Of Trees and Men: What Shepherds Need to Know

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Of Trees and Men What Shepherds Need to Know

• An Interactive Self Study
• Part 2
• Presented by
• Barbara L. Klika, MSW
• Personal Life Coach
• Undershepherd
• Set Apart Ministries
• December 2009

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Shepherds Need to Know About Trees?

• Scripture uses many images to teach us. Trees are
  often mentioned but not often pointed out as a
  primary concern. To many of us, they just seem
  like part of the scenery!
• As we study thematically, we begin to see the
• importance
  of themes such as that
  represented by trees.

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A Beginning Prayer

• Once again, Abba, we come before you in a desire
  to know more about Your Word and all that you
  have for us in it.
• As one who leads your people, whether it is in a
  family or a community, I want to understand all
  that You have provided for me. Will you please
  guide me as I study this matter of the message of
  trees?
• I ask in the Name of our Messiah, Yeshua.
• Omayne!

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What trees come to mind?

• Consider what you already know about trees from
  the Bible. You may want to write down a list of
  them with a brief note of what you know BEFORE
  you start this study. When you have finished the
  study, see what you can add!
• Then, perhaps you could go to an online Bible and
  search out all references to trees. This can also
  be done with the Englishmans Concordances for
  both Old and New Testaments.

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Rule of First Mention

• One guideline for the interpretation of Scripture
  is to consider the first use of a term or
  concept.
• As we know from other studies, our God has
  defined His terms as He has presented all we need
  to know from the beginning.
• Trees are first mentioned on Day 3 when they were
  brought into existence.

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• Then God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation,
  plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the
  earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in
  them" and it was so.
• The earth brought forth vegetation, plants
  yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing
  fruit with seed in them, after their kind and
  God saw that it was good.
• Beresheit/Genesis 111-12 NASB

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The next mention of trees

• The LORD God planted a garden toward the east, in
  Eden and there He placed the man whom He had
  formed.
• Out of the ground the LORD God caused to grow
  every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good
  for food the tree of life also in the midst of
  the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good
  and evil.
• Beresheit/Genesis 2 8-9 NASB

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Narrowing our Focus

• In the beginning, there were two trees of special
  interest!
• These two trees affected all of creation.
• This brings up two big questions
• How did they arrive at such importance?
• Do they have any importance for us today?
• Lets find out!

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Check all the verses that refer to both the
Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of
Good and Evil.

• (There are only a few of them!)
• You can do this with an online Bible or an
  Englishmans Concordance.
• Many people have several Bibles. Get out several
  versions and check the verses side by side.

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Several Levels of Understanding

• Most commentators have noted that these two trees
  were there to provide a test or an opportunity to
  walk in obedience or disobedience.
• One confirmation of this is through recognition
  of the phrase in the midst which refers to the
  location of the tree of life.
• This phrase is the Hebrew word betok which is
  Strongs 8432, from the root word tavek which
  literally means to center and midst but can
  also be translated as middle, separation and
  deceive.

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In the Midst

• This is the same word translated as separate or
  divide on Day 2 of creation when the upper and
  lower waters were divided with an expanse set in
  the midst. This day has been recognized as a day
  of division and unrest which was not declared
  good. (Beresheit/Genesis 16-8)
• This concept of separation is a recurring theme
  throughout Scripture, dividing what is of God and
  what is not or providing the opportunity for two
  witnesses in a matter. One can be separated out
  for what is good or separated out for what is
  bad.
• In this context, the choices of obedience or
  disobedience to His instructions about the trees
  are the test -- dividing or separating.

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Second Mention of Trees is also the First Mention
of these Two Trees Together

• The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden,
  and there He put the man whom He had formed. And
  out of the ground the LORD God made every tree
  grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for
  food.
• The tree of life was also in the midst of the
  garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and
  evil.
• Genesis 2 8-9 NKJV

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Did you notice something about these trees?

