1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:04,000 Absolutely insane footage has been released of rivers 2 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:07,080 reappearing in dry parts all around the world. 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,960 And yet here's the question that nobody seems to be asking. 4 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:12,720 Does all of this point to something much bigger, like the 5 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:16,720 location of the Garden of Eden? Listen to me, the Bible gives 6 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:20,680 very specific instructions on the location of the Garden of 7 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:23,880 Eden and you and I would be very foolish to ignore them. 8 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:28,280 It says now a river went out of Eden to water the garden and 9 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:31,920 from there it parted and became all riverheads. 10 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:35,760 It then names these four rivers. Number one is the Pishone. 11 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:39,600 The Pishone is known to run through the land of Havilah, and 12 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:43,040 in Havilah it is known to have lots of gold. 13 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:45,880 Remember this. Number two is the Guihon. 14 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:49,040 The Bible says this river runs through the land of Kush. 15 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:53,920 Our third river is the Tigris and #4 is the river Euphrates. 16 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:57,440 It's no secret that the Tigris and the Euphrates are on every 17 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:00,800 map in the modern world. Now do you see why you are 18 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:03,080 supposed to take the Bible seriously? 19 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:05,400 Because when it gives descriptions, it doesn't 20 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:09,320 describe made-up fictional places like Narnia or Mordor. 21 00:01:09,320 --> 00:01:12,880 Now it's talking about real places that you and I can visit 22 00:01:12,960 --> 00:01:15,760 today. So this could get quite exciting 23 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:18,400 because according to the scripture is all you and I have 24 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:22,920 to do is we have to find these two rivers, the Pishon and the 25 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:25,920 Guihon, and where these two rivers meet with the other two 26 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:29,360 rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates, and turn into one 27 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:33,480 singular river, that is where we will find the location of the 28 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:35,760 Garden of Eden. OK, so here's the thing. 29 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:40,040 Once I understood all of this, I became mega confused as to why 30 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:43,280 Youtubers, Bible scholars, and professors, we're all putting 31 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:46,280 and forth very unusual suggestions. 32 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:49,440 But I thought, OK, I'll listen to them all, I'll hear them out. 33 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:53,400 Because after all, one of them might just be true. 34 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:58,120 By far the wildest theory was put forward by scholar Pete Van 35 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:00,200 Dyke. He believed that the ancient 36 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:04,400 cultures didn't mean E like we mean east, but cosmic East. 37 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:08,080 And so he proposed the idea that the Garden of Eden was located 38 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:11,720 on an astroplane in space, resting above the eastern 39 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:14,400 horizon. I also heard another YouTube 40 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:17,760 claim that the Garden of Eden hovered over Earth and that is 41 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:21,800 why all the four rivers they meet and flow down onto Earth. 42 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:25,560 I can still see why many Ethiopians claim that Eden is in 43 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:29,560 their country. As Genesis 2 verse 13 says the 44 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:31,960 name of the second river is Guihon. 45 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:35,640 It is the one which goes around the whole land of Kush. 46 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:38,040 So let's ask the obvious question here. 47 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:42,280 Where is Kush located today? Well, there is an alternate view 48 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:44,600 to this which I'm going to share with you in a moment. 49 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:49,040 But when the Bible talks about Kush, it is describing Ethiopia, 50 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:52,480 Sudan and South Sudan. So that leads us to ask another 51 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:54,680 question. Which river flows through 52 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:58,920 Ethiopia, Sudan and South Sudan? Well, you've probably guessed 53 00:02:58,920 --> 00:03:00,800 it. It's the river Nile. 54 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:04,360 So one popular theory for the location which Bible scholars 55 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:07,520 put forward, especially those from the past, is they said that 56 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:11,200 the Gehon River was the Nile. And believe it or not, the river 57 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:14,320 Ganges in India was our mysterious river. 58 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:17,040 P Sean, are you imagining this right now? 59 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:20,560 In other words, these Bible scholars were claiming that Eden 60 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:24,920 encompassed the entire ancient world from Africa to India. 