Revelation 22:1–5

We will Enjoy Eternal Life and Unending Divine Blessings

We will Enjoy Eternal Life and Unending Divine Blessings

Living in God’s Garden City will will enjoy two benefits. First we will have life everlasting in the presence of God and second we will experience perpetual blessings.

We will enjoy Life flowing from the River of Life

John 4:14 NASB95

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

Second we will enjoy Unending divine blessings

We will Enjoy Everlasting Nourishment and Healing from the Tree of Life

John 4:14 NASB95

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

In proverbs 3:18; 11:30; 13:12; and 15:4, the tree of life is symbolic as a source of divine blessing.

Proverbs 3:12 NASB95

For whom the Lord loves He reproves, Even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights.

Proverbs 3:18 NASB95

She is a tree of life to those who take hold of her, And happy are all who hold her fast.

Proverbs 3:22 NASB95

So they will be life to your soul And adornment to your neck.

In Genesis the tree of life is a source of everlasting life.

Genesis 2:9 NASB95

Out of the ground the Lord God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis

Proverbs 3:18

Genesis 3:22 NASB95

Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”—

Genesis 3:24 NASB95

So He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.

In Revelation, the tree of life is the source of a divinely blessed everlasting life.

Genesis

Revelation 2:7 NASB95

‘He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will grant to eat of the tree of life which is in the Paradise of God.’

Revelation

Revelation 22:2 NASB95

in the middle of its street. On either side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

Revelation 22:2

Application: God desires we live eternal life with Him. We should not desire to live in our sins. Confess and be healed:

John 1:9 NASB95

There was the true Light which, coming into the world, enlightens every man.

The tree of life will be planted, when two obstacles of our present life are removed:

We will No Longer be Subject to Any Curse or Any Night

There are no Longer two obstacles preventing us from receiving God’s full blessings. No longer anyCurse affords us 3 Blessings

We will Serve God and the Lamb

1 Corinthians 10:30 NASB95

If I partake with thankfulness, why am I slandered concerning that for which I give thanks?

1 Corinthians 10:31 NASB95

Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

We will See God’s Face

We will be Secure in God’s eternal grace. We are eternal protected.

Christ will light our night light and illuminate our days. All that sin distorted, the new garden city will restore.

Psalm 18:28 NASB95

For You light my lamp; The Lord my God illumines my darkness.

Ps

Psalm 119:105 NASB95

Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path.

John 8:12 NASB95

Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, “I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.”

John 8

John 9:5 NASB95

“While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world.”

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application:

Living in the garden city means living in the full blessing of God.