213: Andy Walton – The Fruit

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So now let’s get into the talk
for this week.

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For our talk this week, we are
looking at a class that was

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given by Brother.
Andy Walton at the recordings of

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which are all on YouTube.
I actually heard it through

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Verdugo Hills has Bible class
where we just watch the

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recordings together.
So we’re listening to the first

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class and he’s taking a look at
the biblical meaning of the Fig

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Tree.
All three classes are really,

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really interesting.
This first one, we’re looking

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specifically at the fruit and
there’s a lot of really

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interesting nuggets about the
Tree.

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How they pollinate.
All sorts of things that I won’t

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necessarily go into, because I
want you to be able to enjoy

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them.
When you hear the class, it is a

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little funny in the first class,
when he is recording his talk.

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He has a random Zoom issue which
made it really funny when you

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were listening to it on Bible
class because our Verdugo Hills

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does our Bible class over Zoom.
So it felt very much like you

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were right in there for Zoom
which was I thought was kind of

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funny.
So in the show notes I will have

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the link to the playlist of all
three classes and then also the

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audio No version will be on the
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Crystal fiend.
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So either way, I highly
recommend you listen to all

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three of them to really
interesting.

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There are he makes mention of
some videos during the class,

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but the audio is still good
enough that you can get an idea

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of what they’re talking about in
the story.

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But if you want to go back and
get the visuals, you can jump

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over and watch the Youtube video
and kind of see it as well.

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Thank you for listening.
We hope that this class is an

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encouragement to you and we
thank you for continue to come

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back and listen.
So That I will turn it over to

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Brother, Andy Walton for his
class on the fig tree, right?

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So this subject is a already
said is that the Fig Tree

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assigned for all time.
And the reason that our thought

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I would do it today is because I
only did it last Saturday at a

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youth weekend for lapworth with
about 80 children.

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While say yeah, there were
children their age 13 to 17 and

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because it was on my mind, I
thought, maybe it’s a good time,

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you know, to do it for for
others, as well as the young

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people that were there, last
Saturday, there were three talks

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that I did on Saturday for them.
The first one was called the

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fruit.
The second one was called the

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tree and the third talk was
called the future, but tonight,

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you’ll be glad to know.
It’s only one talk and we’re

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

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which is the fruit and I thought
I’d just start off by Saying how

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this talk actually came about to
start with because well I just

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found it found it a little bit
interesting but what happened

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was last 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 once 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 Angie Didn’t catch it.

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

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then for like days and days and
days with the door shuts, I’m in

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the spare room upstairs and I
guess for the first few days,

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all it did was, okay, slept or
watched a bit of Netflix and

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then after a couple of days, I
thought to myself this is a

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complete waste of my life and
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I’m starting to feel a little
bit better but I’m still Allowed

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outside the bedroom.
So I thought, what can I do?

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That’s a bit more productive
than just lying in bed, feeling

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sorry for myself.
And for some reason, I thought I

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would maybe look at the Bible
and maybe I don’t often get time

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just to stop and think.
So I started praying to God

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because I didn’t know what to do
with Don and I was sleeping and

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praying and thinking and getting
my computer out.

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And in the end, the thought I
know.

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I’m going to look at the
parable.

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About the fig tree that Jesus
told in Luke and then I was just

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about to start looking at that
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When I thought to myself well I
remember hearing a long time

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ago.
The best way of studying any

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subject is to go back to the
first time that something’s

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mentioned and so I went back to
looking at figs and fig trees

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right the way through the Bible
and ended up of course in in

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Genesis and I would think I must
have spent at least I was on on

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this my the bed was covered in
paper and the computer was full

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of notes and I was finding out
stuff that I never knew before

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about the Fig Tree, I read and
read and read and read stuff

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

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

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PowerPoint slides on the back of
that or while I’m still with

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covid.
And then I went back to work and

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forgot about it and then About
three or four weeks after that,

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Mark Bateman phone me up from
lapworth and said, Andy the, 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 Why I put it
together.

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Really suppose the lid, the
lesson from my point of view is

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that aren’t a very horrible
times because I didn’t covid-19

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pretty nasty for myself and
others have had it a lot worse

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than I had it.
You know, good things can come

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out of it because I’m telling
you this.

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Now, if I didn’t have had, if I
hadn’t have had covid, I would

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never ever have done this talk
or at least, I can’t think I

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would have done it because I
wouldn’t have had the time.

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So with that, A little bit of
background, let’s open the

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curtains and let’s crack on with
this talk, which is all about

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the fruit.
So, the first thing that was

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sort of really interesting to me
was that when you’re actually

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looked at the Bible, and, of
course, right, the way through

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creation, and through the
establishment of the kingdom and

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the Jews, coming back into
Israel.

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And then into the New Testament,
with the Holes in the

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establishments of the of the
church in the meetings, the

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closures.
And in fact, right the way

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through into Revelation, what I
found was the Fig Tree was just

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everywhere and those are all the
books in the Bible, where fix

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and fig trees and mentions
Genesis.

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To Deuteronomy judges Psalms
Kings proverb Song of Solomon,

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Isaiah Jeremiah Hozier, Amos
Mike and Nahum habakkuk Aggie.

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I zachari Matthew Mark, Luke,
John James and revelation.

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So you think that isn’t, you
know, it’s an incredible number,

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in fact, as it turns out the Fig
Tree and the Fig and mention

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more than any other tree in the
Bible, by a considerable margin

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around about 200 times, the Fig
Tree and fix and mentioned.

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The Olive Tree is mentioned,
only a fraction of times and I

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thought Olive would have come
out number one by, you know, a

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long way but it doesn’t The Fig
Tree Way, way out in front.

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So that was sort of quite
interesting that that was the

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case.
And so the three talks, one was

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effectively looking at the fruit
based on Genesis.

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The second talk was based on the
tree, which is looking at the

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Kingdom of Israel.
And the third talk was basically

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looking at all the references to
the Fig Tree in the gospels, and

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also the references to the
Future.

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Because as it turns out the fig
tree, Three effectively covers

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the whole plan and purpose of
God in a lot of detail.

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So this is say tonight, we just
going to be considering the

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fruit.
Now, one of the things I when I

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started reading up about the Fig
Tree, one of the things that

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came out that was really
surprising to me was that it is

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a completely unique Tree.
In fact, if you got all the

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fruit trees in the world and
there’s many, many different

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varieties of fruit trees, the
Fig Tree would be on its own as

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a unique.
Really versus every single other

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tree that is that’s on planet
Earth from a fruit point of

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view.
And in fact, if you later on,

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get the time, go onto Google and
type in this phrase what makes a

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fig tree unique and you’ll find
the answer comes up.

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This is still the number one
answer that comes up when you

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type it into Google.
It says fig trees have no

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Blossom on their branches, the
blossom.

