Andy Walton – Class 3: The Fig Tree – The Future

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Right.
So here we go.

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This is now looking at sort of
part 3.

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It’s been a Trilogy of talks on
the Fig Tree.

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So if you remember part 1 was
all about the fruit and looking

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at the figure itself, part 2 was
looking at the tree and part 3,

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tonight is looking at what I’ve
called the future.

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And the reason that I sort of
split it like that, I guess.

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Because to start with, when I
was looking at the Fig Tree, I

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went back to the very first
mention of figs, which is all

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the way back in Genesis chapter
3.

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So the first talk was really
centered on what the on the

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fruit and the tree of knowledge
of Good and Evil and we’ll touch

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on that again in just a second
just to remind you what we

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talked about then and then the
second tour was all about the

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tree.
Itself.

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So, the first talks about the
fruit, the second talks all

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about the tree itself.
And we look to see that the tree

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was symbolic of Israel as a
nation.

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And tonight, what we’re doing a
two things, really.

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We’re looking at all the
references to the Fig Tree in

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the New Testament in the
gospels.

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And we’re also going to see
that.

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In fact, the Fig Tree is
mentioned all the way at the end

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of the Bible in Revelation and
it can.

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Actually there is an actual
Parable in the Jesus told that

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it’s all about pointing to his
to the Future and his future

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return.
So that’s why I thought I’d call

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this particular talk the future.
So just to recap a couple of

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points that we covered in the
last two talks.

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So the first thing that we
talked about was the fact that

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God planted a garden in Eden, at
the very beginning.

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All of that detailed in Genesis
chapters 2 and 3 and in the

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center of the garden where there
were two trees.

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Actually, of course, there was
the tree of life and there was

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the tree of knowledge of Good
and Evil.

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And it’s that tree that We’ve
been looking at during the

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series of talks where I’ve come
to the conclusion and obviously

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it’s down to who guesses to what
you make of this.

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But I’ve come to the conclusion
that beyond all Reasonable

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Doubt.
The tree of knowledge of Good

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and Evil was a fig tree.
Just as we have fig trees today,

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it was a fig tree.
And once you see the tree of

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knowledge of good and evil as a
fig tree there, many Other

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things start and locking.
And there’s lots of passages

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that take on a new light when
you’ve see it in that sense, one

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of the clues that we looked at
that the the tree of knowledge

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of Good and Evil was a fig tree
is the fact of course that as

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soon as Adam and Eve’s eyes were
opened and that was at the very

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second that they ate from the
fruit, they knew they were naked

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and they sewed fig leaves.
Leaves together and made

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themselves aprons.
And we basically said well, why

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would they have wandered around
the garden looking for other

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leaves?
Surely if they were data shame,

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they would have grabbed the
nearest leaves to them.

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And that’s why we’re told that
they didn’t go and find another

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tree.
We just told that they found

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these fig leaves and as we also
said, it’s sort of doesn’t make

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sense really, to have pick fig
leaves if you are shopping

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around for nicely.
Leaves because they’re very

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cause in fact they’re almost son
papery on your skin and so it’s

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sort of unlikely that they
wandered around and thought all

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these are lovely leaves to cover
ourselves.

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With it’s more likely that they
grabbed the first leaves that

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they could find.
And clearly the first leaves

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they were going to find would be
the tree that the stood next to.

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So there’s a big clue.
I think that God’s giving us

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that the tree of knowledge of
Good and Evil was a fig tree,

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the other In the I then looked
at was how the fruit itself was

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pollinated.
I’m just going to play that 90

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seconds video again, just to set
the scene for this talk, so

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hopefully this works.
Okay.

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And so the pollinated 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 nutrients.
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 today, we are that’s the

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little video that sort of
explains how a fig is pollinated

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and without going into that all
again, that’s all in the first

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talk but just to recap a couple
of things There’s some key

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phrases that came out of this
little video.

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Some of the phrases were that
there was.

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It’s like an enclosed Garden.
The fruit itself.

