Revelation 11:8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of
the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt,
where also our Lord was crucified.
- The great city isn't Jerusalem. The great city is the world full of wickedness (Sodom) and carnal lusts (Egypt.)
John 19:41 Now
in the place where He was crucifed there
was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre,
wherein was never man yet laid.
- The "place" He was crucified was the world and in the world....there is a garden. In that garden there "was never man yet laid." Why? Because those in that garden are of the "first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power." [Revelation 20:6] He and His disciples, all of us that follow Him, enter that garden.....
18:1 When Jesus had spoken these words,
He went forth with His disciples over the brook Cedron,
where was a garden, into the which He entered, and His disciples. We see the two places we can be. In the world or in His garden. The same garden from the very beginning. In [Genesis 2:8-15] the verses are in parenthesis. (And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed.........And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.) The garden is a special place for those "
formed." Mankind was "
created" in His image physically and inhabits the world but those He formed (
in His image), our spirits, God puts in the garden. They, beginning with Adam, are Israel, the body of Christ...whether through genetics or adoption...once their/our spirit is formed we are His garden...His special planting. We inherit the land, the garden.
- Zechariah 12:1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, Which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him. Isaiah 60:21 Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, that I may be glorified.
