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 Since they have no prospect of living in an earthly paradise, how is it  that anointed Christians, such as those Ephesians are rewarded with eating "of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God"?  This could not be the restored paradise on earth, since the 144,000 anointed Christians, including those of the congregation of Ephesus are bought from mankind rule with the heavenly Lamb, Jesus Christ, on the heavenly Mount Zion as spirit sons.  (Ephesians 1:5-12; Revelation 1:1, 4)  Hence the reference here must be to the heavenly gardenlike realm inherited by these conquerors.  There, "in the paradise of God," yes, in the very presence of Jehovah himself, these overcomers who have been granted immortality will continue to live eternally of the tree of life. 

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