HELEN SANDERS
12-5-2021
THE GARDEN BLESSING

When God made Adam and Eve he had a command for them and it is found in Genesis 1:28 where it says, “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”

Now that was quite a blessing. It started with be fruitful and multiply. God wasn’t just talking about natural fruit He was talking about procreation. God didn’t want just Adam and Eve to be the sole occupants of earth. He wanted them to have children. This is the purpose of male and female, to come together and bear children or fruit. There is no natural fruit from two males or two females. It takes one of each outside of artificial insemination. It has always been God’s plan to bless married couples with children from their own seed. Those that want children have the right to this promise. God has not changed his mind. If there is a situation where there are no children coming, stand on this promise and expect God to honor it.

Secondly, God said to replenish the earth. There is much evidence that there was a world before Adam and Eve. How it was destroyed we do not know, but Adam and Even were blessed to bring forth or replenish what had been destroyed. It was gone and God wanted to bring it back. Then God told them to subdue the earth. This means that everything comes under the subjection of mankind. We aren’t to worship anything but God. We as human beings to have dominion over the trees, plants, and everything that grows. We are not to worship anything that is from a seed. Only the one that gave us the seed – God.

Then God said to them that they were to have dominion over the fish of the sea. I have used this verse many times when I have gone fishing many times and told the fish to come to my hook. I caught fish when others didn’t. Jesus told Peter to go catch a fish and it would have a coin in its mouth to pay his and Peter’s taxes. I think that kind of fishing could catch on, don’t you?

Then we are to have dominion over the fowl or birds of the air. Every bird is under our control. They have to be subdued at times, but God has given us that authority. Finally, God said to have dominion over everything that moves on the earth. This would include every animal from a mouse to a mountain lion. From a cockroach to a kangaroo. Every animal is under our dominion because of the blessing God gave Adam and Eve and was passed on to us.

Now because of their sin, Adam and Eve had to leave that garden. But when Jesus was in the “garden” of Gethsemane he surrendered his will to God. That is where he won the victory and the ability to endure the cross. Once he was resurrected from the dead our guarantee of eternal life was available by faith in Him. When we are born again our spirits are like Adam and Eve’s were before they sinned, and we have the authority they did before the fall. Now we must walk in that authority and take dominion over what is rightfully ours through Jesus Christ.