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The Tree of Life

Rohnel

The Commands of Christ Jesus, the power of an endless Life

Ronel, and my beloved husband, Pete, a servant of Jesus Christ, separated unto the Gospel of God, to the strangers scattered throughout the world, Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. Speaking to the Church to comfort, edify, and exhort [1 Co 14:3]. Who will believe our report?

Eph 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

Eph 1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

The Two Trees Part 2 – The Tree of Life

In the letter, The Two Trees Part 1, we see how we ate of the fruit of the tree of good and evil, which led to spiritual death through God’s design who works all matters after the counsel of His own will [Eph 1:17, Prov 16:1].

Christ is jealous for Zion, His people, and through His great mercy and judgment returns to us, His unfaithful wife, and spiritually raises her from the dead if He has chosen her/us to hear His Voice in this age. Christ forsakes us for a little while, but with great anger and jealousy comes back for His throne.

Jer 33:11 The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.

Joh 6:44  No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

Joh 6:45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.

Not all calling Christ Lord will enter into the Kingdom of God now, but only those who hear His Voice in every generation. We, the escaped remnant, now have access to the Tree of Life, which is Christ, in us, the Hope of Glory [Rom 11:5, Isa 11:16]. Christ IS come in our flesh, and if anyone disagrees, he has the spirit of anti-Christ.

Joh 6:65  And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.

Joh 10:16  And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

The Tree of Life is a dry tree in the midst of paradise, which the Lord makes to flourish in this day, the Day of the Lord. He brings down the high tree, the tree of good and evil, to dry up the green tree and exalt the dry tree. Christ, the dry Tree, is exalted above all.

Eze 17:24  And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it.

Eph 1:20  Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,

Eph 1:21  Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

The Tree of Life is for the healing of the nations [gentiles], which have Christ’s  Name [Gospel] in their foreheads, the gentiles whom He has chosen in every generation. The rest of the Gentiles will be saved later according to His plan because Christ is the Saviour of all men [1 Tim 4:10]. Only some are saved in every generation, and the end of the ages is come upon us, His people, in every generation.

Rev 22:2  In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

Rev 22:4 And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.

Act 10:45 And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Act 15:17  That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.

We do not desire Christ at first; there is no comeliness in the dry tree. We have to be born again [John 3:3]. The Lord has to open our eyes to see and our ears to hear His glorious Gospel. This is the Lord’s mercy. Mercy is to raise us up from the dead [spiritual death]. The Gospel is hid.

Isa 53:2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

Luk 5:38  But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.

Luk 5:39 No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.

The Tree of Life is the knowledge of Christ, the faith of Christ. The knowledge of Christ is to believe that only His blood can save us. His blood, His Words of Spirit and Life [John 6:63] saves us from the wrath to come. His knowledge is the knowledge/mystery of His Gospel; it is the knowledge of His Commandments, so we may do them. It is the knowledge that our own knowledge and good deeds, which are needful, cannot save us.

2Pe 1:3  According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him [Gospel] that hath called us to glory and virtue:

2Pe 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

 

2Pe 3:18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.

Col 2:3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

The Tree of Life is the godly wisdom from above, which gives us life eternal [aionios], and that is to know Christ and the Father [John 17:3]. This tree gives us the fear of the Lord, and the fear of the Lord is to obey Him, which is the beginning of wisdom.

Jas 3:17  But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Ecc 7:12 For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.

Pro 9:10  The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

Pro 16:6  By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.

Eating of Christ’s flesh and bones, drinking His blood, the Lord now makes a New Covenant with us, writing His Laws in our hearts and minds. We are renewing creatures; the old life and old mindset is passing away. Our covenant with death, eating of the fruit of the tree of good and evil, does not stand; it is disannulled [Isa 28:18]. Death, where is your sting? We now have a lasting peace. Our God is full of compassion and long-suffering with us, and His mercy is on them that fear Him from generation to generation [Luk 1:50].

Isa 54:10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.

Heb 8:10  For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

Heb 8:13  In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

1Co 15:55  O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

The Lord sends His messenger of the Covenant suddenly, Christ makes a quick work upon the earth in our hearts and in our minds. Christ comes when it is least expected. The heavens are rolled up like a scroll in this Day, and He makes a sudden end to all of our unrighteousness and ungodliness, which is the work of our own hands, the idols of our hearts.

Mal 3:1  Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.

1Th 5:2  For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

Having access to the Tree of Life, the Lord takes away our sins and remembers them no more. The Lord visits us with His salvation. He takes away our sins by giving us His Commandments, the judgments of His mouth[Ps 105].

Rom 11:26  And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:

Rom 11:27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.

Rom 6:22  But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

All of us have sinned and have come short of His glory, and if we say otherwise, we lie.

Rom 3:23  For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

Rom 3:24  Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

Rom 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

We escape from the corruption of worldly lusts and covetousness [idolatry] because we have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked eating of the fruit of the tree of good and evil. We live by every Word that comes out of the mouth of God. No man escapes, all eat of the fruit of the tree of good and evil and come short of the glory of God. Please read the letter, The Two Trees Part 1, which shows us the fruit of the tree of good and evil, the exalted tree.

Eze 6:9  And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

Eze 6:10 And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.

2Pe 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

The Tree of Life is the true Sabbath’s rest; we cease from our own works and rest in Christ. The Sabbath’s rest is holy unto God. This Sabbath’s rest was made for us, and the Lord reigns supreme over it. We have to become holy to see the Lord; we do not serve two tables, the table of Mammon and the table of the Lord. We do not mix wool and linen in one garment, we do not plow with an ox and ass together, spiritually speaking [Deut 22:10-11].

Heb 4:9  There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

Heb 4:10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

Exo 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Mar 2:27  And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:

Mar 2:28  Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

We are now sons of God, chosen before the foundation of the world, and our hearts bear witness that we are the sons of God. The Lord accepts us as sons, and we are no more bastards [Heb 12:8]. We travail in birth and with much pain and sorrow, birth the man-child [Rom 8, Rev 12:13].

Eph 1:4  According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

Eph 1:5  Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

Gal 4:5  To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

Gal 4:6  And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

Hos 1:10  Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.

Eating of the Tree of Life, we have the Promise of eternal Life. We have to abide in His love [keep His Commandments, 2 Pet 3:9] to receive the Promise, which is the Holy Spirit, which are the Words of Spirit and Life [John 6:63]. This is the Power of God and eternal life [life aionios].

1Jn 2:24  Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.

1Jn 2:25  And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.

Rom 6:23  For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

We have to patiently hope and wait for the Promise of God [Heb 10:36]. We receive the Promise of the Spirit of God through the faith of Christ, which is a gift of God. We have to hear and believe the Gospel to be sealed with the Holy Spirit [Eph 1:13]. The Promise is our inheritance, eating of the Tree of Life, which is Christ in us. The Promise belongs to us; our inheritance is in the Lord. The true Israel of God has no inheritance in this world.

Act 2:39  For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

Gal 3:14  That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Eze 44:28  And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.

Eating of the Tree of Life, we are being made partakers of His divine nature, His anointing stays in us. We have come to the end of our faith, the salvation of our souls. The anointing is the Holy Spirit, the Promise, or the Comforter.

1Jn 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

Jer 31:34 And they shall teach 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, and I will remember their sin no more.

We are now children of the blessed and holy First Resurrection and reign with Christ, sitting on twelve thrones. Our citizenship is New Jerusalem above.

Mat 19:28  And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Mat 19:29  And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

Mat 19:30  But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.

Rev 3:12  Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

We rejoice that we are made low, emptying ourselves, becoming servants to God. All of our treasures are fading away. We cannot see the Lord and live; our natural man has to die.

Isa 28:1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

Jas 1:9  Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:

Jas 1:10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

We are offered up following Christ’s example, as He is so are we [1 John 4:17].

Php 2:17  Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.

Php 2:18  For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.

This is the only Tree that makes us holy unto God; we are being made perfect on the third day. We are made over, a new man conformed into the image of Christ.

Eph 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

Eph 4:24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Col 3:8  But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

Col 3:9  Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

Col 3:10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

This is the Day, the Lord will reconcile our brethren back to us. You, who are reading, that came out of the physical churches/fellowships of the world, that have no fellowship elsewhere, whether it be over the internet or in a church, today the Lord joins you to us, we are one flock, we have One Lord, One Father. If you believe in the Name/Gospel of Christ in your hearts and confess with your mouths, you are His sheep. You are part of the remnant the Lord calls. Christ is not leaving or forsaking you.

Joe 2:32  And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.

Gal 3:26  For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

Gal 3:27  For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Gal 3:28  There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

Gal 6:15  For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

Gal 6:16  And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

Gal 6:17 From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.

Eating of the Tree of Life brings forth fruit and joy unspeakable as we start to overcome sin. Our reward is the crown of righteousness. We have to patiently wait for the Lord, put all our hope in Him to come and give us this crown, and above all else, to be found spotless [without sin] when He comes. Those who wait for the Lord are not put to shame [Isa 49]. Paul says he presents us as a chaste virgin unto Christ.

2Ki 19:30  And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

2Ki 19:31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.

Psa 92:13 Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.

Psa 92:14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;

The crown of glory is Christ in us, the Hope of Glory. It is the Gospel of Jesus Christ; it is knowing and obeying the Commandments of Christ. We wait patiently, striving to enter into the narrow gate, and are watchful that nobody takes our crown. When we fall, we get back up immediately, we resist the devil [carnal thoughts, the world], and he flees from us. The Lord promised and He will do it and IS doing it, and that is to give us overcoming over our sins, overcoming the world within and without.

Isa 28:5  In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,

Isa 28:6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.

2Ti 4:7  I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

2Ti 4:8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

Rev 3:10  Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

Rev 3:11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

As the true Israel of God, we are the praise of the earth because Christ returns to us. He has not forgotten us. He is our faithful High Priest after the order of Melchisedec. He wakes us up from deep sleep [spiritual death], and we have joy forevermore. The Lord dwells in Mount Zion, Christ and the Father dwells in us in this Day [John 14:20].

Isa 8:18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.

Isa 46:13 I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.

Isa 51:16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.

We are Zion, the perfection of beauty.

Psa 50:2  Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.

Psa 50:3  Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

Psa 50:4  He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.

Psa 50:5  Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

Psa 50:6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.

The tree of Life extends peace to us like a river; it endures forever, because the Lord, through His mercy, has opened our ears and made us to see the One whom we have pierced. He has brought us home again. The Lord’s judgments give us peace. The Lord’s judgments are His Commandments. Our peace is our comfort.

Isa 66:12  For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees.

Isa 66:13 As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

Joh 14:27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Isa 52:7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!

We pray and thank the Lord continually for saving us. Once we are lifted out of this world, we see the bondage, we see Leviathan [the devil], which has pulled us up into his net [Job 41]. Praying, lifting up hands, means the way we walk in this life. Praying means worshipping God. Our hearts are full of joy because of what the Lord is doing in this Day.

Heb 13:15  By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

1Pe 2:5  Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Rev 8:3  And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.

Reading this letter, we have a joyful and pleasant feast and we remember to remember God, the Father, and the Lord, Christ, to honour and obey Them as we are unworthy servants, which is our duty to do. Here are some Commandments for a time like this, reading and reminding ourselves what a great gift we have been given, the Tree of Life. His Commandments are our daily bread from heaven. The Apostles remind us:

To walk worthy of our calling … being steadfast … holding to our Head.

To not be spoilt by fables and philosophies … to shun vain babblings … to put our affection on things above … to not answer foolish questions … to not walk in lasciviousness, excess of wine, idolatries … to establish our hearts with grace not with meat … to not love the world … to try the spirits … to keep away from idols … to not follow after evil.

To love our brethren fervently … abounding in love … keeping His Commands …  to esteem those that labour in the Word.  

To have confidence to draw near … casting our cares upon Christ … to be humble, patient, and longsuffering … looking to others’ affairs, not just our own.

