Page 55 - BV4

THE WAY BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH." Perhaps "Chung" and "Li" were the
two angels on either side of Eden's gate!

So God expelled Adam and Eve from the Garden. As they passed through the EASTERN
GARDEN GATE, they realized that this meant their exclusion from the life-giving Tree
of Life and immortality....A barrier, fence had been set up past which they could not go to
eat from the Tree of Life. There were two angels [cherubim] guarding the way. Instead of
"hands" at the gate entrance, some ancient forms [of pictographs] depict "the presence of
God." It seems, therefore, that the GATE OF EDEN became the new PLACE OF WOR-
SHIPPING GOD, since sin had prevented a face-to-face visit with God on the Holy
Mount inside the Garden. -- Mysteries Confucius Couldn't Solve, pps. 80-81.

Authors Nelson and Broadberry continue:

An UNBLEMISHED LAMB, symbolizing the SAVIOR TO COME, was sacrificed and
burned AT THE GATE. Animal sacrifices became an important part of their worship.
The pictograph reveals the person bending in obeisance, and offering with a hand some
thing to God. A Bronzeware figure for the same character, sacrifice, portrays a person
kneeling before God. That the offering to God WAS ALWAYS MADE OUTSIDE THE
GARDEN is quite obvious in yet another form of the same character...-- Ibid, p.83.

With these startling revelations, drawn from the ancient Chinese pictographs, it becomes
evident that the new site for worshipping God, after our first parents were expelled from the Gar-
den of Eden, was at the EAST GATE. This gate became a new holy place and was later repre-
sented by the MIPHKAD ALTAR mentioned by the apostle Paul!

Nelson and Broadberry expound further on their researches:

After Adam and Eve had been expelled from Eden, the NEW LOCATION for worship,
therefore, was the GARDEN BOUNDARY, BORDER. A boundary had been set up at
the gate, a barrier, to keep the first couple from the Tree of Life. There are a number of
Oracle Bone renditions for this....

Eden's gate was now the border or boundary past which they were prevented going by the
presence of the cherubim angels. There are many [Chinese] characters meaning border or
boundary. All have the same reference, THE BORDER OF THE GARDEN OF EDEN,
MORE SPECIFICALLY, AT THE EAST GATE....

How amazing that there are so many Chinese characters for BORDER, each of them de-
noting the BORDER OF EDEN: the Garden, the Garden enclosure, the gate or in yet an
other, the Holy Mountain BORDER! This is not difficult to interpret....

WE MAY CONCLUDE THAT THIS...SERVICE OUTSIDE OF EDEN'S EAST GATE,
WAS A "BORDER SACRIFICE" INITIATED BY SHANGTI [GOD], HIMSELF. After
Adam and Eve were driven from the Garden, they could ask forgiveness for sin by a sym-
bolic animal sacrifice at the border or gate of the Garden of Eden. THE BORDER SAC-

55