150 DAYS

Day 1 : Psalm 1:
The Lord had me looking at the book of Psalms, the book of the preacher. And the first chapter
talks about the blessedness ( happy, blessed, truly happy, delighted and MSG says "how well
must God like such a man) of the man who does the following below.

THE PEEP

Psalms 1:1-6 TPT:

What delight comes to the one who follows God’s ways! He won’t walk in
step with the wicked, nor share the sinner’s way, nor be found sitting in the
scorner’s seat.

His passion is to remain true to the Word of “I AM,” meditating day and night
on the true revelation of light.

He will be standing firm like a flourishing tree planted by God’s design,

But how different are the wicked. They are like chaff blown away by the wind.

The wicked will not endure the day of judgment, for God will not defend them.
Nothing they do will succeed or endure for long, for they have no part with
those who walk in truth.

But how different it is for the righteous! The Lord embraces their paths as
they move forward while the way of the wicked leads only to doom. (TPT)

What was just read now was the first book of Psalms. At first it looks like a set of instructions
one must follow to be tagged as "blessed" but later on, I discovered two remarkable things,
which shot out at me. The first was, I discovered it wasn't just referencing a man, who just
obeyed verses 1 & 2. I realised it was describing a sect, a faction, a select group of individuals or
 person as the case may be. It was almost like the preacher could see these attributes in this
individual or group. And rightly so, He was describing "us," the new creation. Listen to the way
MSG renders it.

Psalms 1:1-6 MSG:

How well God must like you— you don’t walk in the ruts of those blind-as-
bats, you don’t stand with the good-for-nothings, you don’t take your seat
among the know-it-alls.

Instead you thrill to God’s Word, you chew on Scripture day and night. You’re
a tree replanted in Eden, bearing fresh fruit every month, Never dropping a
leaf, always in blossom.

You’re not at all like the wicked, who are mere windblown dust— Without
defense in court, unfit company for innocent people.

God charts the road you take. The road they take leads to nowhere. (MSG)

As you also noticed in this text, it wasn't just laying out a set of instructions for one to follow so
as to answer "blessed" it was describing the genetic makeup of the new creature, of you and I.
And to further shed more light on this individual, he said

"you're a tree replanted in Eden".

This is truly a remarkable statement!

To understand this, Let's run down memory lane a bit. We are well aware that in the beginning
right amidst of the garden of the Lord, (Eden) were two trees; the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil, and the tree of life. Man was charged not to eat from the later, a charge which he
neglected, and it cost him dearly. After the punishment for his disobedience was duly meted out,
God did this:

Genesis 3:23-24 MSG:

So God expelled them from the Garden of Eden and sent them to work the
ground, the same dirt out of which they’d been made. He threw them out of
the garden and stationed angel-cherubim and a revolving sword of fire east
of it, guarding the path to the Tree-of-Life. (MSG)

The above scripture, shows the measures God took, so that Man wouldn't lay his hands on the
tree of life, eat of it, and be eternally condemned. God did this so that in his condemned state,
there could be a plan, a hope for the redemption of man. But at this very point, in Genesis 3;
man has fallen short, and was alienated from Eden. Eden; being not just a garden, but God's
manifest presence, an atmosphere, a visible geographical location, where God will come down
at the cool of the evening to commune, to have Koinonia with man, fellowship; one of intimate
proportions, and this was supposed to be man's natural habitat, the sustainance to his very
existence.... And man lost it all.

After the loss, God would not have it that man should forever be lost, hence the plot to restore
man to Eden; a delightful place, to a place of his presence, to man's intended habitat.

So with this you can understand why the Preacher said it was a replanting, a replanting in Eden.
And to further quote the Preacher verbatim, he said

" you're a tree, REPLANTED in Eden

The verb there indicates this action has already happened as it's in the past tense, but the big
question is, when did the replanting occur? A question we would get back to in a moment. other
versions puts it this way;
 EDEN

Out of Eden went out a river. Let's take a deeper dive in attempting to know a little about Eden
and the exact source this River bursted out from

The scripture says

Genesis 2:10 AMPC:

Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided
and became four [river] heads.(AMPC)

Looking critically into this, the bible said a river went out of Eden to water the garden. Wait a
minute! I thought the garden was Eden. Let's look at the scriptures to see what it says ;

B'resheet (Gen) 2:8 CJB:

Adonai, God, planted a garden toward the east, in ‘Eden, and there he put the
person whom he had formed. (Complete Jewish Bible CJB)

In the mouth of two or three witnesses, the truth is established. Let's look at more translations

Genesis 2:8 AMPC:

And the Lord God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden [delight]; and
there He put the man whom He had formed (framed, constituted). (AMPC).

