Andy Walton – Class 1: The Fig Tree – The Fruit

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Right?
So this subject is a already

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said is to start the Fig Tree
assigned for all time.

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And the reason that our thought
I would do it today is because I

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only did it last Saturday at a
youth weekend for lapworth with

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about 80 children.
When I say yeah, there were

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children their age 13 to 17 and
because it was on my mind, I

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thought, maybe it’s a good time,
you know, to do it for others,

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as well as the young people that
were there last Saturday.

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There were three talks that I
did on Saturday for them.

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The first one was called the
fruit.

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The second one was called the
tree and the third talk was

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called the future.
But tonight you’ll be glad to

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know.
It’s only one talk and we just

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going to look at the first talk
that I gave on Saturday, which

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is the fruit.
And I thought I’d just start off

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by saying how this talk actually
came about.

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To start with because well, I
just found it a little bit

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interesting.
But what happened was last

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November we were down in
Cornwall.

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It was my birthday on the day
that we got down there and it

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happened to be the day that I
caught covid.

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So we’d only been there, what 24
hours Huntley and then we have

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to head all the way back up,
from Cornwall back here with the

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windows wide open.
So and you didn’t catch it.

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And then, of course, Angie
ensured that I was in

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quarantine, then for like days
and days and days with the door

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shut.
I mean, the spare room upstairs,

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and I guess for the first few
days, all I did was, okay, slept

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or watched a bit of Netflix.
And then after a couple of days,

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I thought to myself, this is a
complete waste of my life and

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time.
I’m starting to feel a little

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bit better, but I’m still not
allowed outside the bedroom.

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So I thought, what can I do?
That’s a More productive than

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just lying in bed, feeling sorry
for myself.

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And for some reason, I thought I
would maybe look at the Bible

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and maybe I don’t often get time
just to stop and think so I

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started praying to God because I
didn’t know what to do with John

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and I was sleeping and praying
and thinking and getting my

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computer out.
And then in the end of thought,

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I know, I’m going to look at the
parable of the fig tree that

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Jesus told in Luke and the nose.
Just about to start looking at

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that Parable.
When I thought to myself well I

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remember hearing a long time
ago.

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The best way of studying any
subject is to go back to the

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first time that something is
mentioned.

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And so I went back to looking at
figs and fig trees right the way

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through the Bible and ended up
of course in in Genesis and I

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would think I must have spent at
least 100 hours on on this.

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My, the bed was covered in paper
and the computer was Notes and I

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was finding out stuff that I
never knew before about the Fig

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Tree, I’ve read and read and
read and read stuff about the

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Fig Tree and looked at the Bible
and eventually then I thought

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I’ll put it all into slides and
so I created 128 PowerPoint

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slides on the back of that or
while I’m still weak covid.

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And then I went back to work and
forgot about it and then about

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three or four weeks after that,
Mark Bateman phone me up from

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that work.
Earth and said, and either you

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want to do a youth weekend for
us, because your names come up

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and I said, yeah, and I thought,
I said, I’ve got four different

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subjects, take your pick.
And I wondered if you pick the

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Fig Tree and lo and behold,
that’s the one they picked.

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So I thought, well, you know,
that’s good.

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We’ll give it its first outing
at the, the youth weekend, which

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I did on Saturday.
So that’s the sort of history as

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to why this wire put it
together, really?

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And I suppose, the lift the
lesson for my You is the answer

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very horrible times because I
didn’t covid-19 pretty nasty for

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myself and others have had it a
lot worse and I had it, you

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know, good things can come out
of it because I’m telling you

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this.
Now if I didn’t have had, if I

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hadn’t have had covid, I would
never ever have done this talk

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or at least, I can’t think I
would have done it because I

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wouldn’t have had the time.
So with that, little bit of

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background, let’s open the
curtains and Let’s crack on with

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this talk, which is all about
the fruit.

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So, the first thing that was
sort of really interesting to me

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was that when you’re actually
looked at the Bible, and, of

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course, right, the way through
creation, and through the

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establishment of the kingdom and
the Jews, coming back into

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Israel.
And then into the New Testament,

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with the gospels, and the
establishment of the of the

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church, and the meetings,
Ecclesia.

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And in fact, right the way
through into Revelation, what I

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found was the Fig Tree was just
everywhere and those are all the

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books in the Bible, where fix
and fig trees and mentions

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Genesis.
To Deuteronomy judges Psalms

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Kings proverb Song of Solomon,
Isaiah Jeremiah Hozier, Amos

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Mike and Nahum habakkuk haggai
Zechariah, Matthew Mark, Luke,

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John James and revelation.
So you think that is and you

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know, it’s an incredible number.
In fact, as it turns out the Fig

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Tree and the Fig and mention
more than any other tree in the

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Bible, by a considerable margin
around about 200 times, the Fig

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Tree and fix a mentioned.
The Olive Tree is mentioned,

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only a fraction of times and I
thought Olive would have come

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out number one by, you know, a
long way but it doesn’t either

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Tree way, way out in front.
So that was sort of quite

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interesting that that was the
case.

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And so the three talks, one was
effectively looking at the fruit

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based on Genesis.
The second talk was based on the

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tree, which is looking at the
Kingdom of Israel.

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And the third talk was basically
looking at all the references to

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the Fig Tree in the gospels.
And also, the reference is to

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the Future.
Because as it turns out the fig

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tree, Effectively covers the
whole plan and purpose of God in

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a lot of detail.
So this is say tonight, we just

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going to be considering the
fruit.

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Now, one of the things I when I
started reading up about the Fig

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Tree, one of the things that
came out that was really

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surprising to me was that it is
a completely unique Tree.