61 00:03:24,920 --> 00:03:27,080 But I could be totally wrong about this. 62 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:31,000 But the reason I believe there is a a much likelier location 63 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,280 for Eden is because when Adam and Eve were taken out of the 64 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:37,840 garden for eating the fruit that God told them to avoid is the 65 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:41,160 question that should go through all of our minds at this point 66 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:44,240 is how could they be removed from effectively the whole 67 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:46,560 world? And that is why I believe the 68 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:50,600 Garden of Eden is likely to be much smaller, and hence why we 69 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:52,480 have not found it from our list from above. 70 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:56,240 Pangaea or Pangaea is the scientific view. 71 00:03:56,240 --> 00:04:00,120 The Earth did not always look like a bunch of jigsaw pieces 72 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:02,680 floating around in a vast sea of oceans. 73 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:07,200 No once all of our land was joined together in one massive 74 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:10,000 supercontinent. But then what happened was there 75 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:13,680 was a weakness in the earth's crust and this caused a movement 76 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:18,000 in the Earth's plate and 'cause Pangaea to rift and break apart. 77 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:21,519 Hey, I wonder how many of you are shaking your head and 78 00:04:21,519 --> 00:04:23,440 uttering these words under your breath. 79 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:26,920 Total nonsense. Well, did you know that the 80 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:30,160 Bible actually can support the Pangaea theory? 81 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:33,960 What explanation is this? When mankind got too big for 82 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:37,120 their boots and they thought they could reach God by building 83 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:40,320 the Tower of Babel in their arrogance, what did Almighty 84 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:43,400 Creator do with these little Ant like people? 85 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:47,080 Well, the Bible says this. So the Lord scattered them 86 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:52,080 abroad from there over the face of all the earth and they ceased 87 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:55,080 building the city. I am actually planning a very 88 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:57,960 big video on the Tower of Babel, so if you would like to see 89 00:04:57,960 --> 00:04:59,800 that, please make sure you subscribe. 90 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:02,160 But just now, here is the suggestion. 91 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:06,240 One suggestion is to stop these men and women from building this 92 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:09,960 great big tower. God immediately split the earth 93 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:13,640 and confuse the languages. And today what do we have? 94 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:16,760 We have Spanish, we have Italian, we have French, we have 95 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:20,000 English, Japanese, all different people groups from all around 96 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,640 the world separated by ocean across the earth. 97 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:25,520 Why? Because God suddenly confused 98 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:28,720 the people and stopped them building this arrogant tower. 99 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:33,000 However, that does not get us any closer to discovering Eden. 100 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:36,520 So the other biblical theory of Pangea is during the days of 101 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:40,040 Noah when God poured out his judgment on all of the earth. 102 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,680 This colossal amount of water caused the Earth's crust to 103 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:46,600 break. And and it's also why we have 104 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:50,800 water which takes up 71% all over the earth. 105 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:53,440 Because water doesn't just disappear into thin air, does 106 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:55,160 it? Well, okay, yes, it kind of 107 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:56,560 does. But it comes back through the 108 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:59,920 water cycle. So I'll ask you again, what does 109 00:05:59,920 --> 00:06:02,480 this have to do with the location of Eden? 110 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:05,440 Well, could it be that Eden was lost forever because both the 111 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:08,680 Guihon and the Pishon were washed away as much of the 112 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:11,160 landscape would have been changed post Noah. 113 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:15,160 And maybe even the Tigris and the Euphrates are in completely 114 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:18,600 different places to their original location next to the 115 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:21,080 Garden of Eden. But somehow, as you know, I 116 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:24,440 probably doubt this to be true. As I said in this video, we are 117 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:28,760 waiting for something very big to happen to the Euphrates. 118 00:06:28,840 --> 00:06:31,160 Between you and me, I'm still not convinced. 