Eat of the Tree of Life

[Thompson, Darryl]

Eat of the Tree of Life

     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. 22:2  

     Out of the throne came a pure river of water, and on either side of
the river was the tree of life. . . . The fruit was glorious; it looked
like gold mixed with silver.  

     The fruit of the tree of life in the Garden of Eden possessed
supernatural virtue. To eat of it was to live forever. Its fruit was the
antidote of death. Its leaves were for the sustaining of life and
immortality. . . . After the entrance of sin the heavenly Husbandman
transplanted the tree of life to the Paradise above.  

     The redeemed saints, who have loved God and kept His commandments
here, will enter in through the gates of the city, and have right to the
tree of life. They will eat freely of it as our first parents did before
their fall. The leaves of that immortal widespread tree will be for the
healing of the nations. All their woes will then be gone. Sickness,
sorrow, and death they will never again feel, for the leaves of the tree
of life have healed them. Jesus will then see of the travail of His soul
and be satisfied, when the redeemed, who have been subject to sorrow,
toil, and afflictions, who have groaned beneath the curse, are gathered
up around that tree of life to eat of its immortal fruit, that our first
parents forfeited all right to, by breaking God's commands. There will
be no danger of their ever losing right to the tree of life again, for
he that tempted our first parents to sin will be destroyed by the second
death.  

     Upon the tree of life was most beautiful fruit, of which the saints
could partake freely. . . . The most exalted language fails to describe
the glory of heaven or the matchless depths of a Saviour's love. 

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