Hmmmm...

Our priest shared something I found interesting during his Christmas homily; he said that the name Bethlehem means city of bread. Jesus, the Bread of Life, was born in the city of bread. I wonder if people connected any of the dots while He was still walking on Earth. My crazy mind finds little things like this interesting. The use of names and their layers of meaning in the Bible. The Old Testament types and foreshadows fulfilled in the New Testament. Father mentioned the tree in the Garden of Eden and the tree used to make the manger, which leads to the tree used to make His cross. I just love seeing all the ways God points towards what He's going to do from the very beginning. Eve's disobedience brought us under the curse of sin and death, while Mary, the New Eve, through her obedience brings us Jesus to free us from that curse. The tree in the Garden grew fruit that would give the knowledge of good and evil. Knowledge Eve was willing to die for. By contrast the tree on Calvary held the embodiment of all knowledge. The fruit of the first tree brought death; the death of the second tree brought life. Looking at, smelling, or touching the fruit isn't what brought sin into the world; eating it was. Jesus says we must eat His flesh in order to have eternal life. Hmmm....both death and life entered the world on a tree, and to receive either requires the consuming of the fruit of that tree. Coincidence? Am I reading too much into this? Tell me what you think.