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Eat of the Tree of Life, December 17
Heavens Is a Real and Wonderful Place
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.
Revelation 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 supernat-
ural 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 command-
ments 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, sor-
row, 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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