Going Back to the Garden of Eden: Your marriage can experience the fullness of Eden

By Andrés Bulacio

God created the region of Eden where he planted a perfect and abundant garden. He designed that wonderful place so that man, his most loved creation, could inhabit. The Garden of Eden was brought from heaven to earth with the architecture of the father. This is why the Lord walked along in the garden, meanwhile man guarded and cultivated the land. They had a perfect relationship. This same atmosphere has been replicated over each marriage, where a man and woman could be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth.
The design of marriage was corrupted, due to the fact that darkness was able to deceive and permanently deteriorate man´s condition, position and authority.
The degradation of a family is a consequence of the loss of the presence of God. This is because of the misadministration of resources that the father God gave us to fulfill His purpose.
We must strive to live the latter glory in our families, so it can later fill our generations and the church in the nations.
The good news is that no matter how desolate our marriage can be today, in God we have the resources to turn it into the Garden of Eden. It is my desire that you may be empowered with faith and revelation through these pages. This is a calling from the father God that resonates from eternity: Let´s rise up and conquer the garden that he dreamt for us!

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Apr 7, 2020
• ISBN: 9789874580375

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Eden

Preface

The first time I was part of a marriage seminar 30 years ago, I was impressed by not only the speaker´s passion, but also the kind manner with which he approached marital life and the solutions he proposed. Many of the recommendations were focused on:

•Improving communication.

•Having a good attitude about forgiving our spouse´s faults.

•Introducing the principles of the Word in daily life.

I remember asking myself: What happens when a couple cannot communicate due to the consequences of a selfish action?; What happens when a couple cannot forgive due to hurtful memories?; Why can we as a church not offer something more than marriage counseling to couples?

For years, every time I checked Christian libraries, I would only find more of the same: materials and writings done by people who had good intentions, but put aside, consciously or unconsciously, the elemental principles of the spiritual world. It is critical to know that marriage—like redemption or adoption—is conceived in the spiritual dimension, not in the earthly dimension. That is why trying to understand marital problems while putting aside this truth is like trying to eat soup with a fork.

Despite the discouragement expressed in my comments, I’m very excited to witness an extraordinary change that is taking place right now in the church of all nations. There is an awakening to return to the Spirit, a sincere desire and an honest effort to be dependent on the Spirit again, like it was always meant to be.

The Father is awakening the spirit of many prophets in the nations of the earth to re-discover the proper design of how things should be, and this is definitely generating waves, especially in that part of the body that has converted the genuine life of the body (an organism) into a well-structured organization.

Andrés Bulacio is part of that fresh dew of prophets who are raising their voices with the desire to get people to know the heart of the Father and to leave a legacy to future generations, without wanting to be famous or build his own name. Since I had the privilege of getting to know him, I could see in him a great passion for families to return to the correct and genuine design God gave us. The contribution that he makes to church reform is very large. Certainly, it is easier to project ourselves in such urgent matters of the ministry’s recovery and the necessary evangelism to reach the current generation. However, what happens when great men of God fail to have healthy families? What happens when we achieve extraordinary levels of evangelism and grow massive congregations, but we have destroyed families with children who want nothing from God? I think that history has already shown the damage, and we do not want this among us anymore.

Loved ones, I recommend with great joy and hope this beautiful material with the certainty that it will not only help you improve your family life, but also will let you peer behind the curtain of the relationship and see the hidden actors operating in your marriage, beyond what traditional marriage counseling can see.

I bless this project, acknowledging that it is the first of many others that will arise in this beautiful time, so we can present to the Father a church in His image and likeness.

Dr. Fernando Orihuela

Ministerio Kerigma Internacional

Part 1

INTRODUCTION

Perspectives of the Garden

Chapter 1

A traumatic exile

"Therefore, the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken."

Genesis 3:23 (NASB).

I would like to start by using our imagination, so we can travel in time and take ourselves to an old reality: life in the Garden of Eden. Here we go…

You are that newly created man, your spirit—in the image and likeness of the Creator—is impressive. Your soul is filled with the light of life, your body is perfect, and no amount of corruption or disease is present. Your intelligence, identity, vision, and senses flow from your spirit and project through your whole being. Your body is a well-oiled machine, performing effortlessly in the Garden. You feel complete. Your spirit, soul, and body function in perfect unity. There is no division to the point that it is difficult to differentiate between them. All three elements are one.

The most powerful resource that the Father has given you is your voice. It has the essence of the Father, the Creator, and creation recognizes that essence. The animals are subject to your voice, responding to the names you give them.

You are standing in the middle of the Garden, and you can feel a ruling connection with everything the Father has placed under your authority. You speak and everything responds, blessing you with fertility and wealth.

Suddenly, a special fragrance begins to fill the Garden, and a distinct sound can be heard. It sounds like the wind, but you know exactly Who it is… it is He, your Father, strolling through the Garden to be with you. It is a special relationship, different from what you experience with creation. With Him there is unity, spirit to spirit, Father to son, a compatible image without rejection or imperfection. It’s like being connected by an invisible umbilical cord through which your whole being gets all the nutrients it needs.

It is beautiful to discuss with Him the advances in the Garden and your experiences with creation. It is fulfilling to see the dreams the Father has for you and your descendants, to talk about the steps to expand the Garden and how you will fill the earth. It is a delightful relationship.