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Is inside the fruit, and this
makes the Fig Tree completely

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unique because every single of
the fruit tree has blossoms on

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the branches and from the
blossoms, come the fruit.

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And so I thought, well, that’s
pretty interesting that all of

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the fruit trees operate in a
particular way apart from the

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Fig Tree.
And then I started swatting up

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about fruit and it says Fruit is
an edible and usually sweet

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product of the plant or tree
that can st.

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Contains seeds when the flower
is pollinated, the ovary begins

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to grow and it becomes the
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So I thought, well, wait a
minute, this this is odd then

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because if all the fruit trees
have got a flower, and the

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flower and the ovary becomes,
the fruit wasn’t Earth is

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happening with the Fig Tree, and
why is it different and, and

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What’s going on.
And clearly it’s an important

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tree from a Biblical point of
view, because it’s mentioned all

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the time more than any other
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So, Yeah.
So here we are.

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Here’s here’s some figs.
I don’t know when your last day

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to Fig, I haven’t eaten.
In fact, tried to buy the kids a

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fig each.
But you try getting hold of a

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fresh fig at the minute.
It is absolutely not an

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impossible unless you unless you
want to spend a huge amount of

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money.
So I gave them all a fig roll

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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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victories unique no blossoms on
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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,

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it’s got to be some flowers,
something stock to be pollinated

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

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the 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.
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Well, that’s sort of quite
interesting, but how on Earth do

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flowers on the inside of the
fruit get pollinated because I

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can understand a bee or
something like that.

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Pollinating a flower that you
can see, but what, and how would

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these little flowers get
pollinated?

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When they’re wrapped tightly
inside the fruit because things

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have to be pollinated.
If they aint got seeds, then the

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that tree.
Comes extinct very, very

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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.

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But she won’t mind 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

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there over time, the flowers and
the WASP eggs, develop and the

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Fig transforms into a mature
fruit from today.

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You are, that’s the first video.
Have a look at this next video

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and so the pollen Laden Wast
reaches an immature fig, but her

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journey is 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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She makes 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 Ginger’s, the Fig will hold

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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 fake will ripen, thus

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completing the cycle of mutual
benefit and just one more that

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will be the end.
The Fig is not a fruit but a

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hollow Garden of 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
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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 two millimeters long so
it’s not like the WASP that

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you’d see flying around in your
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
eat is a decomposed dead wasp,

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but it completely is decomposed.
Cuz the fruit itself, pump some

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feikin into the WASP which
completely dissolves it.

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So you’re not crunching on a
dead wasp, but it’s interesting

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for the kids, instantly picked
up on that.

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But here’s the, here’s the
interesting thing, right?

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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
versions of.

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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
Garden.

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Secondly, it said that there was
only one and very narrow way

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into this Garden.
There was talk about the alter.

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The phrase was used the ultimate
sacrifice, so don’t know where

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the you heard that as the wings
were undone 10 Ayo, torn off the

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Fig wasp and it as it makes its
way into the Fig.

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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
itself up.

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When a fig wasp has gone in the
door is closed and therefore

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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.
You’d have also heard the words

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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
staring at these things.

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Thinking to myself this is these
are quite amazing little phrases

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that none of these by the way or
anything to do with Christian

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videos.
Nothing, what’s over there?

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Just fig wasp videos that on all
sorts of different Channels.

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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 an

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enclosed garden and, and sort of
seeds.

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And even perhaps mention of a
fig, And I said, well, that’s

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where my mind went so my mind
went into the Garden of Eden.

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In fact, the word Garden in
Hebrew means something that is

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enclosed and the phrase of that
was in the video, was a fig is

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like an enclosed Garden.
So, here we are in the Garden of

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Eden that God made at the
beginning and what we’re going

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to discover Is that all of those
things that we’ve just been

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talking about all of those key
phrases in relation to the Fig

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wasp?
Every last one of them are there

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in Genesis chapter 3, that Andy
kindly read the first seven

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verses for us.
Now, one of the key things that

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we know, of course, in the
Garden of Eden is that and this

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is, this is the center of the
story, of course, is that there

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was a tree of knowledge of Good
and Evil.

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That was in the Center of the
garden and what we’ve just been

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reading about in Genesis chapter
3 is basically what happened.

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Reference, the serpent, the
woman and atom in relation to

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this particular tree.
So what we have read and I’ll

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just read these words again and
oh we know them.

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So so well but the internet is
3:1-5.

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Bearing in mind, we’re in an
enclosed Garden at this point

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and we’re looking for those
other key phrases.

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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
every tree of of the garden and

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the woman said unto the serpent.
We may eat of the fruit of the

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

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

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a bit, neither shall you, touch
it, lest you die.

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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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opened 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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now.
Of course, at that very point in

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time, it says, Is that both of
them realize that they were

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naked?
It says the eyes of both were

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opened, they knew that they were
naked and here we’ve now got a

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reference to Fig leaves because
it says they sewed fig leaves

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together of all trees and made
themselves aprons.

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So, we’ve even got sort of a
reference here to fix, but the

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other bit that we read about,
which we haven’t read.

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Just now, of course, is the
really key purse.

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Probably at this point in the
Bible, I would suggest which is

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Genesis 3:15.
And here, now, we’ve also got

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mention of seeds.
Remember, one of the quotes from

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the video All there.
That’s the question, right?

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Okay, give me a moment.
I will get the show back on the

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road, but you’re coping with
this, right?

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Hold on a minute, right?
Bear with me.

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Yeah.
The internet just literally just

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switched itself completely off.
Right Alfie.

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Can you see that?
And you can you see that?

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Give me a thumbs up with back
on.

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Okay, right.
So sorry about that little

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interlude.
I’ll see if I can still benefit

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still recording or what it’s
doing.

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I think it’s still recording.
Okay, so sorry about that.

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So I’ll try and get my brain
back into gave us where we are.

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So yeah.
So I was saying that God is

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talking to the serpent.
I will put enmity hatred between

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you mr.
Serpent.

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The woman who’s even between
your seed or your descendants,

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mr.
Serpent, and the woman seed or

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her descendants it, or he shall
bruise thy head.

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So in other words, the
descendant of the woman, he’s

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going to bruise the head of the
serpent and you or did he

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cendant of the serpent.
It’s going to bruise his heel.

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So we’ve talked a lot about this
verse in the past.

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We know what it actually means
so just putting it on the

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Blackboard here.
We know, of course was the lead

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original cause of sin and became
symbolic of sin itself

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throughout the throughout the
scriptures because it was the

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serpent that put the deceased,
the deceptive thought into Eve’s

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mind.
He was 10.

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He was testing Eve and tempting,
even making her think things

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that were different.
To what God had said.

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And again, what we said with the
children was look, are we

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expecting the seed of the
serpent to be literal baby?

