The Garden in the ScripturesMovement I · 1 of 17
A Forerunner Study of the Garden

The Garden in the Scriptures

Eight movements, from Eden to the New Jerusalem
Six teachers of the IHOPKC Bible Commentary library · NKJV
Mike BickleAllen HoodCorey RussellGary WiensDavid SlikerDana CandlerNKJV
Movement I

The Garden God Planted

Genesis 2:8, 9, 15, 17, 18
The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. And out of the ground the LORD God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden.Genesis 2:8, 9 · NKJV
A.God did not only speak this place into being. He spoke plants and trees across the whole earth, and here He personally planted a garden for the delight of a living soul.
Allen Hood
B.Out of every place on the globe, God chose a garden. It became the place where He would meet with man, the place of encounter and delight, where hearts are refreshed and love is exchanged in the cool of the shade.
Allen Hood
C.Adam was formed by the very hand of the Word. The breath of God filled him with a living soul, and God left His own mark on the man He treasured.
Allen Hood
D.Adam ruled this paradise before Eve was formed. God brought the animals to him one by one, to awaken in him the understanding of the glory of a companion.
Mike Bickle
In plain wordsGod did not just say let there be a garden. He planted it Himself, like a gift, and put the first man inside to enjoy it and to be close to Him.
Sources Points drawn from Allen Hood (“Excellencies”), Corey Russell (“Eternal Glory”), and Mike Bickle / IHOPKC (“Eve”; Forerunner Curriculum).Verified against the IHOPKC Bible Commentary library · NKJV
The Garden in the ScripturesMovement I · 2 of 17
Movement I

The Garden God Planted (continued)

Genesis 2:8, 9, 15, 17, 18
E.We were made to commune with the infinite God. We bear His image and likeness, and out of that fellowship with God we are given to rule in dominion on the earth.
Corey Russell
F.God gave Adam a real choice so his love could be real. His chance to express love by his own decision was a dynamic revelation of God's future, and it bestows great glory on humanity.
Corey Russell
G.God gave Adam work in the garden with no toil. He was to tend and keep it, to nurture the place of encounter and feed the place of passion. The work itself was a source of joy.
Mike Bickle
H.Then God said it was not good for the man to be alone. He used the aloneness to create longing in Adam, and the longing became the birthplace of love.
Mike Bickle
I.God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam. He formed the woman from his opened side. On the cross the side of the second Adam was pierced, and His Bride came forth. This is the first hint of the gospel in Scripture.
Mike Bickle
So the garden is not only where man began. It is the place where God let us see His own heart, and the wedding of the age to come between His Son and a Bride drawn from among us.
In plain wordsGod gave the man good work and a friend. He made the woman from Adam's opened side as he slept. Long after, Jesus let His side be opened on the cross to bring out a family for Himself.
Sources Points drawn from Allen Hood (“Excellencies”), Corey Russell (“Eternal Glory”), and Mike Bickle / IHOPKC (“Eve”; Forerunner Curriculum).Verified against the IHOPKC Bible Commentary library · NKJV
The Garden in the ScripturesMovement II · 3 of 17
Movement II

The Garden Lost

Genesis 3:8, 15, 22, 24
And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.Genesis 3:8 · NKJV
A.The cool of the day was the native climate of Eden. The Lord walked with them, and nearness was normal. Human history began in a meeting with God in a garden.
Mike Bickle
B.Sin taught the man to hide. The two who had known no shame now covered themselves and slipped among the trees, hiding from the face of the God who loved them.
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C.When Adam sinned he handed his dominion to the enemy. The authority over the earth that God had given to man passed into the hands of Satan.
Mike Bickle
D.God spoke the first promise of a Deliverer in the garden. He put enmity between the serpent and the woman, and said her Seed would bruise the serpent's head. The word of hope was planted in the place of the wound.
Corey Russell
In plain wordsThe man and woman disobeyed and got scared, so they hid from God. But right there God made a promise that Someone would come and beat the serpent and fix everything.
Sources Points drawn from Gary Wiens (“Heaven on Earth”), Corey Russell (“Eternal Glory”, on Gen. 3:15), and Mike Bickle / IHOPKC (“The Battle for Jerusalem”; “The House of Prayer”).Verified against the IHOPKC Bible Commentary library · NKJV
The Garden in the ScripturesMovement II · 4 of 17
Movement II

