So he measured the thickness of the wall, one reed and the height, one reed. Declare all that you see to the house of Israel.” And behold, there was a wall all around the outside of the temple area, and the length of the measuring reed in the man's hand was six long cubits, each being a cubit and a handbreadth in length.

And the man said to me, “Son of man, look with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart upon all that I shall show you, for you were brought here in order that I might show it to you. The believer who lives close to God will never be dry and wilted either. But the tree planted by the river is never dry and wilted it is green, lush and lovely. Revelation 22:1-6 EasyEnglish Bible (EASY) The river and the tree in the city 1 Then the angel showed me a river. The Middle East is an area of the world that is filled with desert and wilderness land. When he brought me there, behold, there was a man whose appearance was like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring reed in his hand. This people of Israel understood the value of this. In visions of God he brought me to the land of Israel, and set me down on a very high mountain, on which was a structure like a city to the south. In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck down, on that very day, the hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me to the city. It was deep enough to swim in, a river that could not be passed through. He also contrasts the image of a well-watered, healthy. Again he measured a thousand, and it was a river that I could not pass through, for the water had risen. In his judgment on the wicked ways of Israel, Jeremiah uses this same picture of a tree planted by the waters (Jeremiah 17:7-8) to show that if the people would repent and trust God with their hearts and lives again, He would forgive their sins and reestablish them under His loving care. Again he measured a thousand, and led me through the water, and it was waist-deep. Again he measured a thousand, and led me through the water, and it was knee-deep. Going on eastward with a measuring line in his hand, the man measured a thousand cubits, and then led me through the water, and it was ankle-deep. Then he brought me out by way of the north gate and led me around on the outside to the outer gate that faces toward the east and behold, the water was trickling out on the south side. Think about the state of a tree in a time of famine and a tree that is planted by waters which. The water was flowing down from below the south end of the threshold of the temple, south of the altar. The Bible often describes our lives using the metaphor of a tree. Then he brought me back to the door of the temple, and behold, water was issuing from below the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the rivers side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees beside.

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