Post by Yedidyah on Mar 26, 2013 20:27:19 GMT -8
I have been doing some study this Pesach about the fig tree.
Here is the main verse from Mattityahu.
Matthew 21:19
19 Spotting a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. So he said to it, “May you never again bear fruit!” and immediately the fig tree dried up.
We see that the tree was deceiving by looking like it was producing fruit but in reality it was not.
We see more Micah about being under the fig tree.
Micah 4:1-4
4 But in the acharit-hayamim it will come about
that the mountain of Adonai’s house
will be established as the most important mountain.
It will be regarded more highly than the other hills,
and peoples will stream there.
2 Many Gentiles will go and say,
“Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Adonai,
to the house of the God of Ya‘akov!
He will teach us about his ways,
and we will walk in his paths.”
For out of Tziyon will go forth
,
the word of Adonai from Yerushalayim.
3 He will judge between many peoples
and arbitrate for many nations far away.
Then they will hammer their swords into plow-blades
and their spears into pruning-knives;
nations will not raise swords at each other,
and they will no longer learn war.
4 Instead, each person will sit under his vine
and fig tree, with no one to upset him,
for the mouth of Adonai-Tzva’ot
has spoken.
So after the "going up" we see a rest under the fig tree.
We can see in the first time the word “fig” is used in the bible. After they sinned, Adam and Eve covered themselves up with fig leaves in Geneses.
Gen 3:7
7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized that they were naked. So they sewed fig leaves together to make themselves loincloths.
They covered themselves up but had no fruits of obedience.
It is written that we are to be bearing fruits of obedience to the Messiah, the living. We see the tree was shriveled up after being cursed. Lets take a look back to the to see what might be pointed at here.
Numbers 5:11-23
11 Adonai said to Moshe, 12 “Tell the people of Isra’el, ‘If a man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him; 13 that is, if another man goes to bed with her without her husband’s knowledge, so that she becomes impure secretly, and there is no witness against her, and she was not caught in the act; 14 then, if a spirit of jealousy comes over him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she has become impure — or, for that matter, if the spirit of jealousy comes over him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she has not become impure — 15 he is to bring his wife to the cohen, along with the offering for her, two quarts of barley flour on which he has not poured olive oil or put frankincense, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, a grain offering for remembering, for recalling guilt to mind. 16 The cohen will bring her forward and place her before Adonai. 17 The cohen will put holy water in a clay pot, and then the cohen will take some of the dust on the floor of the tabernacle and put it in the water. 18 The cohen will place the woman before Adonai, unbind the woman’s hair and put the grain offering for remembering in her hands, the grain offering for jealousy; while the cohen has in his hand the water of embitterment and cursing. 19 The cohen will make her swear by saying to her, “If no man has gone to bed with you, if you have not gone astray to make yourself unclean while under your husband’s authority, then be free from this water of embitterment and cursing. 20 But if you have in fact gone astray while under your husband’s authority and become unclean, because some man other than your husband has gone to bed with you . . .” 21 then the cohen is to make the woman swear with an oath that includes a curse; the cohen will say to the woman, “. . .may Adonai make you an object of cursing and condemnation among your people by making your private parts shrivel and your abdomen swell up! 22 May this water that causes the curse go into your inner parts and make your abdomen swell and your private parts shrivel up!” — and the woman is to respond, “Amen! Amen!” 23 The cohen is to write these curses on a scroll, wash them off into the water of embitterment
So we see that the women in adultery also shrivels from being unfaithful. Are we not the bride of Messiah.
Lets look again into Mattityahu
Matthew 7:19-24
19 Any "tree" that does not produce good "fruit" is cut down and thrown in the fire! 20 So you will recognize them by their "fruit".
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, only those who do what my Father in heaven wants. 22 On that Day, many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord! Didn’t we prophesy in your name? Didn’t we expel demons in your name? Didn’t we perform many miracles in your name?’ 23 Then I will tell them to their faces, ‘I never knew you! Get away from me, you workers of lawlessness!’
24 “So, everyone who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a sensible man who built his house on bedrock.
Could the fig tree be pointing that in the end times the church is looking busy like it is doing something but the fruit is unfaithful.
It is a deceiver like the fig tree. It says we should know what is good by the fruit and that fruit should not be lawlessness. You don't want to be that group
The fruit we should be looking for is those who hold to the testimony of Yeshua and hold the with respect for it was a gift from the father.
One more verse to think about.
Revelation 12:17
17 The dragon was infuriated over the woman and went off to fight the rest of her children, those who obey God’s commands and bear witness to Yeshua.
It does not say those who dismiss God's commands but those who obey them and bear witness to the testimony of Yeshua.
Both together not at odds against each other.
Let's be the tree that brings life, lets speak words of life over our family not curses. Be the fig tree that produces the best kind of fruit, the fruit that comes from the father.
