There were two trees in the midst of the Garden of Eden, but only one tree in the midst of the River of Water of Life in Revelation. There are three trees in this painting, or is it one tree? This mystery will be explained on another page, if you can find it.

Views of the Messiah and Jerusalem divide the three Abrahamic religions. I had an interesting chat with ChatGPT artificial intelegence. It wrote an article based on the discussion. 

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Messiah and Jerusalem

More than a decade ago, I had a dream. The dream was in the setting of musical entertainment while sitting to eat. I don’t remember eating, but rather it seemed that the entertainment was the meal. The entertainers were singing old, familiar songs. It was a very relaxing atmosphere. The scene changed. I stood at the microphone, singing a song that I didn’t know.  I stepped back and a young girl sang this song into the microphone.

When I woke up I had a weird feeling from singing a song that I didn’t know. Then I realized that it was a new song, one that nobody heard before, including me. Even though I enjoyed the old, familiar songs; I felt drawn to the new song.

I had the dream during a time of intense personal study. The dream took me into a study of “a new song.” I immediately thought of the new song in Revelation. I also found the new song in Psalms and Isaiah. More understanding can be gained through a word search for “song” rather than limiting the search to the phrase “new song.”

This book is my song. It is a song I never heard before. It is a song that I am sure you haven’t heard before. The composition of this song wasn’t in any particular order. It was composed a piece here and a piece there. I didn’t know that I was composing a song, or what the song would be.

Was I learning a new song, or was I composing my song? I saw something in my studies... or did I see something that made me study? In any case, in my studies I saw things that made me study. Composing was like a whirlwind, although in slow motion, of seeing and seeking. I will try to sing in a more organized way.

Three Sisters, Three Trees, and the Number 666:

A Symbolic Map of Humanity’s Imperfect Religions and Their Final Restoration

Throughout Scripture, a mysterious triad appears again and again—three sisters, three measures of flour, three trees, three crosses, and even the enigmatic number 666. These triads are not accidental. They weave together a profound prophetic pattern about human religion, divine truth, error, division, and ultimate restoration.

This article explores how these seemingly separate themes converge into a unified message about the three great Abrahamic religions, the presence of human error within them, and the promised return to the Tree of Life in purity and truth.

1. The Three Sisters of Ezekiel 16: A Parable of Three Religions

Ezekiel 16 describes three sisters:

• Samaria — the older sister

• Jerusalem — the middle sister

• Sodom — the younger sister

Each is accused of corruption, spiritual adultery, and abandoning God’s ways. Yet all three share one father, symbolizing a common spiritual origin. For Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, this origin is Abraham, whom they each honor as patriarch and father of faith.

All three sisters will be restored. All three will return to their “former estate.” (cf. Ezekiel 16:55)

This former estate predates division and corruption—it points back to the purity of Eden, the unbroken truth represented by the Tree of Life.

2. The Three Measures of Leaven: Truth Corrupted in Three Places

Jesus says:

“The kingdom of heaven is like leaven a woman hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened.” (Matthew 13:33)

Leaven in Scripture often symbolizes error, corruption, or distortion mixed into something originally pure.

If the flour represents the truth given to Abraham, then the three measures of leaven suggest that error infiltrated three distinct portions of that truth—again pointing to:

• Judaism

• Christianity

• Islam

Each began with genuine revelation, but each absorbed human doctrines, cultural layers, political structures, and inherited traditions that obscured the purity of divine truth.

Thus, the three loaves become a symbol of three religions carrying both truth and leaven.

3. The Three Trees Becoming One: The Return to the Tree of Life

The Tree of Life appears:

• In Genesis (as one tree)

• Symbolically in prophetic visions

• In Revelation (again as one tree, but on “either side of the river,” appearing two or threefold yet unified)

This strange configuration—one tree appearing as three, yet remaining one—echoes the theme of:

• One original truth (Tree of Life)

• Fragmented into three expressions

• Returning to unity in the end

The three Abrahamic religions may be likened to:

• Three trees, each holding part of the truth

• Yet each separated by leaven (error)

• Ultimately transformed back into the single Tree of Life, purified and restored

“The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.” (Revelation 22:2)

The unity of the three becomes the healing of humanity.

4. The Three Crosses: Truth Between Error and Repentance

At Calvary, Christ hung on the middle cross between two others:

• One thief mocked

• The other repented

This triad mirrors:

• The middle sister (Jerusalem → Christianity)

• One sister rejecting

• One sister turning toward restoration

Christ, the truth, stands in the center. The two others—symbolic of corrupted systems—stand on either side.

