Garden of Eden

It says that when Yaakov went into Yitzchak to get the blessing, it says that Vayorach Esreyach Begodov in Bratish, in Genesis, Chavzayin, Chavzayin, chapter 27, verse 27, that he smelled upon Yaakov's garments, the smell of his garments, when he blessed him.

So Rashi tells us, that the aroma of the Garden of Eden went in with Yaakov.

And then he said, the end of 27, see, the aroma, the smell of my son is like the smell of the field, which Hashem blessed him.

Says Rashi, God placed a beautiful aroma into an orchard.

There's a couple things.

First of all, before they even go to the city, I should mention the scene where he makes a dress for Lona and she makes clothes for him, which is, again, this is such an Adam and Eve reference, like, right back to the Garden of Eden.

And they're literally about to be exiled as well because of his decision, his ambition to go and take the city.

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In other words, the function of the covenant that God makes with Noah is to make sure that the covenant of grace that he'd already announced wouldn't collapse, even though the world was virtually going to collapse in the flood.

It's very striking, actually, that when Noah emerges from the ark, the words that God speaks to him echo what God had said in the Garden of Eden and then to Adam.

The promise that God gives that he'll never repeat the flood safeguards the promise he had earlier given that the serpent would be defeated.

But it doesn't take many more chapters before we discover that the seed of the serpent kept fighting.

Verse 4, a wholesome tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

Well, the tree of life was in the Garden of Eden.

This is the closest thing you're going to get to the tree of life in this life, is the wholesome tongue.

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They claim that.

So on the inside of the planet right there is where the original Garden of Eden was or is still where the Tigris and Euphrates meet.

But it flows into the planet and that's where the Garden of Eden actually is.

Which is really interesting that that would, if that's even true at all, might not be true at all.

But if it is, if it does hold any weight, it's interesting that the Draco Empire would be in that same specific region.

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promises that came from the Garden of Eden and fulfilled in Christ, putting those things right or creating the opportunity for the redemption, freedom from the death, freedom from the slavery.

Yes.

Those sorts of things are important because they point to Christ.

Fabulous question.

How does another person take on my sins, David?

Well, the problem that began right back in the Garden of Eden was that when Adam sinned, his blood was tainted by sin.

God made it very clear that without the shedding of blood, there is no remission for sin.

He brought us down into...

Gan Eden.

By the way, Gan Eden, we always think like Gan Eden is somewhere up there.

There's a place here in this world, Gan Eden.

It might be a little bit, like metaphysically, it might be a little bit higher, but it was in this world, within this world.

Gan Eden is here.

And we have to find Hashem in it.

That's our job.

We referenced Genesis.

The moment sin enters the garden of Eden is the moment God puts his rescue plan into motion.

And eventually in Isaiah, 700 years before Christ was born, Isaiah prophesies of the anointed one sent to preach good news to the poor, to set the captives free, to bind up the brokenhearted.

Luke chapter four, Jesus picked up the scroll of Isaiah, reads that prophecy, says, today this is fulfilled.

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introduced the concept of shame to the Garden of Eden.

If a riot of red unchecked wore pants, would it wear them like this?

No, no, you're fine.