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Serpents in the future and they
said, no, we don’t think that’s

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what we’re looking for.
And I said, no, we’re not what

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00:27:49,600 –> 00:27:53,700
we’re looking for, isn’t little
baby future serpents that are

434
00:27:53,700 –> 00:27:58,200
going to cause a problem, what
we’re looking for our future

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00:27:58,200 –> 00:28:02,900
sins, causing a problem that
down the line.

436
00:28:02,900 –> 00:28:09,000
So the Seed of the serpent is
really code for future sins.

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00:28:09,000 –> 00:28:15,700
You might say human nature in
terms of the woman.

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Well, we know who the woman was
it’s eve.

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And in terms of the seed of the
woman, a descendant of the woman

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we’re clearly being told there’s
going to be a future son that

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was going to come along.
And what God’s saying is that

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there’s going to be friction or
emnity.

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The future sins that come along
and this future son.

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00:28:38,500 –> 00:28:42,100
In other words, it’s almost like
a battle that goes on between a

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future, son, and future, sins,
or human nature.

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00:28:48,100 –> 00:28:52,300
And what God is telling us
almost in symbolic code form in

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the in Genesis 3:15, is that the
future Son of Eve is going to

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fatally wound or bruise, the
head of the serpent, which is

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00:29:03,400 –> 00:29:05,900
Sin.
So there’s there is some sort of

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fight if you want to call it.
That going on between a future

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Son of Eve.
And and what we obviously

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00:29:14,500 –> 00:29:17,800
understand is that if you if you
whack somebody on the head to

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00:29:17,800 –> 00:29:20,200
cause a bruise, then that can be
fatal.

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And in fact sin we’re told is
going to bruise.

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The future sons heel in other
words, seen in a sense is going

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00:29:32,600 –> 00:29:39,000
to cause Some pain to this
future Son of Eve and what we’re

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00:29:39,000 –> 00:29:42,300
going to find out of course and
as we know this is the temporary

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00:29:42,300 –> 00:29:46,600
pain of sacrifice.
So remember talking about the

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00:29:46,600 –> 00:29:49,200
Fig wasps going back to that
that we, you know, we were

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00:29:49,200 –> 00:29:51,400
saying that there’s some key
things that we’re looking for

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00:29:51,400 –> 00:29:55,300
here, the promise of seeds,
we’re looking for, sacrifice

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00:29:55,300 –> 00:29:57,300
wounding.
All of those things were

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00:29:57,300 –> 00:30:00,700
happening inside the Fig, and
we’ve got very similar themes

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00:30:00,700 –> 00:30:07,200
here in Genesis 3:15, Now what I
found was a really I think this

465
00:30:07,200 –> 00:30:09,300
is a brilliant image.
I don’t know what you think to

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00:30:09,300 –> 00:30:14,700
this that sums up Genesis 3:15
really, really well because as

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you can see there on the left,
you’ve got the legs of Jesus

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Christ on the cross with a nail
that’s going through his feet.

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00:30:21,900 –> 00:30:27,100
But of course it’s the nail also
is going through the snake.

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Now we know there wasn’t a snake
when Jesus was crucified, it’s a

471
00:30:31,508 –> 00:30:34,000
symbolic thing.
But you notice that the way they

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00:30:34,000 –> 00:30:37,600
depicted I think this is that
the nails gone through his feet

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and has gone through the head of
the serpent and I think this is

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a really good way of
understanding Genesis 3:15.

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In fact, all the evidence from
crucifixion is that the nail

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00:30:51,900 –> 00:30:56,300
would have come out through the
back of the heel of the Lord

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00:30:56,300 –> 00:30:58,600
Jesus Christ.
And actually there’s a whole

478
00:30:58,600 –> 00:31:01,500
talk and listen to him.
This about how it would have

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00:31:01,500 –> 00:31:06,000
burst apart the Achilles heel.
The tendon at the back of your

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00:31:06,000 –> 00:31:09,200
heel which is one of the most,
very painful things that the

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00:31:09,200 –> 00:31:13,700
body can endure is, this is the
complete rupture in tearing of

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00:31:13,700 –> 00:31:18,400
that.
So really when God said that sin

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00:31:18,400 –> 00:31:24,700
would bruise the heel of the
Lord Jesus Christ, if they

484
00:31:24,700 –> 00:31:28,400
actively, that’s exactly what
happened because because Jesus

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

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00:31:34,800 –> 00:31:39,100
causing that that literally that
that terrible pain.

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00:31:39,100 –> 00:31:44,600
However, I said to the children,
you know, how was it that Jesus

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00:31:44,900 –> 00:31:49,300
defeated sin just by dying
because how does that defeat sin

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00:31:49,300 –> 00:31:53,000
by dying and they correctly
said, well, it’s because he

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00:31:53,000 –> 00:32:02,500
overcame sin, he didn’t let sin
win and I said, Sin only wins if

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00:32:02,600 –> 00:32:09,400
we if we sort of you know let’s
see it only wins if we let the

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00:32:09,400 –> 00:32:16,800
Temptation overcome us and Jesus
didn’t once let the Temptation

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00:32:17,000 –> 00:32:19,600
overcome him and that’s how he
defeated sin.

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00:32:19,600 –> 00:32:24,200
He didn’t give in to it.
That’s right.

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00:32:24,200 –> 00:32:26,200
Sin only wins if we give in to
sin.

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00:32:26,300 –> 00:32:29,500
That’s what I said.
And in fact, look talking about

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00:32:29,500 –> 00:32:33,500
his sacrifice, it says he was
bruised for our iniquities, it

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00:32:33,500 –> 00:32:36,800
preheat pleased, the Lord to
bruise him to make him an

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00:32:36,800 –> 00:32:41,400
offering for sin.
And because of that, he will see

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00:32:41,400 –> 00:32:47,100
his seed in Isaiah 53, verse 5
and verse 10.

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00:32:47,600 –> 00:32:51,000
So again it seemed to me that in
Genesis 3, we’ve got all these

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00:32:51,000 –> 00:32:57,900
sort of From space to wounding
two bruising to sacrifice all

503
00:32:57,900 –> 00:33:00,600
sort of.
They’re pretty clearly in

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00:33:00,600 –> 00:33:07,100
Genesis 3:15 and in the whole
chapter effectively the other

505
00:33:07,100 –> 00:33:08,900
bit.
That was interesting, of course

506
00:33:08,900 –> 00:33:13,900
in Genesis chapter 3 is that
there was only one way into the

507
00:33:13,900 –> 00:33:18,900
garden and that way ultimately
was protected by the Caribbean

508
00:33:18,900 –> 00:33:24,300
so in Genesis Three verse 24.
So he got drove out the man and

509
00:33:24,300 –> 00:33:28,200
placed at the east of the Garden
of Eden, cherubims, and a

510
00:33:28,200 –> 00:33:33,200
flaming sword, which turned
every way to keep the way to the

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00:33:33,200 –> 00:33:37,200
tree of life.
So if you go back to those key

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00:33:37,200 –> 00:33:41,200
phrases that I was talking about
earlier, and bearing in mind, I

513
00:33:41,200 –> 00:33:47,100
just got these videos from just,
you know, sort of videos, just

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00:33:47,100 –> 00:33:49,500
about the Fig and how the Fig
got pollinated.

