Genesis 2:8-9 (The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden)

 

(The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden)

『And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.』(Genesis 2:8-9)

God made man out of the soil of the earth and breathed life into his nose, making him a man. This man is Adam, and the spirit that sinned in the kingdom of God is a living creature that has entered the soil. So, the spirits who have sinned in the kingdom of God follow Adam and enter into the world-born creatures and become humans. When spirits who have sinned in the kingdom of God enter the soil, the spirit dies and becomes a soul. Because the spirit is locked up, the relationship with God is broken. So the Bible says, "The spirit is dead." God bless the dead spirit to survive. That is the Garden of Eden. God brought Adam to the Garden of Eden to eat the fruit of the tree of life, and the spirit survived. God is explaining what happened in the kingdom of God through the Garden of Eden and telling us not to eat the fruit of the tree that makes us know good and evil.

『The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed 』 This means that Adam was born in the world, and God led Adam to the Garden of Eden. In 2:15『And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. 』 In other words, humans are not born in the Garden of Eden. The reason God didn't create people in the Garden of Eden from the beginning was because they were originally in the kingdom of God and think about why you lived in this world.

『The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden』 The eastward (Hebrew: Kedem) means “east” and “initial”. In Joshua 15:5, 『And the east border was the salt sea, even unto the end of Jordan. And their border in the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan.』 And the east mentioned in Joshua 18:20, Judges 6:33, and 1 Kings 4:30 refers to the east.

By the way, in Psalm 55:10, 『Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it. In addition, in Psalm 68:33, Psalm 78:2, and Proverbs 8:22-23, the word “primary, ancient” is used with the Hebrew word “Kedem. In『the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden』, the East should be interpreted as “primary”. Because it tells the story of the creation.

『Eden』 symbolizes the kingdom of God. Eden Garden is a combined word of Eden and Garden. The garden is for telling the things of the earth. In other words, the Bible tries to tell the work of the kingdom of God through the work of the earth.『 out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. 』 God created heaven and earth in the beginning, and heaven and earth means the kingdom of God and the material world. The first material world was a lump of water. With a window (sky) in the middle of the water mass, the water was divided into water above and below the window. Animals, plants, and everything, including humans, are made of water under the expanse. It is called land by filtering the soil under water (muddy water) under the window, and the water is called the sea. So people and animals were built out of soil. So, it can be said that the tree that knows good and evil is also made of water under the window.

The water above the window and the water below the window were originally one. There is no heavenly life in the water below the expanse, only material life. God continues to share. In the beginning, God created heaven and earth. In other words, he shared the material world from the kingdom of God. He created light and shared light and darkness. Light is life, and darkness is death. The water above the sky is life, and the water below the sky is lifeless. It is said that there is no God because the water under the window is in the dark and there is no light from God.

『And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil』 You can see that the tree of life is in the middle of the Garden of Eden. And there is a tree to know good and evil. The tree of life symbolizes water above the window, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil symbolizes water below the window. The Garden of Eden symbolizes the kingdom of God, yet represents this land. In other words, the fruit of the tree of life is the word of God, and the fruit of the tree that knows good and evil represents Satan's heart that fell into "their righteousness" to become like God. However, the garden of Eden on earth is both the word of God, but the tree of life means life in Christ, and the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil means the law that makes us realize sin.

So, the tree of life is the tree that saves the spirit, and the tree that knows good and evil indicates that the spirit is dead. In the Old Testament times, Christ (the tree of life) was hidden in the law (the tree of knowledge of good and evil). However, in the New Testament, as the tree of life was revealed in the garden, it is revealed on the law. The reason Eve eats the fruit of a tree that knows good and evil is because she wants to be like God. The desire to be like God is the same as the Israelites thought they could keep God's righteousness by keeping the law. This is the "self-righteousness".

When Jesus Christ, the tree of life, appears, we must not eat the fruit of the tree that knows good and evil. You have to eat only the fruit of the tree of life. The tree of life means entering into Jesus Christ. In other words, you will be buried with Christ. However, if you say that you eat the tree of life and eat the fruit of the tree that knows the good and evil that symbolizes the law, you will be removed from the Garden of Eden. Even though the church says that it does not follow the law, it is only through thinking about how much it is legal and keeping it.

"Everything created by water under the sky" contains all the attributes of wanting to be like God without God. The Bible speaks of the work of the earth, but it must be interpreted as the work of the heavens to understand exactly what God is saying. God has hidden the work of the kingdom of God in the Word. It is to realize through hidden it. It is to realize the water above the window through the water below the window. Adam is the image of the Coming One. Jesus Christ is the one who will come. Adam symbolizes the water under the window. Jesus Christ symbolizes the water above the window. So Christ was hidden in Adam. But Christ came and stood in the middle of the Garden of Eden. In Adam, we have obtained the life of the earth, but in Christ we have the life of heaven.

The fact that Eve ate the fruit of a tree of knowledge of good and evil means that in the kingdom of God, the spirits could be like God without God, and that they followed Satan's delusion. The reason Adam ate and eaten the fruit of the tree, knowing the good and evil given by Eve, was for Christ to give them a body of sin, for the spirits sent out from the kingdom of God to the world. So, Adam is a sign of the coming. Christ has given a body that saves the spirit. The first Adam gave the body of the flesh, but the last Adam gave the body of the spirit. Only those who take off the body and wear the body of the spirit are saved. This is what Romans 6:4 says.『Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 』