Part 8 There were two trees in the garden: Part 1

Part 8 There were two trees in the garden:  Part 1

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.

This simple statement lays the fundamentals of the kind of life we are going to live and therefore the kind of people we are. Right from the beginning God set forth two ways in which the human race could live, at the beginning of the dawn of time God said, there were two trees in the garden. This statement laid the foundation for all future teaching and understanding of how God purposed that man should exist in this world. Because of this it is absolutely essential that we understand what God was saying regarding these twp trees.

God did not put the tree of knowledge out of bounds just to test Adam and Eve; He prohibited the eating from this tree because it was deadly poison. God did not say if you eat if this tree I will punish you, I will kill you; He said “in the day you eat of it you will die” Satan has the root of His power in this tree which would become the great dividing line between two kinds of people in the earth.

Two Family Trees

The tree of knowledge and the tree of life are representational of two family lines in the earth, two seeds and two distinct and apposing lineages. After the fall God said this.

Genesis 3:15

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

There was now two seeds in the earth, two distinct and opposite kinds of life, a conflict was initiated between these two seeds which would last until the end if this age. Two Kingdoms were now at war with each other, the battle between light and darkness on this earth had begun and a law was established, the law of sin.

1 Corinthians 15:56

The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

The day you eat of this tree you will die.

Human knowledge of what is good and what is evil has led to the most devastating evil. This humanism gives rise to the most bizarre reasoning, save the whales and kill the babies. Most of the so called green fraternity advocates the saving of animals and the killing of babies in the womb. Homosexuality is a product of this evil tree of human knowledge from which Satan derives his power in the earth.

God is not a power mad dictator who thinks up laws to control us; the laws of God are good and pure.

Psalms 19:7	The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
8	The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
9	The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
10	More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
11	Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.

The law of sin, disobedience to His laws is sin and death, in the day you partake of that tree you will die.

Each tree represented either a source of life or death

After the First World War the philosophers said we can never let this happen again, they propagated the philosophy of human enlightenment through education would eventually lead to a civilized world. After the Second World War and the horrors of the holocaust, the cry went out again we must educate and bring about a civilized world.  Our centers of education in the world today still imbibe the same deadly philosophy of humanism and self improvement without the restrictions of the law of the tree of life.  Ever since man was cast out of paradise he has striven to make his own paradise in this world without God and instead has made this earth as hell, we still live in a world of unbelievable destruction and carnage. Only the law of the spirit of life can set mankind free to build a new world of peace and security. Light always prevails over darkness, love prevails over evil and Jesus is coming again to set up His kingdom in this earth which will shine as a testimony for a thousand years to the folly of humanism.

Romans 8:2

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

Two lineages appear in the earth

Genesis 4:2	And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
3	And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
4	And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
5	But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

There is no doubt that Adam and Eve had talked with their children over and over again about the blood sacrifice, the blood offering that was made to cover their sin in paradise, and yet Cain defiantly over road this law of life.

These scriptures give us a clear picture of the two ways the two trees. Abel brought a sheep as an offering Cain brought produce of the land; one was a blood offering the other was a tiller of the ground and brought an earthly offering. The characteristics of the lineage of Cain had always been thee same, Earthly Minded. Right hear the battle commenced the two lines were drawn, the two ways in the earth defined; the natural man has never been able to understand the ways of God, the tree of life.

Genesis 4:6	And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
7	If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
1 Corinthians 2:14	But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
John 3:3	Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

The result of the way of Cain eating of the tree of knowledge was graphically seen just seven generation later

Genesis 6:5	And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6	And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7	And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

Babel was an attempt to live without and to outwit God, and that spirit is reaching its culmination in this age, to those who see beyond the natural the conflict in Iraq (Babylon) today is a picture of this ongoing conflict which reaches its ultimate power in this age. The battle still rages today two lineages in mortal conflict and there can only be one outcome.

Revelation 18:2	And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
3	For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4	And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
5	For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

God is seeking to get Babylon out of us all out independence from God as Christians has to be conquered or we will not survive the days that lie ahead, I did not say you would not be saved I said you would not survive the days ahead you will not finnish your course and enter heaven as truly victorious Christians ready to rule with Him.

Proverbs 14:12

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

God Bless youNeville Johnson © July 2006