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00:33:49,500 –> 00:33:53,300
We’ve got an enclosed.
Garden, only one very narrow

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00:33:53,300 –> 00:33:54,900
way.
In the phrase.

517
00:33:54,900 –> 00:33:58,500
Ultimate sacrifice was used
wounded and weak reduce

518
00:33:58,500 –> 00:34:03,200
Devotion, to Polynesian was used
the promise of seeds and the

519
00:34:03,200 –> 00:34:07,400
future being secured because of
the work of this tiny

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00:34:07,400 –> 00:34:11,100
insignificant little insect
called the Fig wasp.

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00:34:12,300 –> 00:34:14,900
So I’m just going to play again
that video that I played earlier

522
00:34:14,900 –> 00:34:17,900
just to remind you of these
words and listen to it again

523
00:34:17,900 –> 00:34:22,199
it’s exactly the same video but
listen to the words just so you

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00:34:22,199 –> 00:34:24,900
know that I’m sort of not making
these things up.

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00:34:28,900 –> 00:34:33,199
And so the pollinated Wast
reaches an immature fig, but her

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00:34:33,199 –> 00:34:36,100
journey is far from.
Over ahead lies, the greatest

527
00:34:36,100 –> 00:34:39,699
challenge of her brief life
clawing and squeezing her way

528
00:34:39,699 –> 00:34:42,800
through the gate, her wings and
antennae are ripped from her.

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00:34:43,100 –> 00:34:47,100
She makes the ultimate sacrifice
as the final push to enter burst

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00:34:47,100 –> 00:34:50,400
her abdomen.
In an epic struggle, between

531
00:34:50,400 –> 00:34:53,300
sacrifice and survival.
The mother wasp crawls through

532
00:34:53,300 –> 00:34:56,000
the narrow Labyrinth towards the
inner chamber.

533
00:34:56,400 –> 00:35:00,100
She is wounded and week airing
only her eggs in the pollen gift

534
00:35:00,100 –> 00:35:03,400
from the former fake.
If the WASP fails to pollinate

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00:35:03,400 –> 00:35:07,500
the flowers, No Seeds will ever
develop big fruits with no

536
00:35:07,500 –> 00:35:10,600
future are costly to the tree.
So they will not receive an

537
00:35:10,600 –> 00:35:14,400
inflow of nutrient.
If the WASP does not pollinate

538
00:35:14,500 –> 00:35:18,600
the entire fake may be aborted.
However, if she devotes herself

539
00:35:18,600 –> 00:35:22,500
to Pollination as well as laying
eggs Ginger’s, the Fig will hold

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00:35:22,500 –> 00:35:25,400
the promise of seeds.
The tree will pump sugars and

541
00:35:25,400 –> 00:35:28,700
nutrients into the fake,
securing the future of seeds and

542
00:35:28,700 –> 00:35:30,800
larvae.
Like, when they mature and

543
00:35:30,800 –> 00:35:34,900
leave, the Fig will ripen thus
completing the cycle of mutual,

544
00:35:34,900 –> 00:35:38,500
and he had all of those phrases.
So, I now come back to the

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00:35:38,500 –> 00:35:42,800
Garden of Eden and something
struck me.

546
00:35:42,800 –> 00:35:45,800
As I was staring at this picture
because of course, in the center

547
00:35:45,800 –> 00:35:48,600
of the garden was the tree of
knowledge.

548
00:35:48,800 –> 00:35:52,400
Each of Good and Evil.
And it suddenly occurred to me

549
00:35:52,700 –> 00:35:55,000
that this tree of knowledge of
Good and Evil.

550
00:35:55,500 –> 00:36:00,900
I actually know truly truly
believe is a fig tree and I’m

551
00:36:00,900 –> 00:36:03,400
going to prove to you as best as
I can.

552
00:36:03,400 –> 00:36:06,800
That without any, I put question
marks there because they were

553
00:36:06,800 –> 00:36:10,200
question marks to start with.
But I’m going to do my best in

554
00:36:10,200 –> 00:36:13,700
the last 10 or 15 minutes to
prove to you beyond all

555
00:36:13,700 –> 00:36:17,000
reasonable doubt that the tree
of knowledge of Good and Evil

556
00:36:17,000 –> 00:36:21,900
itself was The Fig Tree a fig
tree, just the normal fig tree,

557
00:36:21,900 –> 00:36:26,200
like we’ve got fig trees right
now and we’ve got a huge clue

558
00:36:26,200 –> 00:36:29,300
that it was the victory that God
gives us in the fact that, of

559
00:36:29,300 –> 00:36:33,200
course, as soon as they ate from
the fruit, their eyes were

560
00:36:33,200 –> 00:36:36,600
opened.
And God doesn’t say by the way

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00:36:37,000 –> 00:36:40,900
that they went and found the Fig
Tree and took its leaves.

562
00:36:40,900 –> 00:36:45,600
You notice it just says that
they sewed fig leaves and

563
00:36:45,900 –> 00:36:48,500
reading some stuff from some
rabbis on.

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00:36:48,700 –> 00:36:53,600
This subject, they say from a
hebraic point of view, God would

565
00:36:53,600 –> 00:36:57,200
have mentioned the fact that
they had gone to another tree

566
00:36:57,200 –> 00:37:00,300
because the last tree that was
spoken of was the tree of

567
00:37:00,300 –> 00:37:03,800
knowledge of Good and Evil.
And the way Hebrew works is that

568
00:37:03,800 –> 00:37:05,800
you wouldn’t, they’re
necessarily just say they’ve

569
00:37:05,800 –> 00:37:10,200
taken fig leaves without it
automatically as potentially

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00:37:10,200 –> 00:37:13,300
associating itself back to the
tree.

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00:37:13,300 –> 00:37:17,000
That had just previously been
mentioned the way Hebrew would

572
00:37:17,000 –> 00:37:20,700
normally work and even in our
She would say there’s the tree

573
00:37:20,700 –> 00:37:23,800
of knowledge of Good and Evil
and they went and found the Fig

574
00:37:23,800 –> 00:37:28,200
Tree and took the leaves their
of, or something like that, but

575
00:37:28,200 –> 00:37:31,300
it doesn’t do that and it’s
almost a clue.

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00:37:31,300 –> 00:37:33,800
Therefore, I mean, you imagine
right.

