Genesis 3:24

In Genesis 3:24『So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. 』

You should not think of the phrase "to keep the way of the tree of life" as "God command angels by flame swords to prevent those who have left God from entering the tree of life." The word "to keep" means "hidden." The reason for hiding is not hidden invisibly, but it means "put in God's Word." cherub is the angel who guards the ark, and it is said that in the ark there were manna, the ten commandments, and Aaron's budded wand. In other words, the word of God (the law) is in the ark.

It is the angel who keeps the word of God. When it comes to 『a flaming sword which turned every way』, “turned every way” means “turn over, completely change”. The flame is God, or the messenger of God, as described in Genesis 3: 2, and the sword means the Holy Spirit (the word of God). That is, it is the word of God's judgment.

 God keeps the path of the tree of life, and Adam and Eve must meet angels and die on a flaming sword to access the tree of life. In order to eat the fruit of the tree of life, they realize that their righteousness must die through the law that the angels keep, and meet the hidden Christ.

 Then, God will rebirth by the power of the Holy Spirit. In order to eat the fruit of the tree of life, "their righteousness must die" is the primary meaning. "Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life" means "hidden." We need to look through the words of Jesus in the parable of the seed in Matthew 13: 9-17.『 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?  He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them. 』 Jesus used the parable of the mystery of heaven. The reason Jesus speaks in parables is that the way of the tree of life is hidden in the Word.

In the book of Acts, Stephen says, "An angel gave the law." The word of God that an angel is hiding is that it is the law. The word of God in the ark is the Ten Commandments, the law. It means that the tree of life is hidden in the law. Humans understand sin by law. Sin is a departure from God. Church people say it is a sin to break the law. In other words, you think that it is a sin to do bad things. In the Bible, what God tells humans to sin is that they have left God, and through the law, realize sin, that is, to realize that they have left God.

It is not to realize that you are sinning in this world through the law, but to realize that you are leaving God. When you realize that you have left God, God must return. Just as the prodigal son realized that it was wrong to leave his father and returned to his father, you must return to God if you realize the sins of the law. However, people are not willing to go back despite being willing to go back. Even if you simply say that you believe in Jesus and are saved, you are not saved unless you repent.

When humans leave the kingdom of God, they take off their clothes and put on their body clothes. To get God's clothes, we have to take off our fleshly clothes and put on the clothes of the kingdom of God. To take off the body's clothes means "to die." It is wrong for a person who was a member of God to leave God, so he repents of God, takes off his body, and returns to God. When you repent of God, God is telling you how to throw away your fleshly clothes.

Jesus said, "If you want to follow me, you will deny yourself and take up your cross and follow me." And Matthew 10:38 『And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. . And Matthew 16:24 『Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 』

Jesus came to this world to show you how to return to God. Jesus told you how to take off the flesh of the flesh on the earth. That is, Jesus died on the cross. In other words, in order to obtain God's life, you must take your cross and die like Jesus. He who loves his life will die, and he who gives up his life will get it. Romans 6: 6 says that the old man must die.

Self-life means physical life. And life from God is God's life. Those who give up the life of the body will have eternal life, and those who want to gain the life of the body will lose eternal life. When the members of God left the kingdom of God, they took off their clothes. Again, in order to return to the kingdom of God, you must take off your fleshly garments before you can wear the kingdom of God.

The Apostle Paul explains this in 2 Corinthians 5: 1.『 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 』The Apostle Paul did not just say this, but it is precisely explaining God's will. You must take off your body clothes. It means "to become a word to leave the world and to die about the world." It means that we must leave Satan's world. In John 14: 6, 『Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 』, Jesus is the way. What is the way, it is the way to God. That way is the way of the cross. So, can all humans who believe in Jesus die on the cross? You cannot die directly. So, Jesus said to believe his words.

The Apostle Paul in Romans 6: 3-4『 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?  Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 』In other words, baptism is a ritual of dying. Baptism means "believing that Jesus died on the cross for me and overcame death and rose again for my new life." We believe in Jesus' promise. It makes us baptized to realize that Jesus took off his body clothes, and that all humans who believe in Jesus also died on the cross of Jesus. If we believe that we died with Jesus on the cross, God acknowledges that we have taken off our fleshly garments. Romans 8: 3-4『 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 』