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

   Answer: I've taught right along it's a grape. The question is, "How
do you know it's a grape?"

   All right, turn to Genesis chapter 2. Genesis 2:16: "And the Lord
God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest
freely eat: 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." So we call this forbidden fruit, and this forbidden fruit
is forbidden.

   Now, there is only one fruit in the Bible that's forbidden anyway.
Turn to Numbers chapter 6. There's only one fruit that's forbidden
anyway anywhere in the Bible. Numbers chapter 6, verse 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. All the days of his
separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree." Notice
the vine is a tree. "Vine tree"--that's forbidden fruit.

   Now, why is the vine tree for a Nazarite "forbidden fruit"? Well,
the vine tree is obviously forbidden fruit because it's a type of
blood. Turn to Matthew chapter 26. The vine tree, grape juice,
represents blood. Matthew 26, verse 26: "And as they were eating, Jesus
took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples,
and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave
thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my
blood of the new testament." Then grape juice is a type of blood.

   So now, we know that a tree is forbidden, and grape juice is
forbidden to the Nazarite; but, if grape juice is a type of blood, then
blood should be forbidden. Let's turn to Genesis 9, and notice that
blood is forbidden. So blood and grape juice are inseparably connected.
Genesis 9:4: "But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood
thereof, shall ye not eat."

   Furthermore, it's forbidden in the New Testament. Come to Acts
chapter 15. Not only under the law, and before the law, but after the
law--before the law in Genesis 9, the blood is forbidden; under the law
in Leviticus 17, blood is forbidden; and Acts chapter 15, under grace
blood is forbidden. Acts 15:28: "For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost,
and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary
things; That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood."

   All right, now what you have so far is this: There are two items in
the Bible that are forbidden to put in your mouth. One of them is
blood--forbidden before the law (Genesis 9), under the law (Leviticus
17), after the law (Acts 15). That blood is typified by grape juice.
Therefore, grape juice is forbidden to a Nazarite. And grape juice
comes from the grape, and the grape is said to come from a vine tree.

   So, the first two miracles in the Bible that are done are converting
something into blood or something into grape juice. John chapter 2; get
John chapter 2 in one hand, and get Exodus chapter 4 in the other. The
first manmade miracle in the Old Testament that Moses does in going
down to the land of Egypt is in Exodus 4, and the first miracle Christ
does in His ministry is in John 2. And, in both cases, you're dealing
with the transformation of something into blood or into grape juice.
John 2, verse 9: "When the ruler of the feast had the water that was
made wine"--now there's water turned into grape juice. Verse 11: "This
beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee."

   Old Testament, Exodus 4, verse 9. Now the first two signs he's done
here are done to Pharaoh, and nothing happens. But the first sign that
affects the land of Egypt is in verse 8. "And it shall come to pass, if
they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first
sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign. And it shall
come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither
hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river,
and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest out of
the river shall become blood upon the dry land."

   Now let's get this together. In the Old Testament, before the
law--under the law--after the law--blood is forbidden. In the Old
Testament, grape juice from a vine tree is forbidden to a Nazarite. In
the New Testament, grape juice is a type of blood. When Christ shows
up, the first thing He does is turn water into grape juice, and then He
says grape juice is a type of blood.

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

   That's the picture.

   And the first life in the Bible, in Genesis chapter 1, came from
water. The Lord said, "Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving
creature that hath life."

   So the first thing Moses does is take that water and turn that water
into blood.

   Now, water, grape juice, and blood--those three things right
there--are connected inseparably in the word of God. Those things are
right in there; there's no way you can get those things apart. Water is
going to grape juice, water is going to blood, blood and grape juice
are connected.

   Now let's go back to Genesis chapter 2, and see what the original
Elizabethan English says. Genesis 2, verse 23; the Lord makes a man and
makes a woman. Genesis 2:23: "And Adam said, This is now bone of my
bones, and" blood of my blood--right? No! There's no "blood" there!
There's no blood there.

   Adam was bone and flesh.

   Let's turn to Luke 24, and see how Christ came out when He rose from
the dead. It isn't in the commentaries; it's in the Bible. Luke
24--there's nothing that Dummelow and Lange and Delitsch and Kyle and
Disentius and Robertson and Trench and Dentson and Davis can help you
with at all; they're just as blind as a bat. Luke 24--Christ coming in
the room in the resurrection. Luke 24, verse 39: "Behold my hands and
my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not
flesh and" what? "Bones as ye see me have." The resurrection body has
no blood. Neither did Adam.

