On April 19 (2013) I began a series looking at similarities between the garden of Eden and New Jerusalem. Since then this comparison, of Genesis 2–3 with Revelation 21–22, has grown. Thank the Lord for how His word unfolds as we dig into it. Here is a summary of this series; each ❖ symbol links to a specific post.
Posts about the garden and the city in later years are listed at the end.
❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ God was present in the garden as the Creator and is present in New Jerusalem as the redeeming and life-imparting Lamb-God.
❖ Man was created in God’s image in Genesis and is one with God in life in Revelation.
❖ Redemption is portrayed in the garden; completed redemption is seen in the city.
❖ God and man, although speaking face to face in the garden, were separate; in the New Testament, including New Jerusalem, God in Christ lives in His believers and they live in Him.
❖ The tree of life is in both the garden and the city; Jesus Christ is the reality of this tree and is available to us now.
❖ A choice between life and death is shown by the tree of life and tree of knowledge in the garden; man faces this choice through the Bible although not in the new creation.
❖ ❖ The river of life is in both the garden and the city; the Spirit is the reality of this flow of life reaching us today.
❖ ❖ Three kinds of precious materials were in the garden; three kinds of precious materials are built together in the city.
❖ ❖ Eve, the bride of Adam, who came out of Adam, is a picture of the church and New Jerusalem coming out of Christ and returning to Him as His bride.
❖ ❖ God’s building of the rib from Adam’s side into Eve is a picture of building the church and New Jerusalem with the unbroken life which flows out from Christ.
❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ God’s glory, holiness, and righteousness are seen in the garden, in the redemption of Christ, in our Christian life, and in New Jerusalem.
A related post: The Central Thought of God, by Stefan at aGod-man.com
The Bible: a Journey from Garden of Eden to New Jerusalem (December 2016)
The Garden of Eden and New Jerusalem in Song (1) (August-September 2019)
The Garden of Eden and New Jerusalem in Song (2)
The Garden of Eden and New Jerusalem in Song (3)
The Garden of Eden and New Jerusalem in Song (4)
The Garden of Eden and New Jerusalem in Song (5)
The Garden of Eden and New Jerusalem in Song (6)
The Garden of Eden and New Jerusalem in Song (7)
The Garden of Eden and New Jerusalem in Song (8) (8.1) (8.2)
The Garden of Eden and New Jerusalem in Song (9-10)
New Jerusalem: Dwelling Place of God (June 2020)
New Jerusalem: Dwelling Place of God (2)
New Jerusalem: God Manifest in Glory
New Jerusalem: God and Man Mingled
A photo of Ireland from space, courtesy of European Space Agency.
New Jerusalem - the Consummation 
ebncubeblog
/ August 10, 2017Reblogged this on ebncube and commented:
The tree of knowledge of good and evil in not in Revelation because 21-22 because God’s heart desire is fulfilled in the consumaion of the New Jerusalem, the one entity of God mingled with His redeemed elect. There is no need to choose anymore. Satan, death, and those not found in the of life have been cast into the lake of fire in Revelation 20! In Revelation 21 there is a new heaven and a new earth. Death is no more (Rev. 21:4). In Genesis 2:17 God told Adam and Eve “of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, of it you shall not eat; for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
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Jardel
/ December 9, 2017The book of Revelation tells us that the Garden of Eden is NOW in the New Jerusalem. The Garden of Eden was INcorruptible. Not of this corruptible creation. John 14:1-3 the place Yahshua went away to prepare is the New Jerusalem. Yahshua’s Bride is the NEW Jerusalem. Rev. 21:2, 9-10. Gal.4:26 tells us that the New Jerusalem is the MOTHER of the Born again SAINTS. Yahshua is bringing His bride the New Jerusalem with Him at His second coming. The great valley in Zech. 14:4 will be the RESTING place for The New Jerusalem as HOME for the SAINTS during the thousand year reign of Yahshua on the earth made NEW. There will be NO rapture of any kind any time. Mat. 5:5 tells us that the meek will inherit the earth made NEW at the second coming. The New Jerusalem will fly around the earth while the angels pick up the saints and take them up into the AIR to enter the gates to the New Jerusalem. May Yahweh bless you.
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Christian pobee
/ March 6, 2020Am writing an article on the similarities between 3rd Jerusalem in heaven and the garden of eden. To be submitted to my faculty of theology. For the fulfilment for a PhD programme
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