Scene One:
a Garden
An illustration of times in life beyond the bounds of time and place
The Gardener, the Shepherd and the Hunter
Once upon a time there was a gardener, a shepherd and a hunter.
I met a man who knew each of them (and many others), for he frequented the garden during his journeys through time.
But before I tell you about these men from long ago, allow me to describe this garden seen by just a few men, women and even children during these countless years and times.
To begin, you must close your eyes in order to look through a distant twilight upon a face of this place not visible to any who think we might see this extraordinary place by the light of this distant earth.
For that is how I met his man who showed me the way to look into the vast darkness to see this paradise.
Of course, if anyone wanted to look for a gardener,
wouldn’t you first try to find the garden where he works?
That’s what I did after I heard a Voice of the man who had met them all. Then he showed me where to look into the twilight of the night sky.
Better, with your eyes closed to this world, he said.
Do you have a picture of the garden where I can see this gardener, I asked?
Imaginations of it by men and women paint many pictures of places not at all like this garden, he replied.
You cannot allow even the most beautiful earthly place of your imagination to mirror this distant garden beyond the borders of time and place.
Beyond …time… and place
What do you mean that this garden is on another side of a border of time?
(I thought is was a straightforward question about where I should look.)
Have you ever been there … or met anyone else who has seen this garden?
(Of course I hadn't.) And without saying anything and with my eyes still closed I could still see the man who spoke to me as he gently looked into the depths of my thought.
So you would like to see this garden..? .. and have me show you how to get past your border of..
.. The man was suddenly silent.
I strained to see him with faint light passing through my eyelids as I imagined a beautiful garden filled with light and life. I imagined scrumptious fruit, the greenest of plants and purest of air.. a blue sky (of course).. Behind a moving mist somewhere between my eyelids and my wandering mind, I painted for myself a paradise with several people wandering about carelessly…
… time … ?
But which one was the Gardener, I wondered?
Then as my mindless mist obscured my vision of this garden beyond the bounds of time and place, I realized that the man had just spoken to ME again.
…time… ? (he had just said – his last word inviting me to follow him there)
Do you see this … LINE …
he asked?
Yes.
Where does it end?
(With my eyes again closed tightly and staring into the distance both to the left and then the right, I could see NO END
and the … LINE … just keep going beyond where I could see..)
Can you see it’s BEGINNING?
I nodded.. NO.
Yet haven’t your READ the truth of a garden beyond this …LINE… drawn in …TIME…?
How about the other END of the …LINE…?
Now I thought briefly of the Revelation of Jesus Christ to John. A horrific scene of apocalypse began to unfold — a scene I had never wanted to look upon.
The Garden
And just as before when I had tried to glance back at the garden of Eden, the desired paradise with GOD, the voice of the man no longer spoke comfort into my spirit.
I did not know then WHO the gardener was, but now I knew where to look …beyond the line of time and place…for the garden.
from the Voice of Truth
וְהָאָרֶץ הָיְתָה תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ וְחֹשֶׁךְ עַל־פְּנֵי תְהוֹם וְרוּחַ אֱלֹהִים מְרַחֶפֶת עַל־פְּנֵי הַמָּֽיִם׃
Bereishit (Genesis) 1 :: Westminster Leningrad Codex (WLC)
גַּן
CLICK HERE for MORE Original truth of the garden: Strong’s H1588 – gan
- garden, enclosure; גַּן gan, gan; from H1598; a garden (as fenced):—garden.
The LORD God planted a garden H1588 toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed..
Out of the ground the LORD God caused every tree to grow that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life was also in the midst of the garden H1588, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden H1588 of Eden to cultivate it and tend it.
Genesis 2:15 NASB20
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Scene Two: a gardener near the beginning
κῆπος – Strong’s G2779 – kēpos – a garden
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