The tree is such a wonderful living organism that God created with its tall and outspread leafy covering, it provides shelter for mammals and nesting and perching for the birds, pure enjoyment for all of creation. A walk in the forest is so refreshing, beholding a tree lined scene, even in the city streets displays the beauty of creation. We also derive the materials wood and then cellulose pulp to make paper which has blessed our lifestyles considerably.
In the Garden of Eden which was a lush paradise many trees adorned its outstanding beauty. And there in the garden were two trees that are significant. Genesis 2:9 9 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. God commanded Adam and Eve not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, since if they did they would surely die. At that time before the fall, Adam and Eve only knew bliss, life with no pain or sorrow, and certainly not death. But as we know the serpent deceived Eve and she ate of the fruit, the first man Adam also took of the fruit and they suffered spiritual death and their eyes were opened to good and evil. When Cain arrived, he chose to do evil consistently, he like all of us are given freedom of choice by God and may choose to do either good or evil. God didn’t make us programmed like robots to just do a set of tasks. That’s very impersonal, we might as well be on an assembly line and when done, shut us down in sleep mode.
Sin crouches at the door to our hearts in this fallen world, it waits for us to yield to its fruits which leads to death. Cain would not master his evil inclinations, but succumbed to its fruit, until finally he no longer wanted what God could offer HIM in his continually corrupted state. Before the flood they lived nearly a thousand years and the world became populated by millions with a technological monolithic society, (no they weren’t cave dwelling hunter gatherers with a bear skin and a club in hand making grunting noises). But rather than evolution we got degeneration into a perversion, a total decline of the original human race. It is certain that the pyramids were built in the antediluvian world, such a feat revealing incredible technology, mathematics, geometry, astronomy used to create these structures. I would like to see the best construction team build these in our modern age.
God had to act and stop the human race becoming totally defiled and unredeemable in all future generations, as the corruption to the very DNA was horrific with serpent seed, fallen angel technology, with part animal, insect, reptile hybrid monsters that roamed the earth that were full of violence and perversion. The humans that perished in the flood declined into hybrids, less than 50% human and therefore could no longer qualify for redemption. Possessing the majority of their nature from the serpent seed they became reprobate beings full of violence and perversion, that means nothing like a paradise, no noble savages only chaotic monster beings. All of the mythologies happened before the flood – in the antediluvian world which was destroyed because human DNA was utterly corrupted except for Noah and 3 sons and family from where the 70 Nations of all races today are derived from. The splitting of languages and cultures occurred at the tower of Babel, run by Nimrod the infamous hero of renown, he attempted to plug into the evil 2nd level heavenly realms with a globalist united agenda with the one language peoples of the world. Interestingly, later look who showed up Gilgamesh, the big G who continued the agenda.
The fallen angels meddled with human DNA and created offspring in Cains line and these hybrid beings the Nephilim were the demi gods of renown the heroes of legends. They will never replace Jesus who is God, Immanuel God with us in the flesh. Those fallen corrupted perverse and violent beings are nothing like Jesus and can never be. Jesus SEED was and is perfect. Jesus is the promised Messiah who came to save the world. The Seed of Abraham in that all the nations of the earth are blessed. The seed of the serpent produced the offspring that are the mythological heroes of old including all the Sumerian giants after the flood. All were destroyed and are no more in their physical bodies, they are the disembodied unclean spirits that roam the earth and harass and influence those on the earth in physical human form. We are living in a world that has been shaped by these fallen ones right through to the higher echelons of ruling elites where they exercise the most power using puppets, unless they are resisted by the authority of believers they will gain access and control of the populations and fulfil their end time agendas’ to possess this planet.
The antediluvian world ended up in chaos because they were utterly corrupted and full of violence, if you were there for just five minutes you would be devoured. If you choose to serve these, then do so to your peril. I choose life and serve and honour Jesus our Saviour and LORD.
