Forbidden fruit

What was the fruit that Eve ate in the garden of Eden?

Forbidden fruit

Genesis 2:16-1716 And the LORD God commanded the man,

saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Numbers 6:3-4

3 He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.

4 All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.

Why is the vine tree for a Nazarite "forbidden fruit"?

Blood is forbidden

•Genesis 9:4

Type of blood

• Matthew 26:27-28

Forbidden

Before the law

Genesis 9:4

Under the law

Leviticus 17:10

After the law

Acts 15:28

First two public miracles in the O.T. and N.T.

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Christ shows up, the first thing He does is turn water into grape juice

Then He says grape juice is a type of blood.

So it's a picture of getting life from water.

• The first life in the Bible

– Genesis 1:20

• Moses takes water and turns it into blood.

Life from water

What was man made of?

Genesis 2:23

And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called

Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

• Adam was bone and flesh no blood.

Jesus' Body after the resurrection.

Luke 24:39

Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself:

handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.

1 Corinthians 15:50

Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither

doth corruption inherit incorruption.

What's the context?

Verse 45: So it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was

made a quickening spirit.

Then Adam, when he was made, had flesh and bones but no blood. Christ, when He arose from the dead, had flesh and bones but no blood. At the Rapture, you'll have flesh and

bones--but no blood!

What was the fruit that Eve ate in the garden of Eden?

How many trees were in the garden?

Tree of Life Gen. 2:9

Tree of the knowledge of good and evil Gen. 2:17,3:3

Fig Tree Gen. 3:7

Thorns and thistles Gen. 3:18

The trees revealed Judges 9

1. verse 8: The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.

2. Verse 10: And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and reign over us.

3. Verse 12: Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us

4. 14: Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us.

Olive Tree

Romans 11:17-24 the olive tree is a picture of God's life to Israel. And olive oil a picture of the Holy Spirit*. Therefore, the tree of life is an olive tree.

* Ex. 40:9-11, Ex. 27:20-21, I Cor. 2:14; II Cor. 4:3-6, Lev. 14:14-18, Isa. 1:6, Lk. 10:34, Mk. 6:12-13,

Fig Tree

The tree of self-righteousness is a fig tree; it's cursed.

The vine tree

And the vine tree has to be the tree of knowledge of good and evil; Because it's

forbidden fruit.

Another way to know it's a grape

• The Lord told Adam, Be fruitful and multiply. He told Noah, Be fruitful and multiply.

• He told Adam, Replenish the earth. He told Noah, Replenish the earth.

• Adam had Seth, Cain and Abel. Noah had Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

• One of Noah's boys is under a curse (Ham); one of Adam's boys is under a curse (Cain).

• One of Adam's boys is a type of Christ (Abel); one of Noah's boys is a type of Christ (Shem).

• Adam is naked; Noah is naked. Genesis 9:20-21 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: And he drank of the wine, and was drunken

• That's what Adam did.

• So, what they took was a grape.

Deuteronomy 32:31-32

31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: