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FREE THE SWORD IN THE TREE PDF Clyde Robert Bulla | 103 pages | 23 Dec 2000 | HarperCollins Publishers Inc | 9780064421324 | English | New York, NY, United States The Sword in the Tree by Clyde Robert Bulla He must not be allowed to reach out his hand The Sword in the Tree take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever. God sends Adam and Eve out of the Garden and places Cherubim with a Flaming Sword that The Sword in the Tree back The Sword in the Tree forth to guard the way to the tree of life. I will show you the special way that the Cherubim and the Flaming Sword leads us back to Jesus. Many times the Word of God declares that people are trees. Here are a few examples below. Daniel to King Nebuchadnezzar Daniel — 22 The tree you saw, which grew large and strong, with its top touching the sky, visible to the whole earth, with beautiful leaves and abundant fruit, providing food for all, giving shelter to the beasts The Sword in the Tree the field, and having nesting places in its branches for the birds of the air, you, O king, are that tree! Isaiah …that they might be called trees of righteousnessthe planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified. You will know them by their fruits… A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. John but whoever drinks the water I Jesus give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life. John That whosoever believeth in Him Jesus should not perish, but have eternal life. John I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. John And I give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. I will start with the Flaming Sword and its meaning. Jesus our Rock is The Sword in the Tree only one who can quench our The Sword in the Tree in our desolation, desperation and need. Those of us that recognize the evil that is within, finally see the fiery sword, the dry places, and the utter desolation that we find ourselves in, and it is that which has separated us from Christ, but it is that which leads us to seek out the living water, out of our dry places, out of our humility and shame, so that Jesus takes hold of us to bring us back into Paradise, the place where we belong! So, Instead of Us reaching out Our hand in the pride of knowledgewe come in total surrender and humility at our utter need for a Saviour who alone can give us in all we need. He now can take us to the place where we can live forever with Him because at last we give him the adoration that He deserves, for all that He has done for us. Pride produces fire and destruction, but humility brings peace and life. So Jesus takes hold of us, instead of us taking hold of Him with the wrong motives. Now this is where it gets really interesting when thinking of Jesus taking hold of us. For He alone is the Tree of Life. It is interesting that the Cherubim are the winged creatures that guard the way into the Garden of Eden but they also overshadow the Ark of God in heaven where Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father. Isaiah Lord Almighty, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, The Sword in the Tree alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. Psalm The Lord reigns, let the nations tremble; he sits enthroned The Sword in the Tree the cherubim, let the earth shake. Jesus came to earth outside the city heavenly Jerusalem. He was crucified outside of the earthly Jerusalem which I think reflects a heavenly picture; that He was crucified outside of heaven. He suffered here on earth in order to gain entry back into the garden Paradiseboth for Him and us. We are all enticed by sin and we all suffer here on earth going through the refining fires. We are trapped by the very thing that brings us back to Christ. We are separated by the fiery sword, the scorching flame, the dry places here The Sword in the Tree earth but through The Sword in the Tree we are led back through the cherubim who guard the way to our Saviour, the Tree of Life! It is the experience of tribulation that washes our robes clean. Revelation After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. The word tribulation comes from the process of refining grain. In ancient times the men would beat and whip the sheaves so that the grain could be separated from the chaff. The Sword in the Tree a cart would be run over the grain to crush it so that the seed could be set free from the husk. The cart was known as a tribulum, hence the word tribulation. We go through great trials sometimes but that is what makes us strong; the chaff is taken from us to reveal the true inner quality of the grain. Acts Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much The Sword in the Tree to enter into the kingdom of God. Revelation b To him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God. Fruit trees do best and produce the sweetest fruit when they go through harshness of the winters. We will find ourselves back in the place where Adam began. Never again will they hunger; never again will they thirst. The sun will not beat down on them, nor any scorching heat. For the Lamb at the centre of the throne will be their shepherd; he will The Sword in the Tree them to springs of living wate r. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes. The Old Testament reiterates the same thing as the new. It is interesting to note that it was a garden that Adam and Eve were sent out of and in which they died both physically and spiritually — and it was in a garden the Garden of Gethsemane that Jesus offered up His life physically to die for us. Barnstokkr - Wikipedia Excalibur and the Sword in the Stone the proof of Arthur's lineage are sometimes said to be the same weapon, but in most versions they are considered separate. Excalibur was associated with the Arthurian legend very early on. The name Excalibur ultimately derives from the Welsh Caledfwlch and Breton Kaledvoulc'hMiddle Cornish Calesvolwhich is a compound of caled "hard" and bwlch "breach, cleft". The name was later used in Welsh adaptations of foreign material such as the Brut s chronicleswhich were based on Geoffrey of Monmouth. It is often considered to be related to the phonetically similar Caladbolga sword borne by several figures from Irish mythologyalthough a borrowing of Caledfwlch from Irish Caladbolg has been considered unlikely by Rachel Bromwich and D. Simon Evans. They suggest The Sword in the Tree that The Sword in the Tree names "may have similarly arisen at a very early date as generic names for a sword". This sword then became exclusively the property of Arthur in the British tradition. Most Celticists consider Geoffrey's Caliburnus to be derivative of a lost Old Welsh text in which bwlch Old Welsh bulc[h] had not yet been lenited to fwlch Middle Welsh vwlch or uwlch. It is unclear if the name was borrowed The Sword in the Tree the Welsh if so, it must have been an early loan, for phonological reasonsor represents an early, pan- Brittonic traditional name for Arthur's sword. It is from this fanciful etymological musing that Thomas Malory got the notion that Excalibur meant "cut steel" [12] " ' the name of it,' said the lady, 'is Excalibur, that is as moche to say, as Cut stele ' ". In Arthurian romance, a number of explanations are given for Arthur's possession of Excalibur. In Robert de Boron 's Merlinthe first tale to mention the "sword in the stone" motif c. As Malory related in his most famous English-language version of the Arthurian tales, the 15th-century Le Morte d'Arthur : " Whoso pulleth The Sword in the Tree this sword of this stone and anvil, is rightwise king born. This tale becomes attached to Bedivere instead of Griflet in Malory and the English tradition. Malory records both versions of the legend in his Le Morte d'Arthurnaming both swords as Excalibur. In Welsh legends, Arthur's sword is known as Caledfwlch. In Culhwch and Olwenit is one of Arthur's most valuable possessions and is used by Arthur's warrior Llenlleawg the Irishman to kill the Irish king Diwrnach while stealing his magical cauldron. The name, which can also mean "hard cleft" in Irishappears in the plural, caladbuilcas a generic term for "great swords" in Togail Troi "The Destruction of Troy "a The Sword in the Tree Irish translation of the classical tale.