Is God Leading Us to Eden 2.0?

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Our hope will not be a return to Eden. Eden is a paradise that we are able to examine not simply in Genesis however within the reflections of later Scripture. Clearly, what a particular place this was. The plan of the Lord, although, to convey his folks into eternal fellowship with him will not be going to be Eden 2.0. The backyard itself was designed by the Lord to intention at a world mission.

The explanation it was solely a part of the world and for the picture bearers to be fruitful and multiply inside it, it’s going to be for the purpose of increasing these borders and to picture the glory of God all through creation. The disruption that sin has introduced and the alienation of exile caused by sin as nicely, these issues assist us to see that exterior of Eden we don’t take a look at these situations round us now. We see a brokenness and a tragedy from Genesis 3 and ahead. That’s our world.

The hope we’ve got is to not get via the flaming sword of these cherubim or to return into these locations the place these two particular bushes have been. God will accomplish the purpose of the backyard. It is going to be via Christ’s work—the glory of what the church’s future is in Christ—but additionally a brand new creation that the Lord will result in at his second coming. This implies the backyard goals on the hope that’s to come back.

Because of this Revelation 21–22 have so many echoes from the early chapters of Genesis. John’s imaginative and prescient on the finish of Scripture is telling us that what God started, he’ll full. And from Genesis to Revelation, it’s about his energy, exalting his glory.

Mitchell Chase is the writer of Short of Glory: A Biblical and Theological Exploration of the Fall.

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