The 2 trees

Genesis 2:8-10 - New English Translation (2005)
8. The LORD God planted an orchard in the east, in Eden; and there he placed the man he had formed. 9. The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food. (Now the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in the middle of the orchard.) 10. Now a river flows from Eden to water the orchard, and from there it divides into four headstreams.

Genesis 3:22-24 - New English Translation (2005)
22. And the LORD God said, "Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever." 23. So the LORD God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken. 24. When he drove the man out, he placed on the eastern side of the orchard in Eden angelic sentries who used the flame of a whirling sword to guard the way to the tree of life.


The 2 trees

Now the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in the middle of the orchard

Genesis 3:17 - New English Translation (2005)
17. But to Adam he said, "Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat from it,' cursed is the ground thanks to you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

Obedience

Eve obeyed Satan
Adam obeyed Eve

Genesis 1:26 - New English Translation (2005)
26. Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth."

Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil

Core truth needed to build the understanding foundation of origins

Man created to rule over all

This is the beginning tied to the ending

Revelation 20:4-6 - New English Translation (2005)
4. Then I saw thrones and seated on them were those who had been given authority to judge. I also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of the testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. These had not worshiped the beast or his image and had refused to receive his mark on their forehead or hand. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. 5. (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were finished.) This is the first resurrection. 6. Blessed and holy is the one who takes part in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.

So we see the 2 trees in the garden - Eden with a river flowing out of it

We are looking at the Millennium Temple

Ezekiel 47:1-8 - New English Translation (2005)
1. Then he brought me back to the entrance of the temple. I noticed that water was flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was flowing down from under the right side of the temple, from south of the altar. 2. He led me out by way of the north gate and brought me around the outside of the outer gate that faces toward the east; I noticed that the water was trickling out from the south side. 3. When the man went out toward the east with a measuring line in his hand, he measured 1,750 feet, and then he led me through water, which was ankle deep. 4. Again he measured 1,750 feet and led me through the water, which was now knee deep. Once more he measured 1,750 feet and led me through the water, which was waist deep. 5. Again he measured 1,750 feet and it was a river I could not cross, for the water had risen; it was deep enough to swim in, a river that could not be crossed. 6. He said to me, "Son of man, have you seen this?" Then he led me back to the bank of the river. 7. When I had returned, I noticed a vast number of trees on the banks of the river, on both sides. 8. He said to me, "These waters go out toward the eastern region and flow down into the Arabah; when they enter the Dead Sea, where the sea is stagnant, the waters become fresh.

Ezekiel 47:12 - New English Translation (2005)
12. On both sides of the river's banks, every kind of tree will grow for food. Their leaves will not wither nor will their fruit fail, but they will bear fruit every month, because their water source flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing."

Both sides of the river - important

Our Lord moved first on the other side of the River Jordon

On the other side of the Jordon from Egypt our Lord placed His people and from His people that had the Law of stone came forth in Bethlehem came forth from the virgin the Lamb of God - Jesus Christ

But - Both sides of the River

Numbers 32:1-32 - New English Translation (2005)
1. Now the Reubenites and the Gadites possessed a very large number of cattle. When they saw that the lands of Jazer and Gilead were ideal for cattle, 2. the Gadites and the Reubenites came and addressed Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the community. They said, 3. "Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon, 4. the land that the LORD subdued before the community of Israel, is ideal for cattle, and your servants have cattle." 5. So they said, "If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for our inheritance. Do not have us cross the Jordan River." 6. Moses said to the Gadites and the Reubenites, "Must your brothers go to war while you remain here? 7. Why do you frustrate the intent of the Israelites to cross over into the land which the LORD has given them? 8. Your fathers did the same thing when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land. 9. When they went up to the Eshcol Valley and saw the land, they frustrated the intent of the Israelites so that they did not enter the land that the LORD had given them. 10. So the anger of the LORD was kindled that day, and he swore, 11. 'Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years old and upward who came from Egypt will see the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, 12. except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua son of Nun, for they followed the LORD wholeheartedly.' 13. So the LORD's anger was kindled against the Israelites, and he made them wander in the wilderness for forty years, until all that generation that had done wickedly before the LORD was finished. 14. Now look, you are standing in your fathers' place, a brood of sinners, to increase still further the fierce wrath of the LORD against the Israelites. 15. For if you turn away from following him, he will once again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will be the reason for their destruction." 16. Then they came very close to him and said, "We will build sheep folds here for our flocks and cities for our families, 17. but we will maintain ourselves in armed readiness and go before the Israelites until whenever we have brought them to their place. Our descendants will be living in fortified towns as a protection against the inhabitants of the land. 18. We will not return to our homes until every Israelite has his inheritance. 19. For we will not accept any inheritance on the other side of the Jordan River and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this eastern side of the Jordan." 20. Then Moses replied, "If you will do this thing, and if you will arm yourselves for battle before the LORD, 21. and if all your armed men cross the Jordan before the LORD until he drives out his enemies from his presence 22. and the land is subdued before the LORD, then afterward you may return and be free of your obligation to the LORD and to Israel. This land will then be your possession in the LORD's sight. 23. "But if you do not do this, then look, you will have sinned against the LORD. And know that your sin will find you out. 24. So build cities for your descendants and pens for your sheep, but do what you have said you would do." 25. So the Gadites and the Reubenites replied to Moses, "Your servants will do as my lord commands. 26. Our children, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock will be there in the cities of Gilead, 27. but your servants will cross over, every man armed for war, to do battle in the LORD's presence, just as my lord says." 28. So Moses gave orders about them to Eleazar the priest, to Joshua son of Nun, and to the heads of the families of the Israelite tribes. 29. Moses said to them: "If the Gadites and the Reubenites cross the Jordan with you, each one equipped for battle in the LORD's presence, and you conquer the land, then you must allot them the territory of Gilead as their possession. 30. But if they do not cross over with you armed, they must receive possessions among you in Canaan." 31. Then the Gadites and the Reubenites answered, "Your servants will do what the LORD has spoken. 32. We will cross armed in the LORD's presence into the land of Canaan, and then the possession of our inheritance that we inherit will be ours on this side of the Jordan River."


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