The pre-flood world is fascinating. Obviously, we don’t have as much info about it as we’d want. In the creation story, the author takes a good bit of space to present the Garden God created: a lush paradise on Earth in which the first couple lived. But God also lived in the Garden, together with his heavenly host and the first couple. Genesis does not clearly state that, but looking at texts like Isaiah 14, Ezekiel 28 and Revelation 21 and 22 we can see that God created the Garden for himself as well. For further reading, I would recommend the writings of Michael Heiser.

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Genesis 2:9 says: And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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