The garden temple in the land of eden [autosaved]

THE
GARDEN TEMPLE
IN THE LAND OF
EDEN
CLOTHED WITH POWER FROM ON HIGH
Learning to Prophesy
Session 1

CTF CONNECT GROUP
LEARNING TO PROPHESY
WELCOMES YOU TO OUR SPPRING SEMINAR
CLOTHED WITH POWER FROM ON HIGH
MARCO LAFEBRE, LEADER

LET THE TOUR BEGIN
• Since the beginning of Creation, God’s desire was to fellowship with His people, to
be close to them, to leave in their midst. This of course required holiness, Holiness
that a mere man could not attain on his own.
• During this set of sessions, we will stablish certain patterns for what is an ideal
Temple, both, in the Judean and Christian spiritual styles of worship and
communion with God.
• Will start with a look at the Garden Temple in the Land of Eden; continuing with
the Tabernacle of Moses; The Tabernacle of David; Solomon's Temple; Herod’s
Temple; You, the Believer as a Temple of the Holy Spirit; The Third Temple; ending
up with the New Jerusalem.
• Our final goal is to discover Jesus as the one who cloth us, who empower us and
baptise us with the Holy Spirit and Fire.

WHAT IS YOUR
TEMPLE
DEFINITION?

KJV DICTIONARY DEFINITION: TEMPLE
• 1. A public edifice erected in honor of some deity. Among pagans, a
building erected to some pretended deity, and in which the people
assembled to worship. The most celebrated and magnificent temple
erected to the true God, was that built by Solomon in Jerusalem.
• 2. A church; an edifice erected among Christians as a place of public
worship.
• 3. A place in which the divine presence specially resides; the church as a
collective body. Eph.2.
• 4. In England, the Temples are two inns of court, thus called because
anciently the dwellings of the knights Templars. They are called the Inner
and the Middle Temple.

THE
GARDEN
OF EDEN
Our first stop

THE GARDEN OF EDEN
• When God put Adam and Eve in the Garden, they were in a complete state
of moral and spiritual perfection.
• They were able to contemplate God using their visual sense, to hear Him
and to interact with Him at a particular time of the day.
• Before the fall, they were really privileged.
• Myriads of spiritual beings in the universe, were not able to have such a
close and daily contact with God the Creator.

"HEAVEN” WAS REALLY
HERE ON EARTH.
• Only very few of the angelic beings, probably those associated with the
service around the throne, such as the Cherubim and the four living
creatures, were able to see and stay close to God.
• However, in the Garden there were two human beings that had everyday
relationship with God himself. It was heaven on earth, as if the throne of
God in heaven would had come down to earth.
• Sadly, after they sinned this privilege was taken away from them.

SYMBOLISM TAKEN FROM THE GARDEN
TO BE REFLECTED IN THE TEMPLE
• Later on the presence of Cherubim,
• The altar built up by Cain and Abel,
• The Land of Eden, and
• The land of Nod
• Are all connected with the Temple symbolism,
• These were direct images of God’s heavenly abode.

EARLY JUDAISM
UNDERSTOOD EDEN AS A TEMPLE
• There are many similarities between Eden and the subsequent temples.
• It is important to know how early Judaism viewed the Garden of Eden.
• Beale suggests, “early Judaism understood the Garden to be the first sanctuary….”
• For example, the Jewish interpretation of the book of Jubilees (160 B.C.) shows that
early Judaism considered Eden as a temple.
• Perhaps the most explicit mention of Eden as being a temple is Jubilees 8:19,
which says: “And he [Noah] knew that the Garden of Eden was the holy of holies,
and the dwelling of the Lord.” Thus, the early Jewish writings confirm the notion of
Eden being a temple as a reasonable conclusion.

IN THE BEGINNING
GOD CREATED THE
HEAVENS AND THE
EARTH
GEN 1:1

1 KINGS 8:27
(NKJV)
27 “BUT WILL GOD
INDEED DWELL ON
EARTH? BEHOLD,
HEAVEN AND THE
HEAVEN OF HEAVENS
CANNOT CONTAIN
YOU. HOW MUCH LESS
THIS TEMPLE WHICH I
HAVE BUILT!
• God did not live in the Garden, but it was
where His presence was.
• God did not live in the Tabernacle, but it
was where He met with Israel.
• The Tabernacle was a tent of meeting
(Exodus 25:22, 29:42, 30:36). neither did
YHWH live in the Temple (2 Chronicles 6:21,
33).
• The Garden, the Tabernacle and the Temple
were where God was present at various
times.

