This reminds me of trees being described as people in the Garden...
Ezekiel 31:9
"I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him"
Ezekiel 31:18
"To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD"
Pharaoh and his multitude were trees in the Garden of Eden.
Even Lucifer is described as a tree...
Isaiah 14:8
"Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us"
Isaiah 14:12
"How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!"
I can't help but think of what all this would mean if it were literal. Did the Human Race start off as trees in the Garden of Eden?
I do believe that the Tree of Life is Sarah and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is Hagar who represents Mystery Babylon. If they can be trees, why not everyone else?
Good spiritual eye to see that. yes, people are sometimes used symbolically of trees, here is a famous verse of scripture, that open my eyes to three things. Psalms 1:1 "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
Psalms 1:2 "But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
(Listen to this next verse closley),
Psalms 1:3 "And he shall be
like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth
his fruit in his season;
his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper".
that verse 3 is loaded with an allusionin of symbolic descriptions of spiritual things of a man.
#1. he's a tree, and there are many types of trees, and many have additional, mediational, nutritional, it just goes on, and on...
#2. that produce fruit, yes, as in Galatians 5:22 & 23 as well as Ephesians 5:9 & 10.
#3. Leaves that for "healing", for instance, our Lord Jesus is refered to as a healing leaves symbolically. example, Isaiah 53:5 "But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him;
and with his stripes we are healed". healed here is not in a physical sense but a spiritual sense "made whole". as with no balm in Gilead. yes, physician heal thyself. Luke 5:31 "And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.
Luke 5:32 "
I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance".
now the opposit side of a Good tree, an evil tree, which also produce fruit. Hosea 10:13 "Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity;
ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.
as we can see, this could be a whole ministry in itself for study.
PICJAG.