MORE ABOUT EDEN

In our last post we saw the location of Eden.  We closed with the suggestion that the Garden of Eden must have been in Iraq.  This should not surprise us, for in Gen. 10 and 11 we read about Nimrod and the building of a city called Babel.  Up until this time the whole world had been one people.  Nimrod is a type of the Antichrist.  He and those around him built a tower seeking to reach into Heaven by their own works.  This is the religion of Cain-a religion of works.  God scattered them and confounded the languages.  Here is the origin of Babylon.  Nimrod and his wife Sumerimus had a son whom they named Tammuz.  Sumerimus with Tammuz started the Mother/Son religion which spread over the world in different names.  The special names in Canaan were Baal and Ashtereth.  Remember how often Israel fell to worshipping Baal and Ashtereth, the mother/son religion.  Later we see God calling Abraham  out of the Ur of the Chaldees.  Back in the Garden of Eden, God had put Adam and Eve in the garden with instructions to dress it and to keep it.   Gen. 2:15  This seems to be where civilization grew up.  We have already seen that the garden must have been in Iraq; it was in the east of Eden.  From what we are told in Genesis 2 Eden is all the land from the Mediterranean Sea to the River Euphrates, but the garden of Eden was in the east of Eden or in Iraq.  There God created man and placed him in that garden to dress and keep it.  Wherever that garden was in the area of Iraq, when Adam had sinned, God made coats of skins to cover the nakedness of Adam and Eve.  Thus was the slaying of the animals.  I believe this covered the sins of these two.  Yet there was the problem that now as a fallen man and woman, even though forgiven, they were now the progenitors of a fallen race.  God was merciful to not let them eat of the tree of life and live forever in that fallen condition.  Note Gen_3:23  "Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken."   The language of Scripture would indicate that Adam did not want to leave the Garden.  Gen_3:24  tells us, "So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life."