The Vine is a Tree (Ezek. 15)

In this minute chapter in Ezekiel (the shortest in the book), we learn a great truth: the vine is not just a plant, but an actual tree.  Note vv. 2 and 6, where the vine is explicitly called a tree.  Other cross references to support this are Num. 6:4 and Judg. 9:12-13.  So what?  Well, maybe the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was the vine tree.  Tradition says that Adam and his wife ate an apple, but what is the scriptural support for that?  Think about this: Noah was naked when he sinned, and his sin had to do with grapes (Gen. 9:20-21).  Also, he was a progenitor of the human race like Adam was: both men were told to "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth..." (Gen. 1:28; 9:1). Since Noah was told this after the flood, and Adam seems to be his antitype, maybe there was a flood before Adam too (Gen. 1:2; 2 Peter 3:5-6)...?  One reason that "the gap" is so important is that it shows why God had to recreate the heavens and earth in Gen. 1:3-31 (cf. Gen. 2:1): Lucifer ruled the original earth (the one created in Gen. 1:1 and which no one but God and perhaps the angels know the exact age of; cf. Job 38:6-7), and when he rebelled against God, the Lord destroyed the original earth with a flood and started over with Adam, a picture of what he would do with Noah.  The earth was full of wickedness and rebellion before Noah's flood, so we may safely assume that something like that precipitated the flood of Gen. 1:2 and 2 Peter 3:5-6.  Amazing what a tiny chapter in Ezekiel sheds light on, amen?  "Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men..." (1 Cor. 1:25a)