• They had TWO things in common
• 1. Pleasant to the sight
• 2. Good for food
• The Tree of Life is said to be in the midst of
  the Garden. Was the other tree there, too?
• (Opportunity for separation?)
• What made them different from each other, then?

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• Then the LORD God took the man and put him in
  the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.
• And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of
  every tree of the garden you may freely eat
• but of the
• tree of the knowledge of good and evil you
  shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it
  you shall surely die.
• Genesis 2 15-17 NKJV

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The only apparent difference is that YHWH said
not to eat from that one.

• Although He did not give a reason,
• He did clearly state that death
• would result from doing so.
• He is our Good Shepherd
• and we are to trust His leading.
• Therefore, we know that this tree could also
  be considered a tree of death, in counterpoint to
  the Tree of Life.

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At this point, there was no similar caution about
the tree of life from which they were free to eat.

• But we all know that things changed!
• The next time we hear of the two trees, it is
  in the context of the serpents subtle
  questioning.
• (Notice the different words used)

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• Now the serpent was more subtle than any
  beast of the field which the LORD God had made.
  And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said,
  Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
• And the woman said unto the serpent, We may
  eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden.

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• But the fruit of the tree which is in the midst
  of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of
  it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
• And the serpent said to 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.

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• 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.

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• And the eyes of them both were opened, and
  they knew that they were naked and they sewed
  fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
• 
  Genesis 3 1-7 KJV

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Now there are 3 criteria?

• 1. Pleasant to the sight
• 2. Good for food
• AND
• 3. Desirable to make one wise
• Where did the third one come from?

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• They quickly learned that this was NOT desirable
  after all as YHWH confronted them and sent them
  out of the Garden.
• Didnt He want them to be wise?

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Next Specific Mention of the Tree of the
Knowledge of Good and Evil

• And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast
  hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast
  eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee,
  saying, Thou shalt not eat of it cursed is the
  ground for thy sake
• in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of
  thy life Beresheit/Genesis
  317 KJV
• Didnt He want Adam to listen to his wife?

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Cursed to eat of the ground?

• A usual understanding of this verse is that we
  are cursed to eat of the ground all the days of
  our lives
• BUT
• We did and would eat of the ground whether cursed
  or not since that is where food comes from!
• I suggest that there is a poetic parallelism here

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Not the ground but the tree!

• The phrase
• cursed is the ground for thy sake
• is just an interjection here between the two
  references to the tree.
• The ground is cursed, as was satan.
• So it is the tree that would be eaten of in
  sorrow all the days of life, having now eaten of
  the seed of it.

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The fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil is now a part of all of our days of life.

• Yes, this ancient event does apply to us
  today.
• If so, we should know more about it!
• What else can we learn about this tree?

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Next Specific Mention of the Tree of the
Knowledge of Good and Evil

• 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 forever

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• Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the
  garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he
  was taken.
• So he drove out the man and he placed at the
  east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a
  flaming sword which turned every way to keep the
  way of the tree of life.
  Genesis 322-24 KJV

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• The tree of the knowledge of good and evil will
  now be a part of all of our lives. It is equated
  with being wise and with death.
• The tree of life is guarded and kept.
• Did you find any further specific references to
  either of these trees?

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The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is not
identified specifically by this name again.

• The Tree of Life is mentioned many times by
  name in many contexts from Genesis right through
  to Revelation.
• Here are a few of them.

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References to Tree of Life

• She wisdom is a tree of life to them that lay
  hold upon her and happy is every one that
  retaineth her. Proverbs 318 KJV
• The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life and
  he that winneth souls is wise. Proverbs
  1130 KJV
• A wholesome tongue is a tree of life but
  perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
  Proverbs 154 KJV
• (Note ESV renders it a gentle tongue and
  NASB has soothing.

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The Trees leave us with more questions!

• If the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was
  to be a part of our daily lives, why isnt it
  mentioned again?
• If the way to the Tree of Life is guarded, why is
  it a consistent concept throughout Scripture?
• There must be something else here.

