No one knows what the Tree of Life looks like. Is it an oak? Is it a maple? It really is not important. What is does IS of vital importance. The Tree of Life gives eternal life to those who eat of it. There is something about that tree that stops the death process.
When Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden of Eden they were denied access to the Tree of Life. God put them outside the garden and put an angel with a flaming sword to guard the entrance lest they go back into the garden and take of the “Tree of Life and eat, and live forever.” (Genesis 3:22).
This passage from the first book of the Bible does not end the story of the Tree of Life. If we cut to the last chapter of the last book of the Bible, we find that tree again.
“Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. (Rev 22:14)
The Bible opens with man losing the right to the Tree of Life and closes with man gaining entrance again to the Tree of Life. The Bible opens with God putting a “No Trespassing” sign around the tree and closes with God taking it down. Christianity is the story of victory. It is the story of going home.
Whatever life is like here, whatever victories or loses we face, in the end of this life we win. In the end we get to go home and be with God. In the end we go back to the Tree of Life. We get to see that tree someday. That will be amazing!
Lonnie Davis
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