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In fact, if you got all the
fruit trees in the world and

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there’s many, many different
varieties of fruit trees, the

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Fig Tree would be on its own as
a unique.

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Tree versus every single other
tree that is that’s on planet

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Earth from Adafruit point of
view.

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And in fact, if you later on,
get the time, go onto Google and

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type in this phrase what makes a
fig tree unique and you’ll find

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the answer comes up.
This is still the number one

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answer that comes up when you
type it into Google.

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It says fig trees have no
Blossom on their branches, the

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blossom.
Is inside the fruit, and this

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makes the Fig Tree completely
unique because every single of

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the fruit tree has blossoms on
the branches and from the

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blossoms, come the fruit.
And so I thought, well, that’s

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pretty interesting that all of
the fruit trees operate in a

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particular way apart from the
Fig Tree.

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And then I started swatting up
about fruit and it says that

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fruit is an edible and usually
sweet product of the plant or

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tree that can st.
Contains seeds when the flower

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is pollinated, the ovary begins
to grow and it becomes the

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fruit.
So, I thought, well, wait a

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minute, this is Aunt.
Then because if all the fruit

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trees have got a flower and the
flower and the ovary becomes,

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the fruit wasn’t Earth is
happening with the Fig Tree and

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why is it different and and
what’s going on.

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And clearly it’s an important
tree from a Biblical point of

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view because it’s mentioned all
the time more than any other

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tree.
So, Yeah, so here we are.

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Here’s here’s some figs.
I don’t know if you when you

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last day to Fig, I haven’t
eaten.

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In fact, a tried to buy the
kids, a fig each but you try

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getting hold of a fresh fig at
the minute.

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It is absolutely not an
impossible unless you unless you

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want to spend a huge amount of
money so I gave them all a fig

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roll instead, which were 45 p 4
monsters, which saved a lot of

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money.
But anyway, so as I’ve said, the

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Fig Tree is unique.
No blossoms on the branches.

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So I then said to myself well
there must be some flowers

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somewhere because surely there’s
got to be some seeds, has got to

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be some flowers, something
stocks be pollinated and it

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turns out of course that the
flowers are on the inside of the

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fruit itself.
This is again, completely

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unique.
So there are flowers but they’re

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hidden inside the Fig.
So then I thought to myself,

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well, that’s sort of quite
interesting.

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But how on Earth do flowers on
the inside of the fruit get

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pollinated because I can
understand a bee or something

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like that.
Pollinating a flower that you

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can see, but what, and how would
these little flowers get

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pollinated?
When they’re wrapped tightly

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inside, the fruit, does things
have to be pollinated if you if

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they ain’t got seeds, then the
That tree becomes extinct very,

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very quickly.
So I’m going to show you a

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couple of videos now and when
you’re listening to these

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videos, hopefully, you can hear
it really think about the

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language that they’re using in
the videos, but this is about to

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show you exactly how the Fig
gets pollinated.

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Now, why isn’t that playing?
Sorry about this.

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Sure.
Pens on a bizarre creature, it

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depends on a bizarre creature
that you might have never even

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heard of the Fig wasp.
This miniscule.

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Insect is just around two
millimeters long, the Wasps life

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cycle is deeply intertwined with
the Fig.

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She knows that the only way to
get into the fruit is through a

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tiny hole on the bottom.
She has to sacrifice her wings

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in order to get through the
tight nozzle, but she won’t mind

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as she knows that she’ll never
fly again.

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Once inside the Strangler fig
shuts the entrance to its fruit.

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Thus the Final Act of the Wasps
life is to lay her eggs in the

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cavity after that, She will die
in there.

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Over time, the flowers and the
WASP eggs, develop and the Fig

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transforms into a mature fruit
from there you are.

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That’s the first video I have a
look at this next video and so

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the pollinated wasp reaches an
immature fig but her journey is

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far from.
Over ahead lies the greatest

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challenge of her brief life
clawing and squeezing her way

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through the gate, her wings and
antennae are ripped from her.

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To make the ultimate sacrifice
as the final push to enter burst

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her abdomen.
In an epic struggle, between

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sacrifice and survival.
The mother wasp crawls through

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the narrow Labyrinth towards the
inner chamber.

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She is wounded and week airing
only her eggs and the pollen

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gift from the former fake.
If the WASP fails to pollinate

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the flowers, No Seeds will ever
develop big fruits with no

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future are costly to the tree.
So they will not receive an

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inflow of nutrient.
If the WASP does not pollinate

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the entire fake may be aborted.
However, if she devotes herself

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to Pollination as well as laying
eggs, she ensures the Fig will

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hold the promise of seeds.
The tree will pump sugars and

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nutrients into the Fig, securing
the future of seeds and larvae.

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Like, when they mature and
leave, the Fig will ripen thus

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completing the cycle of mutual
benefit and just one more little

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B, the OWN The Fig is not a
fruit but a hollow Garden of

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Flowers.
A female fig wasp has laid her

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eggs and pollinated the flowers
which have now reached maturity.

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The Fig is a nursery.
It is cared for the future wasp

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by protecting them within its
Gap.

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So just to put it into
perspective, by the way, the

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female that you can see there.
The female fig was is no more

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than 2 millimeters long so it’s
not like the WASP that you’d see

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flying around in your And, but
when I actually played this

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video, already the kids that
latched onto something, I don’t

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know whether you’ve latched onto
this, but when it talks about a

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wasp dying inside the Fig,
that’s exactly what happens.

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And so, effectively, and we’ll
get on to this a bit later in.

