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The tree of life comes back

The Bible’s first tree comes back, on the very last page.

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The tree of life comes back: the story, stop by stop

This story follows 6 passages of the Bible, from Genesis 2:9 to Revelation 7:14. Every gold arc is a cross-reference in the OpenBible.info data, and every verse is quoted word for word from the Berean Standard Bible.

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  1. 1 Genesis 2:9

    Out of the ground the LORD God gave growth to every tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for food. And in the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

    In Eden, God plants a garden. Two trees stand in the middle of it.

  2. 2 Genesis 3:24

    So He drove out the man and stationed cherubim on the east side of the Garden of Eden, along with a whirling sword of flame to guard the way to the tree of life.

    After the first sin, the man and woman are sent out of the garden, and the way back to the tree of life is guarded.

  3. 3 Ezekiel 47:12

    Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of all kinds will grow. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will be used for food and their leaves for healing.”

    Centuries later, Ezekiel sees a river flowing out of God’s temple, with fruit trees on both banks.

    • Genesis 2:9 → Ezekiel 47:12 · 14 reader votes

  4. 4 Revelation 22:2–3

    2down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

    3No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be within the city, and His servants will worship Him.

    On the Bible’s last page, John sees the same river with the tree of life beside it, and the curse of Genesis 3 is gone.

    • Ezekiel 47:12 → Revelation 22:2 · 26 reader votes
    • Genesis 3:22–24 → Revelation 22:2 · 14 reader votes

  5. 5 Revelation 22:14

    Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.

    So who may come back to the tree? Revelation answers with washed robes, not earned ones.

    • Genesis 2:9 → Revelation 22:14 · 20 reader votes

  6. 6 Revelation 7:14

    “Sir,” I answered, “you know.” So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

    Earlier in Revelation, John is told how those robes were washed.

    • Revelation 7:14 → Revelation 22:14 · 64 reader votes

The way that was shut in Genesis is opened by the Lamb. What Eden lost, He gives back.

Made from a Christ Reels video. A cross-reference is a reader’s judgement that two passages belong together, not proof; what the links are.

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