22 And the Lord God said, Behold, 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 life, and eat, and live for ever: 23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. 24 So he 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 of the tree of life (Genesis 3:22-24).
One of the additional consequences of disobeying God was the loss of the ability to dwell in Eden with God. Eden was the place where God and Man were together, a place where life was to be lived in communion with the creation and heaven. To be driven from Eden by God was both a literally reality and symbolic representation of the barrier that now existed between God and Man. This barrier represented by the Cherubims and flaming sword would be difficult and costly to overcome. Ultimately it would require God Himself to intervene again in human history in the person, work, life, death and resurrection of Christ.
One of the additional consequences of disobeying God was the loss of the ability to dwell in Eden with God. Eden was the place where God and Man were together, a place where life was to be lived in communion with the creation and heaven. To be driven from Eden by God was both a literally reality and symbolic representation of the barrier that now existed between God and Man. This barrier represented by the Cherubims and flaming sword would be difficult and costly to overcome. Ultimately it would require God Himself to intervene again in human history in the person, work, life, death and resurrection of Christ.
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