Debrecen Messages #10 – The Revelation of Our Habitat and The Tree of Knowledge

We want to welcome you to our wonderful marvelous little meeting that we’re having. You should know that there are 35 people who are not present here this morning, and I’m going to reread (Genesis 2) 8, 9, and 10. The Lord planted a garden toward the east in Eden. Pleasant. And there he placed the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground the Lord God caused to grow, every tree that is pleasing to sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the middle of the garden. And somewhere in that thing, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. I’m going to come back here to verse 8. He planted a garden toward the east, and he placed the man in the garden, the man whom he had formed. And that’s what we’re going to talk about. And if we run out of time, if we run out of topic, we’re going to go on over to that other tree.

Alright, Genesis 1 and 2 are filled with marvelous things untouched and not understood anywhere else in Scripture. I want you to just take a moment and watch God make something out of red clay and thereby testify that this creature belongs to earth. And He blew into man, out of His own being, the breath of life, which proves that he belongs to another realm. And when Adam stood up, he could see the unseen. And this morning I was just thinking about Adam, and I had a conversation. Can I give you a conversation?

Okay, it’s the return. The Lord is returning. He has returned. And someone in all the worship and glory cries out, Look, there’s Adam. He’s got his clothes back. He’s robed in light. And Adam says, This place looks familiar. I see a river. That’s the river. And look, there’s the tree. That’s the same tree I should have eaten from. And finally, I have, by his great mercy, taken of the tree of life. And there’s the gold and the pearl. And there are all those beautiful stones. The stones are everywhere. And the pearl is turned into gates. Gates of pearl. What is this place?

I remember the garden. That’s where God brought me to the garden to live. And He took a girl out of my side. And then He brought her to me and introduced her to me. And, and, and, and, and look, there’s a, there’s another Man here more glorious than me. And He has a bride and the bride’s the garden. This is amazing. And the garden is not a garden anymore, it’s a city. And the throne. I thought I saw a throne up there somewhere. There’s the throne, and the river and the tree are pouring out of the throne. I thought that all things originated with God. And I can see the angels again. Hello, Michael. Long time no see. And Gabriel, and they embrace, and they cry, and they shout, and they will never again be separated in their ability to see and fellowship with one another. And then Adam comes to his Lord and bows down, as every knee bows and every tongue confesses. And Adam says this, he declares to the throng, This is the real Man. This is the Man who is the image of God. This is the Man who has the tree of life in Him and is the tree of life. And this is the Man who rules and reigns over the earth. And He is the Man who rules and reigns over heaven also.

And this is just something I was thinking about this morning because Revelation 21 and 22 do not mention Adam. And I got to thinking, where is this brother? I’m sure he’s a brother. If he can’t get forgiven, I can’t get forgiven. Surely, he who had faced God, we will one day see again. Well, anyway, here’s my point in all of this. That God made a man who is a hybrid, part of heaven and part of earth, and He gave this man to rule over the earth and everything on it, and God has never changed that determination, that goal. Daniel, God will have a man who rules this planet. This is part of his purpose. In Genesis 2, there is no sin. There is no rebellion on earth.

Now, not all. He’s not only going to do that, he’s going to show forth God’s image. Well, Jesus Christ did that on earth. He will do it in glory. If you wonder what God looks like, then read Revelation 1 and see what the glorified Christ looks like. And this one bears the very likeness, not the image, but the likeness of His Father who lives within Him. And the Father will take up his dwelling within Christ. And Christ will take up his dwelling in us.

Now then, strangely enough, God takes this man by the hand and says, You’re not supposed to live on this planet. This planet is not your home. Brothers, get this clear. Sisters, get it clear. This planet is not your home. And the Lord took Adam by the hand and said, Come with me and I will show you your home. And Kalia, he took him through a huge, beautiful gate, I think. Bigger than you and I can imagine. And he brought him into this garden. This lush, beautiful garden is filled with gold and precious stone. And a river that is alive. And a tree that is alive. And it’s a vast place. It’s several hundred miles large, probably. The garden is on the earth. And it is big, it’s beautiful, it’s pleasant. And the Lord said, not the planet. You rule the planet, but you live in the garden of pleasant. God has not changed.

Please remember this. God has a particular place for you and me to live, for Adam to live, and a particular place for Jesus Christ to live. There is a special place for us to live. I’m going to repeat it. Those of you out there on videotape, there is a special place for man to live. Now, whether that’s unfallen man, or the new man. I will tell you very clearly, it is not the old man, but the original man, and/or the new man, who takes his place. There’s a special place for him to live. And that place is that garden.

Now I’m going to do something. Here is heaven, and here’s earth. This is body and soul, and this is spirit. This is earth with bodies and souls. And this is God’s dwelling, this is spirit. And God brought them together. Before I do that, I want you all to understand that woven into God’s purpose is his desire to put God and man together and make them one. When you see Jesus Christ, you see God’s eternal purpose. Here is a man who has a mother who is a human being and a father who is God. And he is a hybrid. He is of earth, and he is of heaven. Now, is Adam a hybrid? Yes. He is a hybrid. He’s of heaven and he is of earth. He’s of clay and he is of spirit. And Jesus Christ is a hybrid. He is a mixture of heaven and earth. And the most amazing thing about the Lord was that he said that while he was on earth, he was in heaven. I’ve forgotten the scripture reference, but he said, He made this statement, the son of man who is in the heavenlies, the son of man who is in the heavenlies, and to the Pharisees, Where I am, you cannot get there. And his Father was always with him and in him. And He had a spirit located in another realm.

I would like for you to try to remember this as long as you live. Wherever you walk on this earth, wherever you are, one-third of you is in another place. One-third of you is in heaven. No, heavenlies. And the eternals. Don’t think of heaven. That’s not even good. You’ll think of pearly gates and all that stuff. And the heavenlies, in the spirituals. In the supernal. Look it up. Supernal. It’s a very rare word you almost never hear. I doubt you have it in your dictionary. Supernal. Supernal. Supernal means the place where the throne of God is. No, you don’t have a word like that. Have you got your dictionary there with you? Nobody has? Try to find the word ‘supernal’ and see what kind of word it is. S-U-P-E-R-N-A-L. It does sound like supernatural, but it is… It means the highest of all places. And many English dictionaries do not have the word. And it’s similar to the word superlative, yes. I’d say the average American has never heard that word pronounced even once.

Well, you belong to the supernal. Not only to the eternal, but to the supernal. To that place in or near the throne of God, or at the throne of God, and one-third of you is always there. You really can walk into another realm. As surely as there was a door to the garden, there is a door in you. There is a door in you. Find that door. There’s a door in you. There’s a door inside of you. There’s a door in you. Now, the Lord takes Adam, red man, red-tinted man, into the Garden of Eden, and he says, not earth, but the garden is your home. You will rule the earth, but you will rule it from the garden. You can go into the earth, but it is not your natural home. Now, what is the natural habitat of a bird? The air. The natural habitat of a fish. The water. The natural habitat of a cow. The fields and pastures of the earth. The natural habitat of God. The heavenly places because it matches Him.