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It’s like an enclosed Garden
because all the flowers are

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inside.
There’s only one very narrow way

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in.
You heard the phrase there about

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the ultimate sacrifice.
So this little fig wasp is

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sacrificing itself for the good
of the fruit because as soon as

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it crawls in it, Wings are torn
off, its antenna a torn off and

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it dies.
And in fact, the fruit itself

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somehow rather knows that the
Fig wasp has gone in and the

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entrance is closed.
There is no way for the WASP to

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get back out.
You heard the phrase is there

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about the was being wounded and
week.

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There’s also this phrased about
it being devoted to pollination.

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There’s the promise of seed.
So through the sacrifice of the

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Fig wasp, there is then the
promise.

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Of seeds and you also heard the
phrase that the future of the

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Fig is secured.
And what we said was amazingly

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that the very fruit that Jesus
sorry, the very fruit that Adam

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and Eve ate which was their test
at got the solution to their

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problem.
IE their sin in his, in a

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symbolic sense built within the
Fig itself which is just

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incredible.
And to me, that’s another So the

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major tick in the Box to say
this really does seem to point

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to the Fig Tree, being this tree
of knowledge, of Good and Evil.

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The other thing is, of course,
in Jeremiah 24.

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And this is an interesting
passage because it’s talking

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about the people living in
Israel itself.

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And God speaking to Isaiah talks
about a basket with good, figs

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in it and a basket with naughty,
but that is exactly the same

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word as evil evil fix.
So we’ve actually got a

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reference here in the Bible to
Good and Evil figs.

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So it’s again, another
incredible sort of clue that God

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has left for us.
That this is the tree of

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knowledge of Good and Evil.
And and so we looked at that in

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some detail last time.
The other thing that we moved on

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and looked at was the fact that
God saw and Still does see

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Israel itself as a nation as the
tree itself.

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So you’ve almost got Jesus, I
guess being like the perfect

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fruit on this tree and of
course, Jesus is not only the

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perfect.
Fruit is also the perfect fig

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wasp, because the Fig wasp is
giving itself as a sacrifice,

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but Jesus himself.
Is this perfect fruit?

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He wasn’t an evil fruit.
He was a very good fruit, so,

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but the tree of cause and Jesus
was Is connected to the tree of

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Israel because he was a Jew and
so he was part of the the this

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tree of Israel and their in
Hosea 9 verse 10.

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It says I found Israel like
grapes in the wilderness nice I

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saw your father’s as the first
ripe in the Fig Tree so what we

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sort of saying is that the tree
of knowledge of Good and Evil

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had good figs and had evil
things.

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If Like and the idea is for us
to become good.

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Figs.
And the only way that we can be

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good, figs is by accepting the
sacrifice effectively of the Fig

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wasp that goes in.
So that’s the sacrifice of

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Jesus.
The only way we can become a

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fruit that’s edible that you can
eat is if it becomes pollinated

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by the Fig wasp, if the figures
and pollinated by the Fig wasp

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has you Heard in that video.
The tree stops giving nutrients

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to that fig, and it drops to the
ground and it’s and it’s

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useless.
So we have to have the sacrifice

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of Jesus that enables us to
become a good fruit.

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And of course, Jesus was the
perfect fruits.

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And all of us are intimately
connected with the tree of

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Israel, because all of us
through the sacrifice of Jesus

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Jew or Gentile become part of
the tree of Israel.

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And again we looked at that in
some detail last time.

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So in simple terms on on this
tree, you’ve got the Lord Jesus

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Christ as the perfect.
Fig and you’ve got the tree

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itself being Israel as a nation.
And what I was then able to do

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is to say well if these three
things are interchangeable, can

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I look at passages in the Bible?
To help me see things in a new

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light.
In other words, you know, the

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tree of knowledge was a fig tree
and the Fig Tree is symbolic of

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Israel.
And therefore, if I read about

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the fig tree, Can link back to
the tree of knowledge of Good

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and Evil in the garden and I can
also link forward to something

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being symbolic of Israel as
well.

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I can also look at fruit so they
could be good fruit.

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And we would expect perhaps some
people to be good in relation to

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the Fig Tree and we can expect
some people to be evil in

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relation to the Fig Tree.
So that’s a very quick recap of

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think.
On what we Talked about.

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So what I wanted to do now is
just look at every reference

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that I could find in the New
Testament and it’s actually

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quite a number of them that
reference the Fig Tree or figs.