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Almost all of the fix that you
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but it completely is decomposed.
Cuz the fruit itself, pump some

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feikin into the WASP which
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So you’re not crunching on a
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that the kids instantly picked
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But here’s the, here’s the
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So I watch those videos, many
many, many times and was

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thinking about it and dreaming
about it in my covid state and

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it’s suddenly what I did then
was write down all the key

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phrase.
Is that came out of those videos

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that I’ve given you edited
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And here’s the key phrases that
you will have heard in those few

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videos.
First of all, it talks about the

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Fig being like an enclosed
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into this Garden.
There was talk about the alter.

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The phrase was used the ultimate
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You heard that as the wings were
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wasp and it as it makes its way
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It’s no way out because the the
door is closed, effectively the

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figs or automatically seals
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When a fig wasp has gone in the
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it’s going to die inside you.
You have heard the words if

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you’re listening carefully,
Either the Fig wasp was wounded

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and week.
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that the Fig wasp is devoted to
pollination you would have also

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heard these words as well.
The promise of seeds.

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So basically the Fig wasp is all
about providing the promise of

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future seed and the last thing
that you’ll have heard is that

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the future of the Fig, Is
secured of put of the Fig in

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Brackets there but the future is
secured or the future of the

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figures secured because of the
work of this tiny minuscule

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little fig wasp so I was like
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Thinking to myself this is these
are quite amazing little phrases

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that none of these are by the
way or anything silly, Christian

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videos.
Nothing what’s over there?

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Just fig wasp videos that on all
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And I said to the children at
the youth weekend, I said, does

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this ring any bells with any of
you that if we weren’t thinking

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about figs and fig wasps
necessarily does do these words

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on the right hand side, take you
two anywhere at all in the Bible

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and about half a dozen hands.
Go up.

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And they said it sounds a bit.
Like the Garden of Eden with a,

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an enclosed garden and, and sort
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where my mind went so my mind
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In fact, the word Garden in
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enclosed.
And the phrase that was in the

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video was a fig is like an
enclosed Garden.

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So, here we are in the Garden of
Eden that God made at the

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beginning.
And what we’re going to discover

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is that all of those things that
we’ve just been talking about

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all of those key phrases in
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Every last one of them are there
in Genesis chapter 3.

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The Andy kindly read.
The first seven verses for us.

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Now, one of the key things that
we know, of course, in the

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Garden of Eden is that and this
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story, of course, is that there
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and Evil that was in the center
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And what we’ve just been reading
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basically what happened.
Reference, the serpent, the

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woman and atom in relation to
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So what we have read and I’ll
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know we know them so so well,
but in Genesis 3:1-5 bearing in

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mind, we’re in an enclosed
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looking for those other key
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It says, now the serpent was
more subtle than any beast of

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the field, which the Lord God
had made and he said unto the

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woman.
Yea hath.

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God said, You shall not eat of
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And the woman said unto the
serpent, we may eat of the fruit

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of the Trees of the garden, but
of the fruit of the tree which

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is in the midst of the garden.
God had said, You shall not eat

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a bit, neither shall you, touch
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And the serpent said unto the
woman, ye shall not surely die

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for.
God knows that in the day you

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eat of it, then your eyes shall
be opened and you will be as

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God’s knowing good and evil.
So here, we’ve got this, we’ve

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got the woman Being deceived by
the serpent because the serpent

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said, You shall not surely die
and we know that that was an

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absolute Lie.
By the way, of course, half of

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it was true, and half of it was
lies because their eyes were

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open and they did understand
good and evil at that point.

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But of course, the lie.
Part was that you you won’t die.

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Of course, at that very point in

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time.
It says that both of them

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realize that they were You get,
it says the eyes of both of them

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were opened.
They knew that they were naked

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and here we’ve now got a
reference to Fig leaves because

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it says they sewed fig leaves
together of all trees and made

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themselves aprons.
So we’ve even got sort of a

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reference here to fix, but the
other bit that we read about,

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which we haven’t read.
Just now, of course, is the

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really key verse probably at
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I would suggest which is Genesis
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And here, now, we’ve also got
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Remember, one of the quotes from
the video That’s the question,

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right?
Okay, give me a moment.

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I will get the show back on the
road, but you’re coping with

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this, right?
Hold on a minute, right?

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Bear with me.
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The internet just literally just
switched itself completely off.

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Right Alfie.
Can you see that?

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And you can you see that?
Give me a thumbs up with back

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on.
Okay, right.

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So sorry about that little
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I’ll see if I can still benefit
still recording or what it’s

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doing.
I think it’s still recording.

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Okay, so sorry about that.
So I’ll try and get my brain

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back into gives where we are.
So, yeah.

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So I was saying that God is
talking to the serpent.

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I will put enmity hatred between
you mr.

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Serpent.
The woman who’s even between

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your seed or your descendants,
mr.

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Serpent, and the woman seed or
her descendants it, or he shall

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bruise thy head.
So in other words, the

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descendants of the woman he’s
going to bruise the head of the

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serpent and you or the
descendants of the serpent is

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going to bruise his heel.
So we’ve talked a lot about this

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verse in the past.
We know what it actually means.

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So just putting it on the
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We know, of course, was the
really the original cause of sin

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and became symbolic of sin
itself throughout the,

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throughout the scriptures
because it was the serpent that

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put the deceased, the deceptive
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He was 10.
He was testing Eve, and

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tempting, even making her think
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To what God had said.
And again, what we said with the

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children was look, are we
expecting the seed of the

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serpent to be literal baby?
Serpents in the future and they

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said, no, we don’t think that’s
what we’re looking for.