Genesis 2:8 RV1895:

And the LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put the
man whom he had formed. (RV1895).

Genesis 2:8 TPT:

Then Yahweh-God planted a lush garden paradise in the East, in the Land of
Delight, and there he placed the man he had formed. (TPT).

So here it says that Adonai planted a garden in the east, Amplified version defined Eden in
parentheses as "delight". Substituting Eden for delight we can say;

"And the Lord God planted a garden towards the east, in delight; and there he put the man whom
he had formed"
 Or

In delight the Lord God planted a garden towards the east, and there he put the man whom he
had formed

We can also say

And the Lord God planted a garden in the east, in his delight, there he put the man whom he had
formed

Either ways we can clearly see the difference as night and day, that the garden wasn't
necessarily Eden, the garden was in Eden; an envelope of God's pleasure, his delight, his peace,
his grace.

Also, if the garden were to be Eden, it needed to be a larger mass or body of water for a river to
explode out of, to break out of. So massive was this river that it broke out into four branches;
which geographically speaking were major rivers in the biblical era and even in this present eon.

The garden not only became a thing of beauty, but a place where God's delight abounded, a
portal of his presence; which is characterised by joy, pleasantness, delightsomness... Hence
(TPT) rendering it as a delightsome land.
THE RIVER

And many will be asking, What's the relationship with Eden, and the streams? Noticed I didn't say
"a stream", but "the streams of water", Or in this case "the rivers of water". Let's dare to take a
deeper dive to show the relationship. The first mention of this river is in the book of beginnings
but the mystery of it's source is revealed in the book of revelations

The bible says

Genesis 2:10 AMPC:

Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided
and became four [river] heads.(AMPC)

After this, littered across scriptures are talks of this River, let's have a look at some of them.
We'll begin with our case study for this course

Psalm 1:3 KJV:

And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, That bringeth forth
his fruit in his season; His leaf also shall not wither; And whatsoever he
doeth shall prosper. (KJV)

Psalms 1:3 RV1885:

And he shall be like a tree planted by the streams of water, That bringeth
forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also doth not wither; And whatsoever
he doete doeth shall prosper. (RV1885)

Psalm 1:3 AMPC:

And he shall be like a tree firmly planted [and tended] by the streams of
water, ready to bring forth its fruit in its season; its leaf also shall not fade or
wither; and everything he does shall prosper [and come to maturity]. [Jer.
17:7, 8.] (AMPC)

Jeremiah 17:8 AMPC:

For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters that spreads out its roots by
the river; and it shall not see and fear when heat comes; but its leaf shall be
green. It shall not be anxious and full of care in the year of drought, nor shall
it cease yielding fruit. (AMPC)
Zechariah 14:8 AMPC:

And it shall be in that day that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem, half
of them to the eastern [Dead] Sea and half of them to the western
[Mediterranean] Sea; in summer and in winter shall it be. (AMPC).

As I earlier mentioned in our previous discuss, the bible said "the river" not "a river". In English
language, the use of the definite article "the" is an indicative of a specific or particular river
spoken about. Yes! There were so many rivers spoken of in the bible, but when the scriptures
are referring to "the river", then it can only mean, it's talking about the same and one particular
river.

It was the same river the Preacher had a peep into, irrespective of the era he was living in,; the
same flowed in the garden or the Lord, which birthed four different rivers, and embedded in
them were wealth, gold and other precious stone. This is the same river the prophet Ezekiel saw
in his visions

Ezekiel 47:1-12 NIV:

The man brought me back to the entrance to the temple, and I saw water
coming out from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the
temple faced east). The water was coming down from under the south side
of the temple, south of the altar.

He then brought me out through the north gate and led me around the
outside to the outer gate facing east, and the water was trickling from the
south side.

As the man went eastward with a measuring line in his hand, he measured
off a thousand cubits and then led me through water that was ankle-deep.

He measured off another thousand cubits and led me through water that
was knee-deep. He measured off another thousand and led me through
water that was up to the waist.

He measured off another thousand, but now it was a river that I could not
cross, because the water had risen and was deep enough to swim in—a river
that no one could cross.

