THE JUDAS TREE

 The Garden of Eden is the location of Paradise. All the sacred Jewish writings whether canon or commentary validate that; for example, Jared said to Enoch, Methusalah, Lamech and Noah:

God will not let you remain much longer in this holy country,,, ye shall surely be cast out into that outer country, and ye shall no longer have your habitation on the skirts of the mountain of Paradise… Remain in peace! Oh, holy Paradise, thou habitation of our father, Adam… Remain in peace O Cave of Treasures. (Excerpts from the Book “Cave of Treasures” written ca 400 AD).

The Holy Mountain is Mount Herman on the Israel/Syrian border and the Cave of Treasures, the burial place of Adam beneath Golgotha called Calvary in the Latin.

In other words, “Paradise” is the invisible Kingdom of God bounded by the Kingdom of David. The Promise Land is the Promised Paradise. Paradise is the physical and spiritual place in the heaven. The unseen and the seen must balance for the universe to exist.

The Garden Paradise had in its midst two trees, and apparently trees and vines around those Trees.

The Tree of Life was most likely an olive tree which represents peace. Scripture refers to Jesus as “Peace on Earth.” Jesus is “the Way, the Truth, and the Life” no man cometh unto the Father, but by me”  (John 14:16). Where is God? In heaven, specifically the tenth heaven. However, the abode of Christians will be in Paradise — the third heaven, according to Paul and Enoch. The Tree of Life is in the Garden Paradise (Gen 2:9) and in the City of God in Paradise (Rev 22:2).

Both the Garden and the City are guarded by cherubim (Gen 3:24; Rev 4:6) guarding the Way to the Tree of Life. Jesus is the Way to Paradise. Only those who know Jesus are allowed in and dwell in Paradise. Those in the days of Noah — Seth’s line — were removed from Paradise and earthly Paradise was hidden.

The Garden of Eden is also a “Garden of Metaphors.” Trees represent people. Blind Bartimaeus said, when facing Jesus, “I see men, as trees walking.” (Mark 8:24). He saw Jesus as a Tree. Jesus is the Tree of Life.

Scripture many times compares men to trees. The Tree of Life also represents the Doctrine of Christ, and the Way to Paradise. As such, the Tree of Life represents the Holy Cross. Luke wrote, “The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree” (Act 5:30).

Jesus was crucified for the sins of mankind to redeem them. He shed water and blood for all mankind: “But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water” (John 19:34). Redemption required both water and blood from Jesus (1 John 5:5-7).

Jesus was hung on a Tree on “Good Friday.” What was so good about it? The promise that God made to Adam was fulfilled (Gen 3:15). That Jesus would trounce the Serpent on that day. God had Adam buried in the Cave of Treasures, perhaps, beneath Calvary. The “cave” is still there to this day and is a tourist attraction.

How did Jesus trounce the Serpent? The Serpent had the cunning Satan in him. Is that in scripture?

¹² By His understanding He smiteth through the proud. ¹³ By His Spirit He hath garnished the heavens; His hand hath formed the crooked Serpent. (Job 26:12-13)

The reference was to God creating Lucifer whose title is “Satan.” Christ had victory over Satan when he died on the Cross. Satan did not kill Jesus. God allowed His own Flesh to die… not for Satan but for mankind. What happened on the Cross finished the “resistance,” (The Adversary).

There was another “cross” and another death that day. Judas Iscariot had Satan in him for one purpose — to kill Jesus, as is written, “Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve” (Luke 22:3) “and sought opportunity to betray him” (Luke 22:6).

Now let’s go back to the exodus. As God commanded, “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” (Num 21:9). Jesus made reference to that (John 3:14) when He said, “Marvel not; ye must be born again” (John 3:7).

Was the serpent on the pole Jesus? No. Jesus said, “If Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?” (Mat 12:26).

Jesus on His Tree cast out Satan in his tree. The Serpent hung from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil — the Wisdom Tree — which I call the “Philosophy Tree.”

