Why Isn’t It Called the Tree of Death?
Why is it called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil — and not, simply, the tree of death? Two trees at the center of the garden, and their names don’t match the way you’d expect.
Why is it called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil — and not, simply, the tree of death? Two trees at the center of the garden, and their names don’t match the way you’d expect.
Seven feasts. But God specifically names three feast times — three seasons that group the seven. Why the distinction? One verse in James makes the grouping visible, and it changes how the whole calendar reads.
We read the cross as the answer to our sin — and it’s so deep in us we never check it. But watch what the Passover actually does at Calvary: the same thing it did in Egypt. The lamb is never called a sin offering, even there.
The feast calendar puts Atonement years past the cross. The cross says otherwise. Both are true — and the contradiction dissolves the moment you stop reading it as one straight line.
The feast calendar places Atonement long after the cross. The cross is full of it anyway. Both appear true — how do we hold both?
Almost all of us read the Passover as being about sin. But open Exodus 12 and notice what the lamb is never once called. The whole account is pointing somewhere else.