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• Observations from Theological Wordbook of the
  Old Testament
• The trees were not magical, but were the means of
  confronting man with Gods will, giving man a
  decisive Yes or No to say with his whole being.
• It is morally significant that God fenced these
  two trees not with a wall but with his word!
• It is no accident that human sin which began at
  the foot of a tree, the tree of the knowledge of
  good and evil, found its resolution on another
  tree, the cross of Calvary.

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• Satans victory over the woman (and the man!)
  beneath the branches of that primal tree led to
  his own defeat beneath the crossed beams of
  another tree
• TWOT Page 689
• Thematically, then, the two trees can be located
  in what we call the New Testament in this way
  though only the Tree of Life is specifically
  mentioned.

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So now, what about the Tree of the Knowledge of
Good and Evil?

• You will remember that it is not mentioned again
  by name throughout Scripture!
• We have already seen that it is foretold to be a
  factor in all of our days.
• How do we learn anything more about it?
• Thematic Study! Remember the twos!

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Tree of Death

• At the beginning, we saw that the Tree of Life
  had a counterpart the forbidden Tree of the
  Knowledge of Good and Evil.
• We saw that to eat from it was equated with
  being wise and with death.

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If Wise Counsel comes through the Tree of Life

• Then clearly, unwise counsel must come through
  the tree of death.
• What was unwise about what came to mankind
  through this tree of the knowledge of good and
  evil?
• Lets review what happened there

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• Then the LORD God took the man and put him in
  the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.
• And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of
  every tree of the garden you may freely eat
• but of the
• tree of the knowledge of good and evil you
  shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it
  you shall surely die.
• Beresheit/Genesis 2
  15-17 NKJV
• Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of
  the field which the LORD God had made. And he
  said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall
  not eat of every tree of the garden?

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• And the woman said unto the serpent, We
  may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden.
• But the fruit of the tree which is in
• the midst of the garden, God hath
• said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither
• shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
• And the serpent said to 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.

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• 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.

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• And the eyes of them both were opened, and
  they knew that they were naked and they sewed
  fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
• 
  Beresheit/Genesis 3 1-7 KJV
• And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast
  hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast
  eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee,
  saying, Thou shalt not eat of it cursed is the
  ground for thy sake
• in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of
  thy life Beresheit/Genesis
  317 KJV

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• 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 forever
• Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the
  garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he
  was taken.
• So he drove out the man and he placed at the
  east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a
  flaming sword which turned every way to keep the
  way of the tree of life. Genesis 322-24 KJV

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Consequences

• Knew they were naked and were ashamed
• Felt compelled to cover themselves
• Cursing of satan and the ground
• Put out of the Garden
• Toil, Pain and sorrow
• Will eat of the tree of knowledge of good and
  evil all the days of life.
• Way to Tree of Life now guarded

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They left the garden to live elsewhere.

• They didnt die that day so how do we know what
  was really wrong about all of this?
• Was satan telling the truth then that they
  wouldnt die while God wasnt truthful?
• Why was it wrong for Adam to listen to his wife?
• Why was it wrong for them to desire knowledge and
  wisdom?

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Two Core Questions!!

• If they and their generations, meaning us, had no
  access to the Tree of Life why does it still
  appear both by name and inference--throughout
  Scripture?
• If the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
  (Death) was to be a part of mankinds life why
  isnt it visible throughout Scripture?

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Physical and Spiritual Implications

• Although it is true that Adam and Eve did not
  physically die in that 24 hour period, they did
  lose the ability to walk with and see YHWH our
  God. He did allow them to continue to hear Him
  however, as we can yet today, Praise Messiah!
• Physical realities are His way of showing us
  pictures of spiritual truths.
• Physical death is the natural outcome for one who
  has lost access to the fruit of the Tree of Life.

