![]() You know the rest of the story and how God ousted them because they lost their holiness. At their creation, Adam and Eve were holy, placed in a holy environment. It is a protected area reserved for the holy. I can’t get into the details here, but verse 20 reveals a WALL separating this holy area from the profane, which was all around this is exactly the scenario and sense of the Biblical Hebrew word gan – garden. They are pure and dedicated for holy use ONLY by certain Priests. The Sanctuary and specifically certain parts like the Holy of Holies are holy. Yes, but, in so doing, we’ve missed the entire figurative meaning.ġ5 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east and measured it round about.Ģ0 He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place. You see the word garden and think of roses or vegetables. When you can grasp the Biblical Hebrew and tell the story of just one word, to plant H5193, you can look into the depth of God’s plan. How permanent is this planting of the Sanctuary, the Garden, and humans? Verse 18 answers unequivocally, forever, and ever. This mountain is God’s inheritance, His estate, which He SHARES WITH those of the Exodus, those who come out of Egypt, come out of sin, eventually all repentant human beings. There is the Sanctuary (Headquarters, referring to Jerusalem and specifically the Temple, this context is also prophetic), which God has built with His own hands and in which He dwells this is analogous to God planting His Garden of Eden, His dwelling place. ![]() God’s property is the mountain of your inheritance. What does that mean?ġ7 You shall bring them in, and plant (H5193) them in the mountain of your inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which you have made for yourself to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established.ġ8 The LORD shall reign forever and ever.Īll the elements of Genesis 2.8 are in these verses in Exodus. We need a deeper understanding of the vocabulary used here, starting with the word planted. We are going to resort to the Biblical Hebrew and Strong’s concordance. To answer that question, let’s first take a closer look at what the Garden of Eden is. Why then does God first create Adam, and only AFTER that event does He organize the Garden of Eden? In that case, you want to finish the room before the baby arrives. I used the analogy that the renewing of Earth was like preparing the room for the baby. God is sharing His Rulership and His Headquarters with humans.Humans are going to rule in the company of God. He placed the man in the Garden of Eden, at Headquarters. Remember, God gave humans dominion over Earth.I will show you this is God’s Headquarters from where He rules Earth and beyond. As unbelievable as it might sound, from every place He could prefer, He decided right here on our planet in a precise location we shall identify. But He has chosen and set up a specific place as His dwelling. ![]() God is present everywhere in the Universe and beyond. I would say on Day 3 when He created dry land and vegetation. Within is a relatively small space devoted to this Garden. Eden is quite a vast territory, as I’ll point out.
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