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An angel shows John, in his vision, the river of life. The river of life is a symbol of eternal life. Jesus used this same image with the Samaritan woman at the well. It pictures eternal life with God and the eternal value of believing in Christ and letting Him quench our eternal thirst. In verse two it talks about the tree of life standing in the middle of the city. The tree of life is just like the tree of life in the Garden of Eden. After Adam and Eve sinned, they could not partake of the tree of life because they were under sin’s control. But in the future, when we arrive at the new Jerusalem, we will be able to partake of the tree of life because there will be no evil or sin anywhere in the new Jerusalem.

Revelation 22:1-2
22 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2 down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.