In the beginning, God planted trees - and He planted healing right into them.
Long before pharmacies, prescriptions, or a single clinical trial, God stood in a garden and declared every tree "pleasant to the sight, and good for food." Fruit for the body. Leaves for medicine. Design, not accident.
Then came the fall - and the thorns, the corrupted knowledge, the healing that got buried under superstition, war, and centuries of forgetting.
God and His Trees traces that story from Eden to Revelation, following real Scripture and real history side by side: the Book of Enoch's ancient warning about corrupted root-cutting... a country vicar chewing willow bark in 1757, four thousand years and four unconnected civilizations before Bayer ever patented aspirin... a tree so valuable ancient Rome paraded it through the streets as a war trophy, then lost it for a thousand years... a two-thousand-year-old seed, germinated in a modern lab, growing again after a millennium underground.
This isn't a devotional that stays only in the abstract, and it isn't a health book that ignores where the design came from. It's both - grounded in Scripture, verified against real clinical research, and full of the kind of history that makes you put the book down just to say "wait, really?"
Inside, you'll find:
- The original design God wrote into every tree in Eden - and why it mattered before sin ever entered the story
- What really happened to that design after the Fall - and why healing still works, just not the way it used to
- The real, documented history behind willow bark and the discovery of aspirin
- Pomegranate's four-thousand-year trail through Scripture, ancient economies, and modern cardiology
- Enoch's vision of the guarded Tree of Life - and its startling connection to Revelation's tree "for the healing of the nations"
- Ezekiel's river, a real dying sea, and a lost tree's modern-day resurrection from ancient seed
- How the whole story closes - not with Eden restored, but with something greater promised
Whether you come for the Bible study, the history, or the medicine, God and His Trees will leave you looking at the tree outside your own window a little differently - and looking forward to what's still waiting to be found in the next one.
Book One of an ongoing series. Future volumes will explore olive, fig, cedar, and more - each one a tree God named good, and each one still proving it.
