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Fig.1: Eden Covenant.
The Eden Covenant is designed with prevention in mind! Obedience to the Primary Contract of the Eden Covenant will preserve the life of the individual, and keep them from falling into sin and error. Prevention is preferred over rescue!
The Eden Covenant is a contract comprising components which are also contracts.
The Lord God sees the needs of the new arrival to the annex to the Heavenly Realm. He has the necessary resources to meet those needs, and so offers a new arrival a contract which - if obeyed - will enable the newcomer to dwell safely in His presence.
The components of the Eden Covenant form an important foundation for the much-later Messianic Covenant:
Fig.2: The Covenant towards the end of the age (Micah 4:1-2).
A summary of consideration in the Eden Covenant:
Fig.3: Eden Covenant - consideration.
As might be expected of the Primary Contract, the offerer is the Lord God Himself.
Note the preventative aim of the contract. Prevention is infinitely better than rescue! As for the Rescue Contract, there are no guarantees, as Jesus pointed out:
[21] "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. [22] Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' [23] Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'(Matthew 7:21-23 NIV)
Those who choose the preventative function of the Primary Contract, the Lord God will educate, direct, and warn. And the obedience of the people will keep them free of sin, and will enable them to bear much fruit for Him.
If mankind breaks the Covenant, then Spiritual Death will be the outcome.
Were the Lord God to break the Eden Covenant then althoughthe outcome is not stated the Covenant would lie in ruins. But isn't this what Paul and the unknown writer to the Hebrews have done in claiming that the Covenant is lethal, based on inadequate promises, faulty, and past its sell-by date?
The Covenant was lethal:
6 He [the Lord] has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant---not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter [of the Law] kills, but the Spirit gives life. (2 Corinthians 3:6 NIV)
The Covenant promises were inadequate:
But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. (Hebrews 8:6 ESV)
The Covenant was faulty:
For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second. (Hebrews 8:7 ESV)
The Covenant was past its sell-by date:
In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. (Hebrews 8:13 ESV)
These errors remain current to this day.
