Have Unshakable Faith in the Kingdom - A PROMISE REVEALS HOW GOD'S PURPOSE WILL COME TRUE

Jehovah prepared our earth so that humans could live on it.  Then, Jehovah made the following decrees: (1) God would create humans in his image.  (2) Humans would make the earth into a paradise and fill it with their righteous children. (3)  Humans  were not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and bad.  (Genesis 1:26, 28; 2:16, 17)  These three decrees were a complete description of God's purpose for man and the earth.  So why did God have to make covenants? 

Satan started a rebellion against God and his purpose. He focused on man's  obedience to God by tempting Eve to eat fruit from the tree  of the knowledge of good and bad. (Genesis 3:1-5; Revelation 12:9)  By doing this, he challenged God's right to rule over His creation. Later, Satan also accused humans of worshipping God for selfish reasons.  JOB 1:9-11; 2:4, 5. 

How would Jehovah handled this rebellion?  He could destroy the rebels. But that would mean that God's purpose to fill the earth  with Adam and Eve's children would not succeed. Jehovah chose not to destroy the rebels.  Instead, he gave a great prophecy, the Edenic  promise.  It guaranteed that every detail of God's promises for the earth and for humans would come true. GENESIS 3:15.

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