Judas means, “let him be praised.” Judas thought that he could redeem himself by hanging. The chief priests nor the mob would not even pursue his sedition. Satan in Judas was diminished. Lucifer would never be God but is buried in a Potter’s field, no one knows where. With Judas dead, he gave up his “ghost.” Satan fled awaiting a third opportunity as the Antichrist who too will have Satan in him as well.

Proud Satan was humbled because Jesus died. Everyone knows the meaning of the Cross, but few know the meaning of the “Judas Tree.” Although the redbud is known as the “Judas Tree,” likely it is the fig tree. When Judas died, metaphorically, the fig tree withered. When Adam and Eve stood under the fig tree, it stood higher than the Tree of Life.

The fig tree represents Israel and Israel the world. The withering fig tree represented the gradual demise of sinful Israel and with that, the waning of the spirit of Satan. On the day that Jesus died, the fig tree withered. It was the end of Judaism, Judas, and the Serpent. “Jude” means Jew and is short for Judas and Judah. When Judas died, Satan’s power was lost. It terminated the Jews as God’s chosen and Christians would become God’s chosen (1Pet 2:9). Corrupted Judaism ended with the death of Jude, and the tent of Shem was diminished. What held up their tent? Not the Cross, but the pole — the pole or tree of Judas. Judaism was the doctrine of the Philosophy Tree. Now the doctrine is the Tree of Life.

The Law was clear; someone had to die! “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” (Deut 21:22).

Jesus need not die because He had committed no sin. Jude had to die because his sin was worthy of death. Jesus experienced death on His Tree but lived on. He did not die, but His Ghost departed for three days. Judas died because his sin was worthy of death. He blasphemed and had to die because that was blasphemy against the Holy Ghost of Jesus and was the one unpardonable sin.

The “unholy ghost” was the spirit Satan in Judas, and the Holy Ghost the Spirit of God in Jesus. Judas chose the Wisdom Tree and Jesus the Tree of Life. The tree that Satan enters is always the False Wisdom Tree or the Judas Tree.

Was Judas redeemed? Not by Satan but Jesus spilt the blood and water for Judas anyhow.

Theologians believe there was two conflicting stories about Judas:

⁴ Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that. ⁵ And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself. ⁶ And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood. (Mat 27:4-6)

18 Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. (Act 1:18)

Jesus hanged from a tree and gushed blood and water, undoubtedly on God’s “footstool.” Judas had to hang as well, and he too had to gush blood and water but on the earth. The blood and water of Jesus was efficacious because He IS the Tree of Life and still stands in Paradise by the River of God. The water gushed from God’s New Temple that replaced Herod’s, representing Judaism and Jews.

The blood and water from Judas are not efficacious because it was from Satan’s Temple.

Now back to the pole of Moses. The Hebrews that saw Satan on the pole (or “tree”) died because they were dependent on do-it-yourself salvation as Judas did to relieve his guilt.

However, some of the Hebrews saw past the Serpent. Seeing the lifeless brass gleaming red, they knew and trusted that Jesus would defeat the Serpent. They looked past Judas in his tree and saw Jesus saving them by grace and not works of one’s own hands as Judas tried.

Review: The Judas Tree and the Tree of Death are the same tree, the same doctrine, and the same location in Israel.

Jesus died on Zion. It is not now where it once was. Just where is Zion?

Yet I have set my King upon My Holy Hill of Zion (Psalm 2:6)

Wherefore it shall come to pass, when the Lord hath performed his whole work on Mt. Zion and on Jerusalem… (Isa 10:12)

Zion is Calvary.

The Tree of Life is the “Jesus Tree,” the Holy Cross, and still stands in Paradise not in earth but in heaven. Where, “God’s will be done in earth as in heaven! (Mat 6:10).

The Judas Tree was long ago withered away and cut down, “And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire” (Luke 3:9)

The Tree of Death withered when Jesus died. Satan just faded away and waited another day. The Beast Serpent will be cast into the fire in God’s time. (Rev 20:3), and an angel of God has the key to the bottomless pit. (Rev 20:1). Just where is the entry to that pit? Beneath the Ornan’s Threshing floor, beneath the Dome of the Rock where God’s Temple has fallen down.

(Photo Credit: Science of Correspondences, "Picture of a Fig Tree)