As a part of my preparation for last weekend’s message on the second Eden, I came across a list of 12 things that won’t be in heaven. Check it out: 1. No more sea (Revelation 21:1) 2. No more tears (Revelation 21:4) 3. No more death (Revelation 21:4) 4. No more mourning (Revelation 21:4) 5….
Category: Gardens
Second Eden: The Garden of Forever
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the old heaven and the old earth had disappeared. And the sea was also gone. And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven like a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. I heard a loud shout…
The Garden of Immortality
John chapter 20 begins with this: “Early on Sunday morning while it was still dark…” That simple phrase tells the reader that something transitional has happened. The plot has moved from the last day of the week to the first, and darkness is preparing to give way to dawn. Early on Sunday morning while it…
Gethsemene: The Garden of Death (2)
Then Jesus went with them to the olive grove called Gethsemane, and he said, “Sit here while I go over there to pray.” He took Peter and Zebedee’s two sons, James and John, and he became anguished and distressed. He told them, “My soul is crushed with grief to the point of death. Stay here…
Gethsemene: The Garden of Death (1)
The warm light and brilliant colors of the Garden of Eden and the Garden of En Gedi give way to the darkness of the third biblical garden in my series, the Garden of Gethsemene. Gethsemene is an important garden because we immediately associate it with agony and suffering. It is not physical bodily suffering. That…
Eden: The Garden of Beginnings & Birth
Then the LORD God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he placed the man he had made. The LORD God made all sorts of trees grow up from the ground—trees that were beautiful and that produced delicious fruit. In the middle of the garden he placed the tree of life and…