GOD CREATED
MAN
• Genesis 1:26-27 (NKJV)
• 26 Then God said, “Let Us make man
in Our image, according to Our
likeness; let them have dominion over
the fish of the sea, over the birds of
the air, and over the cattle, over
all the earth and over every creeping
thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So
God created man in His own image;
in the image of God He created him;
male and female He created them.
• Made in God’s image.
• Made in His likeness.
• Dominion given over all
animals.
• Dominion given over the earth.
• He created them male and
female

CREATED TO BEGET
OFFSPRING
Genesis 1:28 (NKJV)
• 28 Then God blessed them, and God
said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply;
fill the earth and subdue it; have
dominion over the fish of the sea,
over the birds of the air, and over
every living thing that moves on the
earth.”
• Adam and Eve were ordered to
multiply the specie.
• Adam was to cultivate and
keep the garden, and
expanded it over the whole
earth.
• He was supposed to subdue
the earth.
• He could do this only by God’s
power

HARMONY
BETWEEN MAN AND
BEASTS
• 29 And God said, “See, I have given
you every herb that yields seed
which is on the face of all the earth,
and every tree whose fruit yields
seed; to you it shall be for
food. 30 Also, to every beast of the
earth, to every bird of the air, and to
everything that creeps on the earth,
in which there is life, I have
given every green herb for food”; and
it was so.
• They were to eat herbs, fruits
of every three with seeds.
• Every creature that moved was
to eat green herbs.
• There was perfect harmony
between animals

A SIMPLE
DIAGRAM OF THE
TABERNACLE OF
MOSSES
• Compare it with
the Garden of
Eden.

• EDEN
• Garden “midst” (within the Garden)
Yahweh’s presence
Three of Life
Three of Good and Evil (no parallel)
Entrance from the East
• The Garden (within Eden)
Entrance to East
Cherubim at entrance
•
• Land of Eden (within the Land of Nod)
Cain and Abel’s offerings (an altar)
Source of four rivers
Entrance from the east (Gen 4:16)
•
• Land of Nod (Wilderness)
Cut off from God
• TABERNACLE / TEMPLE
• Holy of Holies (within the Sanctuary)
Shekinah glory
Aaron’s rod
Ark (no parallel)
Entrance from the East
• Sanctuary (within the Court of Israel)
Entrance to East
Pillars (in the Temple) at entrance
Furniture (no Parallel)
• Court of Israel (within the Land of the
Gentiles) Altar of burn offering
Bronze Sea or Laver, and Living water
Entrance from the east
• Land of the Gentiles (Outside the Camp)
Cut off from God
The Miphkad altar (red heifer, no parallel)

GOD CREATED A GARDEN,
IT WAS IN THE EAST.
IN THE LAND OF EDEN.
GOD PUT ADAM IN EDEN .
FROM THE GROUND GOD
BROUGHT EVERY THREE.
IN THE MIDST OF THE
GARDEN WAS THE TREE OF
LIFE, SO WAS THE TREE OF
THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD
AND EVIL.
• 8 The LORD God planted a garden
eastward in Eden, and there He
put the man whom He had
formed. 9 And out of the ground
the LORD God made every tree
grow that is pleasant to the sight
and good for food. The tree of
life was also in the midst of the
garden, and the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil.

GENESIS 2:10-14 (NKJV)
• 10 Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and
from there it parted and became four riverheads. 11 The name
of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land
of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 And the gold of that
land is good. Bdellium and the onyx stone are there. 13 The
name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes
around the whole land of Cush. 14 The name of the third
river is Hiddekel;[a] it is the one which goes toward the east of
Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

GOD THEM MOVED ADAM
INTO THE GARDEN OF EDEN.
TO TEND AND TO KEEP IT.
COMMANDED HIM TO EAT
FROM EVERY TREE EXCEPT
FROM THE TREE OF THE
KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND
EVIL.
CONSEQUENCE OF NOT
OBEYING:
“SHALL SURELY DIE”
TESTING OF OBEDIENCE.
• 15 Then the LORD God took the
man and put him in the garden of
Eden to tend and keep it. 16 And
the LORD God commanded the
man, saying, “Of every tree of the
garden you may freely eat; 17 but
of the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil you shall not eat,
for in the day that you eat of it
you shall surely die.”