To forbear and forgive each other … to get angry and sin not … to be full of mercy.

To not neglect our gifts … to work with our own hands … to eat at home … to study to show ourselves approved … be ready to give an answer … not to be slothful … to speak truth in love.

To gird up our loins … to be sober … to resist the devil … to labour to enter into His rest … to not be involved in the affairs of this world.

To bridle our tongues … no corrupt communication out of our mouths … no evil speaking … no bitterness … no jesting … to be kind and gentle … to renew our minds … our speech seasoned with salt … swift to hear and slow to speak … to set aside the sins that so easily beset us … to not covet … to not faint … to not be unequally joked with unbelievers.

To be holy, set apart … to not be partakers of others’ sins … to lay hands suddenly on no man … to follow after peace and holiness …to not revile … to not threaten … to not be partial … to not be puffed up.

To feed the flock … to present every man perfect … to be hospitable … to entertain strangers … to visit the fatherless, the orphan, the widow, the Levite, the stranger spiritually … to not eat or drink the Lord’s supper unworthily … to seek the excellent gifts but rather to prophesy … to be orderly. Casting our cares upon Him … our behaviour honest among the gentiles … to redeem our time … to be subject to rulers … to not be a stumbling block… to not judge another … to bear the weak … to judge nothing before the time … to give cheerfully … to not speak evil.

To give thanks in all things … to not moan … to do things heartily as if we do it for the Lord … to press on for the prize of the high calling … to make our calling and election sure … to examine ourselves … to live by faith.

To teach and preach the Gospel …  to not be ashamed of the Gospel … to admonish, exhort, comfort, and edify … to be humble … to not boast … to do good when we know to do good … to not revile … to be patient … to bear each other’s burdens … to do good to all men.

To pray for the king and all men … to lift hands up everywhere praying spiritually … to confess our sins … to pass our time in fear of the Lord.

To be doers of the Word … to not quench the spirit … to give heed to prophesies … to not forsake the assembly … to present our bodies a living sacrifice … to be of the same mind … fervent in spirit … rejoicing in hope … blessing not cursing.

To think on things true, honest, just, pure, virtuous, and of good report … to die daily … to love and many more.

Receive ye the Gospel. 

Part 1 of this study, The Tree of Knowledge and Good and Evil can be accessed by clicking here

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The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil

Rohnel

The Commands of Christ, the power of an endless Life

Ronel and my beloved husband, Pete, to the strangers scattered throughout the world, Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. Speaking to the Church to comfort, edify and exhort [1 Co 14:3]. Who will believe our report?

1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1Pe 1:4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,

The Two Trees Part 1 – Knowledge 

Christ first takes us out of the world [Egypt] and starts drawing us [whose names are written in His book] to Himself. He makes a Covenant with us coming out of the world and tells us He will bring us into the Promised Land, which is Christ in us, the Hope of Glory, to be a partaker of His Divine nature [2 Pe 1:4]. Here is the Covenant in type and shadow:

Exo 6:6  Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:

Exo 6:7  And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

Exo 6:8 And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the LORD.

We do not continue in the first Covenant, we forget the Lord and He regards us not. We increase in knowledge and Christ is forgotten, His Commandments do not come to heart.

Jer 3:16  And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.

The Ark of the Covenant, which symbolizes Christ, the Commandments, is forgotten, and the Lord casts us out of His Presence.

2Ch 15:2  … The LORD is with you while you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

Jer 23:39  Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence:

We see by the mercy of the Lord, He makes a new Covenant with us after these days, finding fault with the first Covenant.

Heb 8:8  For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:

Heb 9:15  And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

Through God’s design working all things after the counsel of His own will [Eph 1:11], we have the Gospel preached to us, but are drawn away through our carnal minds, that is to say, our fleshly lusts, which are our carnal thoughts in our quest for knowledge. The parable of the sower explains what happens to us:

Mat 13:18  Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.

Mat 13:19  When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.

Mat 13:20  But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;

Mat 13:21  Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.

Mat 13:22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

We spiritually go back to Egypt in our attempt to establish our own righteousness. It was ordained from the beginning of the world that we would eat the fruit of the tree of good and evil. This tree is the tree of knowledge, and is pleasant to look at and a tree to be desired to make us wise [Gen 3:6]. We do eat of this tree, because we live by every Word coming out of the mouth of God [Matt 4:4]. All things are ours [1 Co 3:22] as we keep the sayings of the prophecy of this book [Rev 1:3]. This tree leads to spiritual death:

Gen 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Gen 3:5 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.

Knowing good and evil is making us wise, our carnal thoughts going to and fro, up and down, round and round we go, and it is the accusing and excusing thoughts we have within ourselves leading to knowledge. This law is called the law of the Gentiles, a law unto ourselves [Rom 2:15]. It is a deceiving wisdom which have many doctrines:

Job 1:7 And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

Eph 4:14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

Going to and fro is how we increase knowledge. We are hasty, wanting more and get our treasures by a lying tongue, vanities tossed to and fro [Prov 21:5-6]. We run to and fro seeking the Lord, and do not find Him because He is hidden from us [Amos 8:12].

Dan 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

Ecc 1:18 For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

It is a fleshly wisdom driven by the spirit of disobedience, through the prince of this world, Satan, the prince of the power of the air. Satan appears to us as an angel of light [2 Co11:14]. We are children of wrath and do not know it. Our knowledge, which is perfect in our own eyes, makes us blind and deaf, having eyes and ears that do not see and do not hear [Isa 42:19].

Jas 3:15  This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

Jas 3:16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

Eph 2:2  Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

Eph 2:3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

We are commanded to abstain from fleshly lusts [carnal thoughts] that war against the soul. The sin in our members is our carnal minds, having carnal wisdom, dreaming dreams, listening to the false prophets within and without [Jer 23:9] who lie to us and give us false visions and divinations, for example, idols of our hearts, thinking our knowledge will save us in the day of trouble [Jer 14;14]. Let us drink and eat and be merry. Drinking and eating without the Lord is sin [Rom 14:17].