   First Corinthians 15. It has flesh and bones, it has a circulatory
system--but there's no blood in the system! First Corinthians 15:50:
"Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the
kingdom of God." Your blood can't get in. You'll have glorified flesh
and bones, but no blood.

   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!

   The question comes, then where did Eve get her blood from? And where
did Adam get his blood from?

   Well, he had to get it orally. He had to take it through the mouth.

   They say when a person's really rich or royal, they say they're
blue-blood. That would be a circulatory system with water; that would
be Adam's original condition.

   All right, now, on your question, what that tree was. Let's go to
Genesis chapter 3, and see how many trees were in that garden. Genesis
3, verse 2: "And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the
fruit of the trees of the garden." We know one of them; it's the tree
of the knowledge of good and evil. We know another one, too. Look at
verse 7: "They sewed fig leaves together." There's a fig tree in that
garden!

   Let's see if there's another tree. Genesis chapter 2, verse 9: "And
out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant
to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of
the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil." All right, in
that garden of Eden there's a tree of life, there's a tree of knowledge
of good and evil, and there's a fig tree. There are three trees in that
garden.

   One of them's a fig; we don't know what the other two are.

   All right, let's go to Genesis chapter 3, and in Genesis chapter 3,
look at verse 18. When the Lord drives Adam and Eve out of the garden,
Genesis 3:18, he says, "Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth
to thee." So, in Genesis 3; I know four things: In Genesis 3, there are
thorns and thistles, a fig tree, a tree of life, a tree of knowledge of
good and evil.

   Let's see if we can find them. Let's turn to Judges; that would be a
fine old Book nobody reads! Scripture with Scripture; the Scriptures
interpret the Scriptures. The best commentary on the Scripture is still
the Scripture! Judges chapter 9, verse 8; the English comment on the
English text is always superior to any fundamental scholarship's
opinion about any text that exists in any language. Judges 9, 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." Verse 10: "And the trees
said to the fig tree, Come thou, and reign over us." Verse 12: "Then
said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us." Verse 14:
"Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over
us."

   Four trees.

   In that place there, there's an olive tree, a vine tree, a fig tree
and a bramble. In Genesis, there's a tree of life, a tree of knowledge
of good and evil, thorns and thistles, and a gif tree.

   They're going to have to match.

   Those of you who know your Bible in Romans chapter 9 know that the
good olive tree is a picture of God's life to Israel. And what is olive
oil a picture of in the Bible? A type of the Holy Spirit. Therefore,
the tree of life is an olive tree.

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

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

   And if you eat it, ladies, it will make your lips red! So that's
where you put the lipstick. Right there. On the lips.

   Now, there's another better way you know it's a grape, which is much
easier. I took you the hard route. All right, now here's the easy way:

   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. "And Noah began to be a husbandman,
and planted a vineyard, and became drunk."

   That's what Adam did.

   So, what they took was a grape.

   Now, I'm not saying these grapes out in California will make you
drunk. And I'm not saying that that is the original sin, because
obviously that's a supernatural tree with supernatural properties. But
it is a grape tree. And from henceforth, forevermore, drunkenness and
nakedness are always associated.

   "Woe to him that puts the bottle to his neighbour, that maketh him
naked, that ye may look upon his nakedness." They always come right
together.

   If people want to take each other's clothes off, they get them drunk
first to quiet their conscience. Genesis chapter 2 and chapter 3.

   The King James Bible always sets the pace.

   Every Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, a Roman Catholic goes to church
and blasphemes the Bible and the Holy Ghost--and the entire Bible--by
taking Mass. Because Mass is eating forbidden fruit that's forbidden in
all three Testaments. If that wine becomes the literal blood of Christ,
the Roman Catholic is a cannibal who has defied all three Testaments,
and everything God ever said from Genesis to Revelation.

   Turn to Deuteronomy 32. Do you know what the original sin is? It's a
Roman Catholic Mass--taking blood through the mouth. Tell that to your
Catholic friends! Deuteronomy 32, verse 31: "For their rock [small "r"]
is not as our Rock [capital "R"], even our enemies themselves being
judges." Their rock is Simon Peter. What's our Rock? Jesus Christ!

   "For their vine is of the vine of Sodom,...their grapes are grapes
of gall, their clusters are bitter: Their wine is the poison of
dragons, and the cruel venom of asps."