Debrecen Messages #10 – The Garden of Eden: Heaven and Earth Together (Genesis 2 Teaching)

But man is a hybrid. He doesn’t belong to heaven because he belongs to earth. He doesn’t belong to earth because he also belongs to heaven. So, you can say he belongs to both, but more accurately, he belongs to neither. He belongs to a better place than heaven or earth. Now this is unbelievable. This is wild territory. We think of heaven and the heavens as the final place. God does not. God had made an incredibly beautiful earth. It was unfallen. We can’t imagine what it was. Come with me into this garden, and here comes something flying over that’s lovely. Well, today we call it a pesky fly because we don’t know what it looks like originally. And here’s a beautiful, beautiful, flowered tree. You don’t know what it is today when you look at it. It’s a weed. A weed, because of the fall. We have no idea what the earth looked like.

Now, I lived in California for quite a while, and there are times when you can drive down the roads in certain places in California, and you can see where a mountain has turned over on its side. And in Colorado, which is a central state. Okay, it’s a little west. Lots of places you go, and you see where a mountain has literally fallen over on its side, and you can see the strata laying this way when it once was this way. Incredible torture and torment and agony and pain that the earth went through when it fell.

So, we don’t know what this earth looked like, but boy, it was as beautiful as heaven. In its physical being, unfallen earth was as beautiful as unseen heaven. The unseen heaven and the seen earth were like one another in beauty, but this one was temporary. This one looked like it was going to be there forever. Turns out that even the heavens were temporary because of the fall. Both found corruption. And one was eternal in nature, and one was temporary in nature. One was spiritual in nature, and one was physical. One was invisible in nature, and one was visible in nature. One was spiritual in nature, and I said physical in nature. I should say one was…without mass or time or space, and the other one was with mass, and when you have mass, you have space and time. Einstein told us this.

However, one was not more beautiful than the other. How do you get something more beautiful than heaven? How do you get something more beautiful than an earth? When they are both so perfect in their beauty, there’s only one way to get something more beautiful – join them. John says…and then I saw a new earth and a new heaven. That’s right. He didn’t say, I saw heaven. No, he saw a new heaven. And it was beautiful. More beautiful than the first. And a new earth. More beautiful than the first. But you haven’t finished quoting the verse, sister. What’s the rest of the verse? The earth and the heaven passed away. And I saw.

And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven. That’s more beautiful than heaven. And this new heaven is more beautiful than the old heaven. And this new earth is more beautiful than the old earth, but there is something more beautiful than either one of them. And that is the place where they touch one another. And that was the garden. The garden was a place where heaven and earth touched, and it was more glorious than either. And God said, you live there. Wow. You live there.

Well, the angels were jealous. You know, hey, what’s going on here? You’ve got something better for a visible man than us glorious and visible angels. And the cow said, Hey, wait a minute. Whoa, that’s more beautiful than earth. And the angel said, Yeah, wait, if you could only see heaven and see how beautiful it is, cow. Then the cow would be even more jealous. Well, I think at this time we had an archangel who got very jealous. That’s what I think. I think he got really upset. I think somewhere right around here, there was a rebellion in heaven.

I don’t want to get off on that. I want to stay on my subject. My subject is that man has a natural habitat. It’s not heaven and it’s not earth. And you’re not supposed to live on this earth, and you’re not supposed to die and go to heaven. Now, anybody out there who thinks that you’re going to go to heaven, I would like to repeat a verse of Scripture to you. John is speaking, and I saw a new heaven. And I saw a new earth. And the old earth had passed away. And the old heavens had passed away. And I saw the new Jerusalem, the holy city, coming out of heaven. More glorious than heaven. And now, then you all say, I’m going to live in pearly streets and golden gates, pearly streets. God’s going to be with all that. That’s not heaven. That’s Jerusalem. That is the glorious New Jerusalem.

All right. I just saw a thumbs-up. Is that good news, sweetheart? Oh. When he speaks the language, everything becomes easy. We’re having a wonderful time here. And I’m not going to review for you. Would you folks out there, won’t you pass the popcorn around while we have this small interruption?

And I saw the new Jerusalem coming down out of heaven. I saw the new Jerusalem coming out of heaven. I saw the new Jerusalem coming out of heaven. And it had 12 foundations. And it had a tree. And it had a river. And it had the throne of God in it. Now, the throne of God has moved out of heaven because it has found a better place. Now, the throne of God is not in heaven. And if you want to die and go to heaven, fine, but you’re going to get lonesome up there, and there are not going to be humans there. And God’s not going to be there. And the throne’s not going to be there. And the Lord Jesus is not going to be there. And I don’t know if the angels are even going to be there. I have no idea, but if they are, they’re going to look at you and say, Boy, you’ll settle for the common stuff awfully easy.  Our home is not heaven. Our natural habitat is not heaven. And our natural habitat is not earth. Our natural habitat is a hybrid of heaven and earth.

Now, this lady over here, this lady with the dark eyes and the dark hair, she’s a really beautiful lady. I want to tell her a few things. She looks Albanian, doesn’t she? Greek. She looks Greek. Okay, all right. Greek, Romanian, Albanian. Okay. This lady can just be almost anybody there is. Lady, this is what we’ve been saying: when God put man in the garden, He declared that he was not of the earth. Nor was he of heaven. Even though he was of the clay of earth and the spirit of heaven, he belonged; he was a hybrid, and he belonged to a hybrid place. And heaven was glorious, but unfallen earth was just as glorious.

And you can’t say that heaven invisible was more beautiful than earth visible. And the only way you can get something more beautiful than heaven and a beautiful, beautiful earth, the only way you can get something more beautiful than earth is to take the two elements and put them together. And that is your home. God made for man, we can put it in one sentence, a habitat, more glorious than heaven, more glorious than earth. It was the garden. Praise the Lord.

And now, I want you to know something. That is, we’re going to have a 30-minute message today, I think. You still, though you are fallen, you are redeemed. Do you understand that you are holy? And that you are without blame. And that you are pure. And in the eyes of God, nobody can blame you. And you’re just as holy as holy can get. You are holy ones. We are holy ones. We are holy ones. We do not belong to this earth, even though we are on this planet. We do not belong to this world system which has covered this fallen planet. And God does not intend for us in this day, even in this hour, to live on this earth.