In this clip: Chadwick traces the Tree of Life from Genesis, where Adam and Eve lose access to it after sin, to Revelation 22, where those who keep God's commandments are given the right to it and may enter through the city's gates.
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In the Epistles, believers are identified as children of light rather than darkness. In Revelation, God's redeemed people dwell forever in His everlasting light. And the central thread connecting everything is Yeshua Himself. He is the Word through whom creation came into existence, the Light who entered the world, the One who delivers people from darkness, and the Lamp who illuminates the New Jerusalem. Amen. And amen and amen. Now, let's connect this to the Tree of Life. We are all familiar with the Tree of Life in Genesis 2 and also in Revelation 22. The Tree of Life first appears in Genesis 2:9 after Adam and Eve sinned. Genesis 3:22-24 describes their exclusion from access to the Tree of Life, with cherubim and a flaming sword guarding the way. But Revelation 22:14 describes the redeemed being granted access to that very Tree of Life. In Revelation, this is the final separation of light and darkness that we find from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22.
Verse 14 says, "Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the Tree of Life, and may enter through the gates into the city." Verse 15 says, "But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices a lie." Let's notice the contrast. In verse 14, those who enter have access to the Tree of Life and enter through the gates of the New Jerusalem; they are the ones who keep the commandments, just as verse 14 says. This is at the very back of the book, everybody, the last chapter of the Bible, Revelation 22. And Yeshua still tells everybody, "Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they are the ones who do the commandments to enter the Tree of Life or to take part of the Tree of Life and may enter through the gates into the city." But outside are the ones who are not doing the commandments: the dogs, the Gentiles, the sorcerers, witchcraft, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie or falsehood.