119 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:35,480 So I decided to research what it is that modern day Bible 120 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:38,880 scholars, Modern day professors who teach in universities? 121 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:42,560 What are they saying about the real location of the Garden of 122 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:44,640 Eden? If you travelled to Jerusalem, 123 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:48,480 did you know that you can visit a small spring that, as long as 124 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:51,640 people can remember, has been called Gihon? 125 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:54,720 Isn't that interesting? OK, now watch this. 126 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:59,240 In 1000 BC, Solomon built the temple in Jerusalem. 127 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:03,920 And inside the temple behind the Guardian Curtain was the Holy of 128 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:06,200 Holies. And the Ark of the Covenant was 129 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:09,720 found inside the Holy of Holies. And it is there that the 130 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:12,520 Scripture teaches us that the Lord God dwells. 131 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:16,440 Now we as Christians believe that God is omnipresent. 132 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:19,880 That means he is everywhere. But the Bible really does tell 133 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:23,960 us there is really only two places where God dwelt for a 134 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:27,200 long period of time. One of them is inside the Temple 135 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:31,200 in Jerusalem and the other is in the Garden of Eden. 136 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:35,240 This is only amplified when we see God becoming a man and 137 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:37,880 living amongst us as Jesus of Nazareth. 138 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:39,840 And where did he spend much of his time? 139 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:42,520 In Jerusalem. Something very memorable about 140 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:46,200 the Adam and Eve account is once driven from the Garden of Eden, 141 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:49,920 they were blocked from ever entering as guarding cherubim 142 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:53,360 were placed at the east entrance of the garden. 143 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:56,640 And there there was a flaming sword which turned in every way 144 00:07:56,640 --> 00:08:00,160 guarding it to stop them from getting back in towards the tree 145 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:02,600 of life. So take all of that into your 146 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:06,720 mind and now tell me what is it that guards the Ark of the 147 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:10,240 Covenant to cherubim? And then inside the temple there 148 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:14,080 is so much garden imagery. The temple itself was lined with 149 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:17,280 cedar wood and then of course there are depictions of palm 150 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:20,960 trees, flowers and pomegranates. So although the temple is 151 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:23,960 indoors, it feels like you're outdoors. 152 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:30,880 But here is the real crazy part. In 587 BC this beautiful temple 153 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:34,200 was broken to pieces and God's people, the Israelites, were 154 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:38,720 carried off to wait for it the east to be exiled in Babylon. 155 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:42,600 So just like the Garden of Eden, paradise was lost and God's 156 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:46,200 people were taken away E away from their homeland. 157 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:48,960 OK, I'm not going to lie. After everything we've just 158 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:51,800 seen, this last one seems the most plausible. 159 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:54,760 But there is more. There's two more options. 160 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:58,400 One of them I think most of you will say, yes, this is the 161 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:00,920 location of the real Garden of Eden. 162 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:04,080 But the last one is a little bit of a wild card and that one 163 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:08,840 might just clinch it for me. OK, firstly we have the Zarins 164 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:13,000 theory. In 1971, Professor Jury Zarins 165 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:16,520 travelled to the Arabian Peninsula to research ancient 166 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:19,480 civilizations. It was there, after examining 167 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:22,800 many satellite images of the area, that he noticed what 168 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:26,920 appeared to be a former river totally dried up, which would 169 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:30,240 later be identified as the Wadi Baton. 