The garden which God planted in Eden, immediately after creating the heavens and the earth, included the tree of life (Genesis 2:9). The first man Adam was barred from this tree after he sinned against God (Genesis 3:22-24). But whereas we read in the Book of Genesis of Paradise Lost, we read in the Book of Revelation of Paradise Restored: of "a new heaven and a new earth" (Revelation 21:1) in which is "the tree of life in the midst of the Paradise of God" (Revelation 2:7; 22:2,14). This tree…
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Posted on January 21, 2009 at 9:00am