The Garden Lost (continued)

Genesis 3:8, 15, 22, 24
E.God drove the man out of the garden. He set cherubim and a flaming sword to guard the way to the tree of life, and the gate of Eden was closed behind him.
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F.Adam's keeping of the garden was a spiritual act. To be truly human, aligned with our original design, is to live before the Lord. His guarding and keeping meant more than the tending of soil.
Gary Wiens
G.The guarding was mercy. If fallen man had eaten from the tree of life in his broken state, he would have been fixed forever in that ruin. God shut the gate to keep a better gate open.
Mike Bickle
H.The same guarding appears at the end of the Bible. The angels that keep the way in Genesis are the angels that keep what defiles from entering the city in Revelation. The account holds from first page to last.
Mike Bickle
I.Adam lost the dominion, so God set out to win it back. Jesus, the last Adam, came to recover the authority the first Adam surrendered, and to give it again to redeemed men and women.
Mike Bickle
The exile is real, and it is heavy. It is not the end of the account. The gate that was shut in Genesis 3 has a key, and the key is held in the hand of the second Adam.
In plain wordsGod had to send them out and put angels at the gate. That was actually kind, so they would not be stuck broken forever. And God already had a plan to open the way back.
Sources Points drawn from Gary Wiens (“Heaven on Earth”), Corey Russell (“Eternal Glory”, on Gen. 3:15), and Mike Bickle / IHOPKC (“The Battle for Jerusalem”; “The House of Prayer”).Verified against the IHOPKC Bible Commentary library · NKJV
The Garden in the ScripturesMovement III · 5 of 17
Movement III

The Garden of the Heart

Song of Solomon 4:12, 16
Awake, O north wind, and come, O south! Blow upon my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come to his garden and eat its pleasant fruits.Song of Solomon 4:16 · NKJV
A.The Shulamite herself is the garden. In Song 4:12 she is a garden enclosed, and now in 4:16 she asks her Beloved to come fully into her, in reality, and to take what is His.
Corey Russell
B.She prays a two-fold prayer. She asks for the cold north wind of testing and the warm south wind of blessing, so her spices will flow out toward Jesus.
Mike Bickle
C.The north wind is the bitter wind of testing. She does not run from it. She asks for it on purpose, because the cold is what presses the spices out of her toward Him.
Mike Bickle
D.This is the great transition of the Song. She moves from her own garden to His garden. She stops guarding her inheritance and asks Him to have full possession of her.
Corey Russell
In plain wordsThe Bible calls your heart a garden. The girl in the song wants her heart to smell sweet for the One she loves. She even asks for the cold, hard wind, because it helps the good smell come out.
Sources Points drawn from Corey Russell (“Eternal Glory”, on Song 4:12–16) and Mike Bickle / IHOPKC (“The Ravished Heart of God”; Forerunner Curriculum).Verified against the IHOPKC Bible Commentary library · NKJV
The Garden in the ScripturesMovement III · 6 of 17
Movement III

The Garden of the Heart (continued)

Song of Solomon 4:12, 16
E.Watch how the Beloved answers her. In the very next verse there are nine uses of the word my. The point is that He is taking over, and she has become fully His.
Corey Russell
F.He opens her to pour out her whole life to Him. The full inheritance of her heart flows to Jesus and, through her, to the touching of the nations. We were made for this full possession.
Corey Russell
G.The fruit that grows in her remains. Jesus said He chose us to bear fruit that would last. The garden of a surrendered heart yields fruit that does not rot, because grace keeps it pure.
Mike Bickle
H.The joy of this love is full. She knows the fruit of her life is pleasant and delightful, to her and to her Beloved, and she can see it and rejoice.
Mike Bickle
So the invitation of a mature heart is simple and total. Come to Your garden. Take what is Yours. Enjoy what You have grown in me.
In plain wordsShe stops thinking only about what she gets from God, and starts wanting to give God joy. She says, come into my heart, it is Yours now. That is what growing up in love looks like.
Sources Points drawn from Corey Russell (“Eternal Glory”, on Song 4:12–16) and Mike Bickle / IHOPKC (“The Ravished Heart of God”; Forerunner Curriculum).Verified against the IHOPKC Bible Commentary library · NKJV
The Garden in the ScripturesMovement IV · 7 of 17
Movement IV

