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The Tree that Adam Did Not See


 Yahweh told Adam that if he ate the forbidden fruit he would die. But now the biblical text reveals something very unexpected in Genesis 3:22b.

 

“And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of

the Tree of Life, and eat, and live forever . . .”

 

Even though Adam was guilty of breaking Yahweh’s commandment and the process of dying had begun:

 

Eating from the Tree of Life could still keep Adam alive forever.

 

Make sure to note that the Tree of Life is the source of eternal life.

 

Adam became like the Tree of Knowledge of TOV and RAH when he did an act of RAH. Now there is only one way to keep Adam from eating from the Tree of Life (Genesis 3:23-24).

 

Yahweh the God sent him out of the Garden of Eden

to till the ground from which he was taken.

 

Yahweh drove Adam out the Garden.

Yahweh placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden,

and a flaming sword which turned every way,

to guard the way to the Tree of Life.

 

Adam began a journey that would take him on a westward journey from Eden back to his homeland and the soil from which Yahweh formed him. The west is where the sun sets, and in the ancient world is a symbol of the end of life.

 

An interesting twist in this story is that you and I know where the Tree of Life is located – in the middle of the Garden -- and what eating from it will do – bestow eternal life on the one eating from it.

 

Adam does not know those things.

 

Adam had been standing next to the Tree of Life and didn’t know it! Yahweh didn’t point it out to him. He may have been aware that the tree was there, but he could not see that it was the source of eternal life. This reveals an ancient wisdom principle embedded in the text:

 

Humans are mortals unless they find a way back to the Tree of Life.

 

The text also reveals the way back to the Tree of Life. We know that Adam became one like the Tree of Knowledge of TOV and RAH when he did an act of RAH.

 

Adam has not yet done an act of TOV, but he has the power to do it.

 

The second story in Genesis is repeating the wisdom revealed in the first story.

 

● Humans have free wills to act as individuals -- doing acts like animals.

 

● Humans have free wills to act together -- doing acts of TOV like the Creator.

 

Doing acts of TOV together is the way back to the Tree of Life!

 

The key to understanding this wisdom is learning how to see through the eyes of the Creator. Seven times in the first story this phrase appeared – “And God saw that it was TOV.”

 

● The Creator’s first act was creating the Light of Life.

 

● The Light of Life is found in everything He created.

 

● TOV is the Creator’s standard for measuring life.

 

● Seeing the state of life in the lives around you is “seeing through the eyes of God.”

 

When you encounter another person be the Creator’s representative and see if his or her life is safe, secure, functional, and that his or her quality of life measures up to the Creator’s standard. If it isn’t, do what is needed to make it TOV.

 

That is the core wisdom principle that is repeated throughout

the Jewish Scriptures and the teaching of Jesus.

 

It is the path back to the Tree of Life.

 

Will Adam and Eve do acts of TOV together so mankind will survive?

Or will they do nothing or do more acts of RAH and bring an end to mankind?

 

I will continue the story in the next email.

 

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