![]() ![]() ![]() In his rest, God was setting before Adam something to look forward to when he accomplished his work of subduing the earth, exercising dominion over it, and filling it with image bearers. God did his work of creation, and then he rested. ![]() Eden had a rhythm of work and then rest, but not yet unending rest. “Nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life,” ( Rev. In Revelation 21, John takes care to assure us that this will not happen in the greater garden to come. This becomes obvious when we consider that Satan inhabited the body of an ordinary serpent and brought death into the pristine garden. Eden was completely good, but it wasn't completely secure.Īs good as the original Eden was, it was vulnerable to evil, deception, and even death. As Adam and Eve worked and kept the garden, and as they were fruitful and multiplied, Eden would grow beyond its current boundaries, and the glory of Adam and Eve’s royal rule would increase.ģ. Clearly there was an expansion project in the works. Genesis 2:8 tells us that on the earth God created, “the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east.” He instructed Adam and Eve to, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth” (Gen 1:28). Eden was abundant, but it wasn’t yet expansive. God’s intentions for his creation have always been headed toward consummation, toward glory. ![]() We could say there was an eschatology of Eden. It was unsullied but incomplete.įrom the very beginning, Eden was not meant to be static it was headed somewhere. Certainly, Eden was pure and pristine, ordered and filled, but the Eden we read about in Genesis 1 and 2 wasn’t yet everything God intended for his creation. But rather than thinking of Eden in terms of perfection, we should think of it in terms of potential. Eden was good, but not yet fully glorious.Įden was bright and beautiful, and we tend to think of it in terms of perfection. ![]()
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