EVERY ANIMAL FROM GROUND,
AIR AND SEA, WERE CREATED
OUT OF THE DUST OF THE
GROUND.
ADAM HIMSELF WAS CREATED
FROM THE GROUND.
WHATEVER ADAM CALLED,
THAT WAS ITS NAME.
CALLING SOMETHING IN THE
HOLY OF HOLIEST BECOMES
THAT NAME!
A REALITY!!!
• 19 Out of the ground the LORD God
formed every beast of the field
and every bird of the air, and
brought them to Adam to see
what he would call them. And
whatever Adam called each living
creature, that was its name. 20 So
Adam gave names to all cattle, to
the birds of the air, and to every
beast of the field. But for Adam
there was not found a helper
comparable to him.

BUT EVE, A SPECIAL CREATION
FROM GOD, WAS NOT DIRECTLY
CREATED FROM THE GROUND.
EVE CAME FROM THE INSIDE OF
ADAM. FROM ONE OF HIS RIBS.
EVE A TYPE OF THE CHURCH,
THE BRIDE OF CHRIST.
ADAM A TYPE OF JESUS.
THE NEW CHURCH,
THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH,
CAME OUT FROM THE SIDE OF
JESUS CHRIST, THE MESSIAH,
THE BRIDEGROOM!
•Genesis 2:21 (NKJV)
• 21 And the LORD God caused a
deep sleep to fall on Adam, and
he slept; and He took one of his
ribs, and closed up the flesh in its
place.

ADAM CALLED EVE FLESH OF
MY FLESH BONES OF MY
BONES.
AS CHRISTIANS WE BECOME
PART OF CHRIST’S BODY, WE
ARE ONE IN HIM AND WITH
HIM.
INNOCENCE IN THE EYES
• 23 And Adam said:
• “This is now bone of my bones And
flesh of my flesh; She shall be called
Woman, Because she was taken out of
Man.”
• 24 Therefore a man shall leave his
father and mother and be joined to
his wife, and they shall become one
flesh.
• 25 And they were both naked, the
man and his wife, and were not
ashamed.

GENESIS 3:1-6
Temptation in
the Garden

WHEN WRONG
DESIRES BECOME SIN
Genesis 3:6-7 (NKJV)
• 6 So when the woman saw that the
tree was good for food, that it was
pleasant to the eyes, and a tree
desirable to make one wise, she
took of its fruit and ate. She also
gave to her husband with her, and
he ate.
• 7 Then the eyes of both of them
were opened, and they knew that
they were naked; and they sewed
fig leaves together and made
themselves coverings.

SIN CREATES FEAR
• Sin destroys ideals.
• Sin destroys innocence.
• Sin creates fear, cynicism,
guilt, and restlessness.
• Sin cause us to sin more.
• Sin removes the incentive to
do well.

GOD DID NOT LIVE IN THE
GARDEN, BUT HAD AN
SPECIFIC TIME FOR COMING
AND FELLOWSHIPPING
WITH ADAM AND EVE.
WHERE ARE YOU?
I HEARD YOU
I WAS AFRAID
I WAS NAKED
I HID MYSELF
• 8 And they heard the sound of the LORD God
walking in the garden in the cool of the day,
and Adam and his wife hid themselves from
the presence of the LORD God among the
trees of the garden.
• 9 Then the LORD God called to Adam and
said to him, “Where are you?”
• 10 So he said, “I heard Your voice in the
garden, and I was afraid because I was
naked; and I hid myself.”

WHO TOLD YOU THAT?
HAVE YOU EATEN FROM
THE FORBIDDEN TREE?
THE WOMAN YOU GAVE
ME.
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?
THE SERPENT DECEIVED ME.
THE OPPORTUNITY TO ASK
GOD FORGIVENESS WAS
SQUANDERED.
• 11 And He said, “Who told you that
you were naked? Have you eaten from
the tree of which I commanded you that
you should not eat?”
12 Then the man said, “The woman
whom You gave to be with me, she gave
me of the tree, and I ate.”
13 And the LORD God said to the woman,
“What is this you have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived
me, and I ate.”

GOD CURSES THE
SERPENT
• 14 So the LORD God said to the
serpent:
• “Because you have done this,
You are cursed more than all cattle,
And more than every beast of the
field; On your belly you shall go,
And you shall eat dust All the days
of your life. 15 And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her
Seed; He shall bruise your head,
And you shall bruise His heel.”
• Every beast of the field became
cursed.
• The serpent more than all.
• Prophecy of enmity between Satan
and The new Adam to come.
• Jesus the Seed.
• He shall bruise your head.
• You shall bruise His heel.

