EDEN

[holy999]

Bible Gateway passage: Revelation 22 - New International Version

Eden Restored - Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every...

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[for_his_glory]

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.

IMO, the New Jerusalem will be like that of the Garden of Eden and nothing sinful can ever enter into it.

 

[Who Me]

Eden was located somewhere between the southern part of Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria along the west side of the Euphrates River.

Except the world Eden was in was ripped apart by a global flood.

 

[for_his_glory]

Except the world Eden was in was ripped apart by a global flood.

Yes, but Spiritually is much there where it was created.

 

[Who Me]

Yes, but Spiritually is much there where it was created.

I question whether a place that exists has any spiritual value, so a place that nolonger exists has no spiritual value.

 

[for_his_glory]

I question whether a place that exists has any spiritual value, so a place that nolonger exists has no spiritual value.

It's not that it no longer exist as it is buried under the ground, but yet very Spiritual for the teachings and the history of God's creation in Genesis.

 

[Who Me]

It's not that it no longer exist as it is buried under the ground, but yet very Spiritual for the teachings and the history of God's creation in Genesis.

yes if you believe in a young earth, otherwise it has no value.

 

[for_his_glory]

yes if you believe in a young earth, otherwise it has no value.

It doesn't matter if one believes in an old earth or young earth as what matters is the importance of the garden of Eden as having value to our learning or it would have never been written about in Genesis. There is much to learn about that which God created and why Satan and man was cast of the garden of Eden.

 

[Who Me]

There is much to learn about that which God created and why Satan and man was cast of the garden of Eden.

Yes Eden teaches us about the care with which God created animals and man.
It teaches us that there was no evolution, as Jesus says, man is from the beginning of creation.
We learn that there was no death in Eden, no mil.ions, billions of years of death and suffering.
That death and disease came as a result of Adams rebellion against God.
That man was created for a relationship With God.
That even in Eden there is the promise of Jesus coming to save us.

Strongly none of this ages any sense if one believes in evolution etc.

 

[for_his_glory]

Yes Eden teaches us about the care with which God created animals and man.
It teaches us that there was no evolution, as Jesus says, man is from the beginning of creation.
We learn that there was no death in Eden, no mil.ions, billions of years of death and suffering.
That death and disease came as a result of Adams rebellion against God.
That man was created for a relationship With God.
That even in Eden there is the promise of Jesus coming to save us.

Strongly none of this ages any sense if one believes in evolution etc.

Another thing that Eden teaches us is about Spiritual death when we separate ourselves from God. There we also learn the first blood sacrifice for sin, Genesis 3:21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them. We are now clothed in righteousness by the blood of the Lamb (Christ Jesus).