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What we have in the last chapter is the description of the new earth, the inheritance of the children of light. It is most essential to know that the key feature of this earth is light so glorious as not to require the sun. Two motifs make the description of the garden-city given Rev.22:1-5 is the continuation of the Garden of Eden. Firstly Adam had the glory of light as his covering that obviated the shame attached to nakedness. He was inheritor of light so as to be qualified as son of God in the Lucan genealogy Lk.3:38. Compare the separation of light from darkness (Ge.1:3) before the creation of the sun, moon and the stars(1:14).
Second motif is the tree of life of which Adam was free to eat. In the new earth we see the same tree on either side of the pure water of life. "And on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations(Re.22:2). In the Genesis account the two trees were set as two witnesses of the Word. Tree of salvation signified the tree of life. On the other hand the tree of the knowledge of good and evil signalled judgment. By eating thereof in disobedience the tree of life judged Adam and expulsion was its consequence.
Before the new earth is inaugurated this shall happen,- and everything of defilement and symptomatic of man's ungodliness must be stripped off the earth. "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up(2 Pe.3:10)".
What we have in the last chapter is the description of the new earth, the inheritance of the children of light. It is most essential to know that the key feature of this earth is light so glorious as not to require the sun. Two motifs make the description of the garden-city given Rev.22:1-5 is the continuation of the Garden of Eden. Firstly Adam had the glory of light as his covering that obviated the shame attached to nakedness. He was inheritor of light so as to be qualified as son of God in the Lucan genealogy Lk.3:38. Compare the separation of light from darkness (Ge.1:3) before the creation of the sun, moon and the stars(1:14).
Second motif is the tree of life of which Adam was free to eat. In the new earth we see the same tree on either side of the pure water of life. "And on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations(Re.22:2). In the Genesis account the two trees were set as two witnesses of the Word. Tree of salvation signified the tree of life. On the other hand the tree of the knowledge of good and evil signalled judgment. By eating thereof in disobedience the tree of life judged Adam and expulsion was its consequence.
Before the new earth is inaugurated this shall happen,- and everything of defilement and symptomatic of man's ungodliness must be stripped off the earth. "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up(2 Pe.3:10)".
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