The Weeding of the Garden

The Sermon on the Mount · Matthew 5-7
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.Matthew 5:6, 8 · NKJV
A.The Beatitudes are eight flowers in the garden of the heart. They are eight heart attitudes that define love, godliness, and maturity, and God wants every one of them to fully blossom.
Mike Bickle
B.The Sermon on the Mount is the constitution of the kingdom. It is Jesus' full intention for the human heart, the Old Testament law carried all the way inside, into thought and desire and not the outward act alone.
Mike Bickle
C.A garden with flowers will also grow weeds. So Jesus tells us to weed our garden by resisting six temptations of our natural lusts in Matthew 5, and to water it by five activities of the devotional life in Matthew 6.
Mike Bickle
D.The garden first needs hunger. An awakened interest is not the same as hunger. Hunger is when we cannot live without more of Him, when we make radical changes to our lives in order to pursue God.
Dana Candler
E.The pure in heart are the ones who keep going. Sliker says the pure-minded who truly long for God are stirred to pursue an authentic Sermon on the Mount lifestyle and a vibrant holiness of heart.
David Sliker
In plain wordsJesus gave a famous teaching on a mountain. He said your heart is like a garden with beautiful flowers, and He shows you how to pull out the weeds so the flowers can grow.
Sources Points drawn from Mike Bickle / IHOPKC (Sermon on the Mount series, SOM1–SOM17; Forerunner Curriculum), Dana Candler (“The Rewards of Fasting”, on Mt. 5:6), David Sliker (on Mt. 5:8), and Gary Wiens (on Mt. 5:20).Verified against the IHOPKC Bible Commentary library · NKJV
The Garden in the ScripturesMovement IV · 8 of 17
Movement IV

The Weeding of the Garden (continued)

The Sermon on the Mount · Matthew 5-7
F.The first weed Jesus names is anger. He calls it the spirit of murder and moves it from the outward act to the inward root. We are always resisting this negative weed in the garden of the heart.
Mike Bickle
G.The next weed is lust. Adultery begins at the eye gate and grows into the heart. It is easier to close the eye gate than to put out the fire once it is lit, so we make a covenant with our eyes.
Mike Bickle
H.More weeds follow after these. Broken promises, the demand for our own rights, and the wish to retaliate. Jesus calls us to wage war on all of them in the hidden soil of the heart.
Mike Bickle
I.The heart is weeded, and it is also watered. We water the garden by giving, praying, fasting, serving, and blessing our enemies, the five activities of Matthew 6.
Mike Bickle
J.This is why righteousness is the highest priority. Wiens points to the word of Jesus that unless our righteousness goes deeper than that of the scribes and Pharisees, we do not enter, so the weeding must reach the inner man.
Gary Wiens
So the garden of the heart she opened in the last movement is kept by the words of Jesus. The winds she prayed for and the teaching He speaks pull the weeds, so the eight flowers can bloom and the Gardener can walk in a clean garden.
In plain wordsThe weeds are things like anger, lust, lying, and wanting to get back at people. Jesus helps us pull those out. Then we water the good flowers by praying, giving, and being kind even to people who are mean to us.
Sources Points drawn from Mike Bickle / IHOPKC (Sermon on the Mount series, SOM1–SOM17; Forerunner Curriculum), Dana Candler (“The Rewards of Fasting”, on Mt. 5:6), David Sliker (on Mt. 5:8), and Gary Wiens (on Mt. 5:20).Verified against the IHOPKC Bible Commentary library · NKJV
The Garden in the ScripturesMovement V · 9 of 17
Movement V

