It tells us in Genesis that The Garden of Eden was a sanctuary where God invited Adam & Eve to enjoy fellowship & peace with Him. The garden itself filled like a banquet table with all good things to eat for the first Adam, created by God in His image…perfect, blameless, and holy. But then we see their choice to disobey and rebel against God’s Word. This original sin, or the Fall, not referring primarily to the first sin committed by Adam & Eve but to the result of that first sin – the corruption of the human race. In the Garden of Eden we see God’s great love for mankind…but we also see His great wrath as the earth is cursed & fellowship with Him is broken. Fast forward to The Garden of Gethsemane and we see what was started in the Garden of Eden fulfilled by Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane…the paradise lost by the first Adam is being restored forever by the last Adam. Again we see a perfect, blameless, and holy man, but when it came time to make a choice, Jesus chose to do the Will of His Heavenly Father…even though it cost Him dearly. The agony Jesus suffered in that garden He did willingly…fulfilling His destiny as the Savior of the world. His agony the basis of our Salvation…His triumph on the Cross our only way back to God. With the First Adam, hope was lost…but with the Last Adam, it was restored.
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