The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
genesis 2:15-17
The passage above, in conjunction with Genesis 3 (Typically referred to as “The Fall”), set up what becomes the event that would cause Heaven and Earth to be separated — to borrow how the Bible Project phrases it, the event that would change Heaven on Earth to Heaven and Earth. It’s a really interesting event that is worth diving into. There are all sorts of strange things that happen over the course of Genesis 2 and 3. Talking snakes, cherubim, and a garden filled with the complete presence of God. And these are all things that I think we need to explore.