Gino (23 Apr 2023)
"tree of death?"


(In Genesis 3, at the beginning of the book, in the beginning, and then in Revelation 22, at the end of the book, in eternity, is the tree of life:)

Genesis 2:9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.


Revelation 22:2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.


(But in the middle there was that other tree:)

Acts 5:30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.


Acts 10:39 And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:


Acts 13:29 And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.


Galatians 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:


I Peter 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.


(Can that tree be referred to as the tree of death?
Since that is where Jesus bled to death for our sins?)

(The other tree in the garden was not called the tree of death, but rather called, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Its fruit was not death, but death came about as a result of the sin of eating from it:)

Genesis 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.


Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:


(So, is it possible to refer to the cross, the tree on which the Savior died, as the tree of death?)


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