170 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:34,040 This literally means, in Arabic, the Belly Button river and this 171 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:37,920 river which flows through. Arabia Zarin believes that 6000 172 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:41,800 years ago it would have met with the Euphrates, the Tigris and 173 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:46,240 our 4th River, the Quran, and these altogether would flow into 174 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:48,360 the Persian Gulf. Did you catch that? 175 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:51,760 So as I said earlier, if we can find out where the Tigris, the 176 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:55,280 Euphrates, the Guihon and the Pichon River where they all meet 177 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:59,080 together, that will give us a pretty strong indicator of where 178 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:02,480 the Garden of Eden is okay. This is where it gets a little 179 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:06,520 bit complicated because Zarin's proposed that the Karoon River 180 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:10,680 is the Guihon which rises in Persia and flows southwesterly 181 00:10:10,680 --> 00:10:14,240 towards the Persian Gulf. This is where it gets a little 182 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:17,120 bit difficult. You see, Scripture says that the 183 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:20,880 Guihon on winds all the way through Kush, which as we saw 184 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:23,280 earlier, is believed to be Ethiopia. 185 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:27,200 But we then meet a man called Eframe Spizer. 186 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:29,440 Spizer is a translator of the Torah. 187 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:33,000 That's the first five books of the Bible in Hebrew, and he 188 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:36,040 believes that it's actually a better translation of the word. 189 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:40,440 Kush is the word cash shoe, which would refer to the Kasai 190 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:44,880 people who conquered Mesopotamia in 1500 BC. 191 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:48,480 And we're actually from this exact region, Persia, Kuwait. 192 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:51,280 And that would make perfect sense for this theory because 193 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:55,320 the Karoon actually flows through these exact regions that 194 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:58,640 we've just talked about. So let's examine our next river, 195 00:10:58,680 --> 00:11:02,640 the Pishon, which Professor Zarin's claims is the Wadi Baton 196 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:06,440 today, or the Wadi al Rumar. What backs up this claim even 197 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:10,640 more is that the Bible itself says the name of the first is 198 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:13,120 Pishon. It is the one which skirts the 199 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:16,680 whole land of Havillar, where there is gold and the gold of 200 00:11:16,680 --> 00:11:20,360 that land is good. Archaeologist Joel Kramer and 201 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:24,360 the author of Where God Came Down unravelled a key piece of 202 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:28,000 information about the Wadi. You see, just as a scripture 203 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:31,440 says the land of Havilah, there's gold and the gold there 204 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:34,960 is is good gold. So Joel and his son visited the 205 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:39,080 area and discovered that at the Wadi Rumars River basin there 206 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:44,520 are actually 55 gold mines and one known as the Cradle of Gold 207 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:48,280 has been mined for thousands of years And still to this today it 208 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:52,840 is known as the finest gold mine in all of Saudi Arabia. 209 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:56,640 One thing that really surprised me is Joel and his team found an 210 00:11:56,640 --> 00:12:00,360 unusual volcanic rock at the top of the Hijaz mountain. 211 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:04,240 Now if this is where the Pishon River started, just note that 212 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:06,600 that's the source. So they followed this dry 213 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:09,360 riverbed a bit further down and what did they find? 214 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:13,480 They found this unusual rock like substance at the bottom of 215 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:15,400 the riverbed. And then get this. 216 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:19,760 They travelled 500 miles, tracking this parched river all 217 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:22,600 the way through the desert, through Saudi Arabia, all the 218 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:24,360 way through into other countries. 219 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:26,480 And what did they find at the bottom? 220 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:30,600 You're not going to believe it. They found this unusual volcanic 221 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:33,320 rock deposits. Now, it was smooth because of 222 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:36,920 river erosion, but what's crazy is it could not have come from 223 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:40,760 any other place because these rocks are only indigenous to the 224 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:43,240 Hijjar's mountains. Big news though. 225 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:45,800 It's not just Christian archaeologists who believe that 226 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:48,680 the Garden of Eden could be located at the head of the 227 00:12:48,680 --> 00:12:52,320 Persian Gulf near Earth, but Ward Sanford, who is certainly 228 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:56,000 not a theologian but a hydrologist with a PhD. 229 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:00,440 He theorizes that in the ancient world there was a natural dam at 230 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:04,000 the Straits of Hormuz, meaning that where there is now ample 231 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:07,640 water at the Persian Gulf, it was once dry ground. 232 00:13:07,680 --> 00:13:10,560 And it was there that he believes that the four rivers 233 00:13:10,560 --> 00:13:15,080 converged and right now he thinks that Eden is lost forever 234 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:19,080 underwater at the Persian Gulf. A bit of a confession to make to 235 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:22,040 you. I'm not totally satisfied. 