Tree of Knowledge

[for_his_glory]

Adam, after eating from the Tree of Knowledge, now had his eyes opened to what was good and evil. Adam knew he and his wife Eve had sinned against God. They realized they were naked, as only knowledge of good and evil could have revealed that to Adam, and they tried to hide from God, but God knew where they were and clothed their shame with animal skins. (First blood sacrifice for atonement of sin that leads us to the final sacrifice that Jesus made for all who will believe by faith in Him).

Adam, Eve and all generations to come were now forced out of the beautiful garden to till the land in what would become a sin cursed world, Genesis 3:1-24. With sin running so rampant in the world it repented God that he created man and was going to destroy them all, but found favor in only one man whose name was Noah, Genesis 6:6-8, whom God gave instruction to build an ark and save his family as He was about to flood the earth with water doing away with all things within it. When man began to populate the earth after the flood sin once again abounded and God gave the laws to Moses, but it carried a curse with it if not followed to the letter. Man once again continued to transgress the law following their own desires of lusting after other gods.

There was also the Tree of Life in the midst of the garden. God had to stop Adam and Eve from eating of the Tree of Life as then they and all generations to come would attain eternal life in a sin cursed world and for this reason God sent them out of the garden and blocked the entrance to it. Adam not only lost that fellowship with God when he sinned, but also lost the purposed eternal life living in the garden of Gods beauty and brought on physical death and Spiritual death to all generations. God purposed man to live forever and take care of His creation, but now God said His Spirit would not always strive with man and later before Noah's flood God shortened man's lifespan to 120 years, Genesis 6:3.

God showed His grace in refusing to allow mankind to live forever in a world filled with sorrow and suffering and provided the way for man to live an eternal life in a place where there is no more death, sorrow and pain, Revelation 21:3-4; 22:3. God loved the world so much that He by His grace gave us His only begotten Son Jesus (The Tree of Life/final blood sacrifice) that those who will believe in Him should not perish, but have life eternal, John 3:3-16; 14:6. Jesus is our Tree of Life that through the Spiritual rebirth we will have life eternal in paradise, Rev Chapter 21, 22.

 

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Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made.

And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

The common doctrines of men would tell you that Satan desires to be worshipped as God; but if we set aside the doctrines of men you would be able to see that the serpent was more subtil than that. The serpents focus was on the YOU, not the serpent himself: YOU shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. It was for this reason Adam and Eve were evicted from the Garden.

And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.


The essence of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is present with us even today, we call it the Bible; It is from the Bible we learn of Sin and Death, Good and Evil. It is from the Bible we learn of the Judgement of God, and yet the goal of the serpent is the same. Not that you would worship Satan as god, but rather that You would become as gods, knowing good and evil.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

Adam, after eating from the Tree of Knowledge, now had his eyes opened to what was good and evil. Adam knew he and his wife Eve had sinned against God. They realized they were naked, as only knowledge of good and evil could have revealed that to Adam, and they tried to hide from God

We eat up the fruit of the Scripture, the words of the book, and our eyes become opened to Sin and the judgements of God. As Adam and Eve wore a fig leaf to hide from the wrath of God, we too take up a fig leaf in the blood of Christ to cover our sins and hide our nakedness.


Possessing the knowledge of good and evil, the knowledge of the scripture also brings with it a great and yet subtil temptation, that the YOU might be as god, judging good and evil. This is the Man of Sin.

Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

There are many who claim that they are speaking for God because they can read the words of the book, the Bible; the essence of the tree of the Knowledge of good and evil. They judge one another as sinners by the knowledge of the law. But Jesus came to show us something different. He said judge not, lest ye be judged. Jesus always deferred authority to the Father. So to what end does one vest authority in the words of the book?

 

[for_his_glory]

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made.

And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

The common doctrines of men would tell you that Satan desires to be worshipped as God; but if we set aside the doctrines of men you would be able to see that the serpent was more subtil than that. The serpents focus was on the YOU, not the serpent himself: YOU shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. It was for this reason Adam and Eve were evicted from the Garden.

And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.


The essence of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is present with us even today, we call it the Bible; It is from the Bible we learn of Sin and Death, Good and Evil. It is from the Bible we learn of the Judgement of God, and yet the goal of the serpent is the same. Not that you would worship Satan as god, but rather that You would become as gods, knowing good and evil.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.



We eat up the fruit of the Scripture, the words of the book, and our eyes become opened to Sin and the judgements of God. As Adam and Eve wore a fig leaf to hide from the wrath of God, we too take up a fig leaf in the blood of Christ to cover our sins and hide our nakedness.


Possessing the knowledge of good and evil, the knowledge of the scripture also brings with it a great and yet subtil temptation, that the YOU might be as god, judging good and evil. This is the Man of Sin.

Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

There are many who claim that they are speaking for God because they can read the words of the book, the Bible; the essence of the tree of the Knowledge of good and evil. They judge one another as sinners by the knowledge of the law. But Jesus came to show us something different. He said judge not, lest ye be judged. Jesus always deferred authority to the Father. So to what end does one vest authority in the words of the book?

The Bible is our tree of knowledge and like the serpent (Satan) in the garden who is subtle will always try to steal the truth of the word of God from us.

Mark 4:15 And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.

 

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The Bible is our tree of knowledge

Great, since you are able to recognize that the essence of the Bible is our tree of the knowledge of good and evil, then how do you reconcile promoting the Bible for others to read when God gave a command the the tree was not to be eaten of?

And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
If you try and evangelize someone and then try and convince them that they too should read the Bible, so that their eyes become opened to sin, are you not then playing the role of the serpent? Like Jesus said of the Pharisees....

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt!
add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
Yet I will distress Ariel,
and there shall be heaviness and sorrow:
and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
And I will camp against thee round about,
and will lay siege against thee with a mount,
and I will raise forts against thee.
And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground,
and thy speech shall be low out of the dust,
and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground,
and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.


Genesis 3:14
And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

 

[for_his_glory]

Great, since you are able to recognize that the essence of the Bible is our tree of the knowledge of good and evil, then how do you reconcile promoting the Bible for others to read when God gave a command the the tree was not to be eaten of?

And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
If you try and evangelize someone and then try and convince them that they too should read the Bible, so that their eyes become opened to sin, are you not then playing the role of the serpent? Like Jesus said of the Pharisees....

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt!
add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
Yet I will distress Ariel,
and there shall be heaviness and sorrow:
and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
And I will camp against thee round about,
and will lay siege against thee with a mount,
and I will raise forts against thee.
And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground,
and thy speech shall be low out of the dust,
and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground,
and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.


Genesis 3:14
And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

The tree of knowledge in the garden of Eden in a sense is the same as what we read about Jesus in the Bible. The Bible, now being our tree of knowledge because of the sin that was then come into the world, also gives us instruction into God's righteousness. Adam and Eve had no concept of sin, but after their eyes were opened to sinning against God tried to hide from God. A blood sacrifice was then made when God covered their shame with coats of animals. Now Jesus is our blood sacrifice that through His blood sacrifice we can reconcile ourselves back to Him by God's grace.