On JEHOVAH'S purpose for the earth

 Was this earth meant to be just a proving ground of our worthiness to spend eternity in a spirit world? Was this physical body meant to be an instrument of trial rather than a blessed gift? 

What does the Bible really teach about the matter?

James1:13KJV"Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:" 

NO provision of JEHOVAH is for the purpose of temptation. Not our physical bodies, not our earthly home, nor any of the multitude of provisions made by JEHOVAH for our flourishing. 

Genesis5:2KJV"Male and female created he them; and BLESSED them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created." 

This blessing was doubtless uttered in the hearing of humanity's founders; were they being lied to? 

Genesis 2:9 KJV "And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life ..." 

Note please there was no tree of death in this paradise. The presence of the tree of life indicates that it was not part of JEHOVAH'S purpose that death and the death dealing(aging,disease,privation, strife etc.) be inevitable to our founders or their offspring. Thus a future in a spirit world would have been out of the question nor would there have been any desire for such a transfer. 

Ultimately what makes paradise paradise is an intimate relationship with JEHOVAH and our brother servants. 

Millennia of experience outside of paradise has taught us that beauty and abundance do not a paradise make. 

Ecclesiastes 1:14KJV"I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit." 

Not even a mountain of gold can buy paradise. 

And for the record sin began in heaven. 

John 8:44NIV"You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth,... " 

Thus the Lord JEHOVAH made a heavenly paradise for his heavenly sons and an earthly paradise for his earthly sons and sin invaded both. Why? Because we must first have paradise dwell in us before we can dwell in paradise. 

First a new man, then a new world, this is the lesson JEHOVAH is trying to teach us. 

If we are not grateful for what JEHOVAH has done we will not be grateful for what he will do. 

So have rebellious men and angels thwarted JEHOVAH'S purpose for a global paradise. We find no support for this disrespectful claim any place in the scriptures. Rather we are assured. 

Daniel7:27Emphasized Bible "And the kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdoms under all the heavens shall be given to the people of the holy ones of the Highest,—his kingdom is an age-abiding kingdom, and all the dominions unto him will render service and shew themselves obedient."