The Sacrifice is Connected to the Land

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Adam’s primary job as far as the Garden of Eden was concern, was dressing the fruit. Adam made presentation of the fruit that fell from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. This was his sacrifice of worship.

Two things among many happened

  1. The land was cursed, God said, “And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: curse is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt eat of it all the day of thy life.” Genesis 3:17 (KJV)
  2. God placed Cherubims, “So drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way, to the tree of life.” Genesis 3:24

You have to keep going back to the beginning to understand why things are the way that they are! Adam broke covenant. He ate instead of serving. Adam was driven out of the Garden of Eden. This was because he had access to the tree of life. Doing so would have caused him to live forever in a spiritual fallen state. In Genesis 3:23-24 (KJV)

“And LORD God said, Behold man, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand , and take also of the tree of the life, and eat, and live for ever: Therefore the LORD sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.”

God placed Cherubims in the Garden of Eden facing east because that was probably the direction facing the throne of God. Cherubims are connected to the worship of God. They were a place holder until Jesus’ sacrifice had been made.

The Sacrifice

“God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perished, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16 (KJV)