In one of these many conversations, there is a moment when you share with the Father the following concern:

- I see that each animal has its mate, I have seen them grow and multiply, and I have enjoyed it. I know you made me complete, and it feels like I do not need anything else… but there is still something in me that longs to be connected with someone else. So, how do you think I can multiply to fill the earth?. Adam said to the Father

- I was waiting for you to ask me that. I wanted you to realize that even though you are full, you need to relate to someone else to understand life and multiply. I am going to give you a partner. The Father smiled and answered.

Suddenly, you forget everything. You cannot remember if you fell asleep or not, but you do feel a strange sensation on the left side of your body, near your heart. You notice a change. Something is different. As if that was not confusing enough, you open your eyes and…

- WOW! Bones of my bones, and flesh of my flesh!- Adam said.

Upon seeing the woman, your mind starts to race, connections forming, and everything becomes clear.

-Now, I understand the design. I will join her, and we shall become one flesh! This is it, a perfectly compatible and complementary design with the potential to become an impeccable union, to be fruitful, to multiply and govern over all the earth. This keeps getting better and better! Woman, what a perfect name!. Adam exclamed.

You begin a new path with your partner, and you explain to her what you have learned from the Father, showing her how the earth produces generously, how everything is fruitful and there is no barrenness.

The Garden is a perfect place for your children to grow up and mature until the time comes for them to leave their parents (just like God said) and fill the earth.

One day, a clever animal with whom you frequently speak appears before you. You notice that now something in his demeanor is subtly different.

So subtle, in fact, that you don’t give it a second thought. Without your knowledge, Lucifer —the fallen angel who was demoted and expelled for his rebellion— had negotiated with the serpent to be used as a vessel that would connect Lucifer with the earthly realm. A strange atmosphere begins to affect the garden. Some traces of independence appear in the Woman and a feeling of indifference overcomes you.

The serpent starts talking with your partner, and a dangerous web of deceit begins to form. The serpent captures her attention, its voice confusing the Woman, and she loses sight of what you taught her the Father said. Suddenly, her eyes focus on the forbidden fruit, and it becomes desirable to her.

Being like God is really attractive, the Woman thinks. She picks the fruit and takes a bite. It is delicious, but under the spell of the serpent, she does not realize that a venom called wickedness begins to take hold of her entire being. Fascinated by the experience, she extends her hand and offers the fruit to you. You are stunned by this situation.

- Eat the fruit. It’s not bad. On the contrary, if you eat it, you will be like God. The Woman tells you. Her voice sounds different.

Your voice is noticeably different. Something changed. There is a different essence that has a powerful influence that you cannot explain. You make a considerable effort to remember what the Father told you, but the look of the Woman is so sensual that it is difficult to tell her no. You see the fruit and eat it.

After you both have eaten and the intoxicating effect has worn off, you find yourselves shocked by the experience. You are devastated and look at each other desperately. Everything seems to be: spiraling out of control. Suddenly, you look at the garden and see how creation starts to react; animals become aggressive and nature seems to reject you.

What is happening? Immediately, the Father’s voice comes to your mind like a vague memory telling you that the day you eat the forbidden fruit, you will certainly die. You ask yourself if what you are feeling is what the Father calls death.

- It can´t be, this can´t be happening… you say, but it is happening, death has entered, and there is disconnection from the Father.

You feel as though everything in you is broken. But alas, death has entered the Garden, and now you are cut off from the Father. Everything inside you braks into pieces. Your internal being is now divided. You feel naked, and your spiritual functions are disconnected.

The greatest human trauma, terror consumes you

When we read about the fall of Man and Woman, their experience seems like a distant event. I assure you, though, that in the deepest parts of our DNA, their experience still registers with us.

How did that disconnection from the Father feel? Maybe it will help us to imagine that we are someone who is connected to an artificial respirator that suddenly gets turned off. Our access to oxygen stops, and we begin to suffocate and die. It is an experience of total desperation. Now, in the case of the man and the woman in the garden, this death by suffocation separated them from breathing the life of the Spirit.

But, let’s go back to that crucial moment in the Garden when they ate the forbidden fruit:

You start to live, but you are dead, and do not know how to escape the situation. What you experience is similar to what would happen if your senses and voice suddenly disconnect from your brain. There is no longer vision, smell, taste, touch, hearing, or vocals. You know that you are still surrounded by the creation you used to rule. Everything you once were able to do is now out of your reach. Your voice echoes in your mind. You want to shout, but nothing around you responds. There is no voice coming out from your mouth, no authority. An internal desperation starts to arise, fear consumes every fiber of your being, and creation turns against you as though it does not know you. From the innermost parts of your being a silent and agonizing cry breaks out:

- Where is the Father? Where is the Father?

The worst part of it is that you know He is there, but you cannot connect with Him. This situation hurts you terribly, but you are responsible for it. The condition you find yourself in, at this point, has an irreversible weight of judgment. There is nothing you can do from your own strength to change it.

Your means of experiencing life has been abruptly broken by this change of state. You think, where is the light? where is the life?.

Now, you are trapped inside your mortal body. You keep existing. From now on, you will have to figure out a way to develop skills that will