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And I said, no, we’re not what
we’re looking for, isn’t little

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baby future serpents that are
going to cause a problem, what

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we’re looking for our future
sins, causing a problem that

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down the line.
So the Seed of the serpent is

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really code for future sins.
You might say human nature in

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terms of the woman.
Well, we know who the woman was

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it’s eve.
And in terms of the seed of the

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woman, a descendant of the woman
we’re clearly being told there’s

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going to be a future son that
was going to come along.

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And what God’s saying is that
there’s going to be friction or

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emnity.
The future sins that come along

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and this future son.
In other words, it’s almost like

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a battle that goes on between a
future, son, and future, sins,

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or human nature.
And what God is telling us

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almost in symbolic code form in
the in Genesis 3:15, is that the

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future Son of Eve is going to
fatally wound or bruise, the

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head of the serpent, which is
In.

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So there’s there is some sort of
fight if you if you want to call

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it, that going on between a
future Son of Eve and and what

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we obviously understand is that
if you if you want somebody on

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the head to cause a bruise then
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And in fact sin we’re told is
going to bruise the future sons

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heal.
In other words, sin in a sense

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is going to cause Some pain to
this future Son of Eve and what

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we’re going to find out of
course and as we know this is

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the temporary pain of sacrifice.
So remember talking about the

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Fig was going back to that that
we, you know, we were saying

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that there’s some key things
that we’re looking for here, the

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promise of seeds, we’re looking
for, sacrifice wounding.

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All of those things were
happening inside the Fig, and

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we’ve got very similar themes
here in Genesis 3:15, Now what I

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found was a really I think this
is a brilliant image.

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I don’t know what you think to
this that sums up Genesis 3:15

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really, really well because as
you can see there on the left,

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you’ve got the legs of Jesus
Christ on the cross with a nail

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that’s going through his feet.
But of course it’s the nail also

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is going through the snake.
Now we know there wasn’t a snake

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when Jesus was crucified, it’s a
symbolic thing.

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But you notice that the way they
depicted Thing.

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This is that the nails gone
through his feet and has gone

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through the head of the serpent
and I think this is a really

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good way of understanding
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In fact, all the evidence from
crucifixion is that the nail

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would have come out through the
back of the heel of the Lord

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Jesus Christ.
And actually there’s a whole

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talk and listen to him.
This about how it would have

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burst apart the Achilles heel.
The tendon at the back of your

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heel which is one of the most,
very painful things that the

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body can endure is, this is the
complete rupture in him tearing

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of that.
So really when God said that sin

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would bruise the heel of the
Lord Jesus Christ, if they

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actively, that’s exactly what
happened because because Jesus

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had human nature, he did have to
die and therefore sin, It

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causing that, that literally,
that that terrible pain.

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However, I said to the children,
you know, how was it that Jesus

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defeated sin just by dying
because how does that defeat sin

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by dying and they correctly said
while it’s because he overcame

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sin, he didn’t let sin win and I
said, Sin only wins if we if we

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sort of you know let’s see it
only wins if we let the

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Temptation overcome us and Jesus
didn’t once let the Temptation

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overcome him and that’s how he
defeated sin.

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He didn’t give in to it.
That’s rights, in only wins if

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we give in to sin.
That’s what I said.

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And in fact, look, talkin about
his sacrifice, it says he was

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bruised, for our iniquity.
Is it preheat pleased?

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The Lord to bruise him to make
him an offering for sin?

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And because of that, he will see
his seed in Isaiah 53, verse 5

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and verse 10.
So again it seemed to me that in

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Genesis 3 we’ve got all these
sort of reference Is to wounding

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two bruising to sacrifice all
sort of.

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They’re pretty clearly in
Genesis 3:15 and in the whole

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chapter effectively, the other
bit that was interesting, of

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course, in Genesis chapter 3 is
that there was only one way into

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the garden and that way
ultimately was protected by the

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Caribbean.
So in Genesis 3 verse, 24.

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So he got drove out the man and
placed at the east of the Garden

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of Eden, cherubims, and a
flaming sword, which turned

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every way to keep the way to the
tree of life.

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So if you go back to those key
phrases that I was talking about

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earlier, and bearing in mind, I
just got these videos from just,

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you know, sort of videos.
Just about the Fig and how the

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Fig got pollinated.
We’ve got an enclosed Garden.

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Only one very narrow way.
In the phrase, ultimate

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sacrifice was used wounded and
weak reduce Devotion, to

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pollination was used the promise
of seeds and the future being

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secured because of the work of
this tiny insignificant little

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insect called the Fig wasp.
So I’m just going to play again

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that video that I played earlier
just to remind you of these

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words and listen to it again.
It’s exactly the same video.

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But listen to the words just say
Oh, you know that I’m sort of

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not making these things up.
And so the pollinated wasp

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reaches an immature fig, but her
journey is far from.

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Over ahead lies, the greatest
challenge of her brief life

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clawing and squeezing her way
through the gate, her wings and

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antennae are ripped from her.
She makes the ultimate sacrifice

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as the final push to enter burst
her abdomen.

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In an epic struggle, between
sacrifice and survival.

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The mother wasp crawls through
the narrow, Labrinth towards the

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inner chamber.
She is wounded and week hearing

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only her eggs and the pollen
gift from the former fake.

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If the WASP fails to pollinate
the flowers, No Seeds will ever

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develop big fruits with no
future are costly to the tree.

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So they will not receive an
inflow of nutrient.

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If the WASP does not pollinate
the entire fake may be aborted.

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However, if she devotes herself
to Pollination as well as laying

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eggs Ginger’s, the Fig will hold
the promise of seeds.