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Okay. so, The first time this is
looking at it.

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Chronologically.
Okay, so I haven’t, I’m not

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starting at Matthew Mark.
Luke, John and going that way.

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I’m looking at chronologically
the order of when figs are

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mentioned and if you look at it
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the first time that figs a
mentioned or a fig trees

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mentioned, in this case is with
the calling of one of the 12

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disciples called Nathaniel is
also Mr. Bartholomew I think and

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in John chapter 1 verse 45, it
says these words it says gee

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feet.
Sorry Philip found Nathanael and

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told him we found the one Moses
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whom the prophets.
Also, wrote Jesus of Nazareth,

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the son of Joseph, that’s a
Ruth.

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Can anything good come from
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Nathanael asked, come and see,
said Philip when Jesus saw

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Nathanael approach?
Jing.

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He said to him, he had truly is
an Israelite in whom.

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There is no deceit.
How do you know me Nathanael

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asked?
Jesus answered.

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I saw you while you were still
under the fig tree before Philip

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called, you then Nathaniel
declared Rabbi you are the Son

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of God.
You are the king of Israel.

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Jesus said you believed because
I told you, I saw you under the

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Fig Tree.
You will see greater things.

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Than that.
So here’s a really interesting

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calling, if you like of
Nathaniel and we’re told

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specifically that Jesus saw
Nathanael under the Fig Tree,

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and this is obviously blows
Nathaniel’s.

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Mind is perhaps one way of
putting it because he is

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response to Jesus saying that is
Rabbi.

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You are the Son of God.
You are the king of Israel.

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But isn’t it interesting that
we’ve got this reference to Fig

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Tree here?
Why we told that?

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Why does Jesus sort of highlight
this?

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And straight away.
By the way, before we think

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about that, you noticed that
there’s some interesting words

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here.
Can anything good come from

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there?
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and we’ve got a reference to fig
trees and our minds, go back to

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the Garden.
Don’t they wear those good in

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the garden?
And there’s, there’s things that

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are evil in the garden.
In fact, of course, the other

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thing that was in the garden was
The Serpent and the serpent was

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full of Deceit.
And guile and here is Jesus

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sayings in the Daniel.
This no deceit there’s no guile.

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There’s no subtlety in uniforms
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I was looking up about this and
I might be wrong.

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I’ve just read a number of
different things about this

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situation of sitting, under a
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But apparently, it was a common
place for prayer, especially for

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young rabbinic students.
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young men who were training to
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that for they would often go and
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They understood that the Fig
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I think they probably understood
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even we do and they would, it
was a commonplace and to go and

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pray.
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that the Jewish believer was
taught that, he who, when he

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prays does not pray for the
coming of the Messiah has not

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trade at all.
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Jews were taught to pray.
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prayer for the coming of the
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we do that in every prayer as
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Don’t, we will always pray for
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And so, it’s quite interesting,
perhaps that Nathaniel was, was

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under a fig tree, praying about
the Messiah to come and then lo

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and behold.
Jesus said, I saw you while you

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were under the Fig Tree and
Believe Nathaniel was completely

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on his own and knew that, no one
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him where he was perhaps.
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when he was giving the prayer.
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him that Jesus knew that fact.
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two together and said, you are
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You are the king of Israel.
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for the Messiah to come Come was
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was stood in front of him
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And all of this is happening in
front of Jesus who seen him

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under a fig tree.
It’s interesting.

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Of course.
That’s Nathaniel’s.

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First reaction to fill.
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Can anything good come from?
There Nazareth is obviously a

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town in Israel, and it actually
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guarded place.
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to Genesis and Eden because Eden
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put the two, Caribbean at the
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guard to that, to that garden.
And yeah, so there could be some

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links there.
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when we think about Jesus saying
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deceit, it’s almost an identical
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God caused the serpent
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full of guile.
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serpent was more subtle than any
beast of the field and Jesus

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says no Nathaniel.
You’re Or not full of Deceit.

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You’re not full of guile your
haven’t, you’re not following

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the path of the serpent and sin.
You are a faithful person and

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you’re trying to follow me or
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And that’s why I’m going to take
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You’re a good fruit that that I
can work with and surely there

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was no better statement that
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made.
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Son of God and the king of
Israel remarkable man.