Getting back to the tree trail. So this marvellous life form the tree produces fruit to eat. With our power of free choice, we may eat of the fruit to our delight. However, there was that one tree that Adam and Eve were commanded not to eat and they were deceived and tempted into eating by the serpent trickster in the garden.
So there is a Tree to Choice Connection. God is good all of the time, but he had to allow evil to exist to accommodate choice. We could choose whether we would do what God says which is always good for us, or we could rebel and do what God says is evil, which results in evil happening to us. It is impossible for God to sin or be tempted by sin, God does not do evil, God is the Light and there is no darkness in HIM at all. When evil and bad things happen, it is because of the fall and the result of our choices which allows evil consequences and access into our lives by the fallen entities, as every human being can choose evil and it has an ongoing ripple effect to others and in our generations very DNA.
Do you ever wonder why there is so much violence and abuse of human life, as well as famines, starvation, terrors from the weather systems, pandemics, strange viruses, let alone the corruption and greed of those in power and controlling the money supply and the resources of the planet, hostile things in the food and water and the sky, wars and rumours of wars all point to the end times and the rise of the beast system. We know that there are consequences in this age and the one to come from sin. Deut 21 22 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: 23 His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. God sent Jesus to earth to save us and provide us with a choice of salvation. He also made a way for us to be transformed and partake of His divine nature, to be conformed into the image of Christ Jesus. In HIM is the SEED and that is the blessing to all nations. In order to achieve this legally, Jesus had to make a transaction as a man birthed through blood and water by the Sprit, not in His eternal GOD form, that’s how it is possible that He was slain before the foundation of the world because He was the eternal WORD of GOD who became a man in our timeline about 2000 years ago. Jesus came from out of the limits of time into our timeline then back out again. By the way, He can do this because He is GOD. His life for ours, He fulfilled the law of righteousness and then He was resurrected to receive the Glory He had before He came to earth as a man to fulfil all that was written about HIM. You cant keep a good man down. Galatians 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, 'Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree.'
There are two trees. The Tree of Life. The Tree of Good and Evil. They are Trees that God put there in the garden. Nothing bad about the Tree of Good and Evil, it only goes bad for us when we disobey by an act of our free choice and eat of its fruit. Just like a cliff in itself is not evil, but if we jump off the cliff then evil consequences happen.
Why then is the word tree used here in this scripture and not the word cross? It all started in the garden. Jesus was hung on a tree. Why? Spiritually and figuratively, Jesus did suffer on our behalf on The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, he had to take the result of our choices upon Himself which is death and then take the fruit of it that we chose and then overcome it by rising up from the dead. Jesus was the perfect unblemished lamb that satisfied the consequences and then transferred the LIFE of His Resurrection in order for us to overcome, Jesus is our only hope of salvation, there is no other way. In HIM we have the SEED. However, when Satan came to tempt Jesus as a man in our world, he could find nothing in Him to bring Him down to his level, Jesus perfectly resisted Satan in the desert and every other occasion, as He was tempted as we are as a man. Jesus death on the cross could not keep Him in Hell. Jesus was crucified in our place because of our choice to partake fruit from that tree and not be harmed by it or tempted. Jesus was a spotless lamb with no blemish. Jesus was resurrected by the power of God and the promises of His Father. Jesus is the Tree of Life and is the way, the truth and the life for all to partake. His Resurrection Life is the way for us to partake of the Tree of Life.
Then why the cross? Apart from the cross being the Roman Custom for the death penalty, Jesus was lifted up on the cross and all who behold Him and see their death with HIM, identify with HIM by faith in His death; they will also identify with HIM in His resurrection life from the dead. They will be qualified to partake of the tree of life in Jesus. In HIM is the SEED and figurately it is the seed that becomes the tree of life where we may now eat of this fruit and live forevermore. The ultimate law was broken by Adam and Eve partaking of the tree of knowledge good and evil. We cannot take that fruit. The day you eat of it you shall surely die. A man worthy of death is hung on a tree and is cursed.