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The tree will pump sugars and
nutrients into the Fig, securing

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the future of seeds and larvae.
Like, when they mature and leave

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the fake will ripen thus
completing the cycle of mutual,

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and he had all of those phrases.
So, I now come back to the

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Garden of Eden and something
struck me.

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As I was staring at this picture
because of course, in the center

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of the garden was the tree of
knowledge.

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Of Good and Evil.
And it suddenly occurred to me

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that this tree of knowledge of
Good and Evil.

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I actually know truly truly
believe is a fig tree and I’m

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going to prove to you as best as
I can.

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That without any, I put question
marks there because they were

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question marks to start with.
But I’m going to do my best in

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the last 10 or 15 minutes to
prove to you beyond all

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reasonable doubt that the tree
of knowledge of Good and Evil

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itself was The Fig Tree a fig
tree.

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Just a normal fig tree, like
we’ve got fig trees right now.

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We’ve got a huge clue that it
was the fig tree that God gives

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us in the fact that, of course,
as soon as they ate from the

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fruit, their eyes were opened.
And God doesn’t stay.

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By the way that they went and
found the Fig Tree and took its

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leaves.
You notice it just says that

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they sewed fig leaves and
reading some stuff from some

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rabbis on.
He’s subject.

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They say from a hebraic point of
view, God would have mentioned

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the fact that they had gone to
another tree because the last

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tree that was spoken of was the
tree of knowledge of Good and

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Evil.
And the way Hebrew works is that

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you wouldn’t, they’re
necessarily just say they’ve

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taken fig leaves without it
automatically as potentially

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associating itself back to the
tree.

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That had just previously been
mentioned the way Hebrew would

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normally work and even in our
She would say there’s the tree

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of knowledge of Good and Evil
and they went and found a fig

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tree and took the leaves thereof
or something like that, but it

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doesn’t do that and it’s almost
a clue.

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Therefore I mean, you imagine
right.

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Adam and Eve have just eaten of
the fruit and they saw, they

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were naked.
Do we honestly imagine that

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they’re then going to start
walking around as ashamed as

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they are looking for a tree?
Try to cover themselves with

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leaves.
And the answer is, well, they

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wouldn’t, in fact, the leaves of
the Fig Tree of very rough and

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very coarse and they’re probably
the last leaves that you would

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normally pick to rub against
your skin.

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They’re very unpleasant to the
touch and it’s far more likely

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therefore, that the very first
thing that they did was grab the

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leaves that were right next to
them.

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And I don’t think there are lots
of other trees, very close fire,

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think that the, you know, the
tree of life and the tree of

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knowledge of good and evil
witch, In the center of the

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garden would have been
distinguishable and not just in

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like a forest and so on sort of
packed together with other

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trees.
So it’s, it’s almost

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unbelievable to think that they
wandered around the garden to

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try and find some very rough
course, leaves to try and Stitch

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together.
It seems much more likely that

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they did do exactly that.
Now, supposing there for the Fig

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Tree is the tree of knowledge of
Good and Evil.

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Suddenly, this makes this whole
wasp situation pretty astounding

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because if the Fig was the
forbidden fruit effectively,

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then they both ate from it,
didn’t they?

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They both ate of the the thing
that means of course they were

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eating a fruit that had got
every single part of symbology

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for salvation built into it.
Jesus, we know it’s the one and

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only way that we can be saved.
Jesus was wounded terribly?

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Just like the Fig wasp was
wounded, Jesus offered himself

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as a sacrifice just as the Fig
wasp offers itself as a

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sacrifice, Jesus devoted himself
to God just as the Fig wasp,

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we’re told his devoted to this
one cause they don’t live

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another life, you know, the Fig
wasp doesn’t Have a lovely time

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flying around it just goes
straight and does this one sole

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purpose, Jesus created, of
course, future seeds.

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He guaranteed future seeds by
his work and Jesus thereby

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through his work just as the Fig
was guaranteed, the future of

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the fruit.
So Jesus has guaranteed us, a

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Just life as well.
And what was blowing my mind as

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I was doing this for thinking,
the very thing that God had got

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as a test for them, had got the
solution to their problem if

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they failed.
I mean, how amazing is that?

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The very symbolic solution for
them, if they failed the test.

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Which God, of course, knew they
would was actually planned in

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the very fruit that they were
eating.

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I mean, I just find that utterly
utterly astounding, and, to be

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honest.
So did the kids, I’ve been

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inundated with emails from from
the kids after this saying, it’s

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just amazing now, He is another
thing because I then started

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thinking, if this is true surely
there’s going to be some

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references in the Bible to it
and look at this, right?

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So I’m saying to the tree of
knowledge of Good and Evil is a

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fig tree and lo and behold in
Jeremiah chapter 24, verses 2 &

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3, which have words that we
know.

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Well, it says, talking about fix
that one basket, had very good

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figs.
Even like figs that our first

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tribe and the other basket, huh?
Very naughty figs and that word

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naughty is exactly the same word
as evil for the tree of

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knowledge of Good and Evil.
And these evil things were so

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bad that they couldn’t be eaten.
They were so evil.

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They could not be eaten because
they were so evil.

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Then the Lord said unto me once
the Astana Jeremiah and I said

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fix the good things, very good
and the evil, very evil that

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they cannot be eaten.
They are so evil.

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So here we’ve got a clear
reference to figs being related

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to Good and Evil, which is
exactly the point of the tree of

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knowledge of Good and Evil.
There’s good fix and evil fixed.

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So then I started wondering well
what makes a fig evil, you know,

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I can understand eating a nice
fig but what makes an evil fig

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and this also gets extremely
interesting because what I

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haven’t told you so far Is it?
There are two types of fix.

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There is a female fig and a male
figure.

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And this also is very, very,
very unusual in the fruit world.

