Adam and Eve are now sent out of the garden.
The perfect garden God had planted for them was no longer their home. They were forced into a cursed world - a world of sweat, sorrow, sickness, pain, hardship, and death.
This is the world we have always known. We do not know what life was like in Eden. We know life in a fallen creation.
Romans 8:22-23 says, “For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now… even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.”
Adam and Eve gave up paradise for this world. But the believer longs to leave this world for paradise.
Paul said in Philippians 1:23 that he had “a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better.”
There is a strong connection between Eden and the eternal state. Revelation 22:2 speaks again of the tree of life in the midst of the heavenly city. What was lost in Genesis is restored in Revelation through Jesus Christ.
Adam and Eve are now sent out of the garden.
The perfect garden God had planted for them was no longer their home. They were forced into a cursed world - a world of sweat, sorrow, sickness, pain, hardship, and death.
This is the world we have always known. We do not know what life was like in Eden. We know life in a fallen creation.
Romans 8:22-23 says, “For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now… even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.”
Adam and Eve gave up paradise for this world. But the believer longs to leave this world for paradise.
Paul said in Philippians 1:23 that he had “a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better.”
There is a strong connection between Eden and the eternal state. Revelation 22:2 speaks again of the tree of life in the midst of the heavenly city. What was lost in Genesis is restored in Revelation through Jesus Christ.