One of the ways you can understand the Holy Bible is that it is a great story of love and rescue. From the beginning of the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, God spends the entire history of humanity seeking to rescue it, to bring the human being back to communion with Him. That is, back to the Garden of Eden, to the peaceful, loving and loyal relationship that He had, for a short time, in the beginning…

“Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth” (Genesis 1:28).

God is like a father who starts a family business, grows this business, which becomes a big company, and prepares His child to stay in His place.

God gave man dominion over all the Earth, over all Creation and said: “Look, now it’s up to you. Everything is ready. Now, you just have to care and develop it. I (God) will stay here and see what you will do to develop everything I have already created.”

In other words, God wanted to see the child develop their potential. God wanted to feel proud of His own child. Isn’t that what the Lord Jesus said? “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father” (John 14:12). Because it exalts God when His children thrive.

Of course, this did not happen because man was not satisfied with being an administrative partner of the Earth. Man wanted to be equal to God. The part where God said, “You’re not going to touch”, was precisely where the man wanted to touch.

So, even if God’s plan, initially, was for us to dominate for good, what happens in practice today is that human beings have been destroying each other; the Earth is in convulsion; nature fights against man; man builds, nature comes and destroys; man plants, the devourer comes and takes the fruit of his work. That is, instead of dominating, man has been dominated; he has become a slave to the prince of darkness, whom man gave dominion over this Earth, which is the enemy of God, the devil.

Adam and Eve made a mistake, but they didn’t know. We know. What is the excuse we have to do evil? Cases have proven wrong acts, and the person goes there and does it again. I’ll give you an example: it’s already more than proven that marital infidelity goes wrong. The woman betrays the man, and the man betrays the woman. What happens? Disgrace, separation, anger in the children, divided families, divorce, etc. It is already more than proven that betrayal does not work, but people continue to betray.

We have the story to evaluate what didn’t work out. Why am I going to repeat it? The descendants of Adam and Eve should look and say: “It didn’t work. Instead of going downhill, let’s try to go back to the masterplan?”

God spoke to the people of Israel, who also lived in this fallen condition: “Thus says the Lord God: “On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will also enable you to dwell in the cities, and the ruins shall be rebuilt. The desolate land shall be tilled instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass by. So they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden; and the wasted, desolate, and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited” (Ezekiel 36:33-35).

After God restored, whoever passed by would look and say: “This devastated land became like the Garden of Eden”.

God wants to restore the Garden of Eden in our lives. This is the love story of the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. God is always telling us to come back.