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There’s male figs and female fix
and we cannot eat male figs.

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All-male figs, are inedible.
You can’t eat them.

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And what the reason is, is that
when a fig wasp goes into a male

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fig, it is able The lay its own
eggs inside that, inside a male

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fig, when it goes inside a
female figure, it cannot lay its

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eggs.
Now, the problem of fig wasps

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playing its own eggs inside and
male fig is as follows, watch

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the screen and watch this fig
and what’s inside it.

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You ain’t going to be 13.
I don’t mind eating ones and

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soul pig, big ones, but I don’t
want to eat that.

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So all male figs are inedible
and I and these are evil fix.

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We can’t eat them.
They’re no good for us, they’re

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not tasty at all.
And the other type of evil fig

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are unpolished, nated female fix
because some figs grow and

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they’re not pollinated.
And if the, if the figure is not

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pollinated by the Fig wasp as
you saw in, Video the tree stops

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00:39:48,000 –> 00:39:52,600
feeding that individual figure
cuts off nutrition and because

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it cuts off nutrition.
Then it falls to the ground and

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it goes rotten.
So, um, pollinated.

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Female figs are also I would
suggest evil in God’s language.

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The other point is as well that
if you, if you leave fixed too

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long, they actually are only
fresh for seven days after seven

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days.
You can’t eat them.

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They go off.
They rot.

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And that’s That’s why you
rarely.

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You do see figs in in
supermarkets, but they very,

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very expensive because the shelf
life is very, very small.

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So, I’m just going to play you
another quick video here, which

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sort of again, encapsulates, a
lot of the things that we’ve

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been talking about Hi, I’m
Lauren and this is brainstuff

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Imagine for a minute that you’re
a pregnant woman still with me

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00:40:48,200 –> 00:40:49,300
guys.
Okay?

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00:40:49,300 –> 00:40:52,400
Now in this scenario, the only
way you can give birth is if you

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crawl into a small cave made out
of chocolate and the tunnel to

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this cave is so cramped that the
only way you can get through is

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by cutting off.
Your own arms 127 Hours, But

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00:41:05,100 –> 00:41:08,400
once you’re in this cave, then
you can actually give birth and

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then die from either exhaustion
or starvation.

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Now this all sounds pretty Grim
as if giving birth wasn’t

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difficult enough.
But what I just described is the

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00:41:19,100 –> 00:41:23,200
life cycle of the Fig wasp their
role in the pollination of pigs

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00:41:23,200 –> 00:41:26,300
is crucial both to the
propagation of their species.

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00:41:26,300 –> 00:41:29,600
And to the survival of the fig
trees, this Arrangement between

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00:41:29,600 –> 00:41:31,700
wasp and plant is called
mutualism.

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So you wouldn’t have figs and
vice versa.

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And yes, this means that most of
the figs we eat.

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Contain at least one dead wasp,
but more on that later.

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First, let’s talk about
pollination.

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The Fig is technically, just a
flower with its petals folded

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inside.
Now, there are male figs, which

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are inedible and called, Capra,
figs and female figs, which are

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the ones that we eat.
But in order to create seeds,

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and tasty tasty fruit, the
female figs need to receive some

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00:42:00,100 –> 00:42:03,800
pollen from the male figs, since
the figs reproductive bits are

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tucked away.
Inside though, wind and bees

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00:42:07,000 –> 00:42:10,200
can’t help the way they do with
lots of other plants enter.

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The Fig wasp for a dude, fig
plant to share its pollen, with

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a lady, fig plant, a female fig.
Wasp needs to enter a male

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figure.
She crawls through a narrow

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passage in the Fig called the
Osceola.

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It’s so cramped that her wings
and antennae break off along the

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way.
But the messed-up thing here is

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that the lady fig wasp doesn’t
know whether she’s entering a

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male Capra fig or a female fig
if it is in fact.

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Perfect.
She’ll find its male flower

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00:42:36,900 –> 00:42:39,000
parts.
Perfectly shaped for her to lay

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her eggs into the eggs, hatch
into larvae and grow within the

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figs petals.
The male wasps hatch first and

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00:42:45,700 –> 00:42:49,300
are born, blind and flightless,
they mate, with their female

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00:42:49,300 –> 00:42:52,900
counterparts, which I guess.
They are technically, brothers

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00:42:52,900 –> 00:42:55,200
and sisters wasps are basically
all targaryens.

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It’s fine.
And the male wasps will start

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eating and exit tunnel through
the Fig.

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They can’t escape though.
So they die inside.

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00:43:03,700 –> 00:43:07,100
But the Collect the figs pollen
crawl out of the tunnel that

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00:43:07,100 –> 00:43:10,200
their brothers created and fly
away in search of a new fig

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00:43:10,200 –> 00:43:14,000
plant to lay their own eggs in.
But if a female wasp enters a

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female figure, she won’t be able
to lay her eggs because of this

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00:43:16,900 –> 00:43:19,400
long part of the flower, called
The Stylist.

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She’ll probably die of
loneliness and exhaustion, but

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00:43:24,300 –> 00:43:26,100
at least she’s delivered the
pollen.

644
00:43:26,400 –> 00:43:29,800
Yeah.
And hey, good news for us and

645
00:43:29,800 –> 00:43:33,800
enzyme inside the Fig called
vikon breaks down corpse into

646
00:43:33,800 –> 00:43:36,900
protein.
And so, it just ingests the dead

647
00:43:36,900 –> 00:43:40,000
wasp and makes it part of the
delicious ripened fruit for us

648
00:43:40,000 –> 00:43:43,100
to eat.
Just so we’re clear those

649
00:43:43,100 –> 00:43:45,500
crunchy bits.
You’re chewing in, figs are not

650
00:43:45,500 –> 00:43:49,400
bits of dead wasp or larvae.
They really are the figs seeds.

