Figs


[1 Adam+Eve 36:1] — THEN God commanded the cherub, who kept the gate of the garden with a sword of fire in his hand, to take some of the fruit of the fig-tree, and to give it to Adam.

Notice that God ordered the same Cherub, that was assigned to keep mankind out of the garden, to bring some fruits of the Garden (Fruits of the Fig-tree) to the people he and his sword of fire should not allow inside the gate. A man went to an embassy for visa processing, and when he got to the gate two police with guns and two security officers where there to keep him from entering the embassy, the security officers where also there to bring things from inside the embassy to him outside whenever they receive the order from above. Would you say they were being difficult or being kind to the man?

You may have realized it's easier for angels to bring gifts/ things from heaven to people on earth, than for them to bring those people into heaven. When the Lord Jesus Christ promised and said, "Ask, and you shall receive; seek, and you shall find; knock, and the door will be opened to you" — That aspect that says the door will be opened to you if you knock, does not guarantee opening the door for everyone who knocked to enter, but only guarantees opening the door for everyone who knocked to receive either through the door or through the Porter (Gateman) at the door (gate). Infact, as far as it is heaven, you don't have to knock before you enter anywhere inside: Entrance is usually ministered to everyone who qualifies to enter anywhere in heaven before the person gets to the door or gate (2 Peter 1:11). It's as if the doors, the gates or the porters/gatemen already anticipate the worthy person's coming in before they get to them, and the doors open for the worthy person on their own accord like in "Acts 12:10" or like those doors that have sensors buried around their perimeter so that as soon as someone comes close and steps within the perimeter of their sensors the doors automatically opens for them. The doors in heaven that do not open in such ways are usually "Portals" or "Doors one just goes through" by entering into the doors/walls like bridges to enter into other realms/realities. Other doors in heaven that do not also open in such ways are usually "Decisions or Choices Doors" that is directly linked to people's destiny: These are doors everyone has to choose and open by choice to go through.

In heavenly communication, a person is usually invited or welcomed into any place or room just by the doors opening to the person. They usually don't send invitation cards, but sign of opening to whoever they want. E.g. Elijah and Elisha walking, Elijah saw the heavens opened, but Elisha was only busy making sure he saw Elijah when he was taken but was not concerned about whether the heavens where opened or inviting him also. In the book of Revelation (4), John saw the heavens opened, and the voice of the invitation, "Come up here." Opened Holy of Holies.

If you find people knocking on a door in heaven, it's either the door shall be opened to give them what they are asking for or they just do not have entrance which is why they knock. The Lord Jesus Christ did not promise entrance into heaven by knocking on the door, but promised opening the door to receiving by knocking:

[Luke 13:25-27] — "After the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, you will stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ But he will reply, ‘I do not know where you are from.’ Then you will say, ‘We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’ And he will answer, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you are from. Depart from me, all you evildoers.’"

See Cherub instructed to bring fruits of the garden to Adam, but still mandated with the sharp flaming Sword to keep Adam out of it. Some of these angels bringing you blessings from heaven, wait till you meet them at the gates or doors into heaven, then you will know whether they are keeping their smiling faces and friendliness towards you trying to enter heaven. Even the Lord Jesus Christ in the Bible reference I just cited above used to eat and drink with those people, and was teaching in their streets and healing them, but suddenly at the Door He changed towards them and declared He does not know them, instead of giving entrance.

[1 Adam+Eve 36:2] — The cherub obeyed the command of the Lord God, and went into the garden and brought two figs on two twigs, each fig hanging to its leaf; they were from two of the trees among which Adam and Eve hid themselves when God went to walk in the garden, and the Word of God came to Adam and Eve and said unto them, "Adam, Adam, where are you?"

From those two Fig-trees where Adam and Eve hid themselves from the walking Presence of God in the cool of the day inside the garden: The same Fig-trees, who's leaves Adam and Eve sew apron and covered themselves while hiding from God because they knew they were naked by having eaten of the knowledge of good and evil tree that was forbidden by God to be eaten of man: It was from those two Fig-trees the Cherub brought two twigs of Fig to them, in obedience to the command of the Lord to the Cherub.

Now notice that even though Fig-trees have much leaves that could cover or hide Adam and Eve, yet the number of the leaves in the two twigs were equivalent to the number of fruits (figs) in the twigs that the Cherub brought out of the two Fig-trees in the Garden. In paradise, fruits are almost as abundant as the leaves in fruit bearing Tree.

There was a day it was not Adam that was hungry but the Lord Jesus Christ Himself was hungry. He saw a fig tree with many leaves from afar, and He was expecting many fruits as well from it. Since fig leaves are good in covering, after all they covered or hid Adam and Eve from the Lord in the garden, perhaps the leaves are also covering the fruits from Him walking in the cool of that day. But when He got there and searched thoroughly, no single fruit in the midst of all those multitudes of leaves as hypocrite. And the Lord cursed that Fig-tree, and took His hunger elsewhere.

[1 Adam+Eve 36:3] — And Adam answered, "O God, here am I. When I heard the sound of You and You Voice, I hid myself, because I am naked."

The Cherub knew or witnessed all these that transpired between God and Adam, hiding behind those Fig-trees. The Cherub was very much aware and deliberately chose those Fig Trees with those memories in the verse above.

The Lord did not punish nor cursed those Fig-trees in the Garden for hiding Adam and Eve from His Presence; and because the Lord did not curse the Fig-trees, "Man could yet eat of them." Infact, Adam and Eve were about to eat from the Fig-trees where they hid themselves and covered their unclothedness from God

But you see that Fig-tree the Lord Jesus Christ cursed, "No man shall ever eat of it." The case of that cursed Fig Tree became worse than the forbidden tree of knowledge of good and evil. The Forbidden Tree was not cursed, though forbidden; but that cursed Fig Tree was cursed and instantly dried up or died.

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