Arbor day is April 26 this year. (Arbor day is the last Friday in April.)
The first Arbor day was April 10, 1872 and about one million trees were planted.
Let's talk about trees today!
Do you know about the biggest tree in the world?
General Sherman is the biggest tree in the world located in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in California. It is a giant sequoia tree and it is assumed that it is probably about 2000 years old. It is 83.8m(274.9 feet) and the width of the crown is 33m.
Another Fact about trees!
There are about approximately 100,000 species of trees that exist in the world. And trees cover about 30% of Earth's total land area.
Well, how much do you know about the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil in the Bible?
The
Tree of Life
&
the
Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
Jesus
passed down to the future generations hidden things since the foundation of the
earth through spoken parables so as to fulfill what had been promised in the Old
Testament (Ps 78:1-6, Mt 13:34-35).
Then what is the true
form of the two trees (Gn 2:9) recorded in Genesis?
As we read Genesis
1:11-12, about what is written regarding God’s creation, there are trees bearing fruit, with seed in them, after their kind.
Jesus told that a grain of seed as small as a mustard seed is sown in a
field and when it is fully grown into a tree, the birds of the air come and nest
in its branches (Mt 13:31-32). There are two kinds of seeds: the physical seed
and spiritual seed. There are ten thousand different kinds of physical seed.
What Jesus spoke of is the spiritual seed (Lk 8:11), and he revealed the secret
of the book of Genesis through the parable of physical seed. It is also recorded
that when the time (of the fulfillment of truth as a form of reality) came, this
parable would be said not in figurative language but plainly of the Father (John
16:25). The time is when we no more read through prophecy, but are able to see face to face; not only we know in
part, but we shall know fully (1 Cor 13:12), that is the time of the reality
when the prophecies are being fulfilled, so it is the time of the second coming
of Jesus (refer to 1 Cor 13:8-12).
The seed of God’s
Word of life (Jn 1:1-4) is sown and grows into the tree of life, and from that
tree, bears 12 kinds of fruit and in its branch, the bird (spirit) of the air
comes and dwells (Mt 13:31-32). Jesus is the Word of life (1 Jn 1:1-2), the way, the truth, and life (Jn
14:6), and
the
Spirit of God descended and came upon him as a dove (Mt 3:16). The same Jesus
said that he is the true vine (Jn 15:1-5), so Jesus is in fact the tree of life
that bears 12 kinds of fruits (refer to Rv 22:1-2). Also Jesus told that he is
the heaven (Mt 13:24, 37)
What is the
difference between what is said in the above and Matthew 13:31-32 in which it
says about a small grain of seed being sown, growing up into a big tree and
birds nesting in its branches? Also, how does it differ from the tree of life in
Revelation 22:1-2? All these parables are all referring to the same thing. Also
in Proverbs 3:13-20, it is said that the man who finds wisdom and understanding
it is a tree of life. From these verses, the tree of life and the tree of
knowledge of good and evil do not merely refer to physical trees, but are used
as a metaphor that indicates people.
If Jesus, the Word of
life, is the tree of life, what is the tree of knowledge of good and evil (the
tree that makes you know about good and evil)?
In Revelation 18:2-3,
it is said that Babylon is a dwelling place of demons and a prison of every
unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird, and with the
wine of the immorality, all the nations have drunk (and befallen). This evil
spirit, devil is the serpent, Satan and the dragon (Rv 20:1-3). This serpent is
exactly the one who made the woman, Eve to eat the fruit of the tree of
knowledge of good and evil in Genesis chapter 3. The Babylon king in Daniel
4:20-22 was a big tree and its fruit abundant, and the birds of the sky dwelt in
its branches and the beasts of the field found shade under it. This tree is the
vine of the evil spirit or the serpent and the wild vine with the venom of
serpents (Dt 32:31-33). Jesus, the true vine, is the tree of life as opposed to
the wild vine or Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, who is the tree of knowledge
of good and evil (refer to Dn 20-22). In other words, these two types of trees
are not just a tree but two kinds of people. Matthew 13:38’s tree of life grown
from the good seed is sons of heaven while the tree of knowledge of good and
evil is grown from the seed of tare, sons of the evil one from hell. Today’s
pastors of spiritual Babylon as recorded in Revelation are the trees of
knowledge of good and evil, and the one who overcomes (or the ones who overcome)
in Revelation 3:12, 14:1-5 and in 15:2, he and they are the trees of life. As
written in Revelation, among the two types of trees in the Garden of Eden, the
tree of knowledge of good and evil, Babylon, will be fallen after its judgment
and thereafter, the only one which will remain to exist is the tree of life (the
victor) that bears twelve kinds of fruit (Rv 22:1-2).
To conclude, the
field in which God’s Word, the seed of life is sown is neither an animal, nor
the soil of the ground, it is people’s mind. The seed sown into the mind of
people grows to be a big tree, which is the 12 tribes, 144,000 priests of God
and a countless multitude clothed in white robes (Rv 7, 14:1-5, 5:9-10, 7:9-14).
Upon them, the Holy Spirit comes and dwells (refer to Rv 20:4-6, 21:1-7). This
place is the heaven as written in Matthew 13:31-32 and the tree within is the
tree of life in the Garden of Eden and the tree of life that are standing on
either side of the river that is formed by the water of life coming from the
throne of God in the time when the prophecy of Revelation becomes fulfilled.
Also, the big tree or an organization grown out from the seed of evil spirit,
which is death, is the tree of knowledge of good and evil, the nation of demon,
Babylon or hell (Rv 18:2). These two types of trees are the pastors that belong
to either good or evil.
God has hidden this until today and now he has revealed it, but people are mistaken due to “not understanding the Scriptures, or the power of God (Mt 22:29).” But the believers who have their hopes in Heaven can reach to the salvation by believing and understanding it.
The two seeds and the
two trees (the tree of life and the knowledge of good and evil) as written in
Matthew chapter 13 are what Jesus has said in parables (Mt 13:24-41, Jn 15:1).
These two trees were prophesized in the Old Testament, Genesis chapter 2,
Ezekiel chapter 47, and Proverbs chapter 3, and these old mysteries were
revealed through parables by Jesus and were prophesized again in Revelation
chapter 22. In the time of the Second Coming of Jesus, the promised pastor, who
saw and heard what Jesus made him understand so clearly through the angels of
heaven, is testifying these things. (Jn 16:25, Revelation 1:1-2, Revelation 10,
Revelation 22:8, 16).
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