EATING OF THE TREE OF LIFE;
DEATH WITHOUT EATING
02-02-20
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God is Thought. The brightness
of our revelations depends upon the correctness of our
doctrines,
our building
blocks, our Godly thoughts laid one upon another,
ascending into the mind of Christ.
A SHADOW OF HEAVEN
Commentary: Father God
speaks to us through the Holy Spirit in ways that we can understand. We
cannot
now understand the brilliant brightness of the Glory of
Heaven, but
we can now understand a much lesser shadow of that
Heavenly
Glory. The Garden of Eden is a type (kind) and shadow
of Heaven.
(Gen
2:8,9)
And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden [Heb: pleasure:
delight]; and there he put the man whom he
had formed. And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree
that is
pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life
[Jesus Christ] also in the midst
of the garden, and the tree of
knowledge of good and evil [Lucifer
Satan].
(Rev 2:7) He that hath an
ear, let him hear what the
Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give
to eat
of the tree of life [Jesus Christ], which is in the midst of the
paradise of God.
1.
paradise
= Gk: a park,
(specifically) an Eden (a place of future happiness).
(John
6:28-31)
Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might
work
the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the
work of
God, that ye believe on him [Himself,
i.e., Jesus Christ] whom he
[God] hath sent [Gk: to send
out (properly on a mission)]. They
said therefore unto him, What sign [Gk:
miracle, wonder] shewest
thou then, that we may see [1],
and believe thee? what dost thou work?
Our fathers did eat manna [2]
in the desert; as it is written, He
gave them bread from heaven to eat.
1.
(2 Cor 5:7) (For we walk by faith,
not by sight:)
2.
(Psa
78:22-25) Because
they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors
of
heaven, And had rained down manna [Heb: a
whatness] upon them
to eat, and had given them of the corn [Heb:
increase; grain] of
heaven. Man did eat angels' food [i.e.,
revelations]: he
sent them meat [Heb: food] to the
full.
3.
(Exo
16:11-15) And
the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, I have heard the murmurings [Heb: grumblings] of the children of Israel:
speak unto them, saying, At even[ing] ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall
be filled
with bread [Heb: food]; and ye
shall know that I am the LORD your God. And it
came to
pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp:
and in the
morning the dew [of the Holy
Spirit?] lay round about the host. And
when the dew that lay was gone up
[a], behold, upon the face of the
wilderness there lay a small
round thing, as small as the
hoar frost [Heb: white frost] on
the ground [the logos word?]. And when
the children of Israel saw it,
they said one to another, It is
manna [Heb: a whatness] [b]: for
they wist [Heb: understood] not
what it was.
And Moses said unto them, This is
the bread [i.e., the Bible] which
the LORD hath given you to eat.
a.
(Eccl 12:7) Then
shall the dust return to the
earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who
gave it.
b.
(Exo
16:31) And
the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and
the taste of it was like wafers
made with honey.
(John
6:32-35)
Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto
you, Moses
gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the
true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he which cometh
down
from heaven, and giveth life unto the world
[i.e., Jesus Christ; logos rhema; soul spirit: the Bible].
Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore
give us this bread. And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life [the Bible]: he that cometh to me
[the Bible] shall never hunger [for
he shall eat the bread of Jesus Christ];
and he that believeth on me shall never thirst [for
he shall drink of the Holy Spirit].
(John
6:36-40)
But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe
not.
All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh
to me
I will in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven, not to
do mine
own will, but the will of him [Father
God] that sent me. And this is
the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath
given me I
should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the
last day.
And this is the will of him [Father
God] that sent me, that every one
which seeth the Son [the
Bible], and believeth on him,
may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the
last day.
(John
6:41,42)
The Jews then murmured [Gk:
grumbled] at him, because he said, I
am the bread which came down from heaven. And they said, Is not
this Jesus,
the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that
he
saith, I came down from heaven?
(John
6:43-46)
Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among
yourselves. No man can come to me, except the Father which
hath sent
me draw him [“by God’s Word
through the Holy Spirit” Dake’s]:
and I will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the
prophets, And
they shall be all taught of God
[1,2]. Every man therefore
that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh
unto
me. Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God,
he hath
seen the Father.
1.
(Isa
54:13,14) And all
thy children shall be taught
of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy
children. In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be
far from oppression [Heb: injury,
fraud, distress, unjust gain:
cruelity, extortion, anything deceitfully gotten]; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror;
for it shall not come near thee.
2.
(Jer
31:33,34) But
this shall be the covenant [compact,
contract, agreement] that I will make
with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the
LORD, I will put my law in their
inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their
God,
and they shall be my people. And they shall teach [Heb: goad] no more every man his
neighbour, and every man his brother,
saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the
least of
them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive
their
iniquity [Heb: perversity, moral
evil: faults, sins], and I will
remember their sin no more.
(John
6:47-51)
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath
everlasting [Gk: perpetual:
eternal, for ever] life. I
am that bread of life [the Bible].
Your fathers did eat manna in the
wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from
heaven, that
a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the living
bread
which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he
shall
live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh [1],
which I will give [sacrifice] for
the life of the world [Gk: kosmos; universe].
1.
(John 1:14) And
the Word [of God, the Bible] was
made flesh [in Jesus Christ], and
dwelt among us, (and we beheld his
glory, the glory as of the only begotten [Gk:
the only child] of the
Father,) full of grace and truth.
(John
6:52-58)
The Jews therefore strove [Gk:
quarreled] among themselves, saying,
How can this man give us his
flesh to eat? Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto
you, Except
ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood [the Bible], ye have no life in you.
Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my
blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the
last day.
For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that
eateth my
flesh, and drinketh my blood
[i.e., reads and understands the Bible],
dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent
me, and I
live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall
live by me.
This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did
eat
manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for
ever.
LIFE AND DEATH
(1
Cor 11:23-30) For I [the
Apostle Paul] have received of the
Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took
bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake [opened] it, and said,
Take,
eat: this is my body [the Bible:
John 1:14], which is broken for you:
this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also [next] he took the
cup
[the rhema word], when he had supped [after He had eaten the bread], saying, This
cup is the new testament
in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it
[as often as ye receive revelations],
in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and
drink this
cup [read the Bible and receive
revelations], ye do shew [Gk:
proclaim: declare, preach, speak of,
teach] the Lord's death till he
come [again]. Wherefore whosoever
shall eat this bread,
and drink this cup of the Lord,
unworthily [Gk: irreverently], shall
be guilty of the body and blood
of the Lord. But let a man
examine himself, and so let him eat of that
bread, and drink of that
cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily,
eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning
[Dict: recognizing, perceiving,
understanding] the Lord's body
[the Bible]. For this
cause many are weak and sickly
among you, and many sleep [Gk:
die] [and are eternally unsaved].