If the Garden of Eden was the beginning so what?

Reading the book "Heaven" by Randy Alcorn enlarged my view of the importance of the beginning and what it tells us about the end.  It also deepened my view of Christ and his plan for his created world.  There are many great things to learn from that book but the important thing he does is go into Scripture to see what God tells us about heaven and what it is like and what it will be like.  There are many more details that God has revealed about heaven than people have paid attention to.  It is a much more exciting picture of heaven from Scripture than most of us believe it will be.

But back to the beginning.  What Randy Alcorn shows us from Scripture is that Christ did not come to redeem his people alone but also his creation.  To redeem His people alone would have given over his creation to Satan. He began the work he accomplished on the cross by redeeming a people for himself but he will complete the work by redeeming the creation back to its perfection in the Garden of Eden before the Fall.  The full scope of history will be from the Garden of Eden, the fall of man into sin and the corruption of the world from that, Christ's redemption of his people and bringing them back into fellowship with him, then the final judgment and a final redemption of the creation bringing it back to the its state before the fall by cleansing with fire to become the new heaven and new earth.

I am so thankful to be chosen of God before the foundation of the world to receive the privilege of being his child, his redeemed, with the hope of living in the perfect redeemed world in his presence daily.  What an excellent future to give us hope in this world.