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A sad symbol or strange coincidence
By: bənê hāʼĕlōhîm
Date: October 27, 2012, 8:12 pm
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[center]Fall[/center]
[center]Genesis 3:7
King James Version (KJV)
7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they
were naked; and they sewed fig [size=14pt]leaves together, and
made themselves aprons.[/size][/center]
I've never understood the beauty of fall... The colors are
brilliant but the time of the season is death... Summer is gone,
Cold winter's upon us... We are in that time of transition... In
this season all the beautiful green lush grass, and green
leaves, begin to turn in color and die... The leaf dies and
FALLS to earth... Ever think about it... It isn't until that
moment that the leaf hits the ground that it in its physical
form touches earth?? We read about the fall of Adam and Eve to
earth... I see the symbol of the leafs fall that of mans fall,
to earth...
Symbolically I see the leaves of the fig tree Adam and Eve used,
were the FIRST actual death we read about in the scripture, I
think it can be said, the first sacrifice was the leafs that
were plucked and killed to cover the shame of Adam and Eve
because they had fell... Once the leaves were pulled from there
LIFE support I would imagine they started to change color maybe
even turning the same maroon red we see most common during the
season of
[center]FALL...[/center]
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Re: A sad symbol or strange coincidence
By: Leaf Date: October 27, 2012, 8:26 pm
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I am a leaf
now on the ground
as a carpet
softening the ground
as I go back
back into the ground
back into the tree
that gave me, a leaf, life.
Just one part of a piece of prose I wrote many years ago called
Tree of Life.
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Re: A sad symbol or strange coincidence
By: Leaf Date: October 27, 2012, 8:31 pm
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[quote]
Symbolically I see the leaves of the fig tree Adam and Eve used,
were the FIRST actual death we read about in the
scripture[/quote]That's a great connection you made there! Most
think of animals dying in the story not the leaves.
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Re: A sad symbol or strange coincidence
By: bənê hāʼĕlōhîm
Date: October 27, 2012, 9:06 pm
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[quote author=Leaf link=topic=139.msg1245#msg1245
date=1351387892]
Most think of animals dying in the story not the leaves.
[/quote]
I wonder why??? I didn't see anything about animals dying in the
story I read...
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Re: A sad symbol or strange coincidence
By: Leaf Date: October 27, 2012, 9:09 pm
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[quote]I wonder why??? I didn't see anything about animals dying
in the story I read...[/quote]
LOL, neither did I!!!
To think of animals dying is, to me, an assumption. An
assumption based on the animal skin we wear was clothing rather
than skin.
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Re: A sad symbol or strange coincidence
By: Kerry Date: October 27, 2012, 10:21 pm
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Keep going with that train of thought, George. The "curse" was
also on the vegetation, that it would becomes thorns and
thistles.
Moses tells us "man is a tree of the field." Jesus talked
about trees.
I also put some significance on the number 66 (not 666) which
shows up in:
Genesis 6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive
with man, for that he also is flesh yet his days <66> shall be
an hundred and twenty years.
Here is another 66 -- but here it's not leaves being talked
about but other vegetation.
Psalm 83:13 O my God, make them like a wheel <galgal> ; as the
stubble before the wind.
14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the
mountains on fire;
15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with
thy storm.
It is the wheel of life and death to me. The tree survives if
it is worth saving, but its leaves come and go. Still
Ezekiel does talk about leaves which never fade in chapter 47. .
. .
The number 66 curiously enough shows up first on the sixth day:
Genesis 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and,
behold <66>, it was very good. And the evening and the morning
were the sixth day.
It was up to Adam and Eve what to do after that. It appears to
me they chose to stay at 66 and we're still spinning like wheels
and parts of us keep fading like leaves which then reappear
again. So we can see the leaf as a symbol of death and
also a sign of renewal and healing.
Genesis 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest,
and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night
shall not cease.
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Re: A sad symbol or strange coincidence
By: b&#601;nê h&#257;&#700;&#277;l&#333;hîm
Date: November 16, 2012, 3:06 pm
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[center]Isaiah 64:6
King James Version (KJV)
6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our
righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a
leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us
away.[/center]
I read this verse the other day and thought about this post...
It seem fitting to the subject...
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Re: A sad symbol or strange coincidence
By: Kerry Date: November 17, 2012, 2:34 am
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[quote author=George M. C. Jr. link=topic=139.msg1888#msg1888
date=1353099988]
[center]Isaiah 64:6
King James Version (KJV)
6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our
righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a
leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us
away.[/center]
I read this verse the other day and thought about this post...
It seem fitting to the subject...[/quote]Chaff is also said to
be carried away by the wind.
Job 21:18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff
that the storm carrieth away.
Psalm 1:4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which
the wind driveth away.
Psalm 35:5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the
angel of the LORD chase them.
Isaiah 17:13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many
waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off,
and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the
wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
Daniel 2:35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver,
and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the
chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them
away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote
the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
Then we read about the leaves which never fade, too. It may
interest you to know that "ruach" can be translated as "wind."
Thus Genesis 1:2 could read:
Genesis 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and
darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Wind of God
moved upon the face of the waters.
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