1Pe 2:11  Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Rom 6:11  Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Rom 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

We love and reap the wages of unrighteousness, not building and founding our houses upon the Rock [Christ] but going astray and falling into a deep sleep [Acts 20:9-11].

Jer 22:13  Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour’s service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;

2Pe 2:14  Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

2Pe 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

Our accusing and excusing mindsets are of our Father, the devil, which is the mark of the beast. The Lord’s Words are spiritual [John 6:63]. We do not have the mind of Christ, nor have we the Father, and the Promise of the Father is not yet given to us [Luk 24:49]:

Joh 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Satan, the spirit of the carnal mind, is a murderer and a thief.

1Pe 4:15  But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters. 

Eating of the tree of good and evil is likened unto money, the god, mammon, which is the pride of life. The fear of the Lord is to hate pride [Pro 8:13], but pride and violence cover us in spirit [Ps 73:6]. We cannot serve two masters, two tables at the same time [Luk 16:13]:

1Jn 2:16  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

1Jn 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

This worldly wisdom is the corruptible silver and gold, the corruptible treasures that we heap up during this time of our walk, working out our own salvation without fear and trembling. Our idols are our own doings. Our idols are the work of our own hands [Ps 115:4]:

1Pe 1:18  Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

1Pe 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

Jas 5:2  Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

Jas 5:3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

Our treasures are not saving us, nor do it save any man. Our wisdom is cankered silver and gold. We are sinning angels reserved unto judgement [2 Pet 2:4].

Eze 28:2  Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:

Eze 28:4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:

Col 1:12  Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:

Col 1:13  Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

Col 1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

Our foolish wisdom is found on our lips, being fools, which swallow us up, babbling all day long in our vanity and vain deceptions, lying to ourselves and to others, promising them and us liberty whilst we are servants of corruption [2 Pe 2:19]. We sit as God in the temples of our hearts [2 Th 2:3-4]:

1Co 1:20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

1Co 3:19  For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

1Co 3:20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

This worldly knowledge is not from above, but it is the wisdom that is reveling in our cunningly devised fables, genealogies, imaginings, and wishful thinking, dreaming to establish our own salvation. We are modern-day fortune tellers, saying we see and we do not know that our sin remains [John 9:41].

2Pe 1:16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

1Ti 1:4  Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.

1Ti 1:5 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:

The heaping up of great treasures to ourselves gives us itching ears that turn us away from the Truth of the Gospel. We warm ourselves by the fire and the resurrection of Christ, that is to say, to bring Christ up from the grave, bringing Him into remembrance to know and obey Him is past or future tense for us. We are typical Sadducees and Pharisees. We do not desire Christ at all [Isa 53:2-3]:

2Ti 4:3  For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

2Ti 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

The spirit of whoredom is in our midst. We look everywhere else for the Kingdom of God. This is all by God’s design, becoming like gods, before we are allowed access to the tree of Life, Christ, through great judgment and mercy.

Joh 5:38 And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.

Joh 5:39  Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

Joh 5:40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.

Psa 82:6  I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.

Psa 82:7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.

We have eyes full of adultery rioting in the daytime after our idols increasing in riches, forgetting Christ drawing men after us and hindering them from entering into the Kingdom of God themselves. Our high places are where we burn incense to other gods, for example, via the traditions of men naturally and spiritually [2 Ch 28:4]. We love the high places in the congregation, and our spiritual wickedness at this time is found in high places [Eph 6:12].

2Pe 2:13  And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

2Pe 2:14  Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

2Pe 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

We go back to the days of our youth, we go back to Egypt, the place of bondage and slavery. We make Christ’s House a den of robbers [Matt 21:13] and are the merchants trading with the souls of men spiritually [Rev 18:11-13].

Eze 23:19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

Jer 7:8  Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

Jer 7:9  Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;

Jer 7:10  And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?

Jer 7:11  Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.

Gal 5:19  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Gal 5:20  Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

Gal 5:21  Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

As Christ’s Bride, we commit adultery with strange flesh. We do not keep to our first estate, hearing and obeying the Commands of Christ, but rather treasure up wrath for the Day of Judgement. We commit adultery with a strange woman who flatters with her lips and are that evil man that delights in the forwardness of the wicked [Prov 2:14]. Asking amiss, we do not receive because we ask to spend it on our pleasures, which are our treasures of worldly knowledge [Jas 4:3-4]:

Jud 1:6  And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

Jud 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

Pro 2:16  To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

Pro 2:17  Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

Eze 16:32 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!

We have many lovers and provoke the Lord to anger and jealousy [Zec 8:2-3]. We are in deep deception, the devil/our carnal minds have overtaken us [Rev 20:3]. Christ has given us over for the destruction of our flesh, that is to say, He is marring our carnal minds.

Deu 32:16  They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.

Son 8:6  Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

1Co 10:22  Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

1Co 10:23  All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

We forget the Lord and say His table is contemptible. We are thieves that steal from the Lord because we do not worship or honour Him. His Commandments are a light thing to us :

Mal 1:6  A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

Mal 1:7 Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.

We have the spirit of divination, which is rebellion against the Lord and His Christ. We have neither godly wisdom nor understanding. Our necks are stiff, and we are cruel/hardened as ostriches:

Job 39:13  Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

Job 39:14  Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,

Job 39:15  And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.

Job 39:16  She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;

Job 39:17 Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.

1Sa 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

Rom 10:21  But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.

We rebel/gainsay against the Lord and His Christ. We eat and drink in the kingdom of darkness and wax fat, and are the drunkards of Ephraim who do not inherit the Kingdom of God [1 Co 6:10]. The Lord has no pleasure in us and accepts nothing from our hand, yet He loves us but hates the Esau in us [Mal 1:1-4].

Jud 1:11  Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

Jud 1:12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

Our Rock, Christ, has sold us out, and we do not consider our latter end [Deut 32:29-30]. We are spiritually dead, twice plucked up by the roots. Not knowing that we are in a deep sleep whilst we live, we keep on feasting.