Nailed to the cross is how it occurred when Jesus came to suffer for all mankind to save us from the consequences of sin. When in ROME, that’s how the Romans do it, that’s how they hang people to death, nailed on a cross. Note the connection, it is a Wooden Cross, wood comes directly from a tree and is dried out removing the sap (water). The river of life is drained completely from it. Numbers 21:8-9 8 The LORD said to Moses, "Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live." 9 So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, he lived. The Israelites moved on and camped at Oboth. John 3:13-15 NW — Moreover, no man has ascended into heaven but he that descended from heaven, the Son of man. And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so the Son of man must be lifted up, that everyone believing in him may have everlasting life.” Genesis 3 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. 6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. Gen 2 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
God warned Adam and Eve that as soon as they eat the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil they would die, but they being innocent and naïve were beguiled by the serpent. It is like when you are in your prime, the world is your oyster nothing can stop you being whatever you desire for good or for bad you can do it. The law of free choice can be a wonderful freedom, or it may lead to our downfall when we disobey God. You think you can defy the laws of the universe and go anywhere, do anything without any boundaries, after all the boundaries, the rules are so formal, we want freedom to be the elevated one on top of the pyramid, but if we break the laws we will plummet off our peak of pride. The serpent in his cunning withheld the fine print in his twisted version of the commands of God. He just highlighted the seemingly positive and downplayed the negative. His version of positive is that you will be a god of your own universe, the negative is you will fall and lose your glory covering that God gave you to protect you from the elements. Boundaries are there to protect us, God has safe limits and if you cross that line you are in a dark universe of chaos. When you red line your turbo Porsche and impact the brick wall the result is negative! Free will choices may lead you into a deep dark hole in the world, but you can ask for mercy and turn back to God before its too late.
There is blessing and there is curses, there is life and there is death, you get to choose. Ask for wisdom and remain in the fear of the Lord, work out your salvation with proper respect and don’t neglect the boundaries that are in place for your good and not your harm. Be humble enough to accept that you are not God and you are His creation and not the creator, you do not govern the universe and you need to submit to his authority and learn Hs ways which are higher than your ways.
Numbers 21 5 And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread. 6 And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. 7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. 8 And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. 9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. Just how it is, if you go against what is the established laws then you will invite death, these are absolutes that cant be shifted or changed to suit anyones whim or fancy on how they want things to run. There is death operating since the fall and it continues spiralling out of control, until God offered a lifeline.
I am here to tell you there is GOOD NEWS. God the FATHER and the SON and the HOLY SPIRIT had a conference and they had the perfect plan. Jesus is the answer for the world today. Man cannot save himself, man cannot handle the temptations of the fruit that catches the eye but leads to death, the allure of making a name for themselves, this is simply going outside the safety perimeters that God had set for our good. God envisaged every individual with certain gifts and abilities to master within the sphere they were given before time began, but it is our choice to accept these gifts and also remain within the boundaries of Gods protective laws.
Jesus as God who came in the form of man, conquered the first Adams failure of disobedience when he ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Jesus died in our place on a physical representation of that tree in the material world on a cross, where it is up to a man with delegated authority to fulfil the law. When Jesus returns as He is both man and God He still has the authority here on earth to establish His Kingdom. Meanwhile His body and disciples on earth have been given authority in His Name to further His Kingdom on earth as it is in Heaven. As He is so are we in the world, in HIM is the SEED.
Mark 4:30-32 30 Then He said, “To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what parable shall we picture it? 31 It is like a mustard seed which, when it is sown on the ground, is smaller than all the seeds on earth; 32 but when it is sown, it grows up and becomes greater than all herbs, and shoots out large branches, so that the birds of the air may nest under its shade.” We as believers and followers who submit to His Authority wield almighty weapons of influence on the earth, each believer has been given talents and gifts to make a difference in the world and be and do by His Grace, all that He planned for us to do. In a way I am answering objections I received regarding the references to a tree and the cross that Jesus died on for our sins. They see this as a contradiction in the bible and this must mean that our whole faith in Jesus is debunked. Some would want to remove the Apostle Paul as an imposter. Not only Paul, but also Jesus Himself made reference to the tree and the cross and also the Apostle Peter, one of the twelve, also mentioned the tree in his epistles.
