The King's Garden - Part 1

As I continue to study "women", "mothers", "daughters", and "virgins" in the Bible, I am beginning to see a connection in scripture between women and trees.

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gets understanding. For the profit from it is better than the gain from silver, and its produce more than fine gold; she is more precious than rubies; and all the things you can desire are not to be compared with her. Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand, riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to those who lay hold upon her; and happy is everyone who keeps her. (Pro 3:13-18 MKJV)

To understand this connection, we need to go back to the beginning of the Bible where "trees" are first mentioned.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the third day. (Gen 1:11-13 KJV)

And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground the LORD God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers. The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there. The name of the second river is the Gihon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Cush. And the name of the third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die." (Gen 2:8-17 ESV)

The tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in the middle of God's first garden, the Garden of Eden. In the book of Revelation, the last book of the Bible, a garden with a tree is described again.

And he showed me a pure river of Water of Life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of its street, and of the river, from here and from there, was the Tree of Life, which bore twelve fruits, each yielding its fruit according to one month. And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And every curse will no longer be; but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His servants will serve Him. And they will see His face, and His name will be in their foreheads. And there will be no night there. And they need no lamp, or light of the sun; for the Lord God gives them light. And they will reign forever and ever. And he said to me, These sayings are faithful and true. And the Lord God of the holy prophets sent His angel to show to His servants the things which must shortly be done. Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the Words of the prophecy of this Book. And I, John, saw and heard these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel showing me these things. Then he said to me, Behold! See, do not do it! For I am your fellow-servant, and of your brothers the prophets, and of those who keep the Words of this Book. Do worship to God. And he said to me, Do not seal the Words of the prophecy of this Book; for the time is at hand. He acting unjustly, let him still act unjustly. And the filthy, let him be filthy still. And the righteous, let him be righteous still. And the holy, let him be holy still. And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to each according as his work is. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, the First and the Last. Blessed are they who do His commandments, that their authority will be over the Tree of Life, and they may enter in by the gates into the city. (Rev 22:1-14 MKJV)

In Isaiah 46:9-10, God says that He declared the end from the beginning. I believe that God planned from the beginning how He would restore His garden.

The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is on Me, because Jehovah has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the meek. He has sent Me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to captives, and complete opening to the bound ones; to proclaim the acceptable year of Jehovah, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn; to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, the mantle of praise instead of the spirit of infirmity, so that one calls them trees of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, in order to beautify Himself. And they shall build old ruins; they shall raise up former desolations; and they shall restore the waste cities, ruins of generations and generations. (Isa 61:1-4 LITV)

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that is wise winneth souls.
(Pro 11:30 JPS)

In the end, there will only be one tree in God's garden - the Tree of Life. The Tree of Life is in the midst of New Jerusalem, the Bride of the King. King Jesus came to make us trees of righteousness that will repair the ruined cities. The fruit of our trees will produce the Tree of Life that is described in the book of Revelation, the one that produces twelve fruits and leaves to heal the nations.

So that means the soul of the wife of King Jesus is His new garden (review BLT Level 3 - Lesson 15h: A Nourished and Enlarged New Soul). The Church has been given the duty to grow and take care of her new soul (review BLT Level 4 - Lesson 17: The Division of the Kingdom). Seven trees are planted there right now, one for each of the seven churches to tend and to keep. Each tree produces fruit according to their kind. In the book of Isaiah, we find out the names of these seven trees and where they are located.

I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive. I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane and the pine together, that they may see and know, may consider and understand together, that the hand of the LORD has done this, the Holy One of Israel has created it. (Isa 41:19-20 ESV)

The trees of the LORD are watered abundantly, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted. (Psa 104:16 ESV)

The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. They are planted in the house of the LORD; they flourish in the courts of our God. They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green, to declare that the LORD is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
(Psa 92:12-15 ESV)

How goodly are your tents, O Jacob, your tabernacles, O Israel! They are spread forth like the valleys, like gardens by the river's side, like the trees of aloes which Jehovah has planted, like cedar trees beside the waters. He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters. And his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.
(Num 24:5-7 MKJV)

He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
(Mat 13:37-38 KJV)

They were planted in the field of the world, 4 in the wilderness and 3 in the desert. More trees grew, according to their kind. So the fruitful field became a forest in the Kingdom. The seven virgin daughters were supposed to tend to the King's Garden, but they let things get out of hand and let the weeds grow up and take over. They also started to make their own gardens to produce their own "tree of the knowledge of good and evil", separating themselves from each other. But the fruit of their trees began to dry up and rot, and now the harvest will not come.

And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it, and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will relent of the good that I had intended to do to it. Now, therefore, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: 'Thus says the LORD, Behold, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Return, every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your deeds.' "But they say, 'That is in vain! We will follow our own plans, and will every one act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.' "Therefore thus says the LORD: Ask among the nations, Who has heard the like of this? The virgin Israel has done a very horrible thing.
(Jer 18:9-13 ESV)

Rise up, women who are at ease; hear my voice, careless daughters; listen to my speech. Many days and years you shall be troubled, careless women; for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come. Tremble, women at ease; be troubled, careless ones; strip yourselves and make yourselves bare, and bind sackcloth on your loins. They shall mourn for the breasts, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. On the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city; because the palace shall be deserted, the multitude of the city shall be forsaken; instead the mound and tower shall be for dens forever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is thought to be a forest. Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field. And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the service of righteousness shall be quietness and hope forever. And my people shall dwell in a peaceable home, and in secure dwellings and quiet resting places. Though it hails, when the forest is felled, and the city laid low. Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the ass.
(Isa 32:9-20 MKJV)

Judgment is coming to their wild gardens. The forests and gardens of the careless daughters will be cut down and their cities will be destroyed, just like their mother's vine.

Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard planted by the water, fruitful and full of branches by reason of abundant water. Its strong stems became rulers' scepters; it towered aloft among the thick boughs; it was seen in its height with the mass of its branches. But the vine was plucked up in fury, cast down to the ground; the east wind dried up its fruit; they were stripped off and withered. As for its strong stem, fire consumed it. Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land. And fire has gone out from the stem of its shoots, has consumed its fruit, so that there remains in it no strong stem, no scepter for ruling. This is a lamentation and has become a lamentation.
(Eze 19:10-14 ESV)

But there is still hope for the trees and their fruit - the King has promised to send a latter rain if the daughters return to their first love, to His vine and garden, and fix their eyes upon the face of the King!

"For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease. Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the soil, yet at the scent of water it will bud and put out branches like a young plant." (Job 14:7-9 ESV)

I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
(Joh 15:5 MKJV)

In the light of the face of the king is life, and his favor is like a cloud of the latter rain. (Pro 16:15 LITV)

'Come, and let us return unto the LORD; for He hath torn, and He will heal us, He hath smitten, and He will bind us up. After two days will He revive us, on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence. And let us know, eagerly strive to know the LORD, His going forth is sure as the morning; and He shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain that watereth the earth.'
(Hos 6:1-3 JPS)

IT'S TIME FOR THE CHURCH TO RETURN AND FOCUS ALL HER EFFORTS INTO KNOWING AND LOVING KING JESUS!!!

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