Paradise

Revelation 2:7 - He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.’

Genesis 2:9 - And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 3:22-24 - Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—”therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.

Luke 23:43 - And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

Application:

• Paradise is originally a Persian word for a pleasure garden. In Revelation it symbolizes the eschatological state in which God and man are restored to the perfect fellowship that existed before sin entered the world.
• Tree of life is signifying and giving life, without death, to those who eat its fruit. Adam and Eve possessed both life and moral discernment as they came from the hand of God. Their access to the fruit of the tree of life showed that God’s will and intention for them was life.
• Sin, which always results in death, cuts the sinner off from God’s gift of eternal life.
• Only through God’s redemption in Christ does man have access again to the tree of life.
•  In the Septuagint paradise designated a garden or forest, but in the New Testament it refers to the place of bliss and rest between death and resurrection.

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All Scripture verses taken from ESV