have difficulty in thinking in the 'Spirit', and rely on the flesh understanding; too much listening to traditions.

 

The Holy Spirit reveals these deeper messages to those who are sincere with God's Truth, and not to those who rely on others for interpretation by the flesh mind.
      The last Chapter of Ezekiel tells us the Name of that Holy City, the New Jerusalem; it is 'Jehovah Shammah' in the Hebrew, which translates to English: 'The LORD is there'. What a powerful and blessed thought. So I hope you get the idea that God was here in the Garden of Eden with 'the Adam', that is to say, the 'eth' Ha'adham'. We continue with these 'branches' of 'a River out of Eden'.

 

Gen 2:11    The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
12   And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
13    And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
14    And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

      Again, these four rivers around Eden are fed from the 'river' back in Genesis 2:10, a River that proceeds out of the Throne of God and the Lamb. This is a spiritual message from our Father, that all goodness and righteousness flows from Him, and He represents the flowing waters that give 'everlasting' Life. It is this 'River of Life' from God that Jesus was teaching the Samaritan woman at the well about…

 

See John 4: Christ talketh with a woman of Samaria, and revealeth himself unto her. 27 His disciples marvel. 32 He declareth to them his zeal to God’s glory. 39 Many Samaritans believe on him. 43 He departeth into Galilee, and healeth the ruler’s son that lay sick at Capernaum.

 

Gen 2:15    And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

      This 'man' is the 'eth' Ha' adham', the man Adam that was placed in the Garden of Eden to keep it.

Gen 2:16   And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17    But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."

      Again, this 'tree of the knowledge of good and evil' is Satan because Satan was created good, but became evil. Adam and Eve did not die immediately after they ate from this 'tree'. However, you will notice that Adam did not live past one thousand years, or no man in the flesh for that matter. Do you remember what a 'day' to God is equal to?

 

See II Peter 3 1 He assureth them of the certainty of Christ’s coming to judgement, against those scorners who dispute against it: 8 warning the Godly, for the long patience of God, to hasten their repentance. 10 He describeth also the manner how the world may be destroyed: 11 exhorting them from the expectation thereof, to all holiness of life: 15 and again, to think the patience of God to tend to their salvation, as Paul wrote to them in his epistles.

Gen 2:18   And the LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him."