Paradise

The 7th layer of heaven is exclusively reserved for humans who are righteous. Humans can arrive immediately after death or after being judged worthy after time in the In-Between. Home to sweet fruits, trees of life, and abounding flowers.

Marked by branching rivers and springs of honey and milk, oil and wine. Here, amidst the trees of life is God's resting tree where he comes to visit the human residents. (Note: God does not do the same for angels, which contributes to a source of jealously over man for some). This tree has all fruits and is colored gold and vermilion with fire.

300 angels frequent here as keepers of the garden [1].

Angels' Jealousy of Man (see Angels)

Paradise is placed above all other layers of Heaven where Angels preside (other than the Army of God) because Humans (children of clay) are favored by God over Angels (children of fire). This is an annoyance for many Angels (both holy and fallen), and part of the reason for Satanael's fall. parent: Heaven

[1] Enoch 2, Layer 3 of Heaven "And I saw all the sweet-flowering trees and beheld their fruits, which were sweet-smelling, and all the foods borne (by them) bubbling with fragrant exhalation. 3 And in the midst of the trees that of life, in that place whereon the Lord rests, when he goes up into paradise; and this tree is of ineffable goodness and fragrance, and adorned more than every existing thing; and on all sides (it is) in form gold-looking and vermilion and fire-like and covers all, and it has produce from all fruits. ... And two springs come out which send forth honey and milk, and their springs send forth oil and wine, and they separate into four parts, and go round with quiet course, and go down into the PARADISE OF EDEN, between corruptibility and incorruptibility. [2 Enoch]" Life of Adam and Eve shares info with the bible where the location of the paradise in the third heaven (2 Corinthians 12:2)