The Tree of Life,
The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil,
and the Trees that Grew in the Garden
GENESIS 2:9
[NKJV]
And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
[BSB]
Out of the ground the Lord God gave growth to every tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for food. And in the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
When God planted a Garden, East of where He formed man, I take it that God only planted "Two Trees" in the middle of the Garden. Those two trees were basically the main substance or contents of the Garden, while other trees pertaining to the Garden were "Ornaments" to the Garden.
Those two Trees were "Tree of Life" and "Tree of Knowledge of good and evil." Without these two, there was no essence to that Garden God planted and secured. Infact, God brought Man to keep the Garden by keeping from eating one of those two trees; and because God would not trust sinful man not to eat of the tree of life, God drove the man away from the entire Garden and brought Cherub with flaming sword just to guard against unwanted access to the tree of life.
So God had formed a Garden and a Paradise with just one single Tree called the "Tree of Life." You may have heard people say in their proverb, "A single Tree cannot make a forest." But this is one Tree that can make a Paradise or Garden of Delight, doing alone what should have taken multiple trees to do, such as bearing different kinds of fruits in each month of the year, and having leaves more powerful than all the herbs, since its leave heals all kinds of sicknesses, diseases and illnesses. That's Multifarious and Multitasking Tree of Life.
The Tree of Life is always located at the Middle or Center: +
*1* Either the Tree of Life is in the middle or center of the Garden of God — [See Bible verse above]
*2* Or the Tree of Life is in the middle or center of the Paradise of God — [Revelation 2:7]
*3* Or the Tree of Life is in the middle or center of the Street of the most glorious City — [Revelation 22:2-3]
However, though the Tree of Life be located at the center or middle, the security check/access point to the Tree of Life begins at the Gates or Fence Borders where one shows License or Right to the Tree of Life before he/she may enter the gate. As is written
[Revelation 22:14-15 BSB] — "Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates. But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood."
If you have just one Tree of Life in your community or city, you don't need any farmland or fruit tree again because you all cannot exhaust all the fruits, leaves and diversities of the tree of life forever. Actually, there is no good life or good thing any other tree gives that the Tree of Life Will not give also. Everything good for life you find in any tree, fruit or leaf, is also found in the Tree of Life.
Nevertheless, God still made other trees to grow from the ground, just to divert attention from concentrating on the tree of life alone. And to further make it "Trial of Choices," God set up the tree of knowledge of good and evil to compete with the tree of life for choices of men.
Now, those two Trees were in the Garden or were the Garden themselves, before Man was brought into the Garden. The Two Trees were the main Garden planted there when Adam was put there, and those two Trees did not grow from the ground there like other trees in the Garden.
God made every other tree in the Garden to grow from the ground, except those two Trees in the middle of the Garden that did not grow from the ground but were planted as Trees there.
PLEASANT TO THE EYES
All the trees in the Garden were all Pleasant (imparting Pleasures) to the Eyes, because the heavens above were opened to directly make room for heavenly atmosphere and waves transmission signals to fill the Garden and cause the trees and things in the Garden to reflect and impact pleasures, visions and glories, just by beholding them. It was not as if God made those trees from precious stones or glasses, but that the lights and glories of God and the heavens above were beaming on those trees and making them extra ordinarily glorious in transfiguration of those trees by the heavenlies reflections on them. For example, the same kind of fig tree that is in this world was also in the Garden, but that one in the Garden was pleasant to the eyes, containing glorious sight and visions just because heavenly transmissions and radioactive waves were received directly from heaven by the tree and reflected on that fig-tree in the Garden.
You don't expect a person or object that's in heaven to have similar outlook as its kind that's not in heaven under God's presence. Remember the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ or remember how Moses' Face Shone with brightness just for being with and seeing God on the Mount. Even the face of Stephen was seen as the face of an angel in countenance, when people saw him in court (Acts 6:15). However, some transformation or transfiguration from being with God is not facial, but intellectual. That is, you may not be seeing their faces changed, but you are seeing their intellectual soundness, wisdom and depth in the Word of God drastically increased, especially when they did not attend any Bible School or educational institution to warrant such levels or capacity of intellectual soundness, then you know they have been in the presence of God like Daniel or as these apostles:
[Acts 4:13 GW] — "After they found out that Peter and John had no education or special training, they were surprised to see how boldly they spoke. They realized that these men had been with Jesus."
So those trees that grow in the Garden of Eden were pleasing or glorious sweet to the eyes and sight, just because they were being in and under the glories and waves of God and the heavens.
However:
Those "Two Trees" that did not grow from the ground were different from the rest of the trees that grew from the ground, in how they imparted or impacted the Eyes.
**1** The Trees that grew from the ground of the Garden only transmitted pleasures, sweetness, glories and beautiful spectrums of lights into the eyes beholding them. But,
**2** The Two Trees that did not grow from the ground were both doing all the other trees were doing in transmissions, in addition to doing what the trees could not do, to the Eyes.
The extra things they were doing to the Eyes, which the other trees could not do to the eyes, were "Openings of the Eyes." Those two Trees did not just transmit or reflect pleasures to the eyes, but they also opened (unveiled or illuminated) the eyes to see what the blind or visually limited could not see. Both the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil and the Tree of Life are Trees that open the Eyes of man forever when the man eats of any of them. You have known how much the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil could open people's eyes, but you are yet to know the degree to which the Tree of Life would open the Eyes of people and saints.
GOOD FOR FOOD
All the trees in the Garden were all good for food. However:
Those trees that God made to grow from the ground were the Trees God gave Adam the freedom to eat at anytime and anyhow he wanted. But those two Trees that did not grow from the ground were not free food to Adam: he would pay the cost (death) in arrears after eating one of the two trees, but he would pay a price (life) in advance before eating the other Tree of the two Trees.
One is on debit, the other one is on credit: and man cannot eat both of them in the same lifetime because the cost of eating one of the two trees is the opportunity cost of forgoing the other tree.
*1* If you eat the tree that will make you live forever, you will not be able to pay for eating the tree that will cost your death to pay.
*2* If you eat the tree that will cost your death to pay, you will not spiritually live in heavenly/godly realms long enough to pay in advance for the right or license of eating the tree of eternal life.