The tree of knowledge of good and evil signifies Satan as the source of death to man, and it includes everything apart from God, behind which Satan can hide to bring in death; only God is the genuine good, and gaining God equals gaining the genuine good. Amen! As believers in Christ, we are […]
Rejecting the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and Choosing the Genuine Good, God
One with God in the Principle of the Tree of Life by Depending on God in Everything
The book of Jeremiah shows us the principle of being one with God, which is the principle of the tree of life versus the principle of the tree of knowledge of good and evil (see Jer. 2:13); we must be those depending on God in everything. God wants to be one with man and He […]
Enjoying Christ as our Love, Life, and Light to keep the Testimony of Jesus
In the Lord’s epistle to the church in Ephesus there are four main points – love (loving the Lord with the first love), life (enjoying Christ as the tree of life), light (shining as the Lord’s testimony), and the lampstand (bearing the Lord’s testimony); love, life, light, and the lampstand are four crucial words in […]
Seeing that our Real Need is to Eat Jesus and not Asking Him to “Do Things for us”
In the Gospels we see how the Lord Jesus had a wonderful God-man human living, constantly taking the opportunity to reveal Himself as being the reality of every positive thing in the universe. If we read the Gospels carefully we will see more than 200 aspects of the Lord Jesus; He is the Bridegroom, the […]
Eating the Tree of Life should be the Primary Matter in the Church Life Today
The New Jerusalem as the consummation of God’s work throughout the ages can be our enjoyment and experience today in our Christian life. Today we can enthrone the Lord in the center of our being and thus experience the throne of God and of the Lamb in the center of New Jerusalem. When the Lord […]
Seeing the Patterns of the People on the Line of the Tree of Life in the Bible
Due to Adam’s fall, God closed the way to the tree of life, and apparently throughout the ages people couldn’t eat of it….but actually, if you read the Bible carefully you will notice that there have been many who were on the line of life and were enjoying the tree of life in their daily […]
Are You on the Line of Death or on the Line of Life? Are You Eating the Tree of Life?
The tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil are not part of “an ancient story” which has nothing to do with us today. Rather, all the way from Genesis to Revelation we can see these two trees developing in two lines – the line of life and the line of […]