Title: The Principle of Trees in the Bible
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The principle of the religious life illuminated by the principle of the tree
Chapter 1. Finding the Secret of the Tree of Life...
Genesis, the first record of the Bible, a special revelation given for the salvation of fallen man, clearly states the fall due to man's sin along with man's creation. Moses, the author of Genesis, was about 2,500 years after Adam, the ancestor of mankind. Then, why did God let Moses record the events of the creation of the world thousands of years ago?
Genesis is not only a “history book” that records the past history, but it is also a “prophecy book” that shows the path that the last saints must follow in the future.
“What is now was of old, and what is to be was of old; and God seeks the past again.” -Ecclesiastes 3:15
The most important thing in Genesis is about the tree of life. This is because the only way for fallen human beings to live eternally by eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge is to eat the fruit of the tree of life.
"Behold, this man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, saith the LORD God, lest he stretch out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat it, and live forever." Then the LORD God sent the man out of the garden of Eden to destroy the land from which he was born. So God drove out the man, and on the east side of the garden of Eden he placed cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life." -Genesis 3:22-24
As a result of disobedience to God, the Bible ends with the cherubim and the flaming sword blocking the way to the tree of life.
"Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have authority to go to the tree of life and to enter the city through the gates." - Revelation 22:14
It is necessary to carefully consider whether these words recorded in Genesis and Revelation are true only for Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, who fell after eating the forbidden fruit. If the tragedy due to the tree of knowledge and the restoration to the tree of life is limited to Adam and Eve, the ancestors of mankind, and has nothing to do with us, then does God need to give us the New Testament and 66 books of the Old Testament, including Genesis?
This has been showing us from the creation of the world the path we must walk in the future as descendants of the fallen Adam and Eve. In other words, if you chew the cud in Revelation 22:14, it is not that Adam and Eve, who were driven from the tree of life by eating the tree of knowledge, have to go to the tree of life, but our saints living in the last age, breaking through the cherubim and the flame sword, You can see that it is implying that you have to go to the tree.
Then, what is the reality of the tree of life to which our saints must ultimately advance?
Just as Jesus taught the secret of the kingdom of heaven and the principle of salvation by analogy with nature, if we meditate deeply on the principle of the tree, which is a natural revelation, we can understand the parable of the Bible, which is a special revelation, and furthermore, the characteristics of human creation.
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tree of life
Among the parables throughout the Bible, the most important is the tree of life. Without unraveling the mystery hidden in the tree of life, the last prophecy, the Book of Revelation, cannot be unraveled. Because the key to the book of Revelation is in Genesis. Nothing in this world has an effect without a cause. As the record of the Bible begins with the creation of the heavens and the earth (Genesis), in order to know the will of God's providence of salvation for 6,000 years and to unravel the final word, we must never be ignorant of the purpose of the creation of the heavens and the earth and the secret of the tree of life. For there is nothing more dangerous than trying to know the end and the end without knowing the beginning and the cause.
No one will know that the ancestors of mankind, Adam and Eve, fell from the tree of life because they disobeyed God's Word. However, in the book of Revelation, which is a record of what will happen in the future, this tree of life is mentioned again.
"Behold, this man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, saith the LORD God, lest he stretch out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat it, and live forever." Then the LORD God sent the man out of the garden of Eden to destroy the land from which he was born. So God drove out the man, and on the east side of the garden of Eden he placed cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life." -Genesis 3:22-24
"Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have authority to go to the tree of life and to enter the city through the gates." - Revelation 22:14
The tree of life in Genesis was in the Garden of Eden. Then, isn't the tree of life in the book of Revelation also the tree in the garden of Eden? This is a concrete statement that shows that the hometown we will return to in the future is the Garden of Eden, where Adam and Eve, the ancestors of mankind, lived before the Fall.
The Bible ends with the “human being expelled from the tree of life” in the Alpha (first, beginning) time, going through the vortex of a long human history of 6,000 years, and “going forward to the tree of life” again in the Omega (last) time.
Then, what is the reality of the tree of life?
In general, seminaries teach that the tree of life is Jesus. If the tree of life refers to one Jesus, how should we interpret Revelation 22:1-2?
"And he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, from the throne of God and of the Lamb, flowing in the middle of the road. On either side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, bearing its fruit every month, and the leaves of the tree It was there to heal the nations." -Rev 22:1-2
The fact that there is a tree of life on either side of the river means that there is not one tree of life, but two or more. As is commonly known, if the tree of life refers to Jesus, the contradictory result is that Jesus is not one but two or more.
Now, we, the saints living in this age, must find a way out of the long maze that has been covered with parables and symbols for thousands of years by rationally unraveling the words that we have blindly believed and accepted until now based on the Bible. We must keep in mind that we are standing at the crossroads of an important spiritual life.