A CERTAIN TREE

   In the Garden of Eden, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was the serpent, Satan himself.
   The "tree" is simply a metaphor, for the Bible is written in ways that children can understand the story; and when children become mature adults, then they will understand the greater significance.  A tree does not have a brain, therefore a tree cannot have the knowledge of good and evil.  But Satan does.
      And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.  Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.  (2 Corinthians 12: 14-15)
   Therefore, it should be easy to understand that false churches are the same as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and the ministers and priests of false churches are servants of Satan.
      For such  are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 
   When people lead people away from Christ, they are the same as the men who crucified Jesus in Jerusalem.  They are false apostles, deceitful workers, children of the devil, hypocrites and vipers, workers of iniquity, living in darkness, and their minds are evil.

      All things that are made
        are not always clear;
      and all things that appear
        are not as they appear to be.

      There was a man
         who believed he was God;
      and when he died
         he is dead, still dead.

     His body they burned
         poured his ashes in an urn,
     and there the people still gather
        praying to ashes of skin and bones.

      And there they remained
         until they died,
      while teaching their children
         to do the same.

      Having eyes they see not,
         and with ears they hear not;
      that God is not
         the god of the dead,
      but the Lord of the living.

   Such is the world of false ministers and priests.  Not only do they believe they are gods, but they deceive people to believe that they are God.  And when they die they are dead, still dead.
   Jesus did not come to earth to save the sins of dead people; but He came to forgive the sins of the living.  For after the resurrection of Christ, when the women arrived at the empty tomb, the angels said unto them:  Why seek ye the living among the dead?  (Luke 24: 5)
   False ministers and priests, in false churches, do not teach that Christ is risen!  For ministers and priests of false churches are just like their father, Satan.
   If you should enter a false church, look inside and ask: 
  Why seek ye the living among the dead?  He is not here; but is risen.