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Flood (Rev 12:4-16) and becomes exclusively so during the coterminous Luke
10:18 and Rev 12:8 which describe the final fall of Satan and the residue of his
spirits upon the Earth(s).

Before that point Satan and some devils had been in Heaven (2 Chron 18:18-22,
Job 1:6, Jer 19:13, Mat 11:12, Rev 12:4). Devil spirits, which are former angels,
are therefore in darkness unless and until Saved (2 Pet 2:4). There is a
connectivity throughout the Creation such that evil in a specific sense ramifies out
and affects ‘other’ facets of reality (Gen 3:14-19, Isaiah 3:1-2, Jer 12:4, Rom
8:22). It is wrong to worship angels (Jer 19:13).

Adam, the parable, was created a conditionally eternal being subject to death in
God’s time (Gen 3:22, Rom 8:20). His lifetime was 930 years (Gen 5:5) and the
‘day’ of Gen 2:17 was God’s time. He was not created an eternal being (Gen 1:29,
2:16, 3:22). He would have had to eat of the Tree of Life to be unconditionally
immortal (Gen 3:22). The timing of death was God’s time (Gen 2:17).

Eternal Life

This has always been readily available to all men, everywhere throughout time and
space ( Gen 1:29, 2:9, Rom 1:20). The perspective of God is that of the eternal and
specifically that which is eternally alive, i.e. saved (Mat 8:22, Luke 9:60, John
3:18). All that is required is belief in Jesus as the Son of God (John 3:36).

The Garden of Eden

This was a parabolical in some of its aspects and in others is a supernatural and
primarily spiritual place and part of Paradise (Gen 3:24, Rev 2:7, 22:2) with a
‘geographical’ location that includes all the peoples of Man in all time (Ezekiel
31:3-18) as well as a specific 'interface' with a part of Earth (Gen 2:8, 10-15).
Adam and Eve, were parabolical sinners (against the Law-in-spirit) even before
eating the forbidden fruit (Rom 1: 20, Rom 3:20, 23, 4:5, 5:13, 8:20-21) thus
partaking of and becoming subject to the full Law (Gen 2:7, Rom: 7:7, 8:20, 22, 1
Cor 15:45-9). The first commandments (Gen 1:28, 2:17, Rom 7:9) placed Adam
under Law, The Law-in-spirit, before he was under The Law-in-spirit-and-flesh,
(Gen 2:17, Rom 7:8, 9:32). At this stage he was a sinner against Salvation or Initial
Grace, that is unsaved, under the Law-in-spirit, rather than a sinner against the
Law-in-spirit-and-flesh (Gen 1:29, 2:16, Rom 1:20). The former state is the state of
angels until/unless they have received Salvation (Col 1:20). Adam and Eve were
doomed as they did not eat/partake of the Tree of Life (rejecting Grace and Jesus -
Genesis 1:29, 3:22, John 6:48-56, Rev 2:7, 22:2), this first sin of omission (Gen