577
00:37:34,300 –> 00:37:38,300
Adam and Eve have just eaten of
the fruits and they saw, they

578
00:37:38,300 –> 00:37:42,000
were naked.
Do we honestly imagine that

579
00:37:42,000 –> 00:37:45,500
they’re then going to start
walking around as ashamed as

580
00:37:45,500 –> 00:37:50,300
they are looking for a tree?
Free to cover themselves with

581
00:37:50,300 –> 00:37:52,600
leaves.
And the answer is, well, they

582
00:37:52,600 –> 00:37:56,600
wouldn’t, in fact, the leaves of
the Fig Tree, a very rough and

583
00:37:56,600 –> 00:37:59,300
very cause then they’re probably
the last leaves that you would

584
00:37:59,300 –> 00:38:02,500
normally pick to rub against
your skin.

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00:38:02,500 –> 00:38:06,400
They’re very unpleasant to the
touch and it’s far more likely

586
00:38:06,400 –> 00:38:08,800
there.
For the very first thing that

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00:38:08,800 –> 00:38:11,800
they did was grab the leaves
that were right next to them.

588
00:38:12,400 –> 00:38:15,100
And I don’t think there are lots
of other trees, very close fire,

589
00:38:15,100 –> 00:38:17,500
think that, you know, the tree
of life and the tree of

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00:38:17,500 –> 00:38:19,700
knowledge of Good and Evil,
which In the center of the

591
00:38:19,700 –> 00:38:23,200
garden would have been
distinguishable and not just in

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00:38:23,200 –> 00:38:26,800
like a forest and so on sort of
packed together with other

593
00:38:26,800 –> 00:38:29,700
trees.
So it’s, it’s almost

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00:38:29,900 –> 00:38:32,700
unbelievable to think that they
wandered around the garden to

595
00:38:32,700 –> 00:38:35,900
try and find some very rough
course, leaves to try and Stitch

596
00:38:35,900 –> 00:38:38,800
together.
It seems much more likely that

597
00:38:38,800 –> 00:38:44,900
they did do exactly that.
Now, supposing there for the Fig

598
00:38:44,900 –> 00:38:48,100
Tree is the tree of knowledge of
Good and Evil.

599
00:38:49,000 –> 00:38:54,800
Suddenly, this makes this whole
wasp situation pretty astounding

600
00:38:55,100 –> 00:39:00,200
because if the Fig was the
forbidden fruit effectively,

601
00:39:00,800 –> 00:39:02,900
then they both ate from it,
didn’t they?

602
00:39:02,900 –> 00:39:09,400
They both ate of the the thing
that means of course they were

603
00:39:09,500 –> 00:39:15,000
eating a fruit that had got
every single part of symbology

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00:39:15,000 –> 00:39:21,800
for salvation built into it.
Jesus, we know it’s the one and

605
00:39:21,800 –> 00:39:28,200
only way that we can be saved.
Jesus was wounded terribly?

606
00:39:28,500 –> 00:39:32,800
Just like the Fig wasp was
wounded, Jesus offered himself

607
00:39:32,800 –> 00:39:37,300
as a sacrifice just as the Fig
wasp offers itself as a

608
00:39:37,300 –> 00:39:42,900
sacrifice, Jesus devoted himself
to God just as the think was,

609
00:39:42,900 –> 00:39:46,400
we’re told is devoted to this
one, cause they don’t live

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00:39:46,400 –> 00:39:49,700
another life, you know, the Fig
wasp doesn’t have a A lovely

611
00:39:49,700 –> 00:39:54,800
time flying around it just goes
straight and does this one sole

612
00:39:54,800 –> 00:40:00,800
purpose?
Jesus created, of course, future

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00:40:00,800 –> 00:40:04,000
seeds.
He guaranteed future seeds by

614
00:40:04,300 –> 00:40:11,100
his work and Jesus thereby
through his work just as the Fig

615
00:40:11,100 –> 00:40:14,500
wasp guaranteed, the future of
the fruit.

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00:40:14,800 –> 00:40:18,800
So Jesus has guaranteed us a
future.

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00:40:19,000 –> 00:40:22,800
Ur life as well.
And what was blowing my mind as

618
00:40:22,800 –> 00:40:27,300
I was doing this for thinking
the very thing that God had got

619
00:40:27,300 –> 00:40:32,600
as a test for them, had got the
solution to their problem if

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00:40:32,600 –> 00:40:38,400
they failed.
I mean, how amazing is that?

621
00:40:40,000 –> 00:40:45,300
The very symbolic solution for
them, if they failed the test

622
00:40:45,300 –> 00:40:49,200
which God, of course, knew they
would was actually planned in

623
00:40:49,200 –> 00:40:51,600
the very fruit that they were
eating.

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00:40:52,600 –> 00:40:57,700
I mean II just find that utterly
utterly astounding and to be

625
00:40:57,700 –> 00:40:59,500
honest.
So did the kids, I’ve been

626
00:40:59,900 –> 00:41:03,900
inundated with emails from from
the kids up to this saying, we

627
00:41:03,900 –> 00:41:09,700
it’s just amazing now.
He is another thing because I

628
00:41:09,700 –> 00:41:13,200
then started thinking, if this
is true surely there’s going to

629
00:41:13,200 –> 00:41:17,800
be some references in the Bible
to it and look at this, right?

630
00:41:18,000 –> 00:41:20,900
So I’m saying to the tree of
knowledge of Good and Evil is a

631
00:41:20,908 –> 00:41:26,700
fig tree and lo and behold in
Jeremiah chapter, 24, verses 2

632
00:41:26,700 –> 00:41:28,400
and 3, which have words that we
know.

633
00:41:28,400 –> 00:41:33,900
Well, it says, talking about fix
that one basket, had very good

634
00:41:33,900 –> 00:41:35,900
figs.
Even like figs that our first

635
00:41:35,900 –> 00:41:39,900
tribe and the other basket had
very Naughty figs and that word

636
00:41:39,900 –> 00:41:43,200
naughty is exactly the same word
as evil for the tree of

637
00:41:43,200 –> 00:41:46,800
knowledge of Good and Evil.
And these evil things were so

638
00:41:47,000 –> 00:41:50,500
bad that they couldn’t be eaten.
They were so evil.

639
00:41:50,800 –> 00:41:53,400
They could not be eaten because
they were so evil.

640
00:41:53,700 –> 00:41:57,900
Then the Lord said unto me.
What’s the Astana Jeremiah?

641
00:41:58,200 –> 00:42:03,700
And I said fix the good things,
very good and the evil, very

642
00:42:03,700 –> 00:42:06,900
evil that they cannot be eaten.
They are so evil.