Deu 32:15  But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

Deu 32:17  They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

Deu 32:18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.

Walking to and fro, up and down, round and round in circles, accusing and excusing thoughts lead us to have many idols, fables, and imaginings, which are the work of our own hands. We do not hear and do not obey the Commandments of Christ, but spiritually commit sacrilege with our idols of knowledge, but there is no life in them.

Hab 2:18  What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?

Hab 2:19 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.

Rom 2:22  Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?

Rom 2:23  Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?

Rom 2:24  For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

We fornicate with our father, the devil’s wife, and uncover the devil’s nakedness, which are the kingdoms of this world. We have great knowledge, and there is no end to our treasures, yet without Christ. We are the man.

1Co 5:1  It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.

1Co 5:2  And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.

1Co 5:3  For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,

We reap the reward of this action, and are imprisoned by our carnal reasonings, delivered up to Satan for the destruction of our flesh that our spirits may be saved in our Day of Judgement. We are the Corinthian fornicators, sinning against our own body within and without:

1Co 5:4  In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

1Co 5:5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

1Co 6:18  Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

We commit spiritual idolatry, which is the spirit of covetousness, never having enough, having a strong desire for knowledge and more knowledge, and are never satisfied with what we have. We are always hungry and cold, and our wages are put into bags with holes in them. We are not content, and our riches are rotten [Joel 1:17].

Col 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Rev 2:20  Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

Rev 2:21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.

Hag 1:6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

We are merry, never thinking that our bags wax old and our treasures fail. We are rich but we are not rich towards God. Read the parable of the rich man [Luk 12:16-19]. Our flowers, which are beautiful in their time, fade away quickly as James notes.

Luk 12:20  But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?

Luk 12:21  So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

Jas 1:11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

Christ finds us lacking [Matt 19:16-22, Rev 3:2] and does not find us perfect. He has something against us; we are the sons of Belshazzar and are weighed in the balances:

Puffed up with knowledge, not entering into Christ’s true Sabbath [Heb 4] because of disbelief, we do not seek the Kingdom of God and the righteousness found only in the holy commandments.

Mat 19:23  Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Mat 19:24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Dan 5:27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

Heb 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

We are the covering cherub that sits in the seat of God, being full of pride [Eze 28:14]. We are the man of lawlessness, we appear beautiful on the outside but are full of dead men’s bones [Matt 23:27]. The inside is full of excess [Matt 23:25]. Perfect in our own beauty, not holding to our Head, Jesus Christ, and not having the faith of Christ, the Lord, rejects us at this time [Co 2:18-19]. We do not see Him anymore [John 16:16, Luke 22:18], until He comes again.

Hos 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

Eze 28:4  With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:

Eze 28:5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:

Here in Deuteronomy, in type and shadow, the Lord warns us about this state of affairs. He warns us not to forget Him. Who has eyes to see and ears to hear?

Deu 8:11  Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:

Deu 8:12  Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;

Deu 8:13  And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;

Deu 8:14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;

Sitting like the eagles, secured in our knowledge, making our nests up high with our fenced cities [Jer 49:16], we do not see evil coming, we say peace, peace when there is no peace [Isa 59:8, Rom 3:17]. We sin more and more, adding sin to sin, and do not know that destruction is on its way. We are haughty, jingling as we go, and puffed up one against the other. At this point, we have no reward in Christ, as we put our trust in the pride of life [1Jn 2:16-17], the love of money, and loving not God. We have strayed from the faith of Christ.

1Ti 6:10  For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Hos 13:2 And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.

Isa 3:16  Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:

This is the way of an adulterous woman, Spiritual Babylon within us, that all go through in our appointed time. Here we have great wealth, forgetting the One who begat us.  Our table becomes a snare to us to this day.

Pro 30:20  Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.

Rom 11:9  And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:

Rom 11:10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.

We worship the hosts of heaven [symbolic of the tree of good and evil], never ending, coming to the Truth of the Gospel. Observing traditions of men, birthdays, Christmas, Halloween, and many more. This is worshipping the hosts of heaven, even in the natural, partaking in all of these heathen practices. The Lord gives us over to our fleshly desires and lusts and deceives us [Ez 14]:

Jer 8:2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

Gal 4:9  But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

Gal 4:10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.

Eating of this tree is the sin of hypocrisy. We make our brothers stumble who follow after us [Matt 15:19]. Our meat [knowledge] becomes a stumbling block to the weak [Rom 14:15].

Isa 32:6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

Luk 12:1 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Defrauding our brethren,  we make merchandise of them as we do not teach them the Gospel, the Commandments of Christ, instead enticing them to be like us, sitting in an idol’s temple, being covetous for more and more knowledge. We are not holy at this stage, but unclean.

1Th 4:2  For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

1Th 4:3  For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

1Th 4:4  That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

1Th 4:5  Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

1Th 4:6  That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

1Th 4:7  For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

1Th 4:8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.

1Pe 1:16  Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

We labour in vain and can never get enough. We are always hungry because it is not the true manna from heaven [John 6]. There is no fruit on the fig tree [Matt 21:19]. Our herds groan, there is no pasture [Joel 1:18].

Hos 4:10  For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.

Hos 4:11  Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

Hos 4:12 My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.

1Ti 6:5  Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

The Lord, Christ, gives us over to a reprobate mind, unnaturally lusting after each other, knowing the Truth, but worshipping ourselves, the creation, and not the Creator, which is Christ. His Words are spiritual [John 6:63], and we are shown the state of these things in the natural:

Rom 1:28  And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Rom 1:29  Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

Rom 1:30  Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Rom 1:31  Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

Rom 1:32  Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

This is our state, eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. We are spiritually dead, twice plucked up by the roots:

Eze 17:9  Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.

Jud 1:12  These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

Eph 5:14  Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

What then is the purpose of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? Why do we have to eat of this tree first? If this tree makes us to sin, why do we have to go through this?

Rom 9:19  Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?

