Both Eden and the new Jerusalem are described in the Bible in such a way as to point to both heaven and earth. In other words, the new Jerusalem of Revelation 21 and 22 is analogous to Eden. The end of the age is a mirror opposite of the beginning. According to Galatians 4:26, Hebrews 12:22 and Ezekiel 27-28, Both Eden and the New Jerusalem are Places in Both Heaven and Earth. Understanding the Garden of Eden and the Fall from an Old Earth Perspective : The End Mirrors the Beginning. At that moment they were then, therefore, guilty of their sins. Now knowing right from wrong, Adam and Eve then lost the innocence that pardoned them of sin in their early youth (Isaiah 7:16, Romans 5:13). When Adam and Eve ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, this act represented the fact that Adam and Eve had reached the age of knowing right from wrong. Genesis 2-3 is an allegory about two children growing up and reaching the age of accountability. There is also earthly significance or meaning underlying the literal story of the fall of man. The resurrection, therefore, represents a kind of return to the Eden of Heaven. At the fall, Adam inaugurated a new age of spiritual death which came to a close at the resurrection of the saints to heaven at the end of that age. This change from heavenly to earthly bodies at the fall of man is the opposite of the change from earthly to heavenly bodies at the resurrection according to 1 Corinthians 15:35-44. The metamorphoses that occurred to their bodies after the fall thus appear to be a change from their previous heavenly bodies to more corruptible earthly ones as a consequence of being cast from heaven to earth. If this is true, then the curses of Genesis 3:14-19 were, therefore, the result of Adam, the Serpent and Eve being cast from heaven to earth to experience these punishments in a world that had presumably already been this way for millennia. (Interestingly, this is not the only time this was said to have occurred in the Bible (Ezekiel 28).) At its heavenly level, Genesis 2-3 is a story about Adam being cast out of the Eden that is in heaven to Earth. Thus Genesis 2-3 tells a heavenly story with an earthly shadow. God also made a covenant with Noah (Genesis 9) and Abraham (Genesis 17) prior to the covenant He made with Moses.Īccording to Galatians 4:26, Hebrews 12:22 and Ezekiel 27-28, both Eden and the New Jerusalem are places in both heaven and earth. Here the writer of Hebrews calls the Old Covenant the “first” when mentioning the Law of Moses (Hebrews 9:1) despite the fact that the Law of Moses was not the first covenant God made with His people. Another example in which “first” does not refer to the first ever is in Hebrew 9:1.
Though probably not the very first mortal human being ever, Adam is called the first man in 1 Corinthians 15:45 because he was the first man in the Hebrew family line at the creation of a then new heaven and earth. See The Earth is More than 6000 Years Old: How Young Earth Creationists have Misinterpreted the Bible. Whenever a city or kingdom was conquered by foreigners, the Bible often portrays this event as the destruction and creation of heaven and earth. Understanding the Garden of Eden and the Fall from an Old Earth Preterist Perspective : Summary and Highlights 'Pacy writing, punchy dialogue and a gripping plot, it's got it all.' * Daily Express *
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