Paradise
17th October 2008, hej
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8) The sum of the parts
The Bible is amazing revealing many patterns that are all consistent and there are layers in layers. In the old Testament the word Pardes is used exactly three times. Every time the word is used it refers to a king's garden.
Paradise is a king's garden on earth. Eden was Yahweh's, the great King's, garden. Then 2 times the word referred to Solomon's garden, the king who ruled Yahweh's kingdom. Then afterwards it was Artaxerxes' garden, the man who usurped rule over the earth being of the dynasties of the basest of men set up by Yahweh to rule his earth (Daniel 4:17).
In the New Testament the word paradeisos is also used exactly three times.
The first is associated with the time Jesus will be king of the Jews, where an existence in the garden of Yahweh is promised to a Jewish sinner.
The second occurrence shows that the king's garden will contain unclean animals, or people of the nations (or Gentiles), that have been made clean, and speaks of a vision of the rule of Yahweh on earth, relating to the third heaven.
The third reference promises a group of servants of Jesus, of the nations (or gentiles), at Ephesus, that, if they overcome, they will eat of the fruit of the King's garden and live forever.
There was a paradise. It was called Eden. Isaiah prophesied that in the future the earth will again be like Eden. To be in the new paradise is to inherit the earthly glory of the King's garden. But, to live forever people must eat of the tree of life and, by overcoming trial, inherit a role in the Kingdom, which is to be a ruler in the King's garden.
Paradise is not a major concept, but like every other small part of the Bible adds to our understanding of the multifaceted, but quite simple plan of redemption for the earth.
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