651
00:43:49,600 –> 00:43:51,900
And anyway, you should probably
get used to the idea of

652
00:43:51,900 –> 00:43:55,100
occasionally eating an insect by
accident, the FDA, considers

653
00:43:55,100 –> 00:43:57,600
certain amounts of insect
content in various foods,

654
00:43:57,600 –> 00:44:01,600
natural, and unavoidable, and
it’s really not hazardous just

655
00:44:01,800 –> 00:44:04,000
grow.
So there we go, right last

656
00:44:04,000 –> 00:44:05,000
couple of slides.
Eyes.

657
00:44:05,300 –> 00:44:08,200
So imagine the tree of knowledge
of Good.

658
00:44:08,200 –> 00:44:11,600
And Evil is a fig tree is a fig
tree.

659
00:44:11,700 –> 00:44:15,300
And on that fig tree, there are
female figs which are good.

660
00:44:15,300 –> 00:44:18,200
And there are male figs that
aren’t evil, right?

661
00:44:18,200 –> 00:44:20,300
And I’ve depicted them there as
green and black.

662
00:44:20,300 –> 00:44:24,800
Hopefully, you can see that.
And the point is that, it’s only

663
00:44:24,800 –> 00:44:29,000
the female ones that are the
ones that are good, are the ones

664
00:44:29,000 –> 00:44:32,900
that you can finally eat.
And a good for you right now.

665
00:44:33,000 –> 00:44:37,300
What we’re staying there.
For is that the Fig wasp is

666
00:44:37,300 –> 00:44:43,300
going to go in to a female fig
so that we are then able to eat

667
00:44:43,300 –> 00:44:47,100
it because it’s pollinated.
It and the other point

668
00:44:47,100 –> 00:44:52,000
therefore, is that if Jesus is
symbolic of the Fig wasp going

669
00:44:52,000 –> 00:44:56,600
into the good fruit, I said to
the children and the youth

670
00:44:56,600 –> 00:45:01,500
weekend, I use it that it’s a
female fig that’s good and a

671
00:45:01,500 –> 00:45:06,300
male fig that is bad and Using
lie between the more they worked

672
00:45:06,300 –> 00:45:10,000
out the answer.
And the answer is quite simply

673
00:45:10,300 –> 00:45:14,700
that if you think about it,
Jesus is coming as the

674
00:45:14,700 –> 00:45:20,600
bridegroom to marry the bride.
And therefore we are symbolic of

675
00:45:20,600 –> 00:45:24,500
females.
All of us are symbolic of

676
00:45:24,500 –> 00:45:28,800
females because we’re symbolic
of the bride, and it’s only the

677
00:45:28,800 –> 00:45:32,700
female fruit that was good on
this tree.

678
00:45:33,300 –> 00:45:36,900
And of course, as we’ve already
said, there can be fruit on the

679
00:45:36,900 –> 00:45:43,300
tree that is female but is never
pollinated by the Fig wasp and

680
00:45:43,300 –> 00:45:46,400
those fruit lose the nutrients
and drop to the ground.

681
00:45:46,400 –> 00:45:51,200
So some female figs also become
evil because I haven’t let

682
00:45:51,200 –> 00:45:53,900
Christ effectively Into their
lives.

683
00:45:53,900 –> 00:45:58,400
It’s only the sacrifice of Jesus
into our lives.

684
00:45:58,700 –> 00:46:03,900
That turns us into a fruit that
is edible and a fruit, that is

685
00:46:03,900 –> 00:46:06,800
good to eat.
Now, the last couple of points,

686
00:46:06,800 –> 00:46:10,200
I just wanted to make with this
because what your mind I know is

687
00:46:10,200 –> 00:46:14,400
saying, is while surely to
goodness, it can’t be the Fig

688
00:46:14,400 –> 00:46:18,300
because it says that when the
woman saw that the tree was good

689
00:46:18,300 –> 00:46:21,700
for food and was pleasant to the
eyes and a tree to be desired

690
00:46:22,200 –> 00:46:27,000
and is Is the Fig Tree any of
those things you know, if I look

691
00:46:27,000 –> 00:46:32,500
at that fig, well good for food,
surely means something that is

692
00:46:32,500 –> 00:46:36,000
Bounty for with lots and lots
and lots and lots of food and

693
00:46:36,000 –> 00:46:39,100
surely.
There are other fruit varieties

694
00:46:39,100 –> 00:46:44,600
out there that look much better
for food and surely if it’s

695
00:46:44,600 –> 00:46:49,500
Pleasant to the eyes it’s sort
of okay, but it’s the fruit,

696
00:46:49,500 –> 00:46:52,800
that’s a lot more pleasant to
the eyes than the Fig.

697
00:46:53,500 –> 00:46:57,100
And in terms of a tree to be
desired, well, it’s sort of,

698
00:46:57,100 –> 00:47:01,900
okay, but it’s there’s this
trees that have far far better

699
00:47:01,900 –> 00:47:06,300
and bigger and grander than
ever, the Fig Tree is, but you

700
00:47:06,300 –> 00:47:10,200
know, something to me this
actually makes it even more of a

701
00:47:10,200 –> 00:47:12,700
case for it being the Fig Tree
than anything else.

