A spiritual Paradise. Throughout many of the prophetic books of the Bible, divine promises are found regarding the restoration of Isreal from the lands of its exile to its desolated homeland. God would cause that abandoned land to be tilled and sown, to produce richly, and to abound with humankind and animalkind; the cities would be rebuilt and inhabited, and people would say: "That land yonder which was laid desolate has become like the garden of Eden." (Eze 36:6-1, 29, 30, 33-35; Isa 51:3; Jer 31: 1-12; Eze 34:25-27.)