Bible Study A Fig Tree Cursed - No Warning For This Generation

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A Fig Tree Cursed - No Warning For This Generation

When Jesus Christ cursed the fig tree, and later it withered and died, Jesus was not only conveying a judgment against Israel but he was also indicating that there will no warning.

Look at Matthew 24:32-36 where Jesus uses a fig tree as an example of an early warning where the seasons of fruit growth reveal God's readiness to act. But now look at Mark 11:12-20 where Jesus curses the fig tree and then goes to the Temple to throw out all the money changers -”And as he taught them, he said,“Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’Mark 11:17” Then afterward everyone notices that the fig tree has withered.

Notice that Jesus cursed a fig tree that had no fruit because it was out of season. He then goes to the Temple to throw out all the money changers. The meaning of it all is that Israel will no longer be used by God to convey any future warnings of his judgment. When God, as Jesus Christ, cursed the fig tree God was conveying the reality that Israel lost its right of being judged by God that included a warning or possible plea for mercy!

It is clear that when a nation turns away from God and no longer practices the traditional religious events that occur at certain seasons of the year like Passover/Easter – Day of Atonement/Christmas (hint: the fruit of the fig tree) then God will curse the fig tree as an early warning of God's impending Judgments. As more people shun the Judeo-Christian religion God will remove all his early warning signals (hint: as depicted as a blooming fig tree) by having the fig tree wither and die.

Believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, God's son, and then go to church regularly and God will never let you be caught unaware when God's judgment comes to all the wicked!

God Bless

Matthew 24:32-36 New International Version (NIV)
32“Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near.33Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door.34Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.35Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

The Day and Hour Unknown
36“But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

Mark 11:12-20 New International Version (NIV)
Jesus Curses a Fig Tree and Clears the Temple Courts
12The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry.13Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs.14Then he said to the tree, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard him say it.

15On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves,16and would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts.17And as he taught them, he said,“Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”

18The chief priests and the teachers of the law heard this and began looking for a way to kill him, for they feared him, because the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching.

19When evening came, Jesus and his disciples went out of the city.

20In the morning, as they went along, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots.

 

[th1b.taylor]

A good article but for one thing, God has never established any religion and He does not love religion, God loves people, the people He created and them Fellowshipped with on a daily basis (Gen. 1-3). And when Jesus explains to us that He has come to restore what was lost, what was lost is explained in these three small chapters. God/Jesus even went to the trouble to explain to us though Paul about the traditions of men, a.k.a. religion or being religious about anything (2Tim. 4:2-4) separates man from God.

I worship, most of the time, with my Baptist brethren and one or two of them are just like me, the rest of them are practicing Baptists. When I was still on stage there was a joint called Porky's where i loved to play. The girls there were friendly and the people were all county. But, I went out to breakfast with Baptist women aws much as with known sinners.

Being a Christian means walking with Jesus or fellowshiping with God on a moment by moment basis, just as much as anyone can. Baptists, Catholics and all other Religious People have rules that they can break and still be religious, IT IS NOT SO WITH A CHRISTIAN.

Yes I know people that call themselves Christian instead of some Doctrinal Name that sin just like the World full of Lost People do. I also know that Jesus instructed us that many are called but few are chosen. Incluse with that the truth that the gate to Heaven is narrow and few be they that find it and the teaching where people tell Him, LORD, LORD, I did this and I did that for you and He tells them to be gone for He never knew them.

Then consider all the Religious Christians that are considered the Church Faithful because they attend Services no less than three times a week and look at this in the light of the Mid-Eighties American Church Survey of nothing but the Faithful and they did it double blind so even their Pastors knew not who answered what so as to get as honest as possible answers.

When the survey was completed, across the nation, and the results were tallied, less than two percent belived the basic tennants of the Christian faith. These were very basic, such as the Virgin Birth, Jesus returning for His Church and Jesus dying to pay the Sin Debt we owe, very basic. Now you know my issue with your presentation here.

May God bless His knowledge to your heart. Amen!

 

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When God sent His message out to the seven churches in Revelation He gave them all warning of those things they were lacking in instruction as being a true body of Christ. Matthew 24 gives us an outline of those warnings of God as when we see them even now in this generation on a greater scale. God always warns before His judgements to those who have Spiritual ears to hear what He is speaking.

Israel (the people, not the land)lost her right to be called Gods chosen people as they fell into idolatry worshipping other gods as they allowed themselves to fall from Gods grace as they followed the lust of their own hearts, 1Kings 9:1-9. God’s judgment against them led them to be taken captive around 605 – 537 B.C. by Nebuchadnezzar into Babylon for seventy years while Nebuchadnezzar’s army killed many Jews in Judah and Jerusalem destroying the whole city of Jerusalem including the first Temple that was built through King Solomon’s reign in Jerusalem.

The second Temple was built under Ezra’s leadership and then Israel started practicing Judaism and their Temple was desecrated as part of an effort to impose Greek-oriented culture and customs on the entire population. Roman rule refurbished the temple as Herod, Romans vassal king, rules the land of Israel. In 70 A.D. the Temple is once again destroyed. The Temple Mount was taken over in 691 A.D. as the Arab nation built the Dome of the Rock and there has not been any other Temple built since that time on the original Temple Mount.

During this seventy year exile God gave Israel 490 years to repent. They were set free from Babylon when the Medes and Persian conquered Babylon (Chaldeans) around 538 B.C. They were allowed back in the land and to rebuild the city of Jerusalem, however, they still did not repent for their sin of idol worshipping and they continued to receive punishment from God as the kingdom was taken away and eventually taken over by the Roman Empire.

The 490 years were up and the Jews not only did not repent but they killed the very Messiah they had been waiting for as well as in 24 A.D. they made an opened display of rejecting the Gospel message as they stoned Stephen being the final messenger that was sent to give them their last chance to repent. The Jews were now rejected as God’s chosen people and were no different from the Gentiles as from that time forth each individual, Jew and Gentile has to make their own decision to accept or reject Jesus as Lord and Savior, John 3:3-7; Romans 10:9, 10. The disciples were called first to preach to the Jews, Matthew 10:6, and Paul was called to preach to the Gentiles, Acts 22:21. God has saved a remnant out of the twelve tribes of Israel even up to a thousand generations that have always been faithful to Him, Exodus 20:1-6; Psalms 105:7, 8, but those who have yet to accept Jesus as Messiah God will continue to cut them off.

2Peter 2:9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
2Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.