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Curious
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| Posted 5/13/2002 10:49 AM (GMT -6) |   | A couple of weeks ago, Doc delivered an interesting sermon related to the two trees discussed in Genesis that God placed in the center of the garden: the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Greg discussed how these two trees represent much of how we should approach our lives; that is, that we should turn to God for life and realize that there are certain things that we should realize are unknowable or unwise to seek as a human being. However, when I read further, I saw that later in Genesis 3, after Adam and Eve had partaken of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, that God "banished him from the Garden of Eden. . ." and "placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life." Maybe this is an area where trust is needed, but I'm wondering what the implications of these latter verses are for understanding the former. Any ideas would be welcome!
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Matthew Timothy Short
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| Posted 5/14/2002 1:19 AM (GMT -6) | | Dear Curious,
This is a short Topical Study of the ‘Tree of Life’, and other Scriptural references; hope this helps.
Gen 1:26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion…
Gen 2:8And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Gen 2:9,22,24 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the ‘tree of life’ also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the ‘tree of life’, and eat, and live for ever:
So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the ‘tree of life’.
Psa 104:4Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
Psa 147:3He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
Pro 3:13,18,19Happy [is] the man [that] findeth wisdom, and the man [that] getteth understanding…She [is] a ‘tree of life’ to them that lay hold upon her: and happy [is every one] that retaineth her. The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.
Pro 11:30 The fruit of the righteous [is] a ‘tree of life’; and he that winneth souls [is] wise.
Pro 13:12 Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but [when] the desire cometh, [it is] a ‘tree of life’.
Pro 15:4 A wholesome tongue [is] a ‘tree of life’: but perverseness therein [is] a breach in the spirit.
Eze 47:12And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory
on the Whole Bible (1871)
Eze 47:12 Instead of the "vine of Sodom and grapes of Gomorrah" ( Deu 32:32 ), nauseous and unwholesome, trees of life-giving and life-restoring virtue shall bloom similar in properties to, and exceeding in number, the tree of life in Eden ( Rev 2:7 22:2, 14 ).
leaf . . . not fade--expressing not only the unfailing character of the heavenly medicine of the tree of life, but also that the graces of the believer (as a tree of righteousness), which are the leaves, and his deeds, which are the fruits that flow from those graces, are immortal ( Psa 1:3 Jer 17:8 Mat 10:42 1Cr 15:58 ).
new fruit--literally, "firstlings," or first fruit. They are still, each month afresh, as it were, yielding their first-fruit [FAIRBAIRN]. The first-born of a thing, in Hebrew idiom, means the chiefest. As Job 18:13 , "the first-born of death," that is, the most fatal death.
Jer 17:14Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou [art] my praise.
Mat 7:21Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Jhn 14:6Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Jhn 15:10If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
1Jo 5:3,4For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, [even] our faith.
1Pe 2:24Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
Rev 2:7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the ‘tree of life’, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
Rev 21:7He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
Rev 21:27And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither [whatsoever] worketh abomination, or [maketh] a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Rev 22:1,2And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, [was there] the ‘tree of life’, which bare twelve [manner of] fruits, [and] yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree [were] for the healing of the nations.
Rev 22:14 Blessed [are] they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the ‘tree of life’, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Rev 22:17And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
In God’s Love,
Tim
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