The Old Testament is a distress signal from sages who knew something catastrophic had happened to humanity, and were desperately signalling it—from within the compromised understanding of the catastrophe itself.
The account of the Fall in Genesis is a folk memory of actual events that unfolded over the course of several thousand years, radically altering the human paradigm. Part of this radical change in the human landscape was a descent into emotional numbness and forgetfulness—a numbness we are only now emerging from.
The Book of the Fall correlates the biblical account with what actually happened historically, how that still impacts us today, and why that is critical to our road map to the New Earth.
The Bible is the only narrative in existence that contains both the problem and the solution of the human condition. The beginning and end points are embedded in the Bible’s structure with the precision of a Hollywood blockbuster screenplay.
Revelation 22:14 – Hollywood film structure in the Bible
“God will bless all who have washed their robes. They will each have the right to eat fruit from the tree that gives life, and they can enter the gates of the city.” (Revelation 22:14)
The Bible, the greatest story ever told, is structured exactly like a Hollywood blockbuster. From its ‘inciting incident’ at the Fall in Genesis 2 and 3 to the climax of Revelation 22:14, the Bible unerringly reveals its deepest meaning: the way to the New Earth.
Revelation 22:14 describes the exact moment of arrival at the New Earth: the moment that we reconnect with the oneness of God (symbolised by the tree of life) that was lost at the Fall.
“The gates of the city” refers to the New Earth being a gated environment. Only those who achieve a vibrational match with its frequency (through genetic purification) may enter.
The Old Testament contains many clues to the exact nature of the Fall.
Judges 14 – Where did all the lions in the Bible go?
“But the Lord’s spirit took control of Samson, and with his bare hands he tore the lion apart, as though it had been a young goat.” (Judges 14:6)
Between the story of Samson in the Book of Judges (c. 1200 BC) and the New Testament (c. 33 AD), lions disappeared from the landscape of the Middle East.
The disappearance of the lions through habitat loss is physical evidence of the Fall, which gradually happened over the course of several thousand years.
Jeremiah 12:4 – Iraqi stalagmites reveal climate change in biblical era
“How long will the grounds be dry and the pasturelands parched?” (Jeremiah 12:4)
Studies of stalagmites confirm periods of ‘mega-drought’ into the late biblical and modern era. The overarching spectre of the Old Testament is drought, desertification, and trauma.
The root cause of this long-term desertification was climate change.
Deuteronomy 28 – How climate change caused the Fall
“The Lord will make the sky overhead seem like a bronze roof that keeps out the rain, and the ground under your feet will become as hard as iron.” (Deuteronomy 28:21-23)
We weren’t expelled from the Garden of Eden… it dried up, creating the violent psychological landscape of the Old Testament.
Let’s visit the evidence for the Fall as a real event caused by climate change.
1 Kings 18 – How drought and famine created the modern psyche
“For three years no rain fell in Samaria, and there was almost nothing to eat anywhere.” (1 Kings 18:1-2)
Famine broke our connection with the oneness of God’s creation.
Jesus Christ restored the potential for reconnection, but we must individually deinstall the trauma of the Fall to become a vibrational match for the New Earth. To do that we must understand the mechanics of trauma.
Genesis 3:7 – How famine unbalanced masculine and feminine
“Right away they saw what they had done, and they realised they were naked. Then they sewed fig leaves together to make something to cover themselves.” (Genesis 3:7)
The famine of the Fall profoundly unbalanced the human psyche. Masculine aspects were amplified by the all-consuming quest for food, while feminine aspects were avoided, denigrated, punished and repressed to minimise emotional pain.
Mark 7:20 – How the Fall created the 7 deadly sins
“What comes from your heart is what makes you unclean. Out of your heart come evil thoughts, vulgar deeds, stealing, murder, unfaithfulness in marriage, greed, meanness, deceit, indecency, envy, insults, pride, and foolishness.” (Mark 7:20-22)
The 7 deadly sins are coping mechanisms arising from the damage of the Fall.
Genesis 3 – Original sin = generational trauma
“I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.” (Psalm 51:5)
When sin is understood as trauma, and original sin as inherited trauma, the entire Christian notion of sin as an abstract spiritual or moral framework shifts to a mechanical one.
Exodus 20 – What is generational sin?
“I am the Lord your God, and I demand all your love. If you reject me, I will punish your families for three or four generations.” (Exodus 20:5)
How does original sin, i.e., inherited trauma, actually work?
Deuteronomy 6 – How ancient taboos created modern social rules
“Memorise his laws and tell them to your children over and over again.” (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
What was shamed then is still shamed now.
