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Garden. It says: Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek The LORD: Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged. Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and BLESSED him, and increased him. For The LORD shall comfort Zion: He will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of The LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people. Those verses are directed to the seed of Abraham—and as we just saw, we as believers are Abraham's seed. The word Zion also applies to us because in Hebrews it's used to refer to the Body of Christ. We have inherited the Eden covenant. By Faith in God, everything in the Garden of Eden is available to us. That means when we read about how God created the universe in preparation for the Garden, we're reading about how He prepared for us. We're seeing the power and Love that backs our covenant with God. Think of it: Love created the entire universe! Love—our heavenly Father—built it all to be a wonderful place where His beloved family could live and fellowship with Him. He didn't build it out of just some random material, either; He used a part of Himself. The same apostle who said God is Love also said, "God is light" (1 John 1:5), and God used light as the foundation for our homeplace. His Love for us is so great that He worked His own essence into the very core of this physical, natural world in which we live. He made Himself the cornerstone of all creation. He said, "Light be!" and light was (and still is). It exploded into space at the speed of 186,000 miles per second and never stopped. Within 24 hours it illuminated 90 billion, 700 million miles of a universe that science confirms is still expanding today. That's how powerful God's WORD is! One eternal command from Him brought all creation into existence. Just two of His Love- filled, light-infused words released the light envelope into which our massive universe was to be placed. To this day, God's words continue to carry this powerful, energizing, life-giving force we call light. That's why the Eden covenant, despite everything that tried to put an end to it, still exists. God's Faith-filled words, once spoken, stand forever because God and His WORD are One. As John 1 says: In the beginning was The WORD, and The WORD was with God, and The WORD was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not (verses 1-5). Notice, those verses refer to The WORD not as something but as Someone. Who is it? Jesus! Jesus is the Light of the world (John 8:12). He is the exact image of the Father (Colossians 1:15). He is The WORD made flesh (John 1:14) and by Him and for Him were all things created (Hebrews 1:2, 10). When we read about how God created the universe in preparation for the Garden, we're reading about how He prepared for us." " B V O V : 7