Let your imagination run wild -think of everything trees are good for: all the do-it yourself projects that involve wood. Probably one of the most pliable and durable of all natural products that man has ever worked with. What good is a tree? It prevents erosion, provides shade, food, lumber products for homes, furniture, boats, wagons, paper products, heat, etc…
Trees are very important to man. Not only have they protected, sheltered, and fed him throughout history, but they have also been his weapons of war, bows, arrows, spears, even guns. (Ezekiel 39:9)
A new process of pressing wood together makes it harder than steel. (Look it up on internet).
The Bible has much to say about trees. Over 300 references, naming over 30 types of trees are in the Scriptures. Trees were worshipped by the pagans and many times sacrifices were offered under trees (Deuteronomy 12:2). The Hebrews were forbidden to plant a tree near a sacred altar (Deuteronomy 16:21). Tree limbs were used in the Feast of Tabernacles (Leviticus 23:40).
Places of importance were often referenced by trees:
Genesis 12 Abram received promises from God under an Oak Tree
Judges 4:5 Debora dwelt under a Palm Tree
1 Samuel 14:2 King Saul and 600 men rested under pomegranate tree
The Lord Jesus referenced trees in his parables:
The Olive tree… The Fig tree… The Fruit tree…
Palm trees paved the way for the Lord entering Jerusalem.
There are many lessons to be learned from the trees named in the Scriptures:
Leviticus 27:30 And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD’s: it is holy unto the LORD.
Isaiah 65:22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
Psalm 92:12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Exodus 15:25 And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,
Just to mention some of them.
BUT the three most important trees:
Genesis 2:9 The TREE of Life (Also in Revelation 22:1-2)
Genesis 2:9,17 The TREE of the knowledge of Good an Evil
Deuteronomy 21:22 The TREE of Death Galatians 3:13
Joyce Kilmer wrote:
I think I shall never see, A poem as lovely as a tree,
A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed, Against the earth sweet flowing breast,
A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray,
A tree that may in summer wear, A nest of Robins in her hair,
Upon whose bosom snow has lain, Who intimately lives with rain,
Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.
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