Topic
Genesis
Creation, the image of God, Eden, the first family, and the way of the Tree of Life guarded by a flaming sword.
8 resources · 1 study · 3 articles · 4 videos
Studies
Articles
The Tree of Life and the Holy Spirit
The burning bush, the seven-branched menorah and the Tree of Life are, Yona Tree believes, variations on one theme that begins in the first pages of Genesis and ends in the last chapter of Revelation.
Made in Our Image: The First Family and the Family of God
"Let us make man in our image." The first three people made in God's image were a father, a mother and a son. Yona Tree asks what that pattern reveals about the relationships within the Holy Trinity.
The Flaming Sword and the Sword of the Spirit
Cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way kept the way of the Tree of Life. Yona Tree reads that sword as the Sword of the Spirit — the Word of God — and finds in it the heart of the Gospel.
Videos
Part 15of 16
Sword of the Spirit
The flaming sword that turns every way, the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God, and the way to eternal life through Jesus Christ.
Scripture: Genesis 3:22–24Ephesians 6:17
Part 14of 16
The Tree of Life
One of Scripture's oldest symbols — the Tree of Life as giver of eternal life and fruit, linked with Lady Wisdom, the menorah and the burning bush.
Scripture: Revelation 22:1–2Proverbs 3:13–18
Part 11of 16
Architect of Creation
Was Wisdom present before creation? The Hebrew behind Proverbs 8 — nasak, hul, amon — Ezekiel's whirlwind and the Spirit brooding over the waters.
Scripture: Proverbs 8:22–35Ezekiel 1:4
Part 6of 16
Image of God
Adam, Eve and Cain as the first human family — and what being made in God's image reveals about the Father, the Spirit and the Son.
Scripture: Genesis 1:26Genesis 2:7–4:1