2. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:1

3. Foundational Truths About God
God is Eternal

4. Foundational Truths About God
God is Eternal
God is the Creator of all things.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:1

5. Foundational Truths About God
God is Eternal
God is the Creator of all things.
Everything God created was good.
And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.
Genesis 1:31

6. A Garden and Two Trees

7. And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 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. 10 A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers.
Genesis 2:8-10

8. Two Trees
The Tree of Life
The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

9. The Kingdom and Humanity is Cursed

10. Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; 18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. 19 By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
Genesis 3:17-19

11. The Kingdom and Humanity is Cursed

12. Eden Lost – Paradise Lost

13. Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” 23 therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. 24 He drove out the man…
Genesis 3:22-24

14. Eden Lost – Paradise Lost
…and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.
Genesis 3:24

15. Eden Lost – Paradise Lost
…and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.
Genesis 3:24

16. Eden Lost – Paradise Lost
…lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever.
Genesis 3:22

17. Homesick for Eden

18. Where is Eden and the Tree of Life now?
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.’
Revelation 2:7

19. Will we ever see Eden and the Tree of Life again?
Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2 through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month.
Revelation 22:1-2

20. How do we regain Eden?

21. The Tree of Calvary
He [Jesus] himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
1 Peter 2:24

22. What Happened to the Curse?

23. What Happened to the Curse?
No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him.
Revelation 22:3