Being raised in the church, I never questioned what I was taught about the resurrected bodies given to believers after Judgement.

It was my understanding that it would be a perfect, "unbreakable" body that doesn't suffer injury nor death and doesn't get tired.

(Well, I won't even go into the whole "living in heaven for ever and every" part of that belief system as I have very early on learnt that that isn't Scriptural.)

If so, then what is the purpose of the Tree of Life growing on both sides of the river running east out of the New Jerusalem?

Revelation 22:2 reads: "Through the middle of the broadway of the city; also, on either side of the river was the tree of life with its twelve varieties of fruit, yielding each month its fresh crop; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing and the restoration of the nations."

The leaves are for healing, but if our bodies are perfect and can't get injured then what is the purpose?

Isaiah 65:20-22 says: "There shall no more be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who dies prematurely; for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner who dies when only a hundred years old shall be [thought only a child, cut off because he is] accursed.

They shall build houses and inhabit them, and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.

They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat [the fruit]. For as the days of a tree, so shall be the days of My people, and My chosen and elect shall long make use of and enjoy the work of their hands."

🤔 Hmmm, does this mean that people will still die from old age as even a very old tree has a lifespan, but if someone dies young then they will be considered accursed?

Then it goes on and Isaiah 65:23 says: "They shall not labor in vain or bring forth [children] for sudden terror or calamity; for they shall be the descendants of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them."

So people will still labour, bear children and rest.

This sounds like time gets "reversed" to how it was directly after Adam and Eve were rejected from the Garden as people grew very old, could get hurt, had children, laboured to build houses, etc.

Am I missing something in my thinking and should I include other versus as this doesn't sound like the promise I was sold in church? 😳