Dry Tree

THIS IS WHAT I BELIEVE

We are studying Isaiah in Sunday school.  I studied the wrong lesson and came across the following verse in the 56 book of Isaiah. 

“Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.” Isaiah 56:3

When I read that I was most interested in what is meant by “dry tree” I read five or six versions of the bible online and found that dry tree meant being unable to have children. 

The verse in the New and Living Translation of the Bible explains dry tree completely.

 “Don’t let foreigners who commit themselves to the LORD say, ‘The LORD will never let me be part of his people.’ And don’t let the eunuchs say, ‘I’m a dried-up tree with no children and no future.’ ”

It is obvious that the eunuch is unable to produce children.  Having no children, there would be no one to take care of them in their old age, which would have an impact on them in their old age.  Now take that a little further.  The eunuch is a man that was born sterile or who has surgically made sterile. He can have no children. There are many couples that are unable to have children.  There are also many men and women for some reason or other chose not to get married.  What this is really saying is that a man or woman who cannot produce children who received all of the temple ordinances in this life will be able to have children in the Millennium.  

In connection with this, we find in the book of Malachi it says that after a burning there will be, “neither root nor branch”. The roots are the progenitors and branches are the children

I believe those righteous people that are unable to have children in this life, will be able to have children in the Millennium.