236 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:25,160 Yes, although I do think that this probably is the real 237 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:29,240 location of where Eden is to be found, or or at least it's very 238 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:33,120 close to that area. There is still one huge question 239 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:37,000 which lingers in my mind, and it led me to coming up with my own 240 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,800 kind of theory. Now guys, I'll be honest, my 241 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:42,640 theory isn't really worth mentioning at all. 242 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:45,960 So let me share something with you far, far more important than 243 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:48,640 any of these theories. And then, if you're still here 244 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:52,640 at the end, I'll share with you my more off the curb kind of 245 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:55,320 theory. My dear friends, what is the 246 00:13:55,320 --> 00:13:57,960 most important part of this video? 247 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:01,960 Well, it's this. What if we aren't supposed to 248 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:05,360 find Eden? Like what if it's inaccessible 249 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:08,400 for a reason? What if it's because we as a 250 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:11,480 world have fallen so far from God with our sin? 251 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:14,000 The Divine Presence has now gone. 252 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:18,200 Our sin has separated us from a holy God, and thus we have been 253 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:22,000 driven out of paradise. I actually do believe that 254 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,480 another possibility is that the Pishon and the Guihon River 255 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:29,640 dried up as a sign. It's a sign of how spiritually 256 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:33,920 dry we've become as people. But the sad reality is many of 257 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:38,400 us are thirsty, but we refuse to drink of the rivers of living 258 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:40,960 water. There is good news though, 259 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:45,600 because there is another Eden. There is an Eden that can never 260 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:49,400 be lost, for it is held by someone who is eternal, and this 261 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:53,640 eternal one has ensured that paradise will be regained. 262 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:57,920 Jesus Christ, the last Adam restored Eden for us when he 263 00:14:57,920 --> 00:15:02,040 brought us back into fellowship with God by taking our sin. 264 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:06,080 And although we deserve to be sent E like Adam and Eve, Jesus 265 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:09,000 Christ took our sin and he separated it. 266 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:12,960 As far as the East is from the West, He removed it no more so 267 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:16,800 that you and I can be forgiven. Because Jesus Christ left his 268 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:21,080 paradise in heaven and entered into our lost world, our lost 269 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:23,440 Eden. He died on that cross for you 270 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:26,080 and me. Though we were lost sinners, He 271 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:30,120 died for us in our place so that we can be forgiven. 272 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:35,680 And if we put our trust in Him, know this, we too can enjoy Eden 273 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:38,720 for all of eternity. In the last book of the Bible, 274 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:43,840 Revelation, it says that the new city of Jerusalem will come down 275 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:46,400 to earth. And I truly do believe that that 276 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:49,280 Eden will once again be restored on Earth. 277 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:51,680 But here's the most important thing. 278 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:55,040 If you remember one thing from this video, remember this. 279 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:57,840 Do you know where the real location of Eden is? 280 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:00,400 It's not to be found. Where there is palm trees, 281 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:03,160 there's rivers, there's fruits, there's beautiful things. 282 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:08,800 No, the real location of Eden is to be found where Christ is, 283 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:11,760 Where Christ is, That's where Paradise is. 284 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:16,440 Do you remember that man who was dying next to Jesus on the cross 285 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:20,240 when he realized who Jesus was? When he realized that this man 286 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:22,440 was the Son of God and he trusted in him? 287 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:26,440 What did Jesus say to him? Surely this day I tell you, you 288 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:31,200 will be with me in paradise because Christ knew that anyone 289 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:35,680 who trusts in him will find peace, will find Paradise, will 290 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:40,240 find Eden, because the location of Eden is where Jesus is. 291 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:43,280 So if you're watching this right now and you are a born again 292 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:46,320 Christian, can I tell you, you don't need to find the location 293 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:49,320 of Eden because you've already found it in Jesus Christ. 