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before this devastating sin was committed; making it clear to mankind that we are created with the innate ability to choose right from wrong; to accept His offer of atonement or reject it. The LORD so loved us that our reconciliation unto Himself, was the reason why Yeshua had to come into this world. 2 Corinthians 5:18-21 states: And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ stead, be ye reconciled to God. For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. We would have no hope of salvation if it were not for Yeshua Jesus; man would therefore not be redeemable.

To remove Adam and Eve from the garden was an act of great love and grace. God has given us all both a choice and a chance to return to Him voluntarily through His freewill offering of Yeshua. Genesis 3:22-24 states: And the LORD GOD said, Behold, the man is become one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever: therefore the LORD GOD sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So He drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. These same classes of living creatures are the guards of Eden until the return of Yeshua, when all things will be made new.

The prophet Ezekiel was obviously mystified by what he was looking at, for not only did these living creatures have four sets of faces depicting that of man, a lion, an ox and an eagle, they were borne by a wheel that was within a much larger wheel with rings that were high and awesome to look at. In Ezekiel 1:14 the word Shuv was used figuratively to describe the fact that the living creatures