FROM THE TREE TO THE CROSS

Man who is born of woman,
is few of days and full of trouble.
He comes forth like a flower
and fades away like a shadow
Job 14:1-2

God created the universe, and all that is in it to be inhabited, he did not create them in vain. Isaiah 45:18

He spoke the words, “Let Light Be” and the words became vibrations of light, matter, and energy that created all that we see when we look up into the heavens and see the milky way, the galaxies and the stars.
The heavens at night are breathtaking, the stars shine as bright as the angels because they probably are the angels in their still and resting forms.
The galaxies look like the breath of God swirling like the vapor of breath in the cold still air. Yet the heavens seem frozen in time, lifeless and cold, almost as if they are waiting for something.

           Let there be Division?

In the beginning, God created division. The book of Genesis is a book of division.
When God created the earth he separated everything so that there would be division and a difference between one and the other, so that every aspect of life and reality could be tested, tried and experienced in a spectrum of light and varying environments so that we could experience the difference between hot and cold, good and bad.
He divided the light from the dark, the waters in the sky from the waters on the earth, and the water on the earth from the dry land beneath.

A garden is placed in Eden, and God took from the dust of the earth and put his spirit into it to form a man like his Image with his goodness and character and to be the administrator over all the earth.
But the man was not content to be alone and without a partner.            God knowing his creation, did one last final division, he divided man from himself, he took the feminine side of Adam and formed a woman with it so that individualy they would be the opposite and incomplete, but when they found each other and joined together they would compliment each other to form a whole, and become one again.
With silent reverence, all watched this moment of the creation and union of man and woman but there were some watching that had evil growing in their hearts at this scene.
A serpent became prideful and jealous of this man that would have dominion over him, so the prideful serpent set out to do his own division and decided to divide man from God by first dividing him from the woman God had created for him named Eve.
“Did God say to you, do not eat from the tree? the serpent asked Eve with a smile.
Eve replied, “God said we may eat from all of the trees, but from the tree in the middle of the garden we can not eat from it, God said we can not even touch it or we will die.”
But God did not tell Eve not to touch it. She added to the word of God and distorted it.
Adam had not explained to Eve the word of God and this allowed the serpent a weakness to exploit.
So as he climbs up the tree the serpent says to Eve why would God say that you would die, he did not say that to you but to Adam and he did not mean to death he would die, but only that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods and no longer men, your ignorance would die because you will know of the choice of good and evil just as God does.
Eve ponders this new information and possibility and because the fruit does not look like something that would kill her and because she is younger and less experienced then Adam she to would like to be wise.
As she reaches out to take a fruit from the tree, the serpent smiles and revels in his accomplishment, in a mere moment he will have succeeded in his goal which was to show to God the inferiority of man and he will do so by getting man to kill himself by eating the fruit that God told him would kill him.
He became the first murderer even though he thought he was clever enough and deceitful enough to have hidden the murder in this trick of man killing himself.

After eve ate of the fruit her eyes were indeed opened and she did see and understand more then she had before. Suddenly the whole world before her was no longer simple and easy but complicated and filled with choices and decisions and with these choices came voices, so many voices pulling her this way and that until she felt overwhelmed with it all and thats when she finally realized, her connection with God and his spirit had been severed, she was instantly filled with anxiety and doubt, she felt immediate panic and loneliness, in fear she fled to Adam he would know what to do, “it was only a mistake the serpent tricked her yes that’s it It’s the serpents fault”, when she finds Adam not far from her she immediately begins weeping out of fear and shame.
As she tells Adam the events and shows Him the fruit still in her hand, his heart drops he knows what has transpired.
Only a short while ago his heart was filled with joy and a sense of purpose and belonging that was unshakable because the living God who had created everything was his friend and had made him a mate to spend his life with.
He could think of nothing that would add to his happiness, but now everything has changed, now what God has told him not to do Eve has done and she will die, there is no way around it because God can not lie.
Even if Adam were to beg for her life and even though God loved Adam enough to grant him his request, allowing Eve to live would have made what he said a lie when he said in the day that you eat from it you will die.
He feels the loss of Eve even before this event takes place, and immediately, his mind goes back to how he felt before God made Eve.
He was complete in the love of God yet alone when God was not in his presence,
He decided to join Eve in her fate and to eat also from the fruit. He would rather die with her than be alone again without his other half. In a way, he knew that the Love of God would triumph no matter how this turned out, but he knew that either way, death would be required of it. So he took the fruit from her hand and looked in her eyes as he also took a bite
Eve gasped at seeing Adam do this.
Her knees grew weak as she began to fall like water being poured out on the ground.
A vision began to play before his eyes, the tree of life vanished from sight and Eve transformed into the tree of the knowledge of good and evil with its large spreading branches and beautiful green leaves that began to wither away and dry out until all the leaves had fallen off.
The branches began to crack and splinter until even they began to fall to the ground. All that was left was the trunk and two branches that formed the shape of a T.
Lightning flashed and thunder cracked and a great storm appeared out of nowhere causing a darkness to cover the garden, suddenly the tree now held a man suspended from his hands by the branches writhing in pain and a crown of thorns on his head, as Adam tried to see who the man was he fell back in shock when a flash of lightning lit up the face of the man who appeared as both his own and the fathers.
Blood begins to drip down the tree from a wound in his chest and the nails in his hands and feet, holding him firmly to the trunk.
The blood drips upon a golden box at the base of the tree,
It has the appearance of both a throne with two angels on either side and an altar with handles in the base.
As the blood drips and slowly covers the mercy seat, the storm begins to calm the lightning slows its flashes until the sun begins to shine, the blood ceases to flow when the two angels on either side of the throne suddenly become alive and fly up to the man to remove the nails out of his hands and feet and gently place him on his throne that used to be an altar.
They remove the crown of thorns, and on his head, they place a golden crown as the angels bow down and praise him for redeeming the world by giving up his life to pay the debt of death from sin.
A trickle of water begins to flow from the base of the throne that turns into a stream and then a river. The garden springs back to life, and the tree of life grows from a vine that shoots out from the back of the throne and covers the trunk where the tree of sin stood.
Adam is amazed at this vision but does not understand it
He is a creature of time and is not capable of understanding that God is a spirit outside of time because he created time.
God knew that Adam would make the choice he made to give up and sacrifice his life and partake of sin to be with Eve. Just as he knew that the  serpent would become prideful and deceive Eve in order to kill man. But he allowed it to happen so that he could come down in the form of a man and give his life for Adam’s and redeem him by proving his love for him because just as Jesus said
“Greater love has no one than this:
to lay down one’s life for his friends.”

His name is Yeshua, he is the YHWH yod hey vav hey, the unspeakable name of the LORD in the bible, which literally means hand behold nail behold.  He is the Aleph and the Tav, the first and the last.  He is the light that was created by God and his Word in the very beginning because God knew that we would leave him at a tree and that at a tree he would die for us so that  we would have one more chance to go back to him but only if we choose him instead of us

His name is Jesus, and he showed the true darkness and intentions of their hearts by letting them put him to death on the cross.
He then proved that he is the Son of God when he conquered death and rose from the grave the very same day that Noah’s ark rested on the mountainside.
One day very soon he will return once more but this time he will not be the kind and gentle person of the Gospels but will reap the earth of what fruit of his remains and will flood the earth with fire and punish the seed of the serpent once and for all.

We can choose to ignore God and his calling for us to find him but one day in the end he will hold you in his hand to see you, the real you that can not hide. So now is the time for you to ask yourself

What kind of fruit are you?