What Is God's Purpose for the Earth? Chapter Three

GOD'S purpose for the earth is really wonderful.  Jehovah wants the earth to be filled with happy, healthy people.  The Bible says that "God planted a garden in Eden" and that he "made to grow . . .every tree desirable to one's  sight and good for food."  After  God created the first man and woman, Adam and Eve He put them in that lovely home and told them:  "Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it."  (Genesis 1:28; 2:8, 9, 15)  So it was God's purpose to have humans have children, extend the boundaries of that garden home earthwide, and take care of the animals.  

Do you think that Jehovah God's purpose for people to live in an  earthly paradise will ever be realized?  "I have even spoken it,"  God declares, "I shall also do it."  (Isaiah 46:9-11; 55:11) Yes, what God purposes he will surely do!  He says that he "did not create [the earth] simply for nothing" but "formed it even to be inhabited." (Isaiah 45:18)  What kind of people did God want to live  on the earth? And for how long did he want them to live here?  The Bible answers:  "The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it." -Psalm 37:29; Revelation 21:3, 4.

Obviously, this has not happened yet. People now get sick and die; they even fight and kill one another.  Something went wrong.  (Yea, and it all started with Eve, some women just don't listen) Surely, however, God did not purpose that  the earth should be as we see it today!  What happened?  Why has God's purpose not been fulfilled? ( One word-name; Eve. Now we much grow old. That, you vain people who think that they need to look 30 when they are 55 or older;  that we are suppose to look our age, meaning we look old and die. ) 
The book says that no history book written can tell us because it all started in heaven. No so!  Anyone that has read the whole Bible word for word, as I have will tell you that it did not all start in heaven. It started in the garden of Eden, when God gave Adam and Eve rules or an order to not eat from the knowledge of good and bad (and it does not say that it was an apple tree) They or Eve like some women do not listen, because they think they know everything, so therefore ate some of the fruit and talked Adam into taking bite.  They were  told by God who was not happy of what they did and kicked them out of the garden and were told that from now on, not only they, but their children and on down the line would grow and die.  That is the cycle of life now and we have to endure it the best way we can and the better we endure it, the more likely God will like us.  The vain people who get plastic surgery or whatever is suppose to make them look young will not be in his favor. Being vain is Satan's work.   That is how he gets people to worship him. You can believe it or not, it does not matter. That is between you and God.



Next time: THE ORIGIN OF AN ENEMY

From the book: What Does the Bible Really Teach?