are true disciples of Yahshua to do the same today. The lack of bearing fruit is equated with actually being burned and losing our salvation.

Now if we look at verses 9 and 10 of John the 15^th chapter, we start to see the parallel between Adam and Yahshua. Yahshua is the exact image (representation) of the Father, and has freely given up His free will to be 100% echad with Yahweh and in His will at all times.

Col 1:15 who is the image of the invisible Elohim, the right of the First-born of all creation.

2nd Cor 4:4 to those whose eyes have been blinded by the god of this world, because they did not believe, lest the light of the glorious good news of the Messiah, who is the image of YAHWEH, should shine on them.

Heb 1:2 in these last days He has spoken to us in the Son, whom He appointed heir of all; and by whom He made the worlds;

Heb 1:3 for He is the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His being, and upholding all things by the power of His Word; having made purification of our sins through Himself, He sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

So now, we are starting to see from the New Testament why Yahshua had to come to earth as a physical human being because where Adam who was created to look like Yahweh in form, he never achieved to be like Yahweh in character. Where the first Adam failed, Yahweh would have to send a seed from Him, so that the second Adam (Yahshua) would succeed.

Yahweh created mankind outside of Eden (Genesis 2:7). He then took one of His creation, Adam from the earth to Eden to sanctify him and train him for his priesthood of bearing and producing fruit to the rest of His creation (Genesis 3:23). Adam was told while in Eden not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (free choice) but from the tree of life (100% full faith in Yahweh).

Since Adam failed, Yahweh would not just throw away all of His newly formed creation, but He willed that a seed would be born from the chosen seed of Adam (who was created in Eden) and would redeem the seed of Adam back to Yahweh and ultimately all of mankind, as was Yahweh’s intention with Adam to begin with.

We must also understand that Adam’s failure was no small feat since his failure meant that no fruit would be born into Eden and it became the downfall of all humans to follow. With no hope now of humans learning the Torah and coming into Eden (the presence of Yahweh) every human would therefore, use his/her own free choice and human conscience to decide right and wrong for themselves, and consequently every human would also fail in the likeness of Adam.

Rom 5:12 Even as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death passed to all men, inasmuch as all sinned.

Rom 5:13 For sin was in the world until the Torah, but sin is not charged where there is no instruction; (People outside of Eden did not have the same accountability as Adam who was trained by YAHWEH in Eden)

Rom 5:14 Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned after the likeness of the transgression of the Torah by Adam, who was a type of Him who was to come.

This is a real interesting scripture. How could Adam’s sin pass on death to every human after him? The Catholics believe that this scripture is speaking of original sin, and that we are all born with sin, since Adam sinned. This is nonsense and clearly, Ezekiel 18 states that each is accountable for his/her own sin and that the sins of the fathers or sons do not pass to one another.

This scripture shows that Adam had been given the Torah by Yahweh and was told to bring it to others to make fruit and multiply Eden. But since he failed and no fruit was borne and man was left to his own free will and human nature, each and every man in succession has also fallen after the similitude of Adam by our own free will; without the Holy Spirit of Yahweh it is impossible to be obedient to Yahweh.

Rom 8:7 because the mind of the flesh is enmity towards Elohim; for it is not subject to the Torah of Elohim, for it is not possible to be so.

Clearly, at creation there were two roads to choose from; free choice and self-rule or 100% full faith and undying loyalty and obedience to Yahweh and His Word. One was the seed of Satan and one was the seed of Yahweh. As soon as Adam and Eve failed their position in Eden, the prophecy was immediately given about the enmity of these two seeds and the coming of the Messiah from the seed of Eve and the ultimate saving of the seed of Adam and mankind.

Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He will bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.

This prophecy was given directly after the fall of Adam and Eve and shows that eternal life will only come through the Redeemer, the prophesied Messiah from Genesis 3:15. That is why Adam says next;

Gen 3:20 And the man called the name of his wife, Eve; because she became the mother of all living.

