May No One Ever Eat Fruit From You Again
"No one is going to eat fruit from y'all again—ever!" ~Jesus
14 Mon May 2018
Why in the world would Jesus curse the fig tree?
What was He up to?
This happened during the week before His crucifixion. Jesus had entered Jerusalem a day earlier amidst the praise and worship of the Jewish people who were looking to Him as the Rex/Messiah who was going to deliver them from Roman occupation (Matthew 21:1-xi; Mark 11:i-xi).
The next day, Jesus is over again on His way to Jerusalem from where He was staying in Bethany. On His way, both Matthew and Mark record that He was hungry and saw a fig tree in the distance that had leaves on it (Mark 11:thirteen). Upon coming to the tree expecting to find something to eat, Jesus instead discovered that the fig tree had no fruit on it and cursed the tree saying, "May no fruit always come from you again!" (Matthew 21:19; Mark 11:14).
As they left Bethany the next solar day, he was hungry. Off in the distance he saw a fig tree in full leafage. He came up to it expecting to find something for breakfast, but found goose egg merely fig leaves. (It wasn't however the season for figs.) He addressed the tree: "No one is going to eat fruit from you again—e'er!" And his disciples overheard him. | Marking 11:12-xiv
Upon seeing the tree "withered from the roots upwardly," the disciples were amazed, as that would take usually taken several weeks.
Why did Jesus curse the fig tree if information technology was non the right season for figs? The fruit of the fig tree generally appears earlier the leaves, and, because the fruit is light-green information technology blends in with the leaves right up until information technology is about ripe. When Jesus and His disciples saw from a altitude that the tree had leaves, they would have expected it to also have fruit on it even though it was earlier in the season than what would exist normal for a fig tree to be bearing fruit. As well, each tree would often produce 2 to three crops of figs each flavor. In that location would be an early crop in the spring followed past one or two later crops. In some parts of Israel, depending on climate and conditions, it was likewise possible that a tree might produce fruit x out of twelve months. This besides explains why Jesus and His disciples would be looking for fruit on the fig tree even if it was not in the main growing flavor. The fact that the tree already had leaves on information technology even though it was at a college superlative around Jerusalem, and therefore would have been outside the normal flavour for figs, would have seemed to be a proficient indication that in that location would also be fruit on information technology.
A fig tree is often used symbolically to represent Israel in the Scriptures . Showtime of all, chronologically, Jesus had just arrived at Jerusalem amid great fanfare and great expectations, just and then proceeds to cleanse the Temple and expletive the barren fig tree. Both had significance as to the spiritual condition of Israel. With His cleansing of the Temple and His criticism of the worship that was going on at that place (Matthew 21:13; Mark eleven:17), Jesus was effectively denouncing State of israel's worship of God. With the cursing of the fig tree, He was symbolically denouncing Israel equally a nation and, in a sense, even denouncing unfruitful "Christians" (that is, people who profess to be a disciple of Jesus but have no evidence of a relationship with the Messiah).
The presence of a fruitful fig tree was considered to be a symbol of approval and prosperity for the nation of State of israel. Besides, the absenteeism or death of a fig tree would symbolize judgment and rejection. Symbolically, the fig tree represented the spiritual deadness of Israel, who while very religious outwardly with all the sacrifices and ceremonies, were spiritually barren because of their sins. By cleansing the Temple and blasphemous the fig tree, causing it to whither and dice, Jesus was pronouncing His coming judgment of Israel and demonstrating His power to carry it out. It also teaches the principle that religious profession and observance are not enough to guarantee salvation, unless at that place is the fruit of genuine conservancy evidenced in the life of the person.
James would afterward echo this truth when he wrote that "faith without works is dead" (James 2:26). The lesson of the fig tree is that we should deport spiritual fruit (Galatians 5:22-23), not simply requite an advent of religiosity. God judges fruitlessness, and expects that those who have a relationship with Him will "bear much fruit" (John xv:5-8).
Source: https://quotesthoughtsrandom.wordpress.com/2018/05/14/no-one-is-going-to-eat-fruit-from-you-again-ever-jesus/
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