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Secrets of Heaven #122

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122. Genesis 2:15. And Jehovah God took the human and put the human in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and to guard it.

The Garden of Eden symbolizes everything in a heavenly person, which is the subject here. Cultivating the garden and guarding it means that such a person is free to enjoy all of those things but not to claim personal possession of them, because they are the Lord's.

  
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Genesis 2:15

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15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.