![]() No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The River and Tree of Life - Revelation 22:1-3 By limiting our lifespan, God gives us enough time to come to know Him and His provision for eternal life through Christ but spares us the misery of an endless existence in a sinful condition." To live eternally in a sinful state would mean endless agony for humanity, with no hope of the relief that comes with death. Knowing that, because of sin, earthly life would be filled with sorrow and toil, God graciously limited the number of years men would live. By barring access to the tree of life, God showed compassion in His omniscience. "It was a mercy that God kept us from the tree of life. In God's mercy and love for mankind, after the fall He enabled us to die that we may be lifted up through His Son and rejoined with Him in heaven. This was to protect Adam and Eve and their offspring from the immortality given by the tree of life, which in their fallen state would've had eternally condemned them to suffer and separation from God. After the fall of mankind through Adam and Eve, God sent them out of the Garden of Eve to exclude them from the tree of life there.
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