Genesis 3: The Garden – A Wondrous Place
The third chapter of Genesis is about the fall of Man. It is striking to me how incredible the garden of Eden must have been. The chapter begins by saying how crafty the serpent was. This makes me wonder if perhaps all the animals were able to communicate with Adam and if they had personalities and characteristics of which only the faintest attributes remain today – such as the loyal and loving nature of the dog.
Even when God observed Adam and Eve, it seems He physically moved in the Garden because Adam could hear him stirring there, and He had to ask, “Where are you?”, as if He could not actually find Adam and Eve where He expected them to be (though I am sure He knew.)
The garden was watered by ground-water. Hopefully, it wasn’t a swamp and even if it were, the mosquito had probably not yet arrived until the world was fallen.
Is the garden of Eden still in the “east” today or was it destroyed by the flood?
And in a spiritual sense have we not returned to the Garden when we get married – as a loving couple lose all sense of shame when they are naked before each other.
Genesis begins with the tree of life which gets taken away from men when Adam and Eve are thrown from the garden. But, in the end, we will once again have access to the Tree of Life in the new heaven and earth.