The earth and the ground (Gen.2:6). What is the difference?

"Two trees in the midst of the garden



Adam had to cultivate the garden of Eden and keep it. Adam is a type of Jesus Christ. “Cultivating” human hearts and keeping them is the ministry of Christ. He has living water is a gift from God.

“My sheepe heare my voyce, and I know them, and they follow me.

And I giue vnto them eternall life, and they shall neuer perish, neither shall any man plucke them out of my hand” (John.10:27,28).

A man who “cultivates” his heart himself is a man who follows the path of Cain. Cain had both faith and works, and God cursed him.

Many people are interested in the question: “How could people who lived before the incarnation of the Son of God and did not have the words of truth, please God and receive eternal security in Christ?” In the second chapter of Genesis (Gen.2:46), Scripture tells us that the Son of God began His ministry before He appeared “in the flesh”. Scripture says through the type:

“...for the LORD God had not caused it to raine vpon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground” (Gen.2:5,6).

Despite the fact that “the LORD God had not caused” Christ “vpon the earth” (there was not a Man on the ground), His ministry embraced, “irrigated,” “the whole face of the ground”, like a mist. Note that Scripture in the sixth verse makes a distinction between those things which are above and the earthly world. A mist went up from “the earth” and irrigated the whole face of “the ground”. The “earth” refers to those things which are above; it is in the third heaven. The “ground” is our material world. Scripture also uses the word “the ground” when it says that the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground (Gen. 2:7) and “there was not a man to till the ground” (Gen. 2:5).

In the first chapter, the ministry of the Son of God is compared with the Sun, which rises “on the euill and on the good”, the righteous and unrighteous. The Father commands “his sunne” (Mat. 5:45). The man’s enemy, Lucifer, son of the morning, began his ministry at the same time as the Son of God; and he, as “the lesser light” rules the night (Gen.1:16). Therefore, the Moon in the earth’s firmament is the second brightest object after the Sun.

In the second chapter, these two Persons are shown to us as the tree of life and the tree of knowledge.

“And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow euery tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food: the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and euill” (Gen.2:9).

Each “plant” on earth is cultivated by one person! Initially, it all depends on what kind of long-term choice in his life a person made. If he loved formality and untruth, then he would receive a wrong mind and strong delusion, and this acquisition would be a fair retribution for his choice. Christ has the power from God to save man, and the devil, on the contrary, do to destroy; he rules the darkness and “cultivates hearts” too. But in any case, the fate of man in eternity depends only on himself. Everyone will be judged according to his deeds at the great white throne (Rev. 20:11):

“To them, who by patient continuance in well doing, seeke for glorie, and honour, and immortalitie, eternall life:

But vnto them that are contentious, & doe not obey the trueth, but obey vnrighteousnes, indignation, & wrath” (Rom.2:6-8).

The ministry of the Son of God began with the appearance of the first man on the earth, which means that all the people from the creation of Adam, who hated self-interest, sought to live in truth, according to conscience, will receive everlasting life through the ministry of Christ. Their names are written in the Lamb's book of life. Gentiles who, not having the Word of God, even before the birth of Christ, sought to live in truth, in good conscience, “of them that sleepe in the dust of the earth shall awake” to everlasting life (Dan.12:2). Scripture likens the first death to sleep; it is not terrible.

“¶ Then they that feared the Lord, spake often one to another, and the Lord hearkened and heard it, & a booke of remembrance was written before him, for them that feared the Lord, & that thought vpon his name” (Mal.3:16).

And when “before him shall be gathered all nations” He will “diuide the light from the darkenesse” (Gen.1:18), in another type: “his sheepe from the goats” (Mat.25:32), in the third: the wheat from the tares (Matt .13:30), in the fourth: “the wicked from among the iust” (Mat.13:49). And He will see that it will be “good” (Gen.1:18).

God does not look at faces (Rom. 2:11), and therefore every person, regardless, there is a Jew, or a Gentile, whose heart is “cultivated” by Christ, will receive eternal life. Scripture designates them as “euery plant of the field”, and “euery herbe of the field” (Gen.2:5). Here the word “the field” means that plants are cultivated by a man, these are cultivated plants. These “plants” need “a man” who would take care for them.

The good seed that Jesus spoke of in the parable also needs a Man, like the field grass. Jesus explained to his disciples: “The field is the world. The good seed, are the children of the kingdome: but the tares are the children of the wicked one” (Mat.13:38). The sons of the kingdom will receive eternal life, and the sons of the wicked one will share their part with Satan in the lake of fire.

It should be noted that a person walking along the path of Cain is not able to understand that his enemy “cultivates” his heart. Why? The greater light and the lesser light are called the great lights (Gen.1:16), and it is not without reason that the angular dimensions of the moon coincide with the angular dimensions of the sun. Nature itself shows that to the person who has loved untruth, the devil will completely obscure and replace the “Sun”. Any invitation to Jesus to enter his heart is meaningless. Jesus said:

“No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me, draw him” (John.6:44).

In other words, if a person is who “loueth and maketh a lie” searches for eternal life, he will find religion, and there can be no doubt that the substitution of the luminary, he will not notice. The devil is a great professional in his craft. He stands before God; he is still a courtier in the post: “the chiefe Baker” (Gen.40). See the work: “The Butler and the Baker.”

Jesus answered the tempter: “It is written, Man shall not liue by bread alone, but by euery word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God” (Mat.4:4). Therefore, every person who trusts the Word of God already eats “of the tree of life, which is in the middest of the Paradise of God” (Rev.2:7). Scripture calls him: “He that ouercommeth”; “He that ouercommeth, shall not be hurt of the second death” (Rev. 2:11).

“He that ouercommeth, shall inherite all things, and I will bee his God, and he shall be my sonne” (Rev.21:7).

Every person makes a long-term choice in his life. He shapes it, solving everyday tasks, each time, consciously or unconsciously, making a choice between the pursuit of truth or injustice, between truth and formality, good and evil, law and lawlessness, fidelity and unfaithfulness, piety and ungodliness.

“And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow euery tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food: the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and euill” (Gen.2:9).

Every person, regardless of whether he is “pleasant in appearance” or not (rich or poor), “whether he is good” or not (good or evil), makes his choice: he eats from the tree of life or from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The MEANING OF LIFE of every person whom the LORD God has sprouted “out of the ground” is to make this choice. It determines his fate in eternity. This world encourages people to live for their own pleasure, take everything from life, seize the moment of good luck, imposes a cult of consumption. But the purpose of human life on earth is not to receive pleasure. The goal is to make a choice. And many, agreeing with this world, are already making their choice.

God “will haue all men to bee saued, and to come vnto the knowledge of the trueth” (1Tim.2:4), therefore the tree of life is “in the midst of the garden” (Gen.2:9); it’s hard not to see it.

“Because that which may bee knowen of God, is manifest in them, for God hath shewed it vnto them.

For the inuisible things of him from the Creation of the world, are clearely seene, being vnderstood by the things that are made, euen his eternall Power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse” (Rom.1:19,20)

The atheist (idolater) does not have excuse, although he knows that there will be “the iudgement of God” (Rom.1:32), therefore he calls it the terrible judgment, because it really will be terrible for him. Every person who eats from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil does not seek to live according to conscience, does not care “to retaine God in their knowledge” (Rom.1:28).

“And euen as they did not like to retaine God in their knowledge, God gaue them ouer to a reprobate minde, to doe those things which are not conuenient” (Рим.1:28).

God warns such people: “thou shalt surely die” (Gen.2:17), “this is the second death” (Rev.20:14).

A man who eats from the tree of life completely trusts God – to His Word. There is no third way."

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