"Nahum 2 provides information about the eventual destruction of the Antichrist: [3] The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
"It's easy to pass right over that, but go to Ezekiel 31, which provides a real description about the issue of these trees. Satan, in Scripture, is called a fir tree. Book of Zechariah.
"There is clearly a parallel between what happened with Satan in eternity past and his plan of rebellion against almighty God and what happened in Eden," explains Alex Kurz.
"Remember in Ezekiel 31 it talks about how he was in Eden, and it talks about the rivers and how he is a proud, haughty tree, mightier, stronger and higher and more beautiful than all the other trees.
"Interesting, that's why the Lord uses that type of analogy. Satan is, spiritually speaking, a mighty tree that stood out.
"What the tree in Eden represents and testifies to is this greater tree that is out there. When God put in that garden the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, He was educating Adam and the generations thereafter regarding the prevailing evil that exists in the universe.
"This rebellion has already occurred. Lucifer, the anointed cherub, he WAS in Eden. Not this Eden in the Book of Genesis, but an area out there in the heaven that is also called Eden. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is a testimony to that other tree and there are tremendous similarities.
"The most obvious similarity is when Eve saw that the tree was pleasant to look at. Satan was the sum of all wisdom and perfect in beauty. Ezekiel 31 says all the other trees envied him and that's how he was able to sell his plan of rebellion to the other angels.
"It's not coincidental that the most popular Christmas trees are fir trees. That's why God said to Jeremiah, 'Don't do what all those heathen are doing. Why are you doing that to the trees?'
"Guess what God's going to do when He talks to Nebuchadnezzar. He calls him a tree!"
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