Have you ever wondered what was GOD’s plan in placing mankind in the Garden Eden? What about His plans for His children in Eden made new? “Although everything God had made was in the perfection of beauty, and there seemed nothing wanting upon the earth which God had created to make Adam and Eve happy, yet He manifested His great love to them by planting a garden especially for them. A portion of their time was to be occupied in the happy employment of dressing the garden, and a portion in receiving the visits of angels, listening to their instruction, and in happy meditation. Their labor was not wearisome, but pleasant and invigorating. This beautiful garden was to be their home, their special residence.” Spiritual Gifts 3:34 (1864).
Better
Physical Health in Rural Environment
As Adam and his wife were expelled from the garden, ‘It
is not God's will that His people shall settle in the cities, where there is
constant turmoil and confusion. Their children should be spared this, for the
whole system is demoralized by the hurry and rush and noise.” Selected Messages
2:357 (1902).
To many of those living in the cities who have not a
spot of green grass to set their feet upon, who year after year have looked out
upon filthy courts and narrow alleys, brick walls and pavements and skies
clouded with dust and smoke—if these could be taken to some farming district,
surrounded with the green fields, the woods and hills and brooks, the clear
skies and the fresh, pure air of the country, it would seem almost like heaven.
The Ministry of Healing, 191, 192 (1905).
The physical surroundings in the cities are often a
peril to health. The constant liability to contact with disease, the prevalence
of foul air, impure water, impure food, the crowded, dark, unhealthful
dwellings, are some of the many evils to be met. It was not God's purpose that
people should be crowded into cities, huddled together in terraces and
tenements. The Ministry of Healing, 365 (1905).
Raise
Your Own Provisions
The Lord desires His people to move into the country,
where they can settle on the land, and raise their own fruit and vegetables,
and where their children can be brought in direct contact with the works of God
in nature. Selected Messages 2:357, 358 (1902).
Again and again the Lord has instructed that our
people are to take their families away from the cities, into the country, where
they can raise their own provisions, for in the future the problem of buying
and selling will be a very serious one. We should now begin to heed the instruction
given us over and over again: Get out of the cities into rural districts, where
the houses are not crowded closely together, and where you will be free from
the interference of enemies. Selected Messages 2:141 (1904).
Fathers and mothers who possess a piece of land and a
comfortable home are kings and queens.
Life
in the Last Days
The earth has blessings hidden in her depths for those
who have courage and will and perseverance to gather her treasures.... Many
farmers have failed to secure adequate returns from their land because they
have undertaken the work as though it was a degrading employment; they do not
see that there is a blessing in it for themselves and their families.
“In the cultivation of the soil, the thoughtful worker
will find that treasures little dreamed of are opening up before him. No one
can succeed in agriculture or gardening without attention to the laws involved.
The special needs of every variety of plant must be studied. Different
varieties require different soil and cultivation, and compliance with the laws
governing each is the condition of success. The attention required in
transplanting, that not even a root fiber shall be crowded or misplaced, the
care of the young plants, the pruning and watering, the shielding from frost
at night and sun by day, keeping out weeds, disease, and insect pests, the
training and arranging, not only teach important lessons concerning the
development of character, but the work itself is a means of development. In
cultivating carefulness, patience, attention to detail, obedience to law, it
imparts a most essential training. The constant contact with the mystery of
life and the loveliness of nature, as well as the tenderness called forth in
ministering to these beautiful objects of God's creation, tends to quicken the
mind and refine and elevate the character.
The Great Teacher brought His hearers in contact with
nature, that they might listen to the voice which speaks in all created things;
and as their hearts became tender and their minds receptive, He helped them to
interpret the spiritual teaching of the scenes upon which their
eyes rested.... In His lessons there was something to interest every mind,
to appeal to every heart. Thus the daily task, instead of being a mere round of
toil, bereft of higher thoughts, was brightened and uplifted by constant
reminders of the spiritual and the unseen.
So we should teach. Let the children learn to see in
nature an expression of the love and the wisdom of God; let the thought of Him
be linked with bird and flower and tree; let all things seen become to them the
interpreters of the unseen, and all the events of life be a means of divine
teaching.” AH 142 / 145.
As they learn thus to study the lessons in all created
things and in all life's experiences, show that the same laws which govern the
things of nature and the events of life are to control us, that they are given
for our good, and that only in obedience to them can we find true happiness and
success.
God Will Instruct and Teach—He
who taught Adam and Eve in Eden how to tend the garden would instruct men
today. There is wisdom for him who holds the plow and plants and sows the seed.
The earth has its concealed treasures, and the Lord would have thousands and
tens of thousands working upon the soil who are crowded into the cities to
watch for a chance to earn a trifle.... Those who will take their families into
the country place them where they have fewer temptations. The children who are
with parents that love and fear God are in every way much better situated to
learn of the Great Teacher, who is the source and fountain of wisdom. They have
a much more favorable opportunity to gain a fitness for the kingdom of heaven.
In the last great conflict of the controversy with Satan, those who are loyal to God will see every earthly support cut off. Because they refuse to break His law in obedience to earthly powers, they will be forbidden to buy or sell. It will finally be decreed that they shall be put to death.... But to the obedient is given the promise, “He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.” Isaiah 33:16. By this promise, the children of God will live. The Desire of Ages, 121, 122.
May God help us follow God’s will in the living off the
land.
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