GOD PUNISHES EVE
• Genesis 3:16 (NKJV)
• 16 To the woman He said:
• “I will greatly multiply your
sorrow and your conception;
In pain you shall bring forth
children;
Your desire shall be for your
husband,
And he shall rule over you.”
• From an atmosphere of perfection, of
not sorrow and not pain things
dramatically changed for the worse.
• The time between gestation was
decreased.
• Birth of children will cause pain.
• Eve will be continuously depending on
her husband.
• He will have authority over her.

GOD CURSES THE
GROUND
Genesis 3:17 (NKJV)
• 17 Then to Adam He said,
“Because you have heeded
the voice of your wife, and
have eaten from the tree of
which I commanded you,
saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’:
• “Cursed is the ground for your
sake;
In toil you shall eat of it
All the days of your life.
• Heed to her voice.
• Disobeying God.
• The ground is cursed because of
Adam’s fall.
• The supernatural power and ability to
extend the Garden outside Eden is
now cancelled,
• Adam will have to labor hard to be
able to obtain the fruit that up to now
it was easily given.

GOD PUNISHES ADAM
• 18 Both thorns and thistles it
shall bring forth for you,
And you shall eat the herb of
the field.
19 In the sweat of your face
you shall eat bread
Till you return to the ground,
For out of it you were taken;
For dust you are,
And to dust you shall return.”
• Adam and Eve were destined to live
for ever.
• However, disobedience put an end to
this privilege.
• Now God reveals that their days are
limited, and that their bodies will die
and their bodes will be discomposed
and become dust.
• A closing of the temporary cycle

INNOCENT SACRIFICE
• 20 And Adam called his wife’s
name Eve, because she was
the mother of all living.
• 21 Also for Adam and his wife
the LORD God made tunics of
skin, and clothed them.
• God made tunics for them to cover
their shame and their bodies.
• Most probably taken from innocent
lambs or sheep.
• In a way pointing out the future
sacrifice of the Lamb of God to cover
the sins of the whole world.
• So, innocent blood had to be spilled in
order to cover Adam and Eve.

SIN CANNOT STAY IN
GOD’S PRESENCE
• 22 Then the LORD God said,
“Behold, the man has become
like one of Us, to know good
and evil. And now, lest he put
out his hand and take also of
the tree of life, and eat, and
live forever”
• 23 therefore the LORD God sent
him out of the garden of Eden
to till the ground from which
he was taken.
• They were able to eat from the tree of
life at any time, there was no limitation.
• They were destined to leave eternally,
• However sin brought death.
• And they were now ousted

• Genesis 3:24 (NKJV)
• 24 So He drove out the man;
and He placed cherubim at
the east of the garden of
Eden, and a flaming sword
which turned every way, to
guard the way to the tree of
life.
• Adam failed to tend and keep the
garden.
• How he failed to do that?
• Now God placed Cherubim at the
entrance, to guard the tree of life.
• Later on golden Cherubim would be
on the Mercy Seat od the Ark of God’s
Covenant.

COMMON ELEMENTS THAT WE WILL FIND
IN THE STUDY OF THE TEMPLES.
• 1. God’s Presence
• First, one may consider Eden to be a temple because God dwelt there in a similar way that
he dwelt in the tabernacle and temple.
• 2. Priests as Guards
• As the priests were to serve and guard the tabernacle and the temple (Numbers 3), so also
Adam was to guard the Garden of Eden—God’s dwelling place.
• 3. The Placement of Cherubim
• As God put cherubim in the Garden to guard Eden (the place of God’s presence), the
tabernacle and temple contained replicas or images of cherubim.

• 4. East-Facing Entrance
• As the entrance to the tabernacle and temple faced east, so also the entrance of the
Garden of Eden faced east (Gen 3:24)
• 5. Garden-Like Atmosphere
• One may have reason to believe that the Garden of Eden was a temple because of the
subsequent temple’s garden-like atmosphere. Solomon’s temple had carvings of gourds
and open flowers (1 Kgs 6:18).
• 6. Gold
• As already noted in the first post, there is often an association with gold and God’s
presence (Exodus 26:32, 37; 1 Kgs 6:19–22; Rev 21:3, 18). In the description of Eden, gold is
mentioned to be present (Gen 2:11–12).

• 7. Flowing River
• Finally, just as a river flows out of the future temple in Ezekiel (Ezek 47:1–12) and
from the throne of God (Rev 22:1–3), so also a river flows out of Eden (Gen 2:10).
Further, all of these rivers are associated with life. This does not mean that every
place with a river flowing out of it is a temple. However, taken with the other
similarities, these rivers, which flow out of a place where God dwells, gives reason
for one to believe that Eden was a garden.

NEXT WEEK:
THE TABERNACLE
OF MOSSES

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