Seek good, and not evil, That you may live; And so Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be with you, As you say.
Much of the present-day preoccupation of churches with such things as "better housing," "improved standards of living," etc., has resulted from the failure to behold this truth.  No matter what social planners and environmentalists may say, there is no escaping the fact that all of man's problems originated in Eden; and there was nothing at all wrong with that environment.  The entry of sin was the destructive factor that drowned the whole world in woe.