Rom 9:20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

Eating of this tree, we learn to discern between good and evil. We accuse and excuse thoughts to come to knowledge, and this knowledge we acquire has many truths and many lies. We learn discernment, for example, we know there is no free will and that the trinity doctrine is false. We have to know these things to speak with the enemy at the gate. The Lord first spoils us and then He is making us over, as we are like clay in the Potter’s Hand.

Jer 18:4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

Mar 2:22 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.

Eating of the tree of good and evil brings us to the tree of Life, which is Christ in us, the Hope of Glory. We are brought out with great mercy and judgment in the Day of the Lord. Who has believed our report? The Lord is near us, who can know it, TODAY WHEN YOU HEAR HIS VOICE:

Rom 10:6  But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)

Rom 10:7  Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)

Rom 10:8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;

Heb 10:6  In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.

Heb 10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

Some of the commands we covered in this study include these commandments, which we strive to do in all our behavior.

Love God with all your heart, soul and mind …, love your neighbour as yourselves …, love each other as I loved you …, do not commit adultery …, flee fornication …, do not defraud your brethren …, do not let your meat be a stumblingblock …, keep away from idols …, do not covet …, be free of the love of money …, abstain from fleshly lusts …, preach and obey the Gospel of Christ …, do not be puffed up one against another …, be set apart …, keep My Commandments…, and many more.

Receive ye the Gospel. Amen.

 

Part 2 of this study on the Tree of Life can be accessed by clicking here.

 

 

 

Studies

The True Living Bread of Life

Peter

The Bread of Life is the Commandments

The bread of life is Jesus Christ.  I speak not of the man, but the living Word, the Son of God, whose Spirit IS the commandments of the Father.  The commandments of the Father are the heavenly bread that brings eternal life, which is to know the only true God and His Son.  By eating Christ’s body [flesh] and drinking His blood, we enter the new covenant and begin to partake of the precious promises.    When the commandments come and we eat, we are supping with Christ and are being made new.

Mat 26:26  And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. 

Mat 26:27  And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; 

Mat 26:28  For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. 

Mat 26:29  But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.

When the saints come together, the primary purpose is to partake of the Lord’s supper.  This is not the ritual of eating physical bread and drinking actual wine as the world’s Christian churches do.  No, the words of Christ are Spirit and speak spiritual truths to those given ears to hear. We eat the Lord’s supper daily [Give us this day our daily bread] as it is how we overcome our sins and are remade into His image.  We take the Lord’s commandments to heart, always meditating on them and above all striving to obey.

1Co 11:20  NKJV Therefore when you come together in one place, it is not to eat the Lord’s Supper. 

Our communing with Christ is to keep our eyes stayed on Him, the living commandments.  Remembering the serpent of brass on the pole, when we look to Christ being crucified; we are healed and made alive.   We eat His bread daily for remembrance of the living commandments.

Luk 22:19  And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me. [My Word, My Commands]

By partaking of the Lord’s bread and drinking His cup, we are dying daily with Christ as we are being resurrected from spiritual death.

1Co 11:26  For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.

The church is always to be focused on the Apostles’ doctrine which is the commandments that are the bread of life.

 Act 2:42  And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. 

Act 1:1  The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, 

Act 1:2  until the day in which He was taken up, after He [Christ] through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen, 

We also have been given these commandments by His Spirit, and now preach the true Gospel with boldness and power, given to us by God.

Those who walk with Christ sup with Christ.  It is here that we are eating the living commandments, and then after we have supped, we are drinking of the cup.  Drinking of the cup, that is His blood, is our walking out what we just ate.  This means we endure many trials, temptations, and chastening as the grace of God works in us mightily by way of the living commandments in our belly.  The sweet taste of the commandments becomes bitter to our bellies as we begin to die daily with Christ after partaking of His flesh, the bread of life.

Rev 10:9  And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. 

Our hearts are now being established by the grace [not the meat or knowledge] that flows from our eating and drinking at the table of the Lord in His kingdom.

Eph 2:8  For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 

When the commandments come to those who hear them preached, a bright light, the day star, has arisen within them.  One’s desires and pursuit of spiritual knowledge wanes and is replaced by a zeal and hunger for the righteousness that only comes by eating the living commandments that are Jesus Christ.  This is the blessing of God.

Mat 5:6  Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled. 

This is what it means to have the faith of Jesus Christ.  When we hear the living commandments of Christ, His Word, and believe, we are being raised out of our spiritual graves and entering eternal life.  This is the resurrection from the dead by the power of the living commandments, that is, the Gospel unto salvation.

Jhn 5:24  “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.

Jhn 5:25  Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live.

This bread of life, being these commandments, the living Word, is just one of the parables of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  It is both a deep parable and, simultaneously, simple to understand when given spiritual eyes to see it.  The Gospel, the living commandments of Jesus Christ, is the mystery hidden for the ages and only revealed to the saints in the appointed time.

Col 1:26  the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints. 

Two Trees and Two Tables Where Food is Served

There are two trees and two tables from which God’s creation eats.  One table and tree, the table of devils and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, feed the flesh and bring glory to man.  The other table, the Lord’s table, and the tree of life bring eternal life and glory to God.  Being yet carnal, we all eat of the first table and tree first as the commandments of the Lord, the Lord’s table is not attractive to us.  Instead we eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil first and die spiritually, which exposes our sin (nakedness) and separates from the living Christ [the commands] that brings life.

Gen 2:16  And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 

Gen 2:17  But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. 

The food of knowledge of good and evil appeals to the flesh and our innate lust, and the pride of life.  Without the Spirit of God, we have zero defense to resist the devil who tempts us to eat of the tree that we were commanded not to eat.  Being deceived, we become like gods, knowing good and evil.

Gen 3:22  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 for ever: 

The Lord’s plan has us being cast out of paradise and only finding the way back to the tree of life by coming through His angels, the Cherubims, in our appointed time.

Gen 3:24  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. 

Both tables and trees serve their purposes in preparing us for Christ.  When  Christ, the holy commandments, come to us by His Spirit, we no longer eat at the first table, that is also called the table of devils.  It is the table of devils because it brings glory to man appealing to our lusts and pride.  We belong to the Lord when Christ comes to us and we provoke Him to jealousy when we are not obedient.

