Ancients in Revelation 4

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Do you mean the Ancients being the 24 Elders ?

The book of Revelation nowhere specifically identifies who the twenty-four elders are. However, they are most likely representative of the Church. The fact that they sit on thrones indicates that they reign with Christ.

In addition, the Greek word translated here as “elders” is never used to refer to angels, only to men, particularly to men of a certain age who are mature and able to rule the Church.

Some people believe these twenty-four elders represent Israel, but at the time of this vision, Israel as a whole nation had not yet been redeemed. The elders cannot represent tribulation saints for the same reason—not all had yet been converted at the time of John’s vision.

My own option is that the elders represent the raptured Church which sings songs of redemption.
 
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THE SERPENT said to Eve , ‘Is it true that God has forbidden you to eat from any tree in the garden?’

The woman answered the serpent’We may eat the fruit of any tree in the garden except for the tree in the middle of the garden; God has forbidden us either to eat or to touch the fruit of that; if we do, we shall die.’

The serpent said, ‘Of course you will not die. God knows that as soon as you eat it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods Or God knowing both good and evil.’

When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good to eat, and that it was pleasing to the eye and tempting to contemplate, she took some and ate it. She also gave her husband some and he ate it.

Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they discovered that they were naked ; so they stitched fig-leaves together and made themselves loincloths. The man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden …and hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. But the LORD God called to the man and said to him, ‘Where are you?’

He replied, ‘I heard the sound as you were walking in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, and I hid myself.’

God answered, ‘Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree which I forbade you ?’

The man said, ‘The woman you gave me for a companion, she gave me fruit from the tree and I ate it.’

Then the LORD God said to the woman, ‘What is this that you have done?’
The woman said, ‘The serpent tricked me, and I ate.’

Then the LORD God said to the serpent:

'Because you have done this you are accursed
more than all cattle and all wild creatures.
On your belly you shall crawl, and dust you shall eat
all the days of your life.

I will put enmity between you and the woman,
between your brood and hers.
They shall strike at your head,
and you shall strike at their heel.’

To the woman he said:

‘I will increase your labour and your groaning,
and in labour you shall bear children.
You shall be eager for your husband,
and he shall be your master.’

And to the man he said:

'Because you have listened to your wife
and have eaten from the tree which I forbade you,
accursed shall be the ground on your account.

With labour you shall win your food from it
all the days of your life.

It will grow thorns and thistles for you,
none but wild plants for you to eat.

You shall gain your bread by the sweat of your brow
until you return to the ground; for from it you were taken.

Dust you are, to dust you shall return.’

The man called his wife Eve That is Life because she was the mother of all who live.

The LORD God made tunics of skins for Adam and his wife and clothed them.

He said, ‘The man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; what if he now reaches out his hand and takes fruit from the tree of life also, eats it and lives for ever?’

So the LORD God drove him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he had been taken.

He cast him out, and to the east of the garden of Eden he stationed the cherubim and a sword whirling and flashing to guard the way to the tree of life.
 
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Adam and Eve were not asked to “Till the Soil of The Garden of Eden”
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God put Adam in the garden of Eden to till it – Scripture couldn’t be clearer.

What do you think Adam was doing before he got expelled. He didn’t disobey what God had directed him to do while there. We have no idea how long Adam and Eve were in the garden before sinning - how long he had been “tilling” the soil in the garden of Eden before sinning and being cast out.
 
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Prior to being Banished from Eden - Man had Access to The Fruit from The Tree of Life

AFTER being banished from Eden - Adam now has to toily till the soil outside Eden - and then DIE

So the LORD God drove him out of the garden of Eden
to till the ground from which he had been taken.

Because you have listened to your wife
and have eaten from the tree which I forbade you,
accursed shall be the ground on your account.

With labour you shall win your food from it
all the days of your life.

It will grow thorns and thistles for you,
none but wild plants for you to eat.

You shall gain your bread by the sweat of your brow
until you return to the ground; for from it you were taken.

So the LORD God drove him out of the garden of Eden
to till the ground from which he had been taken.
 
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