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What’s going on with this fig tree? Seems kind of weird, Jesus walking up to it when it’s not supposed to be growing figs anyway, cursing it and telling it to never produce fruit again. The next morning the tree is dead from the roots up? Certainly this is an object lesson. There’s a big different between a fig tree’s leaves and its fruit. While it’s possible to eat the leaves, the fruit is really what the hungry look for. Leaves are more for the nourishment of the plant itself. This is symbolism for the passing of an age. In the past, the Jewish people were God’s path for redemption, a people he chose to be set apart. But now they were no longer producing fruit, no longer being the light to the nations as God had hoped. The enterprise is expanding. God is using Jesus to bring life to the law, to be the light to the nations himself.
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What’s going on with this fig tree? Seems kind of weird, Jesus walking up to it when it’s not supposed to be growing figs anyway, cursing it and telling it to never produce fruit again. The next morning the tree is dead from the roots up? Certainly this is an object lesson. There’s a big different between a fig tree’s leaves and its fruit. While it’s possible to eat the leaves, the fruit is really what the hungry look for. Leaves are more for the nourishment of the plant itself. This is symbolism for the passing of an age. In the past, the Jewish people were God’s path for redemption, a people he chose to be set apart. But now they were no longer producing fruit, no longer being the light to the nations as God had hoped. The enterprise is expanding. God is using Jesus to bring life to the law, to be the light to the nations himself.