Claim. The tongues of fire that descended on the saints at Pentecost (Acts 2) were the typological removal of the cherubim’s flaming sword that had guarded the path to the tree of life since Adam’s fall (Gen 3:24). Pentecost opened the way for all humanity to approach Jesus as the tree of life and be engrafted with him.
Elaboration. Per 1.1.1. The Tree of Life: “Ever since God blocked Adam’s path to the tree of life by guarding it with the flaming sword, the tree could not be approached without first clearing the path. On the day of Pentecost, tongues of fire descended upon the saints, and they were filled with the Holy Spirit. This event marked the clearing of the path and the moving aside of the flaming sword, which appeared as the tongues of fire preceding the rush of the Holy Spirit.”
The typological move is symmetric: cherubim’s flaming sword (Gen) ↔ tongues of fire (Acts). Same fire-element, inverted function: blocking-the-tree vs unlocking-the-tree. Pentecost is read not primarily as empowerment-for-mission (the conventional reading) but as soteric: it is the moment the saints become approachable-to-Jesus-as-tree-of-life.
This atomic ties Genesis to Acts through DP’s typological grammar and provides the holy-spirit’s structural role in the providence of restoration: the clearing-agent for Christological engraftment.
See also. dp-jesus-as-last-adam-and-tree-of-life-second-coming