🌲CEDAR TREE ▶ is one of the most strikingly beautiful and appropriate to be found in the inspired word. 🌲The cedar of Lebanon was honored by all the people of the East. 🔴The class of trees to which it belongs is found wherever man has gone throughout the earth. 🔴From the arctic regions to the tropic zone they flourish, rejoicing in the heat, yet braving the cold; springing in rich luxuriance by the riverside, yet towering aloft upon the parched and thirsty waste. 🔴They plant their roots deep among the rocks of the mountains and boldly stand in defiance of the tempest. 🔴Their leaves are fresh and green when all else has perished at the breath of winter. 🔴Above all other trees the cedar of Lebanon is distinguished for its strength, its firmness, its undecaying vigor; and this is used as a symbol of those whose life is “hid with Christ in God.” 🔴Colossians 3:3. Says the Scripture, “The righteous ... shall grow like a cedar.” Psalm 92:12. 🔴The divine hand has exalted the cedar as king over the forest. 🔴“The fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches” (Ezekiel 31:8); nor any tree in the garden of God. 🌲The cedar is repeatedly employed as an emblem of royalty, and its use in Scripture to represent the righteous shows how heaven regards those who do the will of God. { Patriarchs and Prophets 450.1
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