I'm out of time . . . I'll need to come back to this, and I'll be fresher then. I'm looking forward to it!
Much love!
I considered Abraham being God's olive tree, and initially I considered the dead in Christ being in the bosom of Abraham, and the believers having access to the tree of life in the midst of the paradise of God, which is considered by some to have been the Bosom of Abraham.
And so, maybe that tree of life in the midst of the garden is the holy olive tree of God, in the midst of the Bosom of Abraham.
However, I do see Scripture that is less theoretical and more directly tying the olive tree to Israel:
In Psalms 52, David compares himself as a green olive tree in the house of God, in the context of the liars and persecutors being cast away: destroyed, taken away, plucked out of. Which would be out of the house of God, where David abides a green olive tree.
David is most known in Scripture and mentioned by Scripture as king of Israel, and all things about him have there todo with Israel and Christ. In fact, not much is said in Scripture pertaining to David and Abraham, except in the book of the generation of Christ in Matthew 1.
Isaiah 17 specifically has Jacob being gleaned and made thin as an olive tree shaken.
Isaiah 24 shows the results of the olive tree being shaken of Jacob, with all them that glorify the Lord God of Israel: grafted in?
Jerem 11 plainly says the Lord God called the name of the house of Israel and of Judah: a green olive tree that he planted.
Hosea 14, and Israel will be healed and spread his branches as an olive tree: the grafting in after the cross, following the casting away of the first branches of the first covenant made with the fleshy seed of Abraham: the children of Israel by flesh.
So, the olive tree by Scripture is the house of Israel (not just the Israel of God), but the very house of Israel
and of Jacob, so that all they grafted in are come in to the house of Israel and of Jacob: the green olive tree of God.
In this light, we conclude without doubt that the children of Abraham and of God through faith of Jesus, that are counted by God to be the seed of promise, grafted into the olive tree of Israel and of Jacob: even that seed is not only the seed of promise as Isaac, but is also the seed of Jacob:
Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them. (Jerem 33)
1. The seed of Jacob were all cast away: the seed of promise by flesh. Neither Israel, nor Jacob, nor Isaac, nor Abraham, nor David were cast away (Rom 11), but their fleshy seed of unbelief were. The people that God cast away from Himself were not 'His people' anymore, and so God has never and will never cast away His people,
that abide in His olive tree of Israel and true vine of Christ.
2. The seed of promise is the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: there is only one seed of promise. Not seeds of promise. (Gal 3)
All Christians grafted into the Israel of God, are now children of the house of Israel and of Jacob, and are the counted the seed of promise of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, even as Isaac, being born after the spirit, and not after the flesh.
The children of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: the house of Israel and of Jacob are all believers in Christ, born of the seed of God and His promise, who walk in natural bodies after the Spirit, even as Jesus so walked in the flesh.
The body of Christ is full of Jews inwardly by circumcision of the heart, and walk in natural bodies as the holy nation and House of the Israel of God.
Israel after the flesh is in name only, and there are no Jews that are outwardly, except those that say they are and are lying.
This olive tree of God and it's grafted-in believers will be shaken also as it was shaken in the days of Jesus, when the deliverer came out of Sion to fulfill the prophesies of old to the seed of flesh, and to confirm the promises of the fathers after the flesh. This is when the first beast will rise to power, and will make war with the saints of the Lamb and overcome them, which is just prior to the Lord's return to reign on earth in His resurrected spiritual body.
The prophecies and promises of old are twofold: the first to the seed of flesh, which is done and over with, and now to the seed of promise after the Spirit, which is ongoing and will be accomplished during the last great tribulations days on earth.