643
00:42:07,700 –> 00:42:13,600
So here we’ve got a clear
reference to figs being related

644
00:42:14,000 –> 00:42:18,600
to Good and Evil, which is
exactly the point of the tree of

645
00:42:18,600 –> 00:42:22,300
knowledge of Good and Evil.
There’s good Phoenix and evil

646
00:42:22,300 –> 00:42:24,900
fixed.
So then I started wondering well

647
00:42:24,900 –> 00:42:29,400
what makes a fig evil, you know?
I can understand eating a nice

648
00:42:29,400 –> 00:42:34,700
fig but what makes an evil fig
and this also gets extremely

649
00:42:34,700 –> 00:42:38,300
interesting because what I
haven’t told you so far Is that

650
00:42:38,300 –> 00:42:44,400
there are two types of fix.
There is a female fig and a male

651
00:42:44,400 –> 00:42:46,300
figure.
And this also is very, very,

652
00:42:46,300 –> 00:42:51,900
very unusual in the fruit world.
There’s male figs and female fix

653
00:42:52,500 –> 00:42:58,700
and we cannot eat male figs.
All male figs are inedible.

654
00:42:58,700 –> 00:43:02,600
You can’t eat them.
And what the reason is, is that

655
00:43:02,600 –> 00:43:09,600
when a fig wasp goes into a male
fig, it is able to It’s own eggs

656
00:43:09,600 –> 00:43:14,600
inside that inside the male fig,
when it goes inside a female

657
00:43:14,600 –> 00:43:19,900
figure, it cannot lay its eggs.
Now, the problem of a fig wasps

658
00:43:19,900 –> 00:43:24,400
playing its own eggs inside and
male fig is as follows, watch

659
00:43:24,400 –> 00:43:29,100
the screen and watch this fig
and what’s inside it.

660
00:43:40,200 –> 00:43:47,300
Yeah, and then going to be 13.
Okay, fine.

661
00:43:47,300 –> 00:43:50,500
Eating ones and soul egg, big
ones.

662
00:43:50,500 –> 00:43:58,800
But I don’t want to be back.
So all male figs are inedible

663
00:43:58,800 –> 00:44:03,400
and I and these are evil fix.
We can’t eat them.

664
00:44:03,400 –> 00:44:07,000
They’re no good for us, they’re
not tasty at all.

665
00:44:07,100 –> 00:44:13,200
And the other type of evil fig
are unpolished, nated, female

666
00:44:13,200 –> 00:44:18,200
fix, because some things grow
and they’re not pollinated.

667
00:44:18,500 –> 00:44:24,400
And if the, if the figure is not
pollinated by the Fig wasp as

668
00:44:24,400 –> 00:44:27,900
you saw in the video, the tree
stops Eating rat individual

669
00:44:27,900 –> 00:44:31,900
figure, it cuts off nutrition
and because it cuts off

670
00:44:31,900 –> 00:44:34,700
nutrition.
Then it falls to the ground and

671
00:44:34,700 –> 00:44:37,400
it goes rotten.
So, um, pollinated.

672
00:44:37,400 –> 00:44:42,800
Female figs are also I would
suggest evil in God’s language.

673
00:44:42,900 –> 00:44:46,500
The other point is as well that
if you, if you leave fixed too

674
00:44:46,500 –> 00:44:51,300
long, they actually are only
fresh for seven days after seven

675
00:44:51,300 –> 00:44:52,700
days.
You can’t eat them.

676
00:44:52,700 –> 00:44:54,600
They go off.
They rot.

677
00:44:54,600 –> 00:44:58,300
And that’s why you rarely you.
You do see figs in in

678
00:44:58,300 –> 00:45:01,400
supermarkets, but they very,
very expensive because the shelf

679
00:45:01,400 –> 00:45:05,800
life is very, very small.
So, I’m just going to play you

680
00:45:05,800 –> 00:45:10,100
another quick video here, which
sort of again, encapsulates, a

681
00:45:10,107 –> 00:45:20,800
lot of the things that we’ve
been talking about Hi, I’m

682
00:45:20,800 –> 00:45:24,900
Lauren and this is brainstuff
Imagine for a minute that you’re

683
00:45:24,900 –> 00:45:27,900
a pregnant woman.
Still with me guys, okay?

684
00:45:27,900 –> 00:45:31,000
Now in this scenario, the only
way you can give birth is if you

685
00:45:31,000 –> 00:45:36,200
crawl into a small cave made out
of chocolate and the tunnel to

686
00:45:36,200 –> 00:45:39,600
this cave is so cramped that the
only way you can get through is

687
00:45:39,600 –> 00:45:43,400
by cutting off.
Your own arms 127 Hours style,

688
00:45:43,400 –> 00:45:46,200
but once you’re in this cave,
then you can actually give birth

689
00:45:46,400 –> 00:45:50,100
and then die from either
exhaustion or Nation.

690
00:45:50,200 –> 00:45:54,400
Now this all sounds pretty Grim,
as if giving birth wasn’t

691
00:45:54,400 –> 00:45:58,400
difficult enough, but what I
just described is the life cycle

692
00:45:58,400 –> 00:46:02,000
of the Fig wasp their role in
the pollination of pigs is

693
00:46:02,000 –> 00:46:04,800
crucial both to the propagation
of their species.

694
00:46:04,900 –> 00:46:08,100
And to the survival of the fig
trees, this Arrangement between

695
00:46:08,100 –> 00:46:10,200
wasp and plant is called
mutualism.

696
00:46:10,600 –> 00:46:13,000
So you wouldn’t have figs and
vice versa.

697
00:46:13,200 –> 00:46:16,500
And yes, this means that most of
the figs we eat.

698
00:46:16,500 –> 00:46:20,800
Contain at least one dead wasp.
But more on that later.

699
00:46:20,800 –> 00:46:23,200
First, let’s talk about
pollination.

700
00:46:23,300 –> 00:46:26,500
The Fig is technically, just a
flower with its petals folded

701
00:46:26,500 –> 00:46:28,500
inside.
Now, there are male figs, which

702
00:46:28,500 –> 00:46:32,600
are inedible and called, Capra,
figs and female figs, which are

703
00:46:32,600 –> 00:46:35,400
the ones that we eat.
But in order to create seeds,

704
00:46:35,400 –> 00:46:38,600
and tasty tasty fruit, the
female figs need to receive some

705
00:46:38,600 –> 00:46:42,400
pollen from the male figs, since
the figs reproductive bits are

706
00:46:42,400 –> 00:46:46,600
tucked away inside though, wind
and bees can’t help the way they

707
00:46:46,600 –> 00:46:48,700
do with lots of other plants.
Answer.

708
00:46:48,700 –> 00:46:52,500
The Fig wasp, For a dude, fig
plant to share its pollen, with

709
00:46:52,500 –> 00:46:57,000
a lady, fig plant, a female fig.
Wasp needs to enter a male

710
00:46:57,000 –> 00:46:58,800
figure.
She crawls through a narrow

711
00:46:58,800 –> 00:47:00,800
passage in the Fig called the
Osteo.