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People and Shepherds

• Whether we find it complimentary or not, the
  truth is that there are always going to be people
  who have need of leaders to help them find the
  good fruit and people who are called to do so.
  Scripture warns of false shepherds among the good
  ones, just as we are told there are different
  kinds of sheep.
• We are not automatically
• assigned to a group but
• need to exercise care and
• discernment as to what
• group or leader we
• choose another physical
• picture of spiritual truth as
• Shepherds are another kind
• of covering for their people.

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• The Tree of Life continues to be visible
  throughout Scripture because Messiah is always
  available to us through His Spirit.
• Mercifully, Adam and Eve were sent from the
  Garden so that they did not eat from that Tree of
  Life in their fallen physical state. If they had,
  they would have had eternal physical life in that
  fallen state.
• As it stands now, when we receive the Messiah and
  His work on our behalf, we are receiving the
  fruit of the Tree of Life which confirms our
  eternal life though we will still experience
  physical death.

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• Since Messiah is always available to those who
  believe, the spiritual representation of the Tree
  of Life is guarded in the sense of being kept FOR
  those who seek Him.
• When we love and obey Him, we have access to the
  spiritual reality of the Tree of Life and
  eternal life with Him.
• When He returns, those who have walked with Him
  will again have access to the Tree in the New
  Jerusalem.

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• I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the
  end, the first and the last.
• Blessed are they that do his
• commandments, that they may
• have the right to the tree of life, and may
  enter in through the gates into the city.
• (Revelation
  22 13-14 KJV)

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Now, what of the Tree of Death?

• Yes, it wasnt CALLED tree of death but by
  thematic comparison, it had to do with death and
  stood in opposition to the Tree of Life.
• So back to one of our original questions Why
  would Knowledge of Good and Evil be equated with
  being wise and with death? Arent we supposed
  to be aware of these things throughout our lives?
• Consider the process by which that 3rd criteria
  was added to Gods counsel.

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The Adversary Caused Doubt

• By inferring that God was somehow holding out
  or keeping back something of value, satan
  deceived Eve into questioning His intentions and
  His character.
• He implied that Eve might have reason to fear she
  was missing something important.
• From there, it is only a few short steps to
  falling back on our own reasoning ability.

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Steps of Entrapment

• FEAR of some kind of harm to self or loved
  ones
• which easily leads to
• UNBELIEF Messiah cant or wont help me
• which easily leads to
• SELF-SUFFICIENCY/PRIDE
• Ill have to figure it
  out myself
• (which
  can be out of arrogance or desperation)
• and finally, if unchecked along the way,
  leads to
• REBELLION so I will do it MY way.

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What Changed?

• When Eve entertained fear she opened the door to
  the idea that our Father might not have good
  intentions which she then saw as reason to employ
  her human reasoning ability, add her own 3rd
  criteria, and come to her own conclusion.
• This new conclusion was no longer based on her
  confidence in God but on the experience of her
  own senses of sight and reasoning.

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• We might say Eve moved from being God centered
  and led by His Spirit to being human centered
  and led by her own experience.
• She rejected Gods command based on her
  observations. Adam did the same as he followed
  suit, but Scripture says he did so knowingly,
  while Eve was taken in with the deception.

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• By the way, you did notice that satan told
  partial truth? They didnt die physically
  immediately! (We are told Adam lived about 900
  years, which is still within Gods determination
  that a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand
  years as a day.)
• 
  2 Peter 38
• It is more that YHWH generally allows people to
  experience consequences of their choices than
  that He puts them to immediate physical death.

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Really Turning Life Upside Down

• Their spiritual life and their confident
  dependence on God was underminedliterally
  overthrown or flipped over--in favor of their own
  ability to use information and experience to
  discern what was good. We might say upside down
  when matters of flesh take priority over spirit.
• The Disciples were accused of being men who
  turned the world upside down, when in fact,
  through Messiah, they were in the business of
  turning it right side up once again!
  Acts 17 6

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• Dependence on our own senses and ability to
  reason can also be called self-sufficiency or
  pride, the third step in the entrapment process.
• Since we are not omnipotent, omniscient or
  omnipresent how could our human understanding
  even begin to compare to His? Clearly, this would
  be Unwise counsel!

