THE GARDEN AS TREES WALKING - Part 2

  Now for some of the trees of the Bible: Abimilech, son of Gideon and Gideon’s concubine, pretended to the throne. Gideon was a great judge as was Deborah, who were apparently still living. Judges were the government ordained by God with God as the “Chief Justice” and the Law as the “Supreme Court.”

  With that type of government, the “Constitution” was the Penteteuch — the five books of the Law. As such, the Ten Words (Commandments) were the Bill of Rights. Each provision of the Ten Words provides a blessing (see the beatitudes), if obeyed, and a curse, if not. Breaking the Will of God would disinherit any of God’s heirs. As such, look at the Ten Words, not as “Commandments,” but the ten “conditions” of God’s Will for you to inherit His “Estate.”

  Any legal will has two things: (1) Signees, and (2) Witnesses, and the legal document is sealed with some sort of stamp. The Ten Words, authored by the Father as His Will, was written by His Second Son, Jesus.  Adam (Man) was the heir through his kind (species). Both parties signed the Will, Men by circumcision of the foreskin, and the Author (Jesus) with His Blood as well. The same blood that He would shed on the Cross. That was the fulfillment of both the Abrahamic and Mosaic Covenants.

  The death of Jesus for mankind finished the Law (John 19:30). The rightful heirs of God were redeemed. He sealed the deal, and it came to its final terms. Not only did God’s Flesh suffer death on the Cross, but God in all His substances.

  The day that God died, then the Contract of two parts: God and Adam (Man), was complete and the Edenic Covenant was fulfilled as well (Gen 3:15). Not to forget Noah, the darkness when Jesus died finished the Noahic Covenant. The two ends of the rainbow had united God with Man and the Cross did just that.

  All the Covenants were fulfilled when God died, and when He was resurrected, a new Covenant replaced them all! Now, all those who “sign on” to the Cross are legitimate heirs of God. All the time, the “Mystery of God” was who would be His heirs when he died. His death on the Cross finished all the Covenants and then by grace, all who would depend on His blood and water would be saved.

  With that said, all along, the Tree of Life was and still is, Jesus!

  If Adam and Eve had stood under the designated Tree, and ate of its fruit, then there would have been no need for the Forbidden Tree nor a Covenant. God’s Will is that “none should perish” (John 3:16) and all shall inherit the Kingdom of God. (Mat 25:24), but albeit, some will not (1 Cor 6:9).

  There would have been no Covenant at all because all Adams would have been spiritual sons of God. Adam repented of what he did, but His blood had two components: good and evil. Cain, as the firstborn, had Satan’s DNA in him, but Abel, God’s DNA. There was a pure “plant” and a mutation. Satan had Cain kill Abel, the natural and spiritual son of Adam, and the only heir to God died that day. As such, Seth was born, and he became a proxy for Abel. (Cain would have been heir by the world’s standard with primogeniture – the first generated. However, God always chose the second son as heir and if he is dead, then the third son and so, if that heir was righteous. For Joseph, it was the eleventh son before one was designated.)

  God put Seth and his seed on the “holy mountain,” Mt. Hermon, whereon they were safe from Satan. That day, God replanted His Man on the mountaintop for a second generation, but the seed of Jared looked down at the “Woodstock” on the plain. Then the heirs of God came down to the world and joined Cain’s line in sin.

  The Sons of God (Seth’s line) married with the Sons of Man (Cain’s line), and Adam-kind was again mutated. Hybrid “trees” that had been replanted from the plain to the mountain died that day. Satan’s “beetles” (Beetlejuice - dark angels or “stars” and perhaps Gregori [giants] changed the nature of Adam’s line even further until God would wash the world clean and regenerate the entire world.

  Those of God’s “trees” that did not float, sunk in the waters, and Hebrew sacred literature indicates that the Gregori/human strain was sucked down to the depths of the Earth. However, the seed that Satan planted survived the Deluge, and mankind again became evil. The “trees” had been transplanted on a new mountain, (on the one of the peaks of Mt. Arrarat),

  …But soon, those “trees” with the secession of the flood waters, saw the world and were transplanted on the same soil that both Adam and Cain had contaminated. And the cycle continues. God kept transplanting His trees all over Eden, but when they reached the Garden again, God intended for His “good” seed (Shem’s line) to grow and multiply as he had told Adam long before. With that said, Joshua (symbolic of Jesus) planted them in Paradise, but not before a baptism in the River of God, in perhaps the same place that Jesus would be baptized centuries later!

  Why else would Bartimaeus see, “men as trees walking?” Men are as trees. Not in the New Age sense, but according to the Farmer’s persistence to grow a great forest, that none should perish (John 3:16). The withering of the fig tree points to mankind gradually perishing, and like Adam and Eve, the first “trees” being unaware!

  But before Adam (man) returned to Paradise for eternity, Shem’s roots would be tried on the soil on another river – the Nile; another River of Life that may have once flowed through the Garden. God planted His “trees” in a new land, the other side of the River, and hence the name, “Hebrew.” Hebrews are not only a race of Adam, but a “genus of trees” modified over the centuries from the Adam “tree.”

  They took root in Egypt, but a new Pharaoh replaced the one when Joseph was transplanted, and then the soil of Egypt was despoiled with sin.

  The Hebrews, as God’s chosen “trees” and the new “hybrid” that He developed, withered in Egypt because the soil there was corrupt. God saved them from peril by the blood of lambs as usual that fertilized them for a short time. That saved the million or so Hebrew “trees” from perishing in Egypt.

  God then took them to back across the Red Sea and planted them on the plain of Sinai, but that was not good soil either. Sin immediately infected the Hebrews even in God’s Face from His “Tree” on that Holy Mountain.

  The Tree of Life appeared different this time. God never changes, but His appearance to mankind does. In the beginning, God appeared as perhaps the Olive Tree of Life, representing “Peace,” and on the mountain of Sinai, as a burning bramble bush with thorns and all. (That will be discussed later.) Why a burning Bramble Bush? Because of His wrath that would follow! He would transplant his Hebrews again, but never planting them in the wilderness. After forty years of exposure to the elements, all God’s original trees withered and died, a few at a time, until a new hardy strain were mature enough to plant.

  Then comes Joshua!  Joshua was a new generation and was the best “sapling” that was available. A return to Paradise was eminent. God would replenish the Garden of Eden again with new trees, some of which would be eternal! Joshua was an antitype of Jesus and the Tree of Life.

  Some of the seed of the original Tree of Life may be in the Garden of Gethsemane to this day. There are olive trees sill living that are at least 4000 years old and may be the original trees that were there in the beginning, or from the roots of those trees.

  Like the olive trees still there, so is the “Root of Jesse.” That refers to Jesus. Through David, the Tree of Life (Jesus) is the Vine or Branch that originated as the root of Jesse, to wit: “And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious” (Isa 11:10). That came to pass when the Tree of Life was regenerated in Israel, back home in Paradise, as is written, “And again, Esaias saith, ‘There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust’” (Rom 15:12).

  Next, some good and bad trees will be discussed when the Abimelech “tree” is discussed.

(picture credit: Women in the Bible; "Burning Bush")