His Garden, Not Hers

Song of Solomon 5:1
I have come to my garden, my sister, my spouse; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends! Drink, yes, drink deeply, O beloved ones!Song of Solomon 5:1 · NKJV
A.He answers her invitation and comes in. The moment she opens the garden, He steps in and says, I have come to My garden. He never refuses a heart that offers itself to Him.
Mike Bickle
B.The possession turns at once into a harvest. He gathers myrrh and spice, honeycomb and honey, wine and milk. What she surrendered has become real fruit that He takes up and enjoys.
Corey Russell
C.The verse does not linger on the claim. He does say My over the garden and the spice and the wine, and then it moves straight to a table. Ownership here is already on its way to becoming a feast.
Mike Bickle
D.He turns from the two of them and speaks to a room. Eat, O friends. Drink, yes, drink deeply, O beloved ones. The private garden is about to feed a crowd.
Mike Bickle
In plain wordsWhen she opens her heart, Jesus comes in and gathers the good fruit, and then He throws a feast and invites all His friends to come and eat.
Sources Points drawn from Corey Russell (“Eternal Glory”, on Song 5:1) and Mike Bickle / IHOPKC (Forerunner Curriculum; “The Two-Fold Test”).Verified against the IHOPKC Bible Commentary library · NKJV
The Garden in the ScripturesMovement V · 10 of 17
Movement V

His Garden, Not Hers (continued)

Song of Solomon 5:1
E.He opens her to pour out to the nations. The full inheritance of her life flows to Him, and through her it reaches the nations. Her private yes becomes public bread.
Corey Russell
F.One surrendered heart becomes a table for many. The love He gathers from a single yielded life is not kept between the two of them. It is set out on a table, and a whole company is fed from it.
Mike Bickle
G.This is the burden that sets this movement apart. Surrender is more than a prayer whispered in a closed room. It ripens into fruit, and the fruit is carried out to people who never entered her garden.
Mike Bickle
H.She rises to go with Him and carry it out. The possession is not passive. She gets up to follow, and the overflow of her garden travels wherever He leads.
Corey Russell
So His garden is not a private room. The love He gathers in one heart He spreads on a table, and the overflow becomes nourishment for a watching world.
In plain wordsThe love she gives Jesus does not stay a secret. It turns into food that feeds a lot of people, even people who never met her.
Sources Points drawn from Corey Russell (“Eternal Glory”, on Song 5:1) and Mike Bickle / IHOPKC (Forerunner Curriculum; “The Two-Fold Test”).Verified against the IHOPKC Bible Commentary library · NKJV
The Garden in the ScripturesMovement VI · 11 of 17
Movement VI

The Garden of Sorrows

Song of Solomon 5:2 · Gethsemane
It is the voice of my beloved! He knocks, saying, “Open for me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one; for my head is covered with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.”Song of Solomon 5:2 · NKJV
A.There is a second garden in the story. Its name is Gethsemane, the place of the oil press, where Jesus was crushed on the night before the cross.
Mike Bickle
B.This is the fellowship of His sufferings. The Bride hears the voice of her Beloved knocking in the night, and she knows the moment of costly obedience has come upon her.
Gary Wiens
C.His hand is on the latch, and His hand is scarred. She recalls that the last time she was called, she was dressed in the clothing of compromise and fear. His scarred hand is the testimony of His love.
Gary Wiens
D.He invites her into the fellowship of His sufferings. This was the thing Paul most longed for, to know Him and the fellowship of His sufferings. This is the ultimate two-fold test of maturity.
Mike Bickle
In plain wordsJesus comes to His friend on the hardest night of His life, in a garden called Gethsemane. He knocks and asks her to be close to Him in His pain, not only in the happy times.
Sources Points drawn from Gary Wiens (“The Fellowship of His Sufferings”; “The Test of Withdrawal”, on Song 5:2–7), David Sliker (on Song 5:6), and Mike Bickle / IHOPKC (Forerunner Curriculum).Verified against the IHOPKC Bible Commentary library · NKJV
The Garden in the ScripturesMovement VI · 12 of 17
Movement VI

