Garden of God

[Music] thank you in the Holy Land ants feels wildflowers from the soul their appearance has changed little since the Bible evolved Seas of yellow chrysanthemums daisies and mustard punctuated by Persian buttercups covered ancient Israel as they do today the flowers vegetables plants and trees of the Sacred land like the people our direct descendants of those living during Biblical times [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] the Flora of the Holy Land were not only present during those days they played Charming Parts in the stories we know so well we are all friendly with the names of the flowers plants and trees of the Bible but do we know what they looked like wouldn't our appreciation of the Old Testament the New Testament and the Quran be made more delightful if we could see the beauty of the garden of God and the Lord God planted a garden Eastwood in Eden and there he put the man whom he had formed and out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is Pleasant to the site and good for food the tree of life also in the midst of the dog and the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil and a river went out of Eden to water the garden for the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land a land of Brooks of water of fountains and depths springing out of valleys and Hills a land of Wheat and barley and Vines and fig trees and pomegranates a land of olive trees and honey [Music] and they came to elim where were twelve Wells of water and three score and ten palm trees and they encamped there by the waters [Music] and to bring them up out of that land to a good and Broad land a land flowing with milk and honey [Music] and there came also Nicodemus which at the first came to Jesus by night and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes about 100 pound weight and they shall spring up as among the grass as willows by the watercourses [Music] beloved has gone down into his garden to the beds of spices to feed in the gardens and to gather lilies foreign the glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee fur tree [Music] beautify the place of My Sanctuary All Flesh is like grass and all its Glory like the flower of grass the grass withers and the flower Falls but the word of the Lord abides forever foreign which had betrayed him when he saw that he was condemned repented himself and brought again the 30 pieces of silver and he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed and went and hanged himself flax and The Barley was smitten for The Barley was in the ear [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] as the turpentine tree I stretched out my branches and my branches are the branches of honor and Grace [Music] up Mallows by the bushes [Music] and when she could no longer hide him she took him an arc of bull rushes and dogged it with slime and with pitch and put the child there in [Music] and Absalom rode upon a mule and the mule went under the thick bows of a Great Oak and his head caught hold of the oak [Music] [Applause] [Music] they swear falsely they make covenants thus judgments springeth up as Hemlock in the furrows of the field [Music] but they shall sit every man under his Vine and under his fig tree and None Shall make them afraid [Music] a company of ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing myrrh going to carry it down into Egypt foreign took him rods of green Poplar [Music] upon them over against the mulberry trees another Parable he put forth unto them saying the Kingdom of Heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed death under the Shady trees and the covet of the Reed [Applause] [Music] for their thine is the vine of Sodom and of the field of Gomorrah their grapes are The Grapes of gold their clusters are bitter [Music] but I am like a green olive tree in the house of God I trust in the mercy of God forever and ever [Music] and the fourth part of a cab of duns dung the five pieces of silver foreign and behold seven years of porn came up upon one store ranked and good and Pharaoh awoke and behold it was a dream and strengtheneth for himself one among the Trees of the forest he planteth a bay tree for the rain that nourish it [Music] foreign shall come up in her Palace [Music] [Applause] Neville in the fortresses their old Bandits shall be an inhabitation of dragons and a court for owls the Lord God prepared a gourd and made it to come up over Jonah that it might be a shadow over his head to deliver him from his grief so Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd I was exalted like a cedar in Lebanon and as the cypress tree upon the mountains of Hammond [Music] [Applause] they will live the mid-torn with shrubs and rows of occasions in their Everlasting shade by the side of running Waters [Music] Thou shalt make the boards for the Tabernacle of shitten wood standing up [Music] put in your sickle and gather the clusters of the vine of the Earth for its grapes are right [Music] Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and called there on the name of the Lord the Everlasting God and prepare ye mana and offer upon the altar of the Lord our God they gave him vinegar to drink mixed with gold and when he tasted there out he would not drink [Music] and behold the rod of Aaron was buttered and brought forth Buds and bloomed blossoms and yielded almonds [Music] now John wore a garment of camel's hair and his food was locusts and wild honey thank you and he would feign have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat and no man gave unto him and the woman took the two men and hid them with the stalks of flanks which she had laid in order upon the roof and Saul tarried in the uttermost part of gibia under a pomegranate tree which is in Negril [Music] foreign [Music] but he himself went a Day's Journey Into the Wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree and he asked that he might die [Music] consider the lilies of the field how they grow they toil not neither do they spin and yet I say unto you that even Solomon and All His glory was not arrayed like one of these [Music] [Applause] and I yielded a pleasant order like sweet stories arken unto me ye holy children and Bud forth as a rose growing by the Brook of the field [Music] then Jacob took fresh rods of planes and peeled white streaks in them [Music] do men gather Grapes of thorns or figs of thistles so every sound tree Bears good fruit and he made the Candlestick of pure gold of beaten work made he the candlestick [Music] take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the Basin and touch the lintel and the two door posts for the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush [Music] there are many other memorable plants not mentioned by name but very much a part of biblical period life Solomon's Lily the doomed Palm [Music] wild orchids [Music] water lilies Cyclone pear trees wild hollyhock [Music] no more wildflowers that sparkle in the desert across the hills upon the mountains and that's the water [Music] thank you [Music] thousands of miles from the Holy Land high in the Inyo Canyon of America a gnarled Bristlecone pine tree stays tenaciously alive it was a thousand years old when Moses LED his people out of Egypt sixteen hundred years old when King David wrote the song 2600 years old when Jesus walked in Galilee the venerable trees should live another 2 000 years foreign God has created flowers that bloom and perish in a week and trees that span all of history is it any Wonder so many people find God in their God [Music]