Saturday, August 1, 2020

From Any Tree

Genesis 2:15-17 (NASB Strong's)

15 Then the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it. 16 The LORD God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; 17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.”


The man was a creature of the earth who received the breath of God and was placed in the Garden of the presence of the Holy Spirit. It is the Spirit who brings the living water into the Garden. The man was charged with working and keeping it with the breath of God. 


He was given everything except the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Everything was in place for the purpose of God, even the forbidden tree. Eventually the presence of the two trees will enable the creation of the Bride of Christ. 


The Garden had many trees other than the tree of life which seems to imply that there are many ways to live within the will of God without eating from the tree of life. 


This resonates with the idea that the Bride of Christ will be taken from a small part of the body of Christ and fashioned into a suitable companion for the Lord. 

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