Oh let the Son of God and found you with his spirit and his life,

let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you

whole. you home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible Teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire

Bible. And on today's edition of the word for today,

Pastor Chuck continues with the land like the Garden of Eden as we pick up in Joel chapter 2 verse 3 and now with today's

message here's pastor Chuck.

Now when the Jews came back to the land,

one of the marvelous things that they did

was take this land that had been like a barren wilderness, and they began to develop the land of Israel from

an agricultural standpoint, beautiful farmlands, beautiful orchards, beautiful avocado grows, mile after

miles stretching out of beautiful land like the Garden of Eden and the hillsides

which were too rocky to cultivate. They planted with trees and millions upon millions of trees have been planted in the land.

So the barren hillsides are now a beautiful forest.

And with the planting of all of these trees,

they've been able to affect a change of the weather patterns.

And they've been able to increase the rainfall.

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