The Garden in Eden
Gen 3:5 When no bush of the field[a] was yet in the land[b] and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, 6 and a mist[c] was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground— 7 then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
8 And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Perhaps a return to Eden is in order for us to move forward with developing useful resources for life on planet Earth. God placed Adam and Eve in a garden, to care for it and eat from its produce.
I grew up gardening, and have always had a garden except when I was in school at Auburn. Today there is a great interest in gardening because of survival concerns. Garden seed and canning supplies are scarce. I think there may be value in finding ways that people stuck in unproductive situations may move to some place where they can have a garden, and live in a productive community. Can we have a return to Eden?
Since working on the Ezekiel Project, I have been interested in a developing gardening system using sea water. Sundrop Farms in Australia has built a huge commercial development.
Thankfully there is no shortage of sea water, and there are many desert areas where sea water green house agricultural production could be located in unpopulated areas. One such area is in southern California, around the Salton Sea east of Los Angeles. Other areas include the northern Sahara in Africa, and the Namib dessert in Namibia, Africa.
The Arava south of the Dead Sea in Israel and Jordan is probably the best possible location for Seawater Greenhouse production, and has already been done experimentally by Jordan with the Sahara Forrest project.
The Ezekiel Water Project can provide sea water for the Arava, and would be a great blessing to the region, providing strategic electric power reserve and a deep layer of Med Sea water on top of the existing shrinking Dead Sea.
There are solutions already known and working for our global climate problems. There is an opportunity to provide useful lives for people who are trapped in non-productive areas and situations. Instead of moving people into the suburbs with instant ghettos financed by the government, we should shift our focus to providing encouraging opportunities for life changing community.
Gardening and community can transform lives. Eden was a garden. Why don't we recognize and enjoy the joys of gardening?
Instead of destroying existing civilization structures, it would be more useful to build productive communities that meet the challenges of joyful life.
But one thing is most needed. Adam and Eve enjoyed a great relationship with their Creator until they lost it by rebellion. A joyful community today would need the renewed relationship with God that has been made available through faith in Jesus the Messiah. God made some garments from the skins of animals to provide clothing for Adam and Eve. This pictured the covering for our shame provided when we place our faith in Jesus Christ.
👍 "Instead of moving people into the suburbs with instant ghettos..." Those ghettos are producing people with base animal behavior.
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