A Tree Twice Planted

Somewhere

in Palestine,

several millennia

ago, a tree dropped

a seed to the ground,

and that seed became

lodged in the soil and

began to grow. It was planted by God and became a tree. One day

that tree was cut down and hewn into planks. Those planks were

nailed together and men planted that tree, now reshaped, once

more on a small hill

outside Jerusalem.

This time that tree

was planted by men,

and the God who had

planted it first, now

claimed it bodily. Now

this tree was planted

the second time to kill

God, but without realizing

it, men had planted

their own redemption.
The tree had been planted twice so mankind could live once. The

seeds from that twice planted tree continue to fall in good soil and produce

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