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• Yet this entrapment and appeal to depend on our
  own experience or reasoning works as well today
  as it did then.
• We might call it chasing after wisdom and taking
  pride in our human abilities, preferring this
  over walking after our Messiah in His way.

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Pride arrogance or desperation?

• Because pride is a concept so often associated
  with being arrogant, may I point out that in this
  instance, it can be as much from personal
  desperation and unbelief that anyone else cares,
  could or would help, that this type of pride, or
  self-sufficiency can be born.
• The issue is the dependence on self to reason or
  solve the current question, rather than looking
  to YHWHs Spirit and His Word in trust for our
  answers.

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• In our human understanding then we can easily
  rationalize that we are not in rebellion but just
  doing what must be done to avoid some kind of
  harm.
• Certainly, we are to use the talents and
  understandings given to us but we are not to
  assume that we know better than our almighty
  Creator!

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Elevation of Self?

• Satan succeeded in reproducing his own sin of
  pride through his desire to be like God in
  mankind, man and woman. You can see a word
  picture of this pride in Isaiah 14 where he
  determines that he will be lifted up and
  worshipped as God.
• Just as he lost his position in the Garden as the
  covering cherub through pride (Ezekiel 28) so now
  did mankind lose their position in the Garden.

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It is not that man shouldnt listen to his wife!

• Adam should have been his wifes covering but
  failed to act.
• How blessed we are that
• the second Adam did
• not fail to cover His Bride!
• We have only to depend on Him!
• Please see article series on Shepherds Need to
  Know the Biblical Meaning of Restraint/Nakedness
  at www.setapartmingb.org for more information on
  this aspect of covering.

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• Is there a Scriptural picture of what it looks
  like to depend on human abilities?
• YES!
• There are many, but here is one that is a central
  organization of most of these behaviors.

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Proverbs 6 16-19

• There are six things which the LORD hates,
   Yes, seven which are an abomination to Him
•      Haughty eyes, a lying tongue,    And
  hands that shed innocent blood,     A heart that
  devises wicked plans,     Feet that run rapidly
  to evil,     A false witness who utters
  lies,     And one who spreads strife among
  brothers.

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• Again, we turn to the words of Solomon, the
  wisest man who ever lived
• Haughty eyes and a proud
  heart,         The lamp of the wicked, is sin.
• Proverbs 214 NASB
• These behaviors are of those who walk in sin.
  Their way is lit by the lamp of a way other
  than Gods. John tells us that sin is
  lawlessness, or rejecting the commandments of
  God. (1 John 34)
• Rejecting YHWHs ways and substituting human
  reason and understanding is easily seen as part
  of this walk in sin!

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Choose Life

• Mankind lost direct access to the Tree of Life in
  Eden due to sin and the elevation of self over
  and against dependence on God, yielding to unwise
  counsel.
• Yet, when we yield to Messiah, we are partaking
  of the fruit of Him as our Tree of Life in a
  spiritual re-birth and life.
• Those who believe and
• walk after Him will have
• the right to the physical
• Tree of Life again in the New City.

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.or death

• Those who reject YHWHs Spirit and His commands
  are yielding to the fruit of the tree of the
  knowledge of good and evil, depending on their
  own senses and experience above looking to Him.
  They may look with haughty eyes on what is of
  YHWH, in favor of their own ideas. Unwise
  counsel!
• It IS there all through Scripture though not by
  that name! Every reference to these behaviors is
  thematically linked to this tree of death from
  the Garden. Like the adversary himself, it is
  subtle.