1Co 10:21  You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table and of a table of demons. 

1Co 10:22  Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He? 

To be saved, the spiritual food we are eating needs to change.  We are to keep the feast of the Lord, but change tables, eating only unleavened bread, that is the truth.  Christ’s words are the truth; they are His commandments.

1Co 5:8  Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 

The many called but not chosen miss the Lord when He comes to them and do not recognize Christ and His Christ who preach and speak the Gospel.  Flesh scoffs at and is dismissive of the commandments and has created all sorts of false doctrines as to why they are not the focus of one’s walk.  The carnally minded are more interested in feasting on knowledge that is more satisfying meat to the flesh than the bread of life.  Carnal disciples, all of us at first do not understand the meat the Lord is speaking about.

Joh 4:32  But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of. 

A day comes, Lord willing, that is TODAY, when in our spiritual graves we hear the Gospel of the living commandments and believe.  We thus are resurrected, arising into newness of life.  The true sons of God are henceforth led by the Spirit of God [The living commands]  and are eating at the altar, where those who serve the tabernacle with their knowledge cannot.  We are now partaking of the Tree of Life, which is the same as the hidden manna that is the living commandments of our great God.  Speaking of things that are not as if they already were [Rom 4:17], the saints of the Lord are overcoming their sins.  We have been grafted into the tree of life.

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, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. 

In the Holy City that is Spiritual Jerusalem, where the saints gather and Christ is revealed, this tree is the centerpiece and brings forth all the precious promises of the Lord.

Rev 22:2  In the midst of its street, and of the river, from here and from there, was the Tree of Life, which bore twelve fruits, each yielding its fruit according to one month. And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

The first table of knowledge (the tree of knowledge) satisfies the lust of the flesh and our pride of life.  It gives power to the flesh to have this knowledge and promotes the spirit of the Nicolaitans where respect of persons is paramount.  It is impossible to break away from it until and unless Christ comes to us, we hear and believe.  John 6 reveals the parables about our spiritual food and contrasts these two tables and the two trees using the two distinctively different kinds of spiritual bread.  Until we eat of the second table, we as Jews have not the living Word abiding in us and remain of our father the devil pursuing the lusts of the flesh.

Joh 8:43  Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. 
Joh 8:44  Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. 

The dream is one, and these parables about bread and tables speak of the same truth.  We have the manna of Moses and the true heavenly manna that is Jesus Christ.  It is Christ the living commandments that is the unleavened bread that true Jews, the sons of Aaron, in type eat in the holy place [the temple of the Lord we are]

Lev 6:16  And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it. 

The professing Jews drawn to Christ [us as professing Christians] come for spiritual food, the loaves and fishes, and not the healing miracles that come from the commandments.  Flesh wants the meat, meaning the knowledge and not the commandments.

Jhn 6:26  Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.

While knowledge is useful and needed, that meat has limited use and indeed perishes.  Instead, Christ commands us to labour for His meat that brings life everlasting.

Jhn 6:27  Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.

The Lord has appointed us a kingdom to rule over that is within us.  If we have the commandments living inside, we are eating His flesh and drinking His blood with Him in the kingdom of God.  This is the good news of the Gospel, which we now believe and obey.  The judgment that is saving us is now on the house of God as we eat at the table of Jesus Christ.

Luk 22:29  And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me; 

Luk 22:30  That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Paul said it more plainly. The only thing that matters in the end is love or a new creature.  We know that the love of God is defined as obeying His commandments [1Jo 5:3].  His commandments are the bread and spiritual meat that is making us perfect.  Other things are put away when the Living commandments come into us.

1Co 13:8  Love [obedience] never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 

1Co 13:9  For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 

1Co 13:10  But when that which is perfect has come [The Spirit, the commandments, the living Christ], then that which is in part will be done away. 

It is the “Jews” in symbolism who pursue this knowledge by endlessly studying the law and the prophets.  This was Paul, and we, as former Pharisees seeking our own righteousness before we heard and believed the Gospel.  God is no respecter of persons, and the promise of salvation is for all who call upon His Name, which are the commands and the Lord’s doctrine.  Those who call on the commandments are the ones being saved to the Jew first [those with knowledge of the law and the prophets, the circumcision], and also to the Gentiles who know none of the knowledge.  Having all the knowledge does not matter, as there is no difference with God.

Rom 10:12  For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. 

Rom 10:13  For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 

One can come into the kingdom at the last hour and still get the same reward as seen in the parable of the vineyard worker in Matthew 20.  It is simply not necessary to be “circumcised” and become a Jew to be saved.  This statement on “circumcision” has nothing to do with the outward practice of Judaism; it is a parable we only understand by revelation.  The ritual and label of circumcision are a parable representing our constant pursuit of more and more knowledge.  The flesh Jews’ history, written for our admonition, tells us that circumcision avails nothing and all that matters is the keeping of the commandments.  Those circumcised walked in circles in the wilderness endlessly studying the Scriptures [law and the prophets], but never made it to the promised land and died.  Joshua tells us why.

Jos 5:5  Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised. 

Jos 5:6  For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD …

We are circumcised Jews in this regard, having spent years studying the Scriptures, but we were initially not made to come and embrace His Commandments.  We preferred to study at the table of knowledge as the fire of the word is more bearable.  Yet now we embrace and preach this Gospel boldly.  We come to Christ, and believe, and then these living commandments, the Spirit, are put into us.

Joh 5:38  But you do not have His word [commandments] abiding in you, because whom He sent, Him you do not believe. 

Joh 5:39  You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. 

Joh 5:40  But you are not willing to come to Me [the commandments] that you may have life. 

Knowledge is good, but the focus needs to be on the commandments, the true bread of life.  We are told to eat at home if we hunger for knowledge and not burden the church.

1Co 11:34  And if any man hunger [for the knowledge], let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come. 

