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Old 11-17-2021, 05:12 PM   #132
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Default Re: Descriptive or Prescriptive?

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Can You describe in few words what You meant by this?
I was not so absorbing these truths. My memory can be short but I thought that leafs was only for nations.
In my post I said,


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Now, every place we find this “tree of life” in the Bible, it is a means of obtaining eternal life; and its “partaking” is based on works, not on grace.
For example, Revelation 22:14 says, “Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.”

Rev. 22:2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

We are told that a man has to “keep the commandments” to partake of the tree of life. And the context shows “the leaves of the tree of life were for the healing of the nations.
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