COMMENT: This scripture states that Eve ‘became’ the mother of all living because Yahweh just gave them a death sentence for eating of the forbidden fruit, but now states in Genesis 3:15 that a redeemer would be born through Eve to redeem mankind back what Adam lost. From the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve knew from Yahweh’s words that a Savior would be born from her seed and He would be Yahweh the Son and Savior of the world. Moreover, even after her sin, she would be the beginning of life of the lineage of Yahshua Messiah and the mother of all living as the Messiah would be born through her. Eve was so sure that the Messiah was to be born from her that she thought that Cain, who was her firstborn, was that prophesied Messiah.

Gen 4:1 And the man knew his wife Eve. And she conceived and bore Cain, and said, I have gotten a man, YAHWEH.

Almost every translation in the world incorrectly adds words that are not in Scripture to say Eve got a man “with the help of” Yahweh, but those words are not there. The problem is they do not understand that since Yahweh prophesied of a Messiah being born of Eve’s seed that she thought Cain was the prophesied Messiah and says “I have gotten a man, Yahweh”. She knew the promised Messiah would be a member of the Yahweh family and we know it was His very Son. She even called him Cain coming from the Hebrew word meaning ‘to redeem or to purchase back’.

Another aspect of this study is the eternal aspect of the land covenant from Scripture. That it was not only mankind that was cursed by Adam’s failure, but also the very land of creation that was intended to bless them. It was the same with the Sinai Covenant and it is the same today as when the Messiah who is the very kinsman redeemer, will return. He will remove the curse from the land covenant and once again, as it was intended in Eden, the land will bless its people. This is why from Genesis to Revelation the blessing of the land and the fruitfulness of man’s labor allegorize everything when he is in the will of Yahweh. Just as there was one Promised Land at creation called Eden, there is one Promised Land called Israel for the millennial reign and the physical blessing of the people as it was in the Garden of Eden.

Joel 1:2 Hear this, you old men, and give ear, all you people of the land. Has this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?

Joel 1:3 Tell your sons about it, and your sons to their sons, and their sons to another generation.

Joel 1:4 What was left by the cutter, the swarming locust ate; and that left of the swarming locust, the locust larvae ate; and that left of the locust larvae, the stripping locust ate.

Joel 1:7 There My vine is desolation, and it has splintered My fig tree. He has stripped it, and thrown it down; its branches grow white.

Joel 1:9 The food offering and the drink offering have been cut off from the house of YAHWEH; the priests, ministers of YAHWEH’S, mourn.

Joel 1:10 The field is wasted; the land mourns, for the grain is wasted. The new wine is dried up, the oil tree droops.

Joel 1:11 Be withered, farmers, howl, vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field has perished.

Joe 1:12 The vine is dried up and the fig tree droops, the pomegranate, and the palm tree, and the apple tree; all the trees of the field are dried up, because joy has dried up from the sons of men.

Joel 1:13 Gird up and lament, priests. Howl, ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, ministers of my Elohim. For the food offering and the drink offering are withheld from the house of your Elohim.

Joel 1:14 Set apart a fast; call a solemn assembly; gather the elders, all those living in the land, into the house of Yahweh your Elohim, and cry to YAHWEH.

Joel 1:15 Alas for the day! For the day of YAHWEH is at hand. And it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

Joel 1:16 Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our Elohim?

Joel 1:17 The seed shrivels under their clods; the storage bins are laid waste, the granaries are broken down, for the grain has dried up.

Joel 1:18 How the beasts groan! The herds of livestock are vexed, for there is no pasture for them. Even the flocks of sheep are perishing.

Joel 1:19 O YAHWEH, to You I will cry, for the fire has burned up the pastures of the wilderness, and has consumed all the trees of the field.

Joel 1:20 The beasts of the field also long for You, for the rivers of water are dried up, and the fire has eaten up the pastures of the wilderness.

Joel 2:1 Blow a ram’s horn in Zion, and shout an alarm in My holy mountain. Let all those living in the land tremble. For the day of YAHWEH approaches; it is near,

Joel 2:2 It is a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as the dawn spread out on the mountains, a great and a strong people. There has never been the like, nor shall there ever be again to the years of generation to generation;

Joel 2:3 a fire devours before it, and a flame burns behind it. The land is the Garden of Eden before them and behind them is a desolate wilderness; yea, also there is no escape to them.

Joel 2:18 Then YAHWEH will be jealous for His land and have pity on His people.