True faith is believing the commandments and coming to the living Christ.  This requires a preacher, an angel of the Lord to be sent and the Lord to open one’s ears to hear the Gospel.  The Lord has sent us and we know that some are now hearing and believing.

Rom 10:17  So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. 

All the Apostles and disciples of Christ preach obedience and becoming a doer of the commandments, not a hearer only.  The Jews who heard Christ speak, eating of the loaves and fishes, ask Christ, What shall they do to do the works of God?  Christ answers.

Jhn 6:29  Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.

Christ’s simple answer is hidden in the mystery of the Gospel.  The work of God is to believe in the living Word and the Commandments that the Father sent by way of Christ.  This is also known as believing in His name.

Joh 1:11  He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. 

Joh 1:12  But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 

The temple of the Lord is built upon the Holy Commandments, the very living Words of Jesus Christ given to Him by the Father.  They are the cornerstone upon which the house of God is established.

1Pe 2:7  Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, 

1Pe 2:8  And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. 

The commandments become a stumbling stone and an offense to those Jews who want knowledge and remain covetous of even more.  Eating the bread of life is eating the hidden manna that only those with the Spirit of the commandments eat.

Rev 2:17  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 hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it. 

Eating the hidden manna, the mystery of the Gospel, is how we overcome our sins and become a lively stone and a part of the living spiritual Body of Christ.  We are one building of God, growing up together, with the commandments [Jesus Christ] as the foundation.

1Pe 2:5  Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. 

Carnally minded Jews/Christians [us in our former blindness] claim faith but do not truly believe, instead trusting in their knowledge, which in symbol is the manna of Moses. They remain blind to the true bread being preached to them by Christ and His Christ.

Jhn 6:30  They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work?

Jhn 6:31  Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.

The Lord differentiates between the knowledge of Moses and the power of the living commandments that is the risen Christ within us.

Jhn 6:32  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 [God’s Holy Commandments]

Jhn 6:33  For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.

Far better to have the POWER unto salvation.  Many are called, but only a few are chosen to receive the true bread in this age.  Many desire to have it, they come to Christ, but cannot believe the Gospel as it is not given to them to believe.  Only the few chosen are drawn to Christ and embrace the Gospel of the living commandments.

Jhn 6:34  Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.

Jhn 6:35  And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

Jhn 6:36  But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not.

Jhn 6:37  All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.

Christ came to do His Father’s will, which His Christ does also once we are converted and believe the Gospel.  We are then likewise sent to raise those given ears from the spiritually dead by preaching the commandments.

Jhn 6:40  And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day

Those who preach the commandments are Jesus Christ in this world.  They are the saviors on Mt. Zion [Oba 1:21], as the living Word does the work in judging and saving those who hear.  When we visit others with the gospel, and they hear us, we are waking them out of their sleep by preaching the commandments.

Joh 11:25  Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: 

Joh 11:26  And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? 

In all the parables of Christ raising the dead [Joh 11:11, Mat 9:24, Mar 5:39, Luk 8:52], Jesus said the dead were only sleeping.  Christ speaks a commandment to “come forth” or “arise”, and the dead respond being  resurrected.    This is the power of the living commandments, the Gospel unto salvation and is now come in the flesh of those the Father has called.

Eph 5:14  Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. 

Those given to believe in the Lord’s living commandments, the true Gospel, are also known as the children of the day.  The Day Star, His commandments, have arisen in our hearts.  Everyone else walks in darkness.

1Th 5:5  Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 

We do not sleep but stay focused, always praying and fasting [obeying the commandments] and do not get drunk by feasting on knowledge [wine] that ensnares many into spiritual drunkenness.

1Th 5:6  Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. 

1Th 5:7  For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. 

Those asleep and those drunk with the knowledge remain in darkness, yet believe they are in the light, as the Lord explains.  The knowledge is just a shadow of the true Christ, the living commandments.

Mat 6:23  But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! 

Staying on the commandments, eating His bread, and abiding in His light brings salvation over our sins and completes the work of God and the need for further chastening from our heavenly Father.

1Th 5:8  But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. 

1Th 5:9  For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, 

We cannot go back to our vomit and seek our own glory through more knowledge, gluttony, and drunkenness.  Christ is come, the commandments is come into our hearts, and the meat and wine that represent the knowledge of the law and the prophets is no longer the focus.

Rom 14:17  For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. 

The Jews who continue to eat the manna from Moses remain dead in their sins.  The bread they are eating is dead letters and not alive.  Moses’s manna, also known as the bread of affliction, does not bring eternal life.  Only Christ, the living and active Word by His Spirit does.  This is the true living bread of life.  There is great power in these Scriptures.

Joh 6:46  Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father. 

Joh 6:47  Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. 

Joh 6:48  I am that bread of life.

Joh 6:49  Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.

Joh 6:50  This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. 

Joh 6:51  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, which I will give for the life of the world. 

The Lord’s bread is His flesh, and we must partake of that flesh to be saved and find eternal life.  One remains dead in their sins until they eat the bread of life, which is receiving the living commandments into our heart.

Joh 6:53  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, ye have no life in you. 

As we begin to eat the bread of life and drink the cup, we are dwelling with the Lord, and He with us.  This is the very definition of life eternal.

Joh 6:56  He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. 

Joh 6:57  As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. 

Joh 6:58  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. 

We lose brethren on the way when they hear these words of truth about the bread of life and eating the body of Christ’s flesh.  Many turn from Christ and walk no more, having not been made willing to pay the cost to be a disciple.

Joh 6:65  And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father. 

Those who hear and believe in this Gospel of the Kingdom now have access to the throne of the living God.  If we ask for anything according to His will, He opens the door to our heaven and provides the bread of life.

Mat 7:8  For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

Mat 7:9  Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?

Mat 7:11  If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

Disciples of Christ are formed and grown unto maturity by eating of the bread of life.  Christ commands us to feed His lambs this bread.  This is our ministry to the living Body of Christ, be they Jew or Gentile, scattered in the earth.   His Words bring eternal life and spread the life-saving fire to all mankind in the end.

Joh 21:16  He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep.