Genesis (2:7-8) says: “Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being. The Lord God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden, and there He placed the man whom He had formed.”
After God created His masterpiece (mankind), He placed him in the Garden of Eden. The word Eden is a Greek word meaning the paradise of God on earth. He put man in a place on earth in which God manifested Himself daily.
He wanted mankind to experience the presence of God. When man fell into sin, he was driven out of this holy place. Since then, man wandered away from the presence of God until Christ came to restore man to this place again.
Christ revealed that it is God’s intention to have His precious creation dwell in His presence. In the Lord’s Prayer Jesus taught His disciples to pray for the Kingdom of God to come and His will to be done here on earth as it is in heaven.
Jesus was saying mankind should experience the life that Adam had lost in the Garden of Eden. God’s will is for humanity to experience divinity daily and to walk and live in there every day.
This truth finds expression in the Book of Isaiah (51:3) which states: “Indeed, the Lord will comfort Zion; He will comfort all her waste places. And her wilderness He will make like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord. It is the will of God for you to enjoy life on earth.
