The Glenwood post., 1914-02-14

|PssPAesiel BY tie PhepAet Isaiah sl:3.
This great a.d perfect vegetable king
don With its trees sis.ifyi.e ss~y
kindred, a.A ts.gue, AID people and
nation, had in the midst of il "the
tree of Efe, and the tree Of knovleds.
of good aAd evil, the fruit Of which
eelipsed in proportion and in beauty
every sther tree i. the garden. And
the tree Of life was the sns tsss Of the
garden which represented the life. and
the death, the beauty and tine Of
every ether tree in the garden CROWN.
out Of the earth. The tree was ""the
living ereature,'' made " after His
kind,' 1.-THE eternal Cod, "the AnAa,
IL fatthfA ~ Aus visnssa, ~ ~
ginning q ~ essaAisa sf Cd"
,Christ). Revelation 3:l4.
The word of God tells us that the
Lord God planted a garden "sastvaId
in Eden," which is to say He planted
a garden in the earth moving and re-
volving toward the east. Eastward
meaning toward the sun; not eastward
from one spot on earth to another
spot on the same globe, but using the
sun as the base for east, signifying
Cod the garden WAS planted in the
earth and with the earth all moving
toward Christ Is the man of the east).
The survey of the Garden of Eden
makes ths whole earth With the garden
planted in II . unit revolving in sDace,
and therefore there is no north or
south. nor west to be considered, thus
the survey as recorded in Genesis gives
us only one point of the compass to
reckon from, thus tying the location
of the globe, - revolving in spaos, to
one great stationary base (the SUM as
the east. The survey is one for
world revolving in the vast and mighty
universe of God, and therefore God
Himself is signified by the one
greater light" and stationary base
set in the armament of the heaven.
The other three points of the compass
were used after Eden to quarter and
sectionize the earth, a much different
proposition from the survey descrip-
tive Of Eden. Brother, lose sight of
the common view, and see the earth
as . unit called Eden set in space and
revolving toward the sun las the
east) and around the sun once in eacn
year; and on the opposite side of the
globe from the sun and in the center,
see it as the midst of the garden con-
tanning the tree of life, that particular
place where Adam and Eve were put
on trial. And this will give you a
view answering to every description
of Eden in Genesis and in the prophets.
The east is used in our Bible to signi.
fy the throne or dwelling place Of
God. It was in "ths east" where the
shepherds saw Christ's star. This
truth is sustained by the prophets, and
answers to all scripture bearing on the
sub ject Of Eden. "The four corners
Of the earth" have been the subject OF
much criticism; but they are the four
corner Dotnes Of the compass which
quarter the whole earth in the survey
as men themselves have surveyed IL
But the history Of Eden in its survey
of "the Garden Of God" hoses sight
of all points, but ~ sass Of the heav-
en-, and ~ HkAse Of the garden 1.-THE
place where Adam and Eve were To-
cated).
And after Adam transsressed the
commandment Of God, It is written,
Therefore the Lord sent him fettA
tonward in time; forward in place Or
order) from the Garden Of Eden, to
till the ground from whence he was
taken. So He drove out the man by
the Transformation of the garden to a
wilderness as signified in Gods curse
in Genesis 3:17-1s) and He placed at
the east of the garden (the throne of
God) cherubins and a flaming sword
which turned every way, to keep the
way of the tree of life.'' Genesis 3:
"a. Reader, it was not in the east
of the garden; but "at the east of the
garden" God placed His cherubims and
a flaming sword "to keep the way
the right and holy way of Jesus Christ
which is the tree Of life. The cheru-
bins signify every messenger of truth
called and ordained of God, from
righteous Abel to the end, to declare.
live and teach the unadulterated faith
and life of Jesus Christ. The "Eal.-