Jesus having demonstrated both His authority and His compassion, now shows His control of creation for a distinct purpose. With His disciples in His presence, He curses a fig tree and it withers immediately.

Dr. Mitchell gives us an understanding of these words spoken by our Savior concerning the meaning of this fig tree and Israel.

The disciples were astonished and wondered why the fig tree withered so quickly.

Jesus gives His disciples a lesson about faith and prayer.

Dr.Mitchell once agains warns against the unbelief of the heart. To have faith and not doubt endues the disciple with the power of God to do God's will in his generation.

Our Lord Jesus even now prays for our faith in Him that it fail not, just as He spoke to Peter in Luke 22.

Here is Dr. Mitchell on the Unchanging Word Bible Broadcast, Matthew 21:17.