Jesus said to the one who overcomes I will give to eat of the tree of life that is in the garden of God. The flaming sword is the fire in the eyes of Jesus, “No one can enter except through me”… “I will be a wall of fire around Zion”…“The kingdom of heaven is within”…“The kingdom of God is not meat nor drink but righteousness peace and joy in the holy spirit.”
12 For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. 13 Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account. Heb 4
The penetration that divides soul and spirit is the opening and the way in to the garden of God, that is why we cannot rightly divide the word of truth until we have been rightly divided by it. The overcomer is the one who has been slain by the word, and no longer seeks his own glory.
1In that day the LORD will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent,
With His fierce and great and mighty sword,
Even Leviathan the twisted serpent;
And He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.
2In that day,
“A vineyard of wine, sing of it!
3“I, the LORD, am its keeper;
I water it every moment.
So that no one will damage it,
I guard it night and day. Isaiah 27
Everything we endure without is to bring us to the entrance within…
The narrow gate, the needles eye, the flaming sword,
The word dividing asunder soul and spirit joints and marrow, so that we can enter through the single eye of a devoted heart…
Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show by his good behavior his deeds in the gentleness of wisdom. 14But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth. 15This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, natural, demonic. 16For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing. 17But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy. 18And the seed whose fruit is righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
That’s a flaming sword right there, imo.
Prv 11: 30The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life,
And he who is wise wins souls.
Pslm 1
1How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,
Nor stand in the path of sinners,
Nor sit in the seat of scoffers!
2But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
3He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water,
Which yields its fruit in its season
And its leaf does not wither;
And in whatever he does, he prospers.