The Garden of God is gift-giving; gift-giving with honesty, gift-giving with integrity, gift-giving with effort and care. Even the Garden's systems and structures are founded on efforts of gift-giving. In this, we imitate God - treating one another the way that God treats us.
Yes, there is exchange and trade between persons and peoples and races; not as a means to provide what another lacks for survival - exchanging labor, struggle and information for basic necessities like food and shelter (this is the vile godless foolishness of this exiled world); but rather a means to share in our unique excesses and creations, and to offload what we no longer require or desire (and for other reasons, I'm sure).
God will have a Garden in the Earth, and it is going to be both beautiful and devastating to watch God change the stubbornly warped hearts of man. We will be like the psalmist who rested safely and securely in the midst of a city under attack (Psalms 31).
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