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And he’s hardly ever mentioned
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he was one of the 12 disciples
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Fig Tree chronologically is the
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So bearing in mind, this is a
parable, it’s not a real

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situation.
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Now that Jesus is telling and
all of this occurs in the third

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year of the ministry of the Lord
Jesus Christ and this is in Luke

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13 verses 5 to 8.
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tells the parable the words that
Jesus says are Unless you

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repent, you too will all perish.
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Jesus says, a man had a fig tree
growing in his Vineyard and he

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went to look for fruit on it but
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So he said to the man who took
care of the vineyard for three

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years now, I’ve been coming to
look for the fruit on this.

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Look for fruit on this fig tree
and haven’t found any cut it

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down.
Why should it use at the soil

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sir?
The man replied, leave it alone

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for one more year and I’ll dig
around it and fertilize it.

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If it As fruit next year.
Fine.

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If not cut it down.
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It’s not a real fig tree in this
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bit of detail isn’t that?
We given in this short Parable?

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There’s this Jesus parables are
often just a few verses long but

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have got key bits of information
in that can really sort of help

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you understand what he’s getting
at.

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And it’s got to be significant
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There’s this reference to three
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This This man is been looking
for fruit on this fig tree and

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you can’t find any fruits and he
says, that’s it, let’s cut it

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down.
And this, another person’s as

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well.
Leave it alone for just one more

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year, and let’s see what
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Well we know don’t we because
we’re already said this that the

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Fig Tree itself is symbolic of
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clearly.
Therefore Jesus in the parable

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is referring to the nation of
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And if you think about it, Jesus
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If you liked what he was doing
is he was going around from

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place to place from place to
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In Israel was looking for the
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That’s what he was looking for.
He was looking for people to

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listen to him, repent, and to
turn to God, it’s exactly the

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same message that we have today
to repent and be baptized.

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But he wasn’t finding it in
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And yes, there were tiny little
pockets of it, but en masse he

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wasn’t finding it.
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this Parable was given was in
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reference to for three years.

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I’ve been looking for some good
fruit and I’m not finding any

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that’s what he says in his
Parable and then somebody

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persuades him too well, leave
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Just a little bit longer.
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he gave the parable to the point
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literally just maybe a few
months later, I don’t know the

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exact number of months, but it
was only months later when Jesus

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was crucified and of course, at
some point after that, which we

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going to look at Israel was
going to be removed from being a

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nation.
So that was his Parable, there’s

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a great warning really to those
who were listening to him and

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I’m sure most of the people
listening to him, especially his

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Jewish audience, would have
known exactly what he was

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getting at because they, I think
they did understand that Israel

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was symbolic of the fig tree.
I look back because I was

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looking at these words that
Jesus was saying and of course,

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John the Baptist before Jesus
really came along with saying

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exactly the same thing.
He was saying in Luke chapter 3

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verse 8 and 9 bring forth,
therefore fruits, worthy of

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repentance and begin, not to
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We have Abraham to Our Father.
For, I say unto you, that God is

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able of these stones to raise up
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Children and Abraham.
In other words, you can’t just

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say because we’re related to
Abraham, we’ve got a free ticket

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into the coming Kingdom.
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to have fruits worthy of
repentance and look, what look

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what John the Baptist says.
And this is really Jesus’s

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echoing John, the Baptist words
later on because John the

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Baptist said and now also the
axe is laid unto the root of the

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trees, every tree.
Therefore, which brings not,

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Forth.
Good fruit is hewn down and cast

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into the fire, so John the
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Even though he doesn’t mention
the Fig Tree is giving an

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identical message.
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focusing, not on the trees.
He focuses in on the specific

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tree which is the Fig Tree,
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We then come to the next
chronological incident of a fig

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tree and you might well have
missed this one or bypassed it

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because it doesn’t say fig tree
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I’ve got Zacchaeus in the
sycamore tree but a sycamore

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tree was a type of fig tree.
It was a it was basically a tree

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that was full of bitter figs and
it was known as the sycamore

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tree.
Yeah, but it is, as I say a fig

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tree, but there aren’t any figs
that you can eat off this

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particular tree.
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So we read in Luke 19 verