Julia Prins Vanderveen

Ezekiel 47:1-12, 48:35; Revelation 22:1-9, 16-21
On each side of the river stood the tree of life. . . .

Revelation 2:1-7
“To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.”

James 3
Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark.

Colossians 2:6-7
Just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him. . . .

Romans 11:13-24, 33-36
You, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others. . . .

Luke 19:1-10
[Zacchaeus] ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way.

John 15:1-17
“Remain in me, as I also remain in you. . . .”

Mark 11:12-25
Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit.

Isaiah 10:33, 11:1-9
A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.

Jonah 4
The Lord God provided a leafy plant and made it grow up over Jonah to give shade for his head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was very happy about the plant.

Isaiah 55
“Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.”

Isaiah 44:1-23
“I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring. . . . They will spring up . . . like poplar trees by flowing streams.”

Jeremiah 8:4-22
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is there no healing for the wound of my people?

Psalm 1
That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season. . . .

2 Samuel 5:17-25
“As soon as you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the poplar trees, move quickly, because that will mean the Lord has gone out in front of you. . . .”

Job 14:1-12; 19:25-27
“At least there is hope for a tree: if it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.”

Judges 6:11-24
The angel of the Lord came and sat down under the oak . . . where . . . Gideon was threshing wheat. . . .

Deuteronomy 20
Do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can eat their fruit.

Exodus 37:1-2, 10-11, 17-28
On the lampstand were four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms. . . .

Exodus 15:22-27
They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and ­seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the water.

Exodus 3:1-12
Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”

Genesis 21:22-34
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the Lord, the Eternal God.

Genesis 13
So Abram went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron. . . . There he built an altar to the Lord.

Genesis 3:1-20
“But God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden. . . .’”