The teaching of the two trees was the first test mankind faced. Adam and Eve’s
first major decision was to choose which of the two trees they would eat from.
That decision set the course of human civilization!
If Adam had taken from the tree of life, he would have eaten fruit
produced by the tree with God at its roots and received the Spirit
of God. Eating from the tree of life meant obeying God, accepting
God’s revealed knowledge; obeying God’s word. If Adam had taken
the tree of life, God would have revealed His way of living—to Adam.
The tree of life symbolized the way of God, the law of God, the knowledge of God.
If Adam had eaten from that tree, mankind could have thrived on the fruits produced
by the tree of life; he would have been given access to the Spirit of God and developed
the mind of God. Peace, abundance, joy and stability could have encompassed the Earth
But eating from the tree of death meant taking of fruit produced by
the spirit of Satan, originating from Satan at its roots. Satan rejected
God and decided for himself what was right and wrong.
By eating from Satan’s tree, Adam made it his prerogative to decide what
was good and evil, right and wrong. Adam made the choice and that mankind
was to be influenced and led by the spirit of the devil.
If he made the decision to eat from this tree, he would be eating the fruits created by
the spirit of Satan, a spirit of envy, vanity, self-centered lust that results in sickness,
violence, jealous rage and, ultimately, death.
What happened on that day in the Garden of Eden is God wants
the two trees to be the premise on which we build our knowledge:
THIS WORLD IS FILLED WITH EVIDENCE SHOWING WHAT TREE ADAM ATE FROM!