In the Garden of Eden there were two noteworthy trees: “the tree of life… and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil” (Genesis 2.9). Of the first tree and its fruit, Adam and Eve were free to partake. “But from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil” they were commanded, “you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die” (Genesis 2.17). However, from that tree, the first man and woman did eat and were expelled from Eden. They robbed themselves of their own innocence with “the knowledge of good and evil,” and were forever banned from “the tree of life.”
1,186 chapters, 31,153 verses, and about 6,000 years later, the Lord again offers His entire creation “the tree of life.” Instead of earth’s “garden of Eden,” we may enter an even better place… heaven’s “holy city, the new Jerusalem,” (Revelation 22.14).
