The Tree of Life was planted on each side of the River, producing twelve kinds of fruit, a ripe fruit each month. The leaves of the Tree are for healing the nations. Never again will anything be cursed. (The Message)
Yesterday, David was cutting down some small trees in the backyard, just clearing out a few dead ones so we could put our trampoline up in a new place, when one tree decided to be errant. It didn't go where David wanted and 'chose' to fall onto the back porch. I heard a loud thud and there was the tree. Fortunately, only the railing was broken and nothing else.
I also thought of Disney's Animal Kingdom. There is a tree called, 'The Tree of Life' in the park. This tree is huge: 145 ft tall, 160 ft canopy, 103,000 leaves of 4 shapes and sized at more than 1 ft long, 8,000 branches with a trunk 50 ft wide which spreads to 170 ft in diameter at the root base. The trunk is carved with 325 images of endangered and extinct species of animals
and on the inside is a theatre. It looks like a real tree from a distance.
Then there is the 'Tree of Life' in the Book of Revelations. It's not errant, it doesn't have a theatre inside or carvings on the trunk, it isn't made of a refitted oil platform or have leaves made of Kymar. It's a real tree planted by God along side the River of Life leading to the new
Jerusalem, the new heaven.
Back in Genesis, the first book, Adam and Eve sinned and were prohibited from eating from the 'Tree of Life' and in the last book it says we have a chance to eat again from the 'Tree of Life'.
And how did we get that chance? By God giving us Jesus, who took our sins when he died on the cross. We have a chance again to have everlasting life, to eat the fruit and to live with God when we die.
Our backyard tree was not one to depend on as it can rot and fall. The Disney tree probably will never rot and fall, as it's a fake tree. But the Tree of Life in heaven definitely will not rot, fall or ever stop bearing fruit at any time, it's real and that's the kind of tree I hope to see sometime.
Nancy
