Revelation 22:1-3,14
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KJV
1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
3 And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:
. . .14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Implications for our Understanding of Adam
Bro Alan Fowler argued that the Tree of Life is reason to believe that Adam was created mortal:
. . . Alan Fowler, another respected Christadelphian writer likewise wrote endorsing the concept of Adam being created mortal. In chapter two of “Twenty Essays in a Search for Truth”, Fowler rejected the idea that the Tree of Life conferred immortality, instead arguing by analogy with the tree of life in Revelation 22 that “the tree of life in Eden gave ongoing health and incorruption” and that “the Hebrew tense of the verb ‘eat’ can mean ‘continue to eat’ ”, concluding that “the death sentence was activated by their being expelled from the garden and so being denied access to the tree of life and subject to the mortality of all living things”.
— Bro Ken Gilmore on his blog citing
Fowler A., Twenty Essays in a Search for Truth (2011: Ortho Books) p13.
Literal Reading
This passage is cited here as "accepting" events of early Genesis as literally true. See comment here. —BP