712
00:47:00,800 –> 00:47:03,600
It’s so cramped that her wings
and antennae break off along the

713
00:47:03,600 –> 00:47:05,500
way.
But the messed-up thing here is

714
00:47:05,500 –> 00:47:08,900
that the lady fig wasp doesn’t
know whether she’s entering a

715
00:47:08,900 –> 00:47:13,900
male Capra fig or a female fig
if it is, in fact, care for fig,

716
00:47:13,900 –> 00:47:15,800
she’ll find its male flower
parts.

717
00:47:15,800 –> 00:47:19,400
Perfectly shaped for her to lay
her eggs into the eggs.

718
00:47:19,600 –> 00:47:22,600
Hatch into larvae and grow
within the figs petals.

719
00:47:22,600 –> 00:47:25,800
The male wasps hatch.
First and are born, blind and

720
00:47:25,800 –> 00:47:29,000
flightless, they mate, with
their female counterparts, which

721
00:47:29,400 –> 00:47:31,400
I guess.
They are technically, brothers

722
00:47:31,400 –> 00:47:33,700
and sisters wasps are basically
all targaryens.

723
00:47:33,700 –> 00:47:35,600
It’s fine.
And the male wasps will start

724
00:47:35,600 –> 00:47:38,200
eating and exit tunnel through
the Fig.

725
00:47:38,500 –> 00:47:42,200
They can’t escape though, so
they die inside.

726
00:47:42,300 –> 00:47:45,200
But the females collect, the
figs pollen crawl out of the

727
00:47:45,200 –> 00:47:48,000
tunnel that their brothers
created and fly away in search

728
00:47:48,000 –> 00:47:52,000
of a new fig plant to lay.
O-negs in, but if a female wasp

729
00:47:52,000 –> 00:47:54,800
enters a female figure, she
won’t be able to lay her eggs

730
00:47:54,800 –> 00:47:58,000
because of this long part of the
flower, called The Stylist.

731
00:47:58,000 –> 00:48:02,800
She’ll probably die of
loneliness and exhaustion, but

732
00:48:02,800 –> 00:48:04,700
at least she’s delivered the
pollen.

733
00:48:04,900 –> 00:48:08,300
Yeah.
And hey, good news for us and

734
00:48:08,300 –> 00:48:12,000
enzyme inside the Fig called
vikon breaks down her corpse

735
00:48:12,000 –> 00:48:15,800
into protein.
So it just ingests the dead wasp

736
00:48:15,800 –> 00:48:18,500
and makes it part of the
delicious ripened fruit for us

737
00:48:18,500 –> 00:48:21,700
to eat.
Just so we’re clear those

738
00:48:21,700 –> 00:48:24,000
crunchy bits.
You’re chewing in, figs are not

739
00:48:24,000 –> 00:48:27,900
bits of dead wasp or larvae.
They really are the figs seeds.

740
00:48:28,200 –> 00:48:30,400
And anyway, you should probably
get used to the idea of

741
00:48:30,400 –> 00:48:33,600
occasionally eating an insect by
accident, the FDA, considers

742
00:48:33,600 –> 00:48:36,100
certain amounts of insect
content in various foods,

743
00:48:36,100 –> 00:48:40,200
natural, and unavoidable and
it’s really not hazardous just

744
00:48:40,400 –> 00:48:42,600
grow.
So there we go, right last

745
00:48:42,600 –> 00:48:46,200
couple of slides.
So imagine the tree of knowledge

746
00:48:46,200 –> 00:48:49,800
of Good and Evil is a fig tree
is a fit Tree.

747
00:48:49,800 –> 00:48:53,800
And on that Victory, there are
female figs which are good.

748
00:48:53,800 –> 00:48:56,700
And there are male figs that
aren’t evil, right?

749
00:48:56,700 –> 00:48:58,800
And I’ve depicted them.
There is green and black.

750
00:48:58,800 –> 00:49:03,300
Hopefully, you can see that.
And the point is that, it’s only

751
00:49:03,300 –> 00:49:07,600
the female ones that are the
ones that are good, are the ones

752
00:49:07,600 –> 00:49:11,000
that you can finally eat and a
good for you right now.

753
00:49:11,000 –> 00:49:16,500
What we’re staying there for is
that the Fig wasp is going to go

754
00:49:16,500 –> 00:49:21,900
in to a female fix.
So, That we are then able to eat

755
00:49:21,900 –> 00:49:25,600
it because it’s pollinated.
It and the other point

756
00:49:25,600 –> 00:49:30,600
therefore, is that if Jesus is
symbolic of the Fig wasp going

757
00:49:30,600 –> 00:49:35,200
into the good fruit, I said to
the children and the youth

758
00:49:35,200 –> 00:49:39,200
weekend, I use it that it’s a
female fig that’s good.

759
00:49:39,200 –> 00:49:44,400
And a male fig that is bad and
amazingly between them or they

760
00:49:44,400 –> 00:49:48,600
worked out the answer.
And the answer is quite simply

761
00:49:48,800 –> 00:49:54,700
that if you To balance it, Jesus
is coming as the bridegroom to

762
00:49:54,700 –> 00:49:59,100
marry the bride.
And therefore we are symbolic of

763
00:49:59,100 –> 00:50:03,100
females.
All of us are symbolic of

764
00:50:03,100 –> 00:50:07,400
females because we’re symbolic
of the bride, and it’s only the

765
00:50:07,400 –> 00:50:11,300
female fruit that was good on
this tree.

766
00:50:11,900 –> 00:50:15,400
And, of course, as we’ve already
said, they can be fruit on the

767
00:50:15,400 –> 00:50:21,800
tree that is female but is never
pollinated by the Fig wasp and

768
00:50:21,800 –> 00:50:24,900
those fruit lose the nutrients
and drop to the ground.

769
00:50:24,900 –> 00:50:29,800
So some female figs also become
evil because I haven’t let

770
00:50:29,800 –> 00:50:32,400
Christ effectively Into their
lives.

771
00:50:32,400 –> 00:50:37,000
It’s only the sacrifice of Jesus
into our lives.

772
00:50:37,200 –> 00:50:42,400
That turns us into a fruit that
is edible and a fruit, that is

773
00:50:42,400 –> 00:50:45,300
good to eat.
Now, the last couple of points,

774
00:50:45,300 –> 00:50:48,700
I just wanted to make was this
because what your mind I know is

775
00:50:48,700 –> 00:50:52,900
saying, is while surely to
goodness, it can’t be the Fig

776
00:50:52,900 –> 00:50:56,800
because it says that when the
woman saw that the tree was good

777
00:50:56,800 –> 00:51:00,200
for food and was pleasant to the
eyes and a tree to be desired

778
00:51:00,700 –> 00:51:05,500
and is Is the Fig Tree any of
those things you know, if I look

779
00:51:05,500 –> 00:51:11,000
at that fig, well good for food,
surely means something that is

780
00:51:11,000 –> 00:51:14,600
Bounty for with lots and lots
and lots and lots of food and

781
00:51:14,600 –> 00:51:17,600
surely.
There are other fruit varieties

782
00:51:17,600 –> 00:51:23,200
out there that look much better
for food and surely if its

783
00:51:23,200 –> 00:51:28,100
pleasant to the eyes, it’s sort
of okay but it’s other fruit.

