The Garden Of Eden

Oil deposits result from the decomposition of plant and animal life now buried by eons of time. Oil is found all over the world, even under the ice of the Arctic and Antarctic. That means forests and abundant vegetation once covered the world until destroyed in a vast global cataclysm (such as a worldwide flood).

   The earth's richest, deepest, and largest deposits of petroleum lie under the sands of countries just to the east of Israel, in the location pinpointed in the Bible as the garden of Eden. Eden was a teeming expanse of forests, foliage, and gardens with rich fertility unparalleled in human history.

   Barren sand and blazing desert now exist where once grew a garden flourishing with dense, lush flora, the likes of which the world has not seen since. It was destroyed in some disastrous upheaval and has decayed into the largest deposits of oil in the world. Imagine that the gasoline you pump into your car might be the ruined remains of the rich, vast foliage of the garden of Eden.

   It's ironic to think that mankind may fight the Battle of Armageddon at the end of human history over the very same garden he spoiled at the beginning of human history.

What In The World Is Going On ?, Dr. David Jeremiah, 2008, Thomas Nelson, p30-31