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• The Tree of Life is now guarded and kept for
  those who yield to Messiah and thus the way of
  Life is described throughout Scripture. He
  continues to call us!
• The influence of the tree of the knowledge of
  good and evil depends on subtlety and innuendo.
  Its fruit led to the rejection of the Tree of
  Life.

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• It no longer needs to be identified by name
  because it became a part of fallen mans nature.
• It is what takes over in the absence of the
  Tree of Life!

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• The overriding influence of rejecting His
  commands in favor of personal experience and
  senses remains a primary battle for all of
  mankind today, all the days of our lives, as
  foretold in the Garden.
• Because the focus is on human behavior, THAT tree
  is no longer mentioned by name but all it
  involves leads to dependence on experience,
  personal wisdom or the world and eventually to
  deathboth physical and spiritual.

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Didnt God want us to be wise?

• It was not that God didnt want us to have
  knowledge of good and evil, but rather that what
  knowledge we have about it should come through
  His leading and direction
• not by our self-sufficiency
• reaching out for it in our
• timing and based on our
• desire or fear.

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Concept of the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil is present throughout Scripture.

• It is evident by the human behavior that is
  described in Proverbs 616-19
• The effect of the Tree of the knowledge of good
  and evil as the basis for human superiority is
  the rejection or absence of the Tree of Life.
• Now, Life and Death will continually
• be at war within Believers.

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• The Tree of the knowledge of good and evil has
  been seeded into our very nature.
• When we receive Messiah/Tree of Life, we have the
  ability to resist the fruit of that OTHER tree,
  though we should not be surprised at the daily
  challenges.
• Without His Life in us, we are so vulnerable in
  our arrogance or desperation to the manipulation
  of the evil one!

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The Devil made me do it???

• Too often, people want
• to attribute poor choices
• to demonic influence when
• our unsubmitted flesh alone
• is capable of very poor
• choices even without unholy pressure.
• Conversely, it is also true that when we are
  walking in unsubmitted flesh or immaturity, the
  evil one has many open doors to maneuver in and
  through us! Sometimes it takes only a nudge to
  fall into the 4 stages of entrapment.
• In Messiah, our Tree of Life, we can be
  overcomers!

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Shepherds!

• Which Tree will you yield to in your own life?
• What kind of counsel can your people expect from
  you?
• Will you stand firm as a tree and speak His Truth
  into the lives of your people?

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People!

• What tree are you eating from?
• Will you be wise in your
• own eyes or draw on our
• Elohims wisdom?
• Will you use His discernment about what teachings
  or leaders you look to for covering, or fall back
  on your own reasoning?

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Choose Life!

• 1How blessed are those whose way is
  blameless,   Who walk in the law of the LORD.
• 2How blessed are those who observe His
  testimonies,         Who seek Him with all their
  heart.     
• 3They also do no unrighteousness
•    They walk in His ways.     4You have ordained
  Your precepts,         That we should keep them
  diligently.     5Oh that my ways may be
  established         To keep Your statutes!
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•    6Then I shall not be ashamed         When I
  look upon all Your commandments.     7I shall
  give thanks to You with uprightness of
  heart,         When I learn Your righteous
  judgments.     8I shall keep Your
  statutes         Do not forsake me utterly!
  
• Psalm 119 NASB

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May you be blessed and strengthened as you learn
more about Trees and Men!

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Resources

• The Complete Word Study Old Testament
• Zodhiates, AMG Publishers
• The Complete Word Study New Testament
• Zodhiates, AMG Publishers
• Ancient Hebrew Lexicon of the Bible
• Jeff A. Benner, VBW Publishing
• A Study of Beresheit The Book of Beginnings
• Bradford Scott, Audio notes,
  Wildbranch Ministries
• www.biblegateway.org online Scripture resource
• Vines Expository Dictionary of Old and New
  Testament Words
• W.E. Vine, Nelson Publishers
• Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
• Harris, Archer, Waltke Moody
  Press
• The Creation Gospel,
• Dr. Hollisa Alewine
  www.thecreationgospel.com