Joel 2:19 Yea, YAHWEH will answer and say to His people, Behold, I will send you grain, and wine, and oil, and you shall be satisfied with it. And I will no more make you a disgrace among the nations.

Joel 2:21 Fear not, O land, be glad and rejoice, for YAHWEH is doing great things.

Joel 2:22 Fear not, beasts of the field, for the pastures of the wilderness grow green, for the tree bears its fruit, the fig tree and the vine give their strength.

Joe 2:23 Then be glad, sons of Zion, and rejoice in YAHWEH your Elohim. For He has given to you the early rain according to righteousness, and He will cause the rain to come down for you, the early rain and the latter rain in the first month.

Joel 2:24 And the floors shall be full with grain, and the wine vats shall overflow with wine and oil.

Joel 2:25 And I will restore to you the years which the swarming locust has eaten, the locust larvae, and the stripping locust, and the cutting locust, My great army which I sent among you.

Joel 2:26 And you shall eat fully and be satisfied; and you shall praise the name of YAHWEH your Elohim, who has dealt wondrously with you. And My people shall not be ashamed forever.

Joel 2:27 And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am YAHWEH your Elohim, and there is no other. And My people shall not be ashamed forever.

How does the aspect of priesthood play into the creation account and the purpose of man?

Gen 3:21 And YAHWEH Elohim made coats of skin for the man and his wife, and clothed them.

COMMENT: Yahshua Yahweh had to be a priest in order to do this sacrifice. He was of course not a Levite, but He was indeed the high priest of the Melchizedek Order, the Highest Priesthood in the universe. The Levitical priesthood with the ceremonial law was not part of creation in the Garden of Eden but was added at Mount Sinai (Galatians 3:19), due to the golden calf incident and was a temporary measure to keep the people in covenant relationship until the promised Messiah would come. However, there was an eternal order of priesthood from Melchizedek in Eden. The pattern Yahweh set in the Garden of Eden after Adam and Eve’s fall was that sin brought the shedding of innocent blood.

Heb 7:14 For it is evident that our Master has risen out of Judah, as to which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.

Heb 7:17 For it is testified, “You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.” (Psalms 110:4)

Scripture gives no doubt that Yahshua was indeed this very Melchizedek, as there is only one King of Peace and King of Righteousness, and one High Priest, and we know that His name is Yahshua, the very Son of Yahweh. ‘Melchi’ means king and ‘zedek’ means righteousness, and Melchizedek meaning King of Righteousness is a title NOT a personal name.

Heb 7:1 For this “Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High Elohim,” the one meeting Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, “and blessing him;”

Heb 7:2 to whom also Abraham “divided a tenth from all” first being interpreted, king of righteousness; and then also king of Salem, which is, king of peace,

Heb 7:3 whose Father and mother are not written in the genealogies , nor the beginning of His days, nor the end of His life, but as the Son of Elohim, His priesthood remains forever

Yahshua was the lamb of Yah who was slain from the foundation of the world. From the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve chose free choice, instead of 100% faith in Yahweh. By failing at their job to bring Yahweh’s Word to the rest of His creation, Yahshua, who was the High Priest of the Melchizedek Order, was destined to be born of the seed of Eve and to be the second Adam and accomplish the job that Adam failed to do. That is why one of His titles is Son of Man meaning Son of Adam. (Luke 3:23,38)

Rom 5:19 For as; on account of the disobedience of one man, many became sinners; so also, on account of the obedience of one, many become righteous.

Did you catch the phrase in Romans 5:19 that on account of the disobedience of Adam that many “became” sinners? How could Adam’s sin cause others to become sinners unless his sin directly caused the rest of creation to lose out on receiving the Torah and not bearing the fruit that he could have otherwise, if he was faithful to Yahweh.

1st Cor 15:45 So also it has been written, “The” first “man”, Adam, “became a living soul;” the last Adam a life-giving Spirit. (Genesis 2:7)

1st Cor 15:46 But not the spiritual first, but the natural; afterward the spiritual.

1st Cor 15:47 The first man was out of earth, earthy. The second Man was the Master YAHWEH out of Heaven.

1st Cor 15:48 As is the earthy man, such also are the earthy ones. And such as is the heavenly Man, such also are the heavenly ones.

