For the third time in Revelation 21–22, the inhabitants of the New Earth are referred to as nations. John also tells us that “the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations” ( Revelation 22:2). (Of course, even if Hendriksen is wrong in supposing that the tree of life is collective, it is reasonable that just as there were other trees in Eden, there will be other trees on the New Earth.) This broader view of the tree of life would account for the fact that the tree grows on both sides of a great river at once and yields twelve different kinds of fruit.
#TREE BY THE RIVER BIBLE FULL#
These trees, moreover, are full of fruit.” It is also full of parks containing trees of life. Observe, therefore, this wonderful truth: the city is full of rivers of life. Hence, the city is just full of parks, cf. And this is true with respect to all the avenues of the city. No, there is an entire park: whole rows of trees alongside the river hence, between the river and the avenue. “The term ‘tree of life’ is collective, just like ‘avenue’ and ‘river.’ The idea is not that there is just one single tree. The redeemed have already known sin and its devastation they will desire it no more.) (Notice that there’s no mention of a tree of the knowledge of good and evil to test us. But on the New Earth, our access to the tree of life is forever restored. Since Eden, death has reigned throughout history. Once they sinned, they were banned from the Garden, separated from the tree, and subject to physical death, just as they had experienced spiritual death. Adam and Eve were designed to live forever, but to do so they likely needed to eat from the tree of life. The presence of the tree of life suggests a supernatural provision of life as Adam and Eve ate the fruit their Creator provided. In Eden, the tree of life appears to have been a source of ongoing physical life. Just as the tree was apparently relocated from Eden to the present Heaven, it will be relocated again to the New Earth.
The New Jerusalem itself, also in the present Heaven, will be brought down, the tree of life and all, and placed on the New Earth ( Revelation 21:2). We’re told the tree of life is presently in Paradise, the intermediate Heaven ( Revelation 2:7). These instances seem to refer to Eden’s literal tree of life. The tree of life is mentioned three times in Genesis 2, in Eden, and again four times in Revelation, three of those in the final chapter. Where is the Tree of Life mentioned in the Bible? And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations” ( Revelation 22:2). In Revelation, after the apostle John describes the river of life, he mentions another striking feature: “On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month.
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