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  The Fruit of Life and the Fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil   Genesis 2:8-9 "The LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and placed the man whom He had formed there. And out of the ground came forth trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil." What is the meaning of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? Since it literally enables the knowledge of good and evil, the true identity of this tree is the Bible, and it corresponds to the Law of Moses. The heart that looks toward the law can be directed toward good or toward evil. The law consists of as many as 613 rules, and God commanded the people of Israel to keep all of these rules. And He told them to offer sacrifices when they could not keep them. "Those who view the law as good" are those who, while trying to keep the law, realized their own sinfulness and came to contemplate...

  (9) Joseph and Egypt Joseph was Jacob's eleventh son. From a young age, he received many revelations from God through dreams, which made him the object of envy and jealousy from his brothers. Genesis 37:1-7 "Jacob lived in the land of Canaan, the land where his father had sojourned. These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph was seventeen years old, keeping the flock with his brothers. He was with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. And he told his father about their wrongdoing. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his other sons, because he was the son of his old age; and he made a coat of many colors for him. When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all of them, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him. Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more. And Joseph said to them, "Please listen to this dream I had: We were binding sheaves in the field, and, look! My sheaf also stood u...

  (8) Jacob and Bethel Genesis 28:10-19 『 Then Jacob set out from Beersheba and went toward Haran. When he came to a certain place, the sun had set, and he stayed there. He took one of the stones of the place and put it under his head and lay down in it to sleep. Then he dreamed that a ladder was set up on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven. The angels of God were ascending and descending on it. The Lord stood above it and said, "I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie will I give to you and to your descendants. Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south. And all the families of the earth will be blessed in you and in your descendants. I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you." Then Jacob awoke from his s...