The Tabernacle was built around the Ark as this also represents Christ being the center of our life. The Mercy Seat is like the blood of Christ that covers us. The two Cherubims guarded the way to the Tree of Life in Eden as it was judgement. The two Cherubims on the Ark are facing the Mercy Seat as this is in association to the blood of Christ as God shows mercy on us.
Hiram, being the king of Tyre, did help supply the materials for the Temple as he was a friend of Solomon, but yet not a Godly man thus the prophecy of Ezekiel 28.
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The location where the garden of Eden was is described in Genesis 2:10-14. Eden was located somewhere between the southern part of Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria along the west side of the Euphrates River. There was a river that went out of the garden of Eden and from there it was parted into four heads. The Eastern gate of the Garden of Eden that the two Cherubims guard faces what would have been where the tower of Babel was built and where Babylon began their Empire becoming the Roman Empire that has always opposed Gods people.
The four rivers of Genesis 2:10-14
Pison in the land of Havilah
Gihon in the land of Ethiopia
Hiddekel east of Assyris
Euphrates in Turkey through Iraq and Syria
Considering Eden that includes the garden of Eden basically covered from the northern mountains of Lebanon to the south of the Red Sea and a ways east of the Jordan river to the Medditaranean south to Egypt it measured 200 x 150 square miles.
From looking at the maps that show the four rivers in Genesis 2:10-14 and where they are joined together from the river that flowed out of the garden we can only get an approximate location that the garden of Eden was somewhere around the Northern part of Lebanon near Mt Lebanon that was rich in cedar trees. In the Genesis account Northern Lebanon was actually Northern Canaan before Canaan became known as Israel.
Hiram, being the king of Tyre, did help supply the materials for the Temple as he was a friend of Solomon, but yet not a Godly man thus the prophecy of Ezekiel 28.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7720-hiram-huram
The location where the garden of Eden was is described in Genesis 2:10-14. Eden was located somewhere between the southern part of Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria along the west side of the Euphrates River. There was a river that went out of the garden of Eden and from there it was parted into four heads. The Eastern gate of the Garden of Eden that the two Cherubims guard faces what would have been where the tower of Babel was built and where Babylon began their Empire becoming the Roman Empire that has always opposed Gods people.
The four rivers of Genesis 2:10-14
Pison in the land of Havilah
Gihon in the land of Ethiopia
Hiddekel east of Assyris
Euphrates in Turkey through Iraq and Syria
Considering Eden that includes the garden of Eden basically covered from the northern mountains of Lebanon to the south of the Red Sea and a ways east of the Jordan river to the Medditaranean south to Egypt it measured 200 x 150 square miles.
From looking at the maps that show the four rivers in Genesis 2:10-14 and where they are joined together from the river that flowed out of the garden we can only get an approximate location that the garden of Eden was somewhere around the Northern part of Lebanon near Mt Lebanon that was rich in cedar trees. In the Genesis account Northern Lebanon was actually Northern Canaan before Canaan became known as Israel.