294 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:52,120 And if you're watching this right now and you have not yet 295 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:56,560 trusted in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour, can I say this 296 00:16:56,720 --> 00:17:00,960 Eden is available for you right now is all you have to do is 297 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:04,760 call on the name of the Lord and he'll save you and he'll give 298 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:07,800 you paradise. Right now, Paradise will be 299 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:10,240 regained for anyone who turns to him. 300 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:14,599 OK, you've been very patient. So what is this big question 301 00:17:14,599 --> 00:17:17,960 that has been left in my mind from the Persian Gulf theory? 302 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:22,880 Well, the Bible says now a river went out from Eden to water the 303 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:28,400 garden and from there it parted and became 4 riverheads. 304 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:32,640 So in other words, the original Eden would not be at the base of 305 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:35,960 four rivers meeting, but it would be at the head of the 306 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:38,120 river, it would be at the source of the river. 307 00:17:38,120 --> 00:17:42,200 And that is why another historian, David Roll, he says 308 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:46,800 he proposes the idea that Eden is actually in Persia, right at 309 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:50,200 the top of the source of the river and he says it's covered 310 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:54,320 now by a city called Tabriz. He uses similar arguments to the 311 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:57,160 ones we've heard before, that the Cassites, they were the 312 00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:01,440 people of Kush and he also also proved that the river Jizal 313 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:05,680 Ozan, which means golden, that could be the river Pishon 314 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:08,200 because there was gold also found in that area. 315 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:12,720 And then the Gale Hon Aras that would be the Guihon River which 316 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:16,680 also begins next to the Euphrates and next to the source 317 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:20,240 of where the Tigris river starts in the northern Persian 318 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:22,920 mountain. David also discovered that east 319 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:26,360 of this region, east of the Garden of Eden, what he believes 320 00:18:26,360 --> 00:18:30,000 is an area called upper and lower Nakadi, which can be 321 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:33,640 translated to mean Nod. And do you remember Kane when he 322 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:37,200 was driven out of the Garden of Eden, he was driven to the east, 323 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:40,720 to the land of Nod. But I can hear exactly what 324 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:43,160 you're saying right now. You're saying, Joe, that isn't 325 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:45,720 your theory. So what is your off the curb 326 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:47,600 theory? Well, I've been thinking as I've 327 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:50,640 looked over many of these theories, some of them, yes, I 328 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:53,320 think we can rule out totally. But there does seem to be a 329 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:57,160 grain of truth in all of them. I mean, for instance, what about 330 00:18:57,160 --> 00:18:59,680 the land of Kush? Why have we always known 331 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:03,280 Ethiopia as the land of Kush? For some reason it doesn't rest 332 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:06,200 well with me to just write that off and say no no longer we're 333 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:10,040 saying that that is Kush. So what if when Pangia was that 334 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:13,680 super constant, if you look at the map, Ethiopia, if you bring 335 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:16,640 it together, it comes very, very close to Persia. 336 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:19,960 So what if the river Guillon really did start at the same 337 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:24,000 source right next to Persia because Ethiopia was so close. 338 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:27,640 And that's where the Tigris, the Euphrates, and the Pichon River 339 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:30,320 started. And And then what if after the 340 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:34,120 days of Noah we lost it? It was gone forevermore as as 341 00:19:34,120 --> 00:19:36,720 the consonant started to to rift apart. 342 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:40,440 And then Eden was meant to be restored in the Temple. 343 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:42,520 And then, as you know, that also went. 344 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:44,840 But then it was finally restored. 345 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:48,720 Eden came back through the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, 346 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:50,680 and it'll be never gone through him. 347 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:52,960 Those are just my thoughts. It's just a theory. 348 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:56,560 But hey, now perhaps you're saying I don't understand how 349 00:19:56,560 --> 00:20:00,520 because Adam and Eve sinned, we also have lost Eden. 350 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:02,880 Well, if you're asking that question, you've got to see this 351 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:05,280 video. 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