702
00:47:13,200 –> 00:47:17,300
Because God hasn’t
over-engineered the Temptation,

703
00:47:17,800 –> 00:47:22,200
he hasn’t made something in the
center of the garden with fruit

704
00:47:22,200 –> 00:47:24,600
almost too.
To die for something that was

705
00:47:24,600 –> 00:47:28,900
spectacularly different and
better than all the other fruits

706
00:47:28,900 –> 00:47:33,500
and a tree that was bigger and
grander and and all the rest of

707
00:47:33,500 –> 00:47:37,100
it, God almost downplayed the
tree in the middle of the

708
00:47:37,100 –> 00:47:40,100
garden.
The Fig Tree was made to look

709
00:47:40,100 –> 00:47:44,600
slightly, not a tree to be
tentative guy.

710
00:47:44,600 –> 00:47:48,500
In fact, God gave them every
other fruit that he’d made look,

711
00:47:48,500 –> 00:47:50,600
probably even better than the
Fig Tree.

712
00:47:51,200 –> 00:47:54,400
But as with all things, Brothers
and sisters.

713
00:47:54,400 –> 00:47:58,200
The problem is this that if
we’re told that we can’t have

714
00:47:58,200 –> 00:48:02,700
something to us, it looks like a
delicious cake, whatever it is.

715
00:48:04,700 –> 00:48:07,900
Isn’t that true?
God says you can’t have that.

716
00:48:07,900 –> 00:48:10,700
Well it then becomes the one
thing that we do want and they

717
00:48:10,700 –> 00:48:13,300
looked at this fig tree into a,
why can’t I eat that?

718
00:48:13,300 –> 00:48:15,200
And look at that fruit, it is
interesting.

719
00:48:15,200 –> 00:48:18,700
And look at the tree and look at
the leaves and why can’t I eat

720
00:48:18,700 –> 00:48:20,100
it?
And then the serpent gets

721
00:48:20,100 –> 00:48:25,800
involved and suddenly we’ve got
a problem and maybe, you know, a

722
00:48:25,800 –> 00:48:31,200
lot of people don’t give a fig
about figs, but my study of this

723
00:48:31,200 –> 00:48:34,300
and this is only the beginning
because of caused it.

724
00:48:34,500 –> 00:48:38,800
Goes on and on and on from here
and the other two talks do but

725
00:48:38,800 –> 00:48:41,600
suddenly perhaps we should give
a fig about the Fig because the

726
00:48:41,600 –> 00:48:45,200
Fig is the plan and purpose of
God at the very very beginning

727
00:48:45,500 –> 00:48:48,900
on the tree of the very, very
beginning and became in fact,

728
00:48:48,900 –> 00:48:53,700
the test and in the in the in
the in the subsequent tour.

729
00:48:54,100 –> 00:48:58,400
It shows how the Fig Tree became
symbolic of Israel.

730
00:48:58,900 –> 00:49:04,200
And Israel became the exact same
test that they had.

731
00:49:04,400 –> 00:49:08,800
In the garden as well.
And that to, me also became even

732
00:49:08,800 –> 00:49:13,600
more incredible.
So, the key lessons that I think

733
00:49:13,600 –> 00:49:16,900
we take personally from this
perhaps he’s, I mean, one is

734
00:49:16,900 –> 00:49:21,100
just how amazing is God to have
designed the solution in the

735
00:49:21,100 –> 00:49:24,700
very thing that was causing them
to sin.

736
00:49:25,400 –> 00:49:30,500
But we are also tempted to do
wrong, like, Adam and Eve, and

737
00:49:30,500 –> 00:49:37,900
we succumb to sin when we do.
The wrong thing and deserve

738
00:49:37,900 –> 00:49:42,800
death because of it.
Exactly like Adam and Eve but if

739
00:49:42,800 –> 00:49:47,300
we accept Christ into our lives
then we can be saved.

740
00:49:47,400 –> 00:49:52,200
We have to let that fig wasp
effectively into our lives.

741
00:49:52,300 –> 00:49:57,200
Otherwise we lose all of the
goodness from the tree which is

742
00:49:57,200 –> 00:50:00,600
supplying energy to the fruit
and we will ultimately die

743
00:50:01,900 –> 00:50:06,400
Christ willing sacrifice enables
us to To survive, IE to be

744
00:50:06,400 –> 00:50:09,700
forgiven.
He turns it into something sweet

745
00:50:09,700 –> 00:50:15,800
and wonderful for God, God in
turn, strengthens us and gives

746
00:50:15,800 –> 00:50:18,900
us all we need.
The tree is pumping, lots and

747
00:50:18,900 –> 00:50:23,900
lots of goodness into the fruit
for those that have let the Fig

748
00:50:23,900 –> 00:50:27,800
wasp in effectively, Let Jesus
into their lives and look

749
00:50:27,800 –> 00:50:31,300
awesome ately.
As we know we are going to be it

750
00:50:31,300 –> 00:50:34,300
will almost Go full cycle.
Won’t it that actually won?

751
00:50:34,500 –> 00:50:39,700
We will live in a New Garden of
Eden on this Earth but the

752
00:50:39,700 –> 00:50:43,500
ultimate Garden of Eden won’t
have a test that we can fail.

753
00:50:44,000 –> 00:50:47,200
The test has been overcome by
the Fig wasp.

754
00:50:47,200 –> 00:50:51,600
In other words, the Lord Jesus
Christ and his sacrifice and

755
00:50:51,600 –> 00:50:56,400
that was the end of the first.
Or the second talk is all about

756
00:50:56,400 –> 00:51:01,500
how it is that the Fig Tree
itself became symbolic of Israel

757
00:51:02,000 –> 00:51:07,500
and all of a sudden, many Many
passages tie up with that when

758
00:51:07,500 –> 00:51:09,800
you link Israel to the tree of
knowledge of Good and Evil.