Bless and Keep,
Yedidyah
Here is the main verse from Mattityahu.
Matthew 21:19
19 Spotting a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. So he said to it, “May you never again bear fruit!” and immediately the fig tree dried up.
We see that the tree was deceiving by looking like it was producing fruit but in reality it was not.
We see more Micah about being under the fig tree.
Micah 4:1-4
4 But in the acharit-hayamim it will come about
that the mountain of Adonai’s house
will be established as the most important mountain.
It will be regarded more highly than the other hills,
and peoples will stream there.
2 Many Gentiles will go and say,
“Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Adonai,
to the house of the God of Ya‘akov!
He will teach us about his ways,
and we will walk in his paths.”
For out of Tziyon will go forth
,the word of Adonai from Yerushalayim.
3 He will judge between many peoples
and arbitrate for many nations far away.
Then they will hammer their swords into plow-blades
and their spears into pruning-knives;
nations will not raise swords at each other,
and they will no longer learn war.
4 Instead, each person will sit under his vine
and fig tree, with no one to upset him,
for the mouth of Adonai-Tzva’ot
has spoken.
So after the "going up" we see a rest under the fig tree.
We can see in the first time the word “fig” is used in the bible. After they sinned, Adam and Eve covered themselves up with fig leaves in Geneses.
Gen 3:7
7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized that they were naked. So they sewed fig leaves together to make themselves loincloths.
They covered themselves up but had no fruits of obedience.
It is written that we are to be bearing fruits of obedience to the Messiah, the living
. We see the tree was shriveled up after being cursed. Lets take a look back to the to see what might be pointed at here.Numbers 5:11-23
11 Adonai said to Moshe, 12 “Tell the people of Isra’el, ‘If a man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him; 13 that is, if another man goes to bed with her without her husband’s knowledge, so that she becomes impure secretly, and there is no witness against her, and she was not caught in the act; 14 then, if a spirit of jealousy comes over him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she has become impure — or, for that matter, if the spirit of jealousy comes over him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she has not become impure — 15 he is to bring his wife to the cohen, along with the offering for her, two quarts of barley flour on which he has not poured olive oil or put frankincense, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, a grain offering for remembering, for recalling guilt to mind. 16 The cohen will bring her forward and place her before Adonai. 17 The cohen will put holy water in a clay pot, and then the cohen will take some of the dust on the floor of the tabernacle and put it in the water. 18 The cohen will place the woman before Adonai, unbind the woman’s hair and put the grain offering for remembering in her hands, the grain offering for jealousy; while the cohen has in his hand the water of embitterment and cursing. 19 The cohen will make her swear by saying to her, “If no man has gone to bed with you, if you have not gone astray to make yourself unclean while under your husband’s authority, then be free from this water of embitterment and cursing. 20 But if you have in fact gone astray while under your husband’s authority and become unclean, because some man other than your husband has gone to bed with you . . .” 21 then the cohen is to make the woman swear with an oath that includes a curse; the cohen will say to the woman, “. . .may Adonai make you an object of cursing and condemnation among your people by making your private parts shrivel and your abdomen swell up! 22 May this water that causes the curse go into your inner parts and make your abdomen swell and your private parts shrivel up!” — and the woman is to respond, “Amen! Amen!” 23 The cohen is to write these curses on a scroll, wash them off into the water of embitterment
So we see that the women in adultery also shrivels from being unfaithful. Are we not the bride of Messiah.
Lets look again into Mattityahu
Matthew 7:19-24
19 Any "tree" that does not produce good "fruit" is cut down and thrown in the fire! 20 So you will recognize them by their "fruit".
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, only those who do what my Father in heaven wants. 22 On that Day, many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord! Didn’t we prophesy in your name? Didn’t we expel demons in your name? Didn’t we perform many miracles in your name?’ 23 Then I will tell them to their faces, ‘I never knew you! Get away from me, you workers of lawlessness!’
24 “So, everyone who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a sensible man who built his house on bedrock.
Could the fig tree be pointing that in the end times the church is looking busy like it is doing something but the fruit is unfaithful.
It is a deceiver like the fig tree. It says we should know what is good by the fruit and that fruit should not be lawlessness. You don't want to be that group
The fruit we should be looking for is those who hold to the testimony of Yeshua and hold the with respect for it was a gift from the father.One more verse to think about.
Revelation 12:17
17 The dragon was infuriated over the woman and went off to fight the rest of her children, those who obey God’s commands and bear witness to Yeshua.
It does not say those who dismiss God's commands but those who obey them and bear witness to the testimony of Yeshua.
Both together not at odds against each other.
Let's be the tree that brings life, lets speak words of life over our family not curses. Be the fig tree that produces the best kind of fruit, the fruit that comes from the father.
Bless and Keep,
Yedidyah
