What Is the Tree of Life?

“What is the tree of life?” a reader inquired. The Tree of Life is introduced to us first in Genesis 2:9. It was placed in the midst of the Garden of Eden so that the first pair would have perpetual life (Genesis 3:22); it was the “antidote of disease or decay of the body” (McClintock and Strong). However, following the fall of Adam and Eve and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden, cherubim prevented our first parents from reentering the Garden and gaining access to the Tree of Life (Genesis 3:24). God has since removed the Tree of Life to heaven’s paradise (Revelation 2:7; 22:2, 14).

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McClintock and Strong Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. Seattle: Biblesoft, 2006.

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