1st Cor 15:49 And as we bore the image of the earthy man, we shall also bear the likeness of the heavenly one.

1st Cor 15:50 And I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood is not able to inherit the kingdom of YAHWEH, nor does corruption inherit incorruption.

1st Cor 15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

It is important to understand that Melchizedek was an eternal order of a priesthood of which Yahshua has always been High Priest. Adam in Eden was to become part of this priesthood and help Yahweh fulfill His purpose at creation by bringing His eternal character (through His Torah) to the rest of His creation made outside of Eden.

By Adam bearing no fruit and by failing at his job to qualify to enter this priesthood it set an appointment with Yahshua, the Lamb of Yah slain from the foundation of the world. It is also no coincidence that Yahshua’s appointment to be crucified and die for mankind’s decision of free choice, instead of 100% faith in Yahweh, happened on the Mount of Olives on the area called “The place of appointment”; the very place outside of Eden, which Adam was cast out to when he sinned.

Are true disciples of Yahshua also training to be priests of Melchizedek?

1st Pet 2:9 But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood; a holy people, and a people for possession; that you should proclaim the praises of him who called you out of darkness to His precious light:

Rev 5:10 and made them kings and priests to our Elohim; and we shall reign on the earth.

COMMENT: Where Adam failed in the Garden of Eden at his priestly order, true believers today must bear fruit and fulfill their great commission as Melchizedek priests in training. As Yahweh is restoring The Garden of Eden before our very eyes, may we follow the example of Yahshua (the second Adam) and bring Yahweh’s Torah to the rest of His creation and be fruitful and multiply, and fill the land with fruit for His soon coming Kingdom. May we also learn from Adam and Eve’s mistakes, that 100% UNCONDITIONAL obedience to Yahweh and His Word are what is important and not our own free will to choose what is good and what is evil for ourselves.

Also, since Yahshua is actually living in true covenant believers by His Spirit the believer needs to surrender his human spirit in all things and allow the Holy Spirit to transform their minds into the mind of Messiah. Adam rejected Yahweh’s Spirit, which is symbolized by the Tree of Life, and chose free will, which was symbolized by the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

1st Sam 15:22 And Samuel said, Does YAHWEH delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of YAHWEH? Behold! Obeying is better than sacrifice; to give attention is better than the fat of rams.

1st Sam 15:23 For rebellion (bitterness) is as the sin of divination (sorcery); and stubbornness is both iniquity and idolatry.

How important is Yahweh’s judicial order? How important is it to trust in the setting in our lives that Yahweh has ordained? How important is 100% faith and obedience to Yahweh and hearing His voice every day of our life? How important is bearing fruit for Yahweh’s Kingdom. It is the road to entering back to Eden.

Which Tree are you Eating From?

Points to Remember:

1)We can be assured that Yahweh did not create the world through incest, a practice that He calls abominable, but created multiple people at creation.

2) We see that it was always Yahweh’s will to have a Kingdom of priests and this was to be Adam’s job also in Eden. We see today that Yahweh is accomplishing this Kingdom of priests through our training to be Melchizedek priests under Yahshua and accomplish in spirit what Adam failed to do in flesh. (Exodus 19:5-6)

3) From the Garden of Eden, we can prove from Scripture that it was the eternal order of Melchizedek and not Levi that Yahweh had set up to serve Him.

4) The Torah in principle, through the Ten Commandments was not only there at creation, but that Adam’s job, as a servant of Yahweh, would have been to bring the Torah to the rest of creation and multiply Eden.

5) We see that we have the same responsibility as Adam was supposed to have in Eden. That although we need to bear fruit and multiply and fill the earth with the knowledge of the salvation of Yahweh, that we are also to be sanctified as Adam was in Eden. Eden is an actual place but it is also a state of mind. It is also clear from this study that as Yahshua said to Adam in Eden, and again to New Covenant believers in John 15, that if we don’t bear fruit we will die. This also is highly significant since in Christianity most of the focus is put on the person’s personal salvation and not on bearing more fruit for the Kingdom.

6) This is extremely important that Yahweh is revealing this now, because Yahweh works in the circular not the linear, and we have come full circle and Yahweh is bringing His creation back to Eden.