He asked me, “Son of man, do you see this?” Then he led me back to the
bank of the river. [7] When I arrived there, I saw a great number of trees on
each side of the river.
He said to me, “This water flows toward the eastern region and goes down
into the Arabah, where it enters the Dead Sea. When it empties into the sea,
the salty water there becomes fresh.

Swarms of living creatures will live wherever the river flows. There will be
large numbers of fish, because this water flows there and makes the salt
water fresh; so where the river flows everything will live.

Fishermen will stand along the shore; from En Gedi to En Eglaim there will be
places for spreading nets. The fish will be of many kinds—like the fish of the
Mediterranean Sea.

But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.

Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will
not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month they will bear fruit, because the
water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and
their leaves for healing.” (NIV)
 EDEN RESTORED

Revelation 22:1-2 AMPC:

THEN HE showed me the river whose waters give life, sparkling like crystal,
flowing out from the throne of God and of the Lamb

Through the middle of the broadway of the city; also, on either side of the
river was the tree of life with its twelve varieties of fruit, yielding each month
its fresh crop; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing and the
restoration of the nations. (AMPC)

Revelation 22:1-2 NIV:

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal,
flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb.

Down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river
stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every
month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. (NIV)

This beautiful scripture shows the exact source, of this river. It shows why Eden was a
remarkable place, cos it had a river flowing from the very throne room of God, bringing the Eden
experience to the garden. It's also very obvious that the presence of God was manifest in that
garden.

And it's very important to note that the heading for this scripture across several versions of the
bible is EDEN RESTORED. A restoration of the physical spot or location called Eden. This is the
revelation of things to come, (meaning it hasn't happened yet, a promise from the Father to remake
the earth) shown to the apostle John, in the island of Pathmos; after the great tribulation and
great white throne judgement, this is God's plan for the earth to restore it to how it was in the
beginning; the exact same way he made it.
 EDEN ON FOOT

But from whence did the Preacher see another planting? cos he said "You're a tree replanted in
Eden" He (the preacher) was describing a person, not a place on earth, or physical or
geographical location but of a person, a person as a tree planted by the rivers of water.

And it was the same river that our Lord Jesus spoke of, when he was talking to the woman by the
well, it was welling up within Him, He was Eden on foot; walking, breathing, talking Eden,
Wherever he went, whoever he talked to, everyone experienced a tip of how the beginning was,
he lacked nothing, always joyful, always ready to give the same Eden experience to anyone he
met.

John 4:7-14 NIV:

When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “ Will you
give me a drink?”

(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan
woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with
Samaritans.)

Jesus answered her, “ If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a
drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

“Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep.
Where can you get this living water?

Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from
it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”

Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,

but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give
them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”(NIV)
 THE INVITATION

John 7:37-39 MSG:

On the final and climactic day of the Feast, Jesus took his stand. He cried
out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Rivers of living water will brim
and spill out of the depths of anyone who believes in me this way, just as the
Scripture says.”(He said this in regard to the Spirit, whom those who believed
in him were about to receive. The Spirit had not yet been given because
Jesus had not yet been glorified.) (MSG)

Notice how all the events connected with "the river" has always happened last? It was the last
record of creation before the fall, it was the last vision of the Prophet Ezekiel, it was amongst
the last accounts in revelation, in Jesus's case as scripture says

"On the final and climactic day of the feast"(MSG)

I strongly believe, this is an indicative of the times at which "the river" is to be dominant.

That asides, let's look into the invitation. He says cries out with a loud voice.

“If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Rivers of living water will brim and spill out of the depths
of anyone who believes in me this way, just as the Scripture says.”

This is crucial. You must come to him, he's the source. Also notice that he won't make you a
container or a vessel for this "Rivers of living water" , you become a source. He makes u an
extension, the best word is a conduit; a channel. I love the way TPT renders it; gives a more
graphical illustration.

John 7:38 TPT:

Believe in me so that rivers of living water will burst out from within you, flowing
from your innermost being, just like the Scripture says!” (TPT)

Look at the beautiful picture it paints here, he says rivers of living water will burst out from
within you; the exact same thing that happened in Eden, a welling up of goshing currents waiting
to find expression, and not only will it burst out, it will also flow, right from within. What an
awesome experience!

We'll look at the other part of the verse in our next subheading.
REPLANTED