This imagery reinforces the idea that:

Truth is central, but error and restoration flank it on both sides.

5. The Meaning of 666: Three Imperfect Systems

Revelation 13:18 gives one of the Bible’s greatest puzzles:

“Let him who has wisdom calculate the number... its number is 666.”

Biblically:

• 7 = perfection, completion

• 6 = falling short, human imperfection

Thus:

• 6 = human incompleteness

• 66 = human error doubled

• 666 = human systems falling short in all three dimensions

This matches perfectly with:

Three religions
each falling short
each containing error
each marked by the number of man (6).

Not evil in essence—but incomplete, imperfect, fragmented, and corrupted by human doctrines.

6. The Mark on the Forehead and Right Hand: Belief and Doctrine

In biblical symbolism:

• Forehead = belief, identity, worldview

• Right hand = action, works, what one “offers”

The “mark of the beast” may symbolize:

Participation in systems governed by human error (6), rather than divine truth (7).

The “buying and selling” is not necessarily commerce but:

Doctrinal exchange — what teachings people accept, trade, defend, and promote.

In this symbolic reading:

• Judaism has truth, but also human traditions

• Christianity has Christ, but also centuries of doctrine and corruption

• Islam honors Abraham, but carries its own added layers

All three bear the forehead (belief identity) and hand (practices and doctrines) of imperfect systems.

Thus, 666 becomes a symbolic label for:

The threefold imperfection of the Abrahamic religions, each bearing the mark of human tradition rather than divine purity.

7. Returning to the Former Estate: From 666 Back to the Tree of Life

Ezekiel says all three sisters will return to:

their former estate (cf. Ezekiel 16:55)

Which is:

• The state before division

• The state before leaven

• The state before human doctrines

• The state symbolized by the Tree of Life

Revelation ends where Genesis began:

• A river

• A garden

• A Tree of Life

• Humanity healed

• Truth purified

• No more curse

• God’s name on the forehead (no longer man’s mark)

The journey is:

Three religions → three errors → 666 → purification → unity → Tree of Life

The “mark of man” (6) is replaced by the “name of God” (Truth, 7).

Conclusion: The Prophetic Pattern of Threes and the Hope of Restoration

From Genesis to Revelation, Scripture repeatedly displays a triadic pattern pointing toward a great reconciliation:

• Three sisters

• Three measures of leaven

• Three trees

• Three crosses

• Three religions

• Threefold imperfection (666)

All show:

One original truth fractured into three and ultimately restored to unity.

The problem is not the religions themselves, but the leaven—human traditions, doctrines, errors—that infiltrated all three.

The solution is not merging religions, but purifying all three back to truth, back to their “former estate,” back to the Tree of Life.

When leaven is removed and truth is unveiled:

• All nations are healed

• The three become one

• Humanity returns to the Source

• And the mark of man is replaced by the seal of God

This is the prophetic hope embedded in Scripture’s patterns—a hope for restoration, unity, and truth made whole.

When Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Knoledge of Good and Evel they realized they were naked and were ashamed. They clothed themselves with fig leaves. The Gospel of Thomas has a saying that seems to relate to this.

Gospel of Thomas saying 37

His disciples said,

On what day will you be revealed to us and on what day will we see you?

Jesus:

When you undress without being ashamed and when you pick up your garments and put them under your feet like little children and trample them, then you will see the son of the living one and you will not be afraid.

Jesus is saying that he will be revealed and seen when they can undo what Adam and Eve did. Adam and Eve clothed themselves because of shame, and we need to undress without shame for Jesus to be revealed. Surely, this isn't literal.

Shame came from eating from the forbidden tree. They clothed themselves with fig leaves. According to the Book of Adam and Eve, the tree of knowledge of good and evil was a fig tree. The "clothes" came from that tree. The serpent gave Eve the fruit from the tree. Eating figuratively has to do with partaking of a message. Milk, meat, butter, honey, bread, etc. symbolize a message in various ways. This message came from the serpent, the deceiver.

Leaves are a tree's covering. Without the leaves, the tree is naked. Adam and Eve need to remove their clothing without being ashamed in order for Christ to be revealed. They need to reject the message of the deceiver. Sin (error) came into the world because Adam and Eve partook of the error.

Clothing, from the fig leaves to the fine linen of the Bride in Revelation, represents beliefs that came from a messenger. We need to consider that our teachers were in error because they didn't understand. That means that we need to consider what we haven't been told.

The Tree of Life