Noah’s Tree Of Life/Man’s historical Journey of IDOLATRY

The mirror trial of the Prophet
It was late at night when I woke up and could not sleep anymore. I went downstairs to Enosh’s room but he was not there. I searched the house and found him sitting by a large mirror, starring at his own image. “Grandpa, are you all right?” I asked. He waved at me with his finger, whispering: “Come, can you see ELoHiM in the mirror?”
I startled. I knew that Enosh, as a prophet, could see things that no one else saw. So I looked into the mirror at length. “No grandpa,” I finally said, “Where is He?”
“Behind your image!” he said. So I moved my head back and forth, but all I saw was the my own image starring at me back.
“Do you see Him?”
“No, grandpa, I can’t, my image interferes.”
“But He is there, behind your image and mine!”
What was he trying to tell me? I would have thought that he was kidding me, but I saw tears in his eyes.
“How sad it is, Noah, that our self image interferes with His Image,” he said.
“What do you mean, grandpa?”
He wiped his tears. “When ELoHiM created Adam,” he said softly, “He set by a mirror and saw His Image and Form in it. He liked it, so He made us accordingly, saying ‘Let us make and Adam in our form and our image.’ Ever since then, He sits on His side of the mirror, and we are on our side of it. The mirror separated us. So whenever we attempt to see Him, all we see is our own image being reflected at us from the mirror. We fool ourselves. We think that we see Him, but all we can ever see is our own reflection in the mirror…
“I often wake up at night, seeing visions and hearing voices in my head. And they are so bright, so meaningful, and I am thrilled. I thank Him for revealing His visions and words to me. So excited I become that I decide to let the whole world know what I have just seen and heard. I would change humanity; I would change the course of history. And as I plan my words what to say, I suddenly remember the mirror, and I tremble. Were these visions and words His, or mine? Did I see and hear His message, or my own being reflected back at me from the mirror? And I can’t decide. Noah, it is painful; confusing and agonizing. It is the toughest trial any person can endure…”
“Could anyone see the CREATOR on the other side of the mirror?” I asked.
“Only a modest person with no ‘self image’ could accomplish that. He must have no personal agenda and no trace of selfishness in his bones to be able to peek into the other side of the mirror without interference. Certainly I am not such a person,” he said in tears.

Chapter 11
MAN’S JOURNEY OF IDOLATRY

“Grandpa, what did you see tonight that woke you up?”
“A false vision, an unbelievable clear view of the future. The mirror must have been fooling me.”
“What did you see, grandpa? Would you share it with me?”
“Well, I’ll tell you about it, provided you wouldn’t take it seriously. You know how dreams distort our reality…
“In my dream, I saw a huge Flood coming, millions time bigger than the one we’ve just been through. The ice of the northern ocean was melting, the sea level was rising, endless rain was pouring…Mankind perishing…apart from one family, of a person who was born circumcised…you. Yes, I saw you standing alive with your family, like a new Adam…”
“What else did you see?”
“I told you, it was just a fake dream. I saw humanity recovering from the Flood, with no memory of Adam’s teaching. How sad! Yet they would still seek the CREATOR, but they would have forgotten His Names. They would seek the CREATOR passionately, since Mankind is built as a nest longing to receive YHVH in it. They would seek the BRIDE to enter their thirsty heart, but fake birds and fake brides would grab the chance and occupy our mind and charm our hearts. So I asked, still dreaming, who are these false birds and brides? Who would entice Mankind so much to violate IDOLATRY? And a voice said: these false brides have already been set up by the CREATOR! So I asked: Where? And the voice said: On Adam’s Tree of Life!
“Then, Noah in one short glance I witnessed the entire journey of Mankind for many, many generations. In a flick of an eye I saw entire civilizations rising and falling, revolving around one issue: IDOLATRY…
“In my dream I saw Man on Earth, living on the Sixth Day, having been driven out of Eden. He still hears the CREATOR calling him, like in Eden: ‘Adam, where are you? Come to me! (Genesis 3: 9) Man looks around and search for the CREATOR. Back in Eden, Adam hide in the bush, but now on Earth it is the CREATOR who hides from Mankind in Nature…
“So at first Man would seek the CREATOR in things that had been created close to him on the SIXTH Day. He would seek the CREATOR in Crawling Creatures, Beasts and Cattle. His heart is longing to see the BRIDE and invite Her into this heart. Instead all he sees are these creatures that seem to him so magnificent, powerful and charming that Man would worship them instead of the true CREATOR. Man would worship Holy Dragons, Holy Flies, Holy Beasts and Holy Cows…Entire civilizations would rise and fall around these false faiths. But Man would soon progress and discover that all these idols were fake brides…
“Still hearing the CREATOR calling him, ‘Adam where are you?’ Man would now seek Him deeper in Nature, in things created on the FIFTH Day: Crocodiles, Birds and Fish. Again, his heart would long for them. These creatures would seem to him at that stage so magnificent and powerful, that Man would worship them instead of the true CREATOR! In a glance I foresaw a whole set of new civilizations and cultures rising and falling around these false idols. But Man would progress and discover their fallacy and would understand that they are not his CREATOR.

Editor: The philistines worshipped ‘flies.’ The ancient Greeks worshipped dragons. The Egyptians worshipped, besides holy cows, also holy Crocodiles, Birds and Fish. They depicted the heads of their idols as heads of these creatures.