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

Listen, mister, sell your house. Move. Well, I think I’ll wait till it comes here. Someday we’ll have some, we’ll pray, and God will send you. The church has always been rare. And you may be blessed of that, but otherwise, did you ever hear the verse about leaving father and mother and brother and sister and giving up houses and lands so that you might gain a hundredfold houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and lands. No, you’re going to stay where you are and rot and die. I’m going to go live in a place that’s part divine and part of earth, part human and part God. I’m going to the church. I’m going to live there and I’m going to die there. It’s my home. I’ve got a right to it. Ain’t nobody going to keep me from having it. Not the Calvinists or John Calvin. Nor Martin Luther. Nor the Baptists. Nor anybody else is going to keep me out of my house. I’m not going to live on this earth. I’m going to live in the church. And I’m not going to live in heaven. I’m going to touch the heavens, but I’m going to live in the house of God.

And I’m going to pray. Lord Jesus. Lord Jesus, may revelation break forth, that we might see that when we see her, we see you. Open our eyes to see her, the New Jerusalem, the Holy City, the Bride of Christ, the Wife of Christ. Lord, it’s our home. Lord, it’s our home. And may we burn with thirst until we come into her gates, and we will come with thanksgiving. Lord Jesus, we’re running shy on a habitat, and you know that. Be merciful, Lord. And give us back our habitat. Amen.

And when you see the Lord Jesus Christ, you will always see her because she’s part of him.

We are in the book of Genesis, chapter 2. We took the first of these messages to talk about what happened before eternity, when there was only the Godhead. And then since then, we have gotten all the way to Genesis 2 verse 10. That’s where we are, and we’ve been in it for quite a little while. It’s a very pivotal verse.

And today is going to be on the subject, but off the subject. I’m going to read it to you, and we’re going to discuss the tree of the knowledge of good and of evil. And we’re going to get a lot of insight into our problem. And here it is. Genesis 2:9. And out of the ground the Lord God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food. The tree of life in the middle of the garden. And the tree of the knowledge of good and of evil. And we will discuss a little bit together, an almost endless subject, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And we’re going to talk about what we’re up against here.

Okay. I give you my opinion. My opinion is that just previous to the creation of the garden, there was a battle in heaven. And I may be completely wrong. There are those who even say there was no battle in heaven. And I will, even though I’ve written a book with the battle in it. What’s the name of that book? The Beginning. We do not really know how things happened that we would call the beginning of that which is negative, sin and evil, the entrance of death; we do not know where it came from. We’re not even really clear. By the way, I’m telling you things that are beyond what all your Bible scholars know. All your Bible scholars know who Lucifer is and know where the tree of life came from. They know all these things, and I know what they know. A lot of other people do, too. I don’t just count myself all by myself, but I’m telling you that these things are fairly uncertain. We really don’t know.

But my personal judgment is that somewhere along here, there was a crisis in heaven. And Lucifer was thrown out of the heavens. And I don’t know what the connection between that and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is. All I can tell you is, this is the very first negative introduction to our planet of something that is not good. Therefore, I have to believe that something happened in the other realm.

Now, this realm has not been hurt. The only damage done in our realm is the fact that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is in the garden. And for all I know, it may be that nothing bad has happened in heaven, in the heavens. And it may be that God created that tree right there, and that there was no sin anywhere. And he put that tree there for his own purpose. I don’t know. And you don’t know. And we don’t know. And we’re never going to know.

Will do me a favor. Whenever you don’t have anything else to do, you look at me. Because sometimes I look down, and everybody’s looking down. And I get lonely up there.

Now, I think there’s something I really want to make clear to all of you. This is not something that is new to me. I’m going to tell you what has been told to me. And this is not original. I was deeply impressed the day someone pointed this out to me.

There’s a tree in the garden, and it’s very positive. Now, what’s the name of that tree? Life. Let’s just hold that word for a minute. Life. Okay. Now we’ve got another tree. What is the name of this tree? It is the tree of… It’s got a long name, doesn’t it? It’s not the tree of knowledge. It’s the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Is this a positive tree? The Lord said, Don’t eat it. Isn’t that fascinating? What if God just created that tree all by himself and put it there, and there’s been no sin or anything, no rebellion? He put it there, and he said, Don’t eat the tree of knowledge of good and evil. This is so fascinating to me. I just want to sit there and stare at this thought.

Peggy, this is the first thing that’s astounding, and that is, good comes from the same tree that evil comes from. Think about it. Now you think about all the Baptist preachers, maybe even a Methodist or a Congregational, who knows, perish the thought of a Pentecostal preacher, charismatic, who has told us to be good and to do good, and that what God sent us here on earth to do was to be good people. And we get the impression every Sunday morning between 11 and 12 o’clock, what God really wants us to do is stop sinning and to be nice and to be good.