There are two kinds of trees in the Bible. One is "the tree of the life". The other is "the tree of knowledge of good and evil". Were you not curious about what are these trees? Or where are these trees located? I'll explain to you the true identities of these two trees.
Why is it important to know about these trees?
Should I know about identities of these trees?
Are there real identities of these trees?
Eating the fruit of the tree of the life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil leads us to different results. Eating the fruit of the tree of the life leads us to eternal life. However, eating the tree of the knowledge of good and evil leads us to eternal death.
If those fruits makes huge differences, we should think about "Why don't I know the differences between those identities? What are they exactly?"
God said "I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter hidden things, things from of old~" This means God is planning to hide something from of old which is Genesis. That's why we couldn't know the secret of two trees. But, God is not hiding forever. He will open mouth and tell us in parables.
Jesus spoke about the secrets of the kingdom of heaven in parables (Mt 13). However, Jesus promised to tell us everything plainly when the time comes(Jn 16:25). This means that not everything was revealed in the past or at the first coming of Jesus. God prophesied. And, Jesus came to fulfill God's prophet. That's why Jesus was telling God's words in parables at the first coming. This can conclude why the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil are secrets.
The fruit of the knowledge of good and evil was forbidden by God. However, Eve broke the promise and ate forbidden fruit. Due to nonfulfillment, Adam and Eve have sinned. As a result, the world became a world of sin. the devil took everything including people and the world. And, the devil has started reigning over the world. The reigning has lasted up to today.
God is the Creator and life. God is holy. God can not live with sin. Also, God can not live with people with sin. That's why God left man and people. God provides life. Life, fortune and misfortune depend on God. Without God living with us, life can not be supplemented. It will lead us to death. After Adam and Even, sin was descended. People became to be born with the sins. Due to the sins, people became to die.
After everything was taken by the devil, God has worked for 6,000 years to restore. In order to do that, God made covenants with people in each era. According to Isaiah 5, the choicest vines were planted, but they yielded wild grapes. According to Deuteronomy 32:32-33, the wild vine, the vine of Sodom and Gomorrah, is the venom of serpents and the deadly poison of cobras. Isaiah 5:7 indicates they sand for the Israelites.
At the first coming, Jesus came in the name of God as the light. He is the true vine and the twelve disciples are the branches (Jn 15:1, 5). And, these 12 branches would bear much fruit.
On the contrary, there are opposite branches. Daniel chapter 4 said that King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon is a large tree with abundant fruit and an angel comes down and cuts down that tree. As the king of Babylon, the nation of demons, is compared to that tree. a pastor whom is with the devil (Satan, serpent, and dragon) is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Jesus told another parable saying that the kingdom of heaven is like a small seed that was planted to grow into a large tree. Birds come and perch in its branches after all(MT 13:31-32). A small seed is the word of God(Lk 8:11). These seed is not a physical seed that why the seed can stand for the word of the kingdom of heaven which is sown in the soil.
Here is simple formula. God made man with soil. God's seed is sown in man which means seed is sown in man. Man is to made grow God's seed. These seed become a tree which bears fruit. As a result, those tree is the kingdom of heaven just like Jesus. And, we also can be God's tree, God's kingdom of heaven following God's and Jesus's word.
In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God which is “the power to create” and “the light of life”(Jn 1:1-4). The tree that grows from the seed of life is the tree of life. Jesus, who had twelve disciples, was born of God’s seed. He was together with the Spirit of God, and he was the word of life (Jn 1:1-4). Thus, he is the tree of life.
According to Rv 22:1-2, there is the tree of life that bears twelve crops of fruit every month, and its leaves heal the nations. Would you like to know the true meaning of those verses? 2,000 years ago, Jesus preached gospels through the twelve disciples and bore fruit. When Revelation is fulfilled, there are twelve disciples on earth that become the promised twelve tribes to bear twelve crops of fruit every month; and its leaves, which stand for saints, become a healing medicine by preaching the gospel.
On the contrary, Babylon, the nation of demons (Rv 17, 18), became the devil’s nation as its pastors fed their congregation the wine of adulteries, the wine made from the wild vines of serpent. All nations have fallen as these pastors fed people the wine mixed with the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras. In Rv 13, they are those who invaded the tabernacle of heaven, defeated the saints, and put the mark of the beast on people’s foreheads and hands.
This Babylon, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, is thrown out from the tabernacle of heaven in Rv 12. Those who were victorious at the tabernacle become the bowls of wrath in Rv 15, and in Rv 16, they pour out judgment on the betrayers and destroyers, who are the dragon’s armies which is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Therefore, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil: the kingdom of the devil, Babylon, disappears. Therefore, only the tree of life remains. This is the time when God reigns.
How do you think about God's word? Can you believe this world has been taken by evil? Can you imagine how hard God was trying to restore God's world? Did you think about how God is working? At second time of Jesus coming, Jesus took a person who is promised pastor. There are 12 disciples and 12 tribes which is sealed of the living God, learning to sing a new song. By those people, the true of God's word will be spreading in the world. This is the 'healing of the nations' (Rev 22:1-2).
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