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ISSUE THREE | NOV/DEC

GREEN HANDS

Grow Your Own Food God’s Way

REVERSAL OF THE CURSE!

By: Nicholas Munyororo

Adam’s sake. Previously, Adam’s of Eden was not cursed, it is the
Genesis 5:29- And he called his work was to tend and to keep ground from which man was taken
name Noah, saying ‘This one the garden that God had planted. that was cursed and it is to this land
There are many interpretations of that they were sent back. For the
will comfort us concerning our
the words to “tend and to keep”. garden of Eden in Genesis’ story
work and the toil of our hands,
What was in God’s mind when He is the same as the New Jerusalem
because of the ground which
put Adam in the Garden? What in Revelation 20, with no curse but
the Lord has cursed’ was Adam’s duty in sustaining only the presence of God in the
Genesis 8:21-22-And the Lord the garden that was to provide midst of His people.
smelled a soothing aroma. Then him with all that was “pleasant This state of things is what Cain
the Lord said in His heart, ‘I will to the sight and good for food”? and Abel were born into until later,
never again curse the ground God even saw that Adam needed when another level of curse was
for man’s sake, although the a helper “comparable to him” to introduced. When Cain murdered
imagination of man’s heart is assist him in this important work. his brother, God pronounced a
evil from his youth; nor will I God’s intention was for Adam and curse on him in Gen 4:13 “when
Eve to oversee the garden and you till the ground, it shall no
again destroy every living thing
take possession of it, but the most longer yield its strength to you”.
as I have done.
important work was obedience. This is like a double curse on the
“While the earth remains,
They failed in this and caused the ground for his sake. The Ground
Seedtime and harvest, ground to be cursed. When the had already been cursed when
Winter and summer, ground has been cursed by God Adam and Eve disobeyed God.
And day and night, then it is difficult to cultivate and The second part of the curse
Shall not cease” it is only by toil that food can be was the second level and was
extracted from it. Adam was driven worse than the first because God
When God punished Adam and away from the garden which God said he would be a fugitive and a
Eve for eating the fruit of the tree had planted for him and sent to vagabond on the earth, meaning
of the knowledge of good and till the ground from which he was he would be hidden from God’s
evil, he cursed the ground for taken. The ground in the Garden sight. The basic characteristics
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