The Garden of Sorrows (continued)

Song of Solomon 5:2 · Gethsemane
E.She declares that the old clothes are off. She has taken off the garments of compromise. She feels the trepidation of the summons, and she is now determined to follow Him with courage and trust.
Gary Wiens
F.Her hands drip with myrrh as she reaches for the lock. Myrrh is a burial spice, costly and fragrant. It marks a heart willing to embrace death in its pursuit of Him.
Mike Bickle
G.Then comes the King's surprising strategy. She opens, and her Beloved has turned and gone. She seeks Him and cannot find Him. This is the test of withdrawal.
Gary Wiens
H.This is a dark night for those who love Him. Sliker sees here the many who burn with love for Jesus in the middle of affliction, and the season becomes a purifying fire for the whole church.
David Sliker
I.The keepers of the walls strike her and wound her. The very ones who should have helped her take her veil. She has done nothing wrong, and she still answers in love.
Gary Wiens
The garden of the heart in Movement III is proven in the garden of sorrows here. Love that asked to be tested is tested, and it does not let go.
In plain wordsShe gets up and says yes, even when it hurts and even when she cannot feel God near. People even treat her badly, but she keeps loving Him. That is how you know love is real.
Sources Points drawn from Gary Wiens (“The Fellowship of His Sufferings”; “The Test of Withdrawal”, on Song 5:2–7), David Sliker (on Song 5:6), and Mike Bickle / IHOPKC (Forerunner Curriculum).Verified against the IHOPKC Bible Commentary library · NKJV
The Garden in the ScripturesMovement VII · 13 of 17
Movement VII

The Garden of the Empty Tomb

John 19:41 · John 20:15
Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb. (John 19:41)   She, supposing Him to be the gardener, said to Him, “Sir, if You have carried Him away, tell me where You have laid Him.”John 19:41; 20:15 · NKJV
A.The tomb of Jesus lay in a garden. The new creation began where the first one began, among trees, at first light on the morning of the resurrection.
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B.The garden runs through the whole story of His love. Jesus prayed in a garden before His crucifixion, He was buried in a garden, and He rose again in a garden.
Allen Hood
C.Mary supposed the risen Christ to be the gardener. In a deeper sense she was right. He is the Gardener of the new creation, standing in the garden the first Adam lost.
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D.He is the last Adam taking up the ground the first let fall. Where the first man handed the garden to ruin, the second Man rises in a garden to begin the world again.
Mike Bickle
In plain wordsJesus rose from the dead in a garden, early in the morning. Mary thought He was the gardener. In a way, He is. He is starting to grow a whole new world.
Sources Points drawn from Allen Hood (“Excellencies”, the garden pattern of His life), David Sliker (“Biblical Foundations of Eschatology”), and Mike Bickle / IHOPKC (“What Will Our Resurrected Bodies Be Like”).Verified against the IHOPKC Bible Commentary library · NKJV
The Garden in the ScripturesMovement VII · 14 of 17
Movement VII

The Garden of the Empty Tomb (continued)

John 19:41 · John 20:15
E.His resurrection glory was veiled. At times He was not recognized, on the road to Emmaus, in the garden, on the shore. He could suddenly appear or vanish from sight.
Mike Bickle
F.His risen body had real flesh and bones. It could eat food. He showed them His hands and His feet, and He passed through what had been shut. This is the body we are promised.
Mike Bickle
G.The risen saints will live in bodies like His. Sliker teaches that they will relate to those in natural bodies without fully co-mingling, and that those in the New Jerusalem are not given to marriage.
David Sliker
H.For forty days He taught them the kingdom in that body. He gave them many proofs, so their hope would rest on the living Man Himself and not on sight alone.
Mike Bickle
So the empty tomb is the first green shoot of the whole restored garden. Resurrection is the new creation breaking ground, one grave at a time.
In plain wordsJesus' new body was real. It had bones and could eat food, and it could also walk through walls. Because He is alive with that kind of body, one day everything will come back to life too.
Sources Points drawn from Allen Hood (“Excellencies”, the garden pattern of His life), David Sliker (“Biblical Foundations of Eschatology”), and Mike Bickle / IHOPKC (“What Will Our Resurrected Bodies Be Like”).Verified against the IHOPKC Bible Commentary library · NKJV
The Garden in the ScripturesMovement VIII · 15 of 17
Movement VIII

