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.
As long as the Fall is a vague and apocryphal event the mind cannot take it seriously and cannot understand the need to overcome it.
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.
The masculine-feminine energetic imbalance that occurred at the Fall cannot be taken into the New Earth. The fallen world, the Old Earth, feeds on the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. This means it’s a polarised environment: this or that. The New Earth—where we feed on the fruit of the Tree of Life—is a unified environment: this and that.
The shamed feminine, with its associated body shame, sexual shame, distorted notions of sexual purity and dysfunctional sexual expression, is where humanity is furthest from God. As such, it’s the place of deepest ignorance, superstition, pain, resentment and resistance.
The same energetic imbalance that created masculine-feminine distortions also gave rise to the 7 deadly sins.
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.
Taking gluttony as an example, overeating is both a distress signal about fearing a lack of resources as well as a compensation mechanism for the anguish of ancestral shortages. But because the distress signal is ignored, it continues to be emitted. And because the fear of shortage can never be quelled (survival mentality) no amount of gluttony is ever enough.
The same emotional logic applies to the remaining 6 deadly sins. It’s your psyche trying to achieve balance by over-compensating for an absence. Because of generational trauma, these disturbances are passed down and still affect us today.
Exodus 20:5 – Original sin = generational trauma
“I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.” (Exodus 20:5, NIV)
When understood as generational trauma, the entire doctrine of original sin makes total sense. Change the slant of the theological explanations from moral admonitions to the mechanics of trauma, and they become startlingly clear and accurate.
Thousands of years before modern science, the ancients understood generational trauma. Psalm 51:5, reworded: “I was born in trauma, and in trauma did my mother conceive me.”
You inherited your ancestors’ trauma at conception. You aren’t responsible for the origins of this trauma—but you are responsible for its replication, both in your own behaviour and for transmitting it to future generations.
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)
The ancient taboos of the Old Testament form the bedrock of modern morality and social rules. One aspect of taboos is that questioning the taboos is also taboo. Yet we cannot migrate to the New Earth without having understood the terrain we’re leaving behind.
The Old Testament was the word of God at that time and for that place: “No other nation has laws that are as fair as the ones the Lord my God told me to give you.” (Deuteronomy 4:5-8)
We’re now in a different time and place. We’re confronting our patriarchal past just as we are confronted with a new round of climate change. History shows our past response to environmental stress has been violence—but Jesus asks us to choose differently.
