The Fallen Tree in the Garden of God

The Fallen Tree
in the
Garden of God

The place I walk is a rare and living forest of ancient trees; a path that one way ascends and the other way descends, according to which direction; one may choose to go. A place wherein, when I hear the voice of my creator, I do not run away, I run to it wanting to get closer.

Today, it reminds me of the Garden of God in Eden, for it is a place of many trees where only one majestic tree was fallen and found to be blocking the way of my walk with the Father of us all. The obstacle being, a fallen tree, blocking my way on the path I walk, turns out was only an illusion! It only seemed that way from far away. The closer I got revealed, it had no real power at all as it had only taken a great fall even though it was so tall. Passing by was all that was needed; to go under it over it or around it, once I came upon it.

Today, I found myself ascending this path with the fallen tree in the same place that I had traveled many times before. I approached the fallen tree and as I got closer and closer, it all came into focus, as to what had happened to cause the tree to fall. It had lost its covering of the beautiful bark skin it once had, and now no longer able to sustain itself in an upright and majestic position, so it had been brought down low and died! What kind of enemy could cause a majestic and ancient one such as this to fall?

I looked back at the fallen tree as I passed by and it looked the same as when I had approached. The farther I got from the fallen tree the signs of decay and death was lost from view and only the trees with their majestic height remained in sight, even though clouds above were blocking the light. O how rotten and worm eaten a tree in the garden can be, when the anointed and set apart covering is stripped away, do you see?

A majestic and fallen tree in an ancient garden of God reminds me of the anointed Cherub. He, who lost his covering and position amongst the stones of fire for the mixing of the knowledge of good and evil. In his fallen state in the original garden, he tempted mankind with the mixing of the knowledge of good and evil the holy with the profane, which produces death and his sentence, is also death, to die as a man… Partaking of that tree is rebellion to the Father, the creator of us all and results in death to all.

Gen 2: 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Ezekiel 28: 28:6 Therefore thus saith the Sovereign YHWH; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of El;7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.8 They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am E? but thou shalt be a man, and no El, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Sovereign YHWH11 Moreover the word of YHWH came unto me, saying,12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Sovereign YHWH; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.3 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of El; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of El; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of El: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.20 Again the word of YHWH came unto me, saying21 Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,22 And say, Thus saith the Sovereign YHWH; Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am YHWH, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.23 For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am YHWH.24 And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Sovereign YHWH 25 Thus saith the Sovereign YHWH; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob26 And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am YHWH their El.