So this is what I believe is the purpose and meaning of these differing symbolism and actual mechanism employed in these layers of truth. The Tree and the Cross Question. In one instance the image is symbolic and has heavenly substance as well as physical, the other instance is more literal but also has deeper layers of truth applied to it. There are many dimensions that operate simultaneously in parallel to each other, each has its own properties and laws that govern how the dynamics in each realm operate. We know that there is at least 3 dimensions, the heavens and the physical world and we could add the underworld to this. Each dimension has an influence on the other realms and are connected by some access points or portals that allow interaction between them. The bible was written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, within the words, which are spirit and life that enlightens our path, there are pearls of wisdom that we need to diligently seek out in submission and leaning not on our own understanding but allowing the Holy Spirit to show us the revelations to light up our paths of righteousness. God doesn’t make mistakes, yeh that’s an obvious one, so yes some translations are lacking, but in the original intent that the Holy Spirit knows we may gain accurate understanding.
First realise that Family is tied to and also represented as Generational Trees. Within this there is inherited traits, patterns coming through the lines of our ancestors that will influence our outcomes. Fruit is produced by the outcome of the seed that is planted. Isaiah 61:3 says, “To grant to those who mourn in Zion— to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified.” That’s why Jesus had to die for us and be the SEED that is planted in our lives when we are born again into His likeness, we inherit His traits which is the mystery of Christ in us is the hope of glory.
There are two elements that shape our destinies and success in life. Both hereditary and environment effecting our outcomes. We have discussed the hereditary symbolic as the tree, which effects our DNA that influences our outcome and choices.
Now the environment, that is the world systems, you have heard of saving the planet because of pollution. Well from a certain type of seed becomes a tree, taking on the characteristics and the defects from the original species handed down. From the tree after it is cut down and milled and kiln dried of its living waters, we produce lumber for all sorts of uses. In Roman times which is the Empire of the day when Jesus came the first time to save us, the Roman Empire ruled the world, which was spoken of by the Prophet Daniel from Nebuchadnezzars dream of the statue, the iron legs was the Roman Empire which will transition to the ten toes of iron mixed with clay. The cross is how the Romans executed people worthy of death. Jesus had to redeem mankind from the death penalty in our place as a man, death came from the original sin of Adam and Eve. “The first man Adam became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. (1 Corinthians 15)
The Cross is the end product construct from a tree that is used in the worlds system, it was the workmanship of the Roman World System. As believers we must take up our cross daily and die to self, our impulses are made up of the traits we inherited and the choices we make within and also from the influences of the world. We must die to the influences of the end product of the world which is bad fruit, unless Gods Kingdom is established as an authority instituted on earth then everything else produces bad fruit which leads to death.
Psalm 1 1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. 4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. 5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. 6 For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. As believers and followers of Jesus we have His SEED and we become trees in His likeness that are fruitful, as long as we abide in HIM being nourished in the living waters, our products like leaves and fruits are healthy and will flourish wherever we are planted. Leaves cover and adorn the tree with beauty representing protection for others that find shelter by the good we produce in HIM. Everyone have been given a choice, use it wisely, I pray that you would prosper in your way, the ungodly are not so, they have no living water to nourish them and they dry up and are blown away by the storms and elements of this world.
Choose life.
Jesus is knocking at your door. Jesus wants you to be on His page, if the page you are on is not the right story for you it will end badly. Jesus Page for you is bright and you will turn out like He created you to be like a flourishing tree if you choose His Life.
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