784
00:51:28,100 –> 00:51:31,300
That’s a lot more pleasant to
the eyes than the fear.

785
00:51:32,100 –> 00:51:35,600
And in terms of a tree to be
desired, well, it’s sort of,

786
00:51:35,600 –> 00:51:40,500
okay, but it’s there’s this
trees that have far far better

787
00:51:40,500 –> 00:51:44,800
and bigger and grander than
ever, the Fig Tree is, but you

788
00:51:44,800 –> 00:51:48,700
know, something to me this
actually makes it even more of a

789
00:51:48,707 –> 00:51:51,300
case for being the Fig Tree than
anything else.

790
00:51:51,700 –> 00:51:55,800
Because God hasn’t
over-engineered the Temptation,

791
00:51:56,400 –> 00:52:00,600
he hasn’t made something in the
center of the garden with fruit

792
00:52:00,700 –> 00:52:03,100
almost too.
To die for something that was

793
00:52:03,100 –> 00:52:07,400
spectacularly different and
better than all the other fruits

794
00:52:07,400 –> 00:52:12,100
and a tree that was bigger and
grander and and all the rest of

795
00:52:12,100 –> 00:52:15,700
it, God almost downplayed the
tree in the middle of the

796
00:52:15,700 –> 00:52:18,700
garden.
The Fig Tree was made to look

797
00:52:18,700 –> 00:52:23,200
slightly, not a tree to be
tempted by.

798
00:52:23,200 –> 00:52:27,100
In fact, God, gave them every
other fruit that he’d made look,

799
00:52:27,100 –> 00:52:29,200
probably even better than the
Fig Tree.

800
00:52:29,800 –> 00:52:32,900
But as with all things, Brothers
and sisters.

801
00:52:32,900 –> 00:52:36,700
The problem is this that if
we’re told that we can’t have

802
00:52:36,700 –> 00:52:41,300
something to us, it looks like a
delicious cake, whatever it is.

803
00:52:43,200 –> 00:52:46,400
Isn’t that true?
God says you can’t have that.

804
00:52:46,400 –> 00:52:49,200
Well it then becomes the one
thing that we do want and they

805
00:52:49,200 –> 00:52:51,900
looked at this fig tree into a,
why can’t I eat that?

806
00:52:51,900 –> 00:52:53,800
And look at that fruit, it is
interesting.

807
00:52:53,800 –> 00:52:57,200
And look at the tree and look at
the leaves and why can’t I eat

808
00:52:57,200 –> 00:52:58,600
it?
And then the serpent gets

809
00:52:58,600 –> 00:53:04,400
involved and suddenly we’ve got
a problem and maybe, you know, a

810
00:53:04,400 –> 00:53:09,700
lot of people don’t give a fig
about figs, but my study of this

811
00:53:09,700 –> 00:53:12,800
and this is only the beginning
because of caused it.

812
00:53:13,000 –> 00:53:17,400
Goes on and on and on from here
and the other two talks do but

813
00:53:17,400 –> 00:53:20,200
suddenly perhaps we should give
a fig about the fit because the

814
00:53:20,200 –> 00:53:23,800
Fig is the plan and purpose of
God at the very, very beginning

815
00:53:24,100 –> 00:53:27,400
on the tree at the very very
beginning and became, in fact,

816
00:53:27,400 –> 00:53:32,200
the test and in the in the in
the in the subsequent tour.

817
00:53:32,700 –> 00:53:37,000
It shows how the Fig Tree became
symbolic of Israel.

818
00:53:37,500 –> 00:53:42,800
And Israel became the exact same
test that they had.

819
00:53:42,900 –> 00:53:47,400
In the garden as well.
And that to, me also became even

820
00:53:47,400 –> 00:53:52,100
more incredible.
So, the key lessons that I think

821
00:53:52,100 –> 00:53:55,700
we take personally from this
perhaps he’s, I mean one is just

822
00:53:55,700 –> 00:54:00,000
how amazing use God to have
design, the solution in the very

823
00:54:00,000 –> 00:54:03,200
thing that was causing them to
sin.

824
00:54:03,900 –> 00:54:09,100
But we are also tempted to do
wrong, like, Adam and Eve, and

825
00:54:09,100 –> 00:54:17,000
we succumb to sin when we Do the
wrong thing and deserve death

826
00:54:17,200 –> 00:54:21,400
because of it.
Exactly like Adam and Eve but if

827
00:54:21,400 –> 00:54:25,900
we accept Christ into our lives
then we can be saved.

828
00:54:25,900 –> 00:54:30,700
We have to let that fig wasp
effectively into our lives.

829
00:54:30,900 –> 00:54:35,800
Otherwise we lose all of the
goodness from the tree which is

830
00:54:35,800 –> 00:54:39,200
supplying energy to the fruit
and we will ultimately die

831
00:54:40,400 –> 00:54:44,900
Christ willing sacrifice enables
us to To survive IEEE to be

832
00:54:44,900 –> 00:54:48,200
forgiven.
He turns us into something sweet

833
00:54:48,200 –> 00:54:54,400
and wonderful for God, God in
turn, strengthens us and gives

834
00:54:54,400 –> 00:54:57,400
us all we need.
The tree is pumping, lots and

835
00:54:57,408 –> 00:55:02,400
lots of goodness into the fruit
for those that have let the Fig

836
00:55:02,400 –> 00:55:06,400
wasp in effectively, Let Jesus
into their lives and look

837
00:55:06,400 –> 00:55:09,900
awesome ately.
As we know we are going to be it

838
00:55:09,900 –> 00:55:12,800
will almost Go full cycle.
Won’t it that actually won?

839
00:55:13,000 –> 00:55:18,300
We will live in a New Garden of
Eden on this Earth but the

840
00:55:18,300 –> 00:55:22,100
ultimate Garden of Eden won’t
have a test that we can fail.

841
00:55:22,500 –> 00:55:26,400
The test has been overcome by
the Fig wasp, in other words the

842
00:55:26,400 –> 00:55:29,800
Lord Jesus Christ and his
sacrifice.

843
00:55:43,500 –> 00:55:45,700
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844
00:55:45,700 –> 00:55:48,600
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845
00:55:48,600 –> 00:55:50,800
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