The Garden Restored

Revelation 22:1-5
And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.Revelation 22:1-2 · NKJV
A.John sees the garden again at the end. He sees the water of life and the tree of life, with no curse from Genesis 3 remaining. God restores His Genesis 1 and 2 purposes and carries them higher than Eden.
Mike Bickle
B.The river and the tree point straight back to Eden. Life in the City is the river of life and the tree of life. What was lost in Genesis is standing restored in the last chapter of the Bible.
Gary Wiens
C.The garden and the throne share one city. The river flows from the throne of God and of the Lamb, and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.
Mike Bickle
D.There shall be no more curse. God's light will impart power and wisdom and holiness to those who reign with Him, and the saints will not be idle.
Gary Wiens
In plain wordsAt the very end of the Bible, the garden comes back, even better than before. There is a river, a tree that keeps making fruit, and leaves that heal people. God fixes everything sad.
Sources Points drawn from Gary Wiens (“The Restoration of All Things”), David Sliker (on Rev. 22:2), and Mike Bickle / IHOPKC (“Hope, the Eternal Kingdom”; “Heaven on Earth”).Verified against the IHOPKC Bible Commentary library · NKJV
The Garden in the ScripturesMovement VIII · 16 of 17
Movement VIII

The Garden Restored (continued)

Revelation 22:1-5
E.The saints will administer His government in His light. They will serve and reign from this city, and the leaves of the tree carry healing out to the nations of the earth.
Gary Wiens
F.The healing of the nations comes over time. Sliker warns that not every area of life is instantly perfected at His coming. As wisdom is gained and applied, the nations are brought to obedience.
David Sliker
G.Our hope needs the whole picture. If we lose the restored garden, we lose Jesus as Creator. If we lose the restored kingdom, we lose Him as King of the nations.
Mike Bickle
H.Hope like this purifies us now. A clear picture of the future changes how we live in the present. We will eat and drink at that river forever, and its pleasure will never grow stale.
Mike Bickle
They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads, and they shall reign forever. The story closes where it opened, God and His people together, face to face by the river, under the tree of life, in the cool of a day that has no evening.
In plain wordsThere will be no more curse and no more sad things. God's people will help Him run the new world, and it gets better and better. Knowing this good ending helps us live well right now.
Sources Points drawn from Gary Wiens (“The Restoration of All Things”), David Sliker (on Rev. 22:2), and Mike Bickle / IHOPKC (“Hope, the Eternal Kingdom”; “Heaven on Earth”).Verified against the IHOPKC Bible Commentary library · NKJV
The Garden in the ScripturesScripture Index · 17 of 17
Appendix

The Garden Thread in Full

The verses the eight movements point to, gathered in full · NKJV

Across the study these Scriptures are named and leaned on without being printed. Here is each one in full, so the thread can be read on its own, from the first promise of the Seed who bruises the serpent to the flesh and bones of the risen Lord.

In the Planting · Movement I
Genesis 1:31Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good.
Genesis 2:16-17Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
Genesis 2:21-22And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs. Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.
Genesis 2:24Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
In the Fall and the First Promise · Movement II
Genesis 3:6She took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.
Genesis 3:15And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.
Genesis 3:22Lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever.
In the Wounded Side · Movements I and VI
John 19:34But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.
Ephesians 5:31-32The two shall become one flesh. This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Philippians 3:10That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death.
In the Enclosed Garden and the Rising · Movements III and VII
Song of Solomon 4:12A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse, a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
Luke 24:39Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself. Handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have.
Scripture New King James Version, the passages referenced across Movements I through VIII, gathered here for study.Verified against the IHOPKC Bible Commentary library · NKJV
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