the Jews” (Matt. 27:37). The defeat of Adam and Eve is the victory of God; the Serpent’s sting is Christ’s great victory. The tree shaped like a cross is the fulcrum of God summing up all things in heaven and on earth. It is positioned vertically, and Jesus’s hands stretch out horizontally, harmonizing north, south, east, and west through Jesus’s disfigured body.6 The tree is, as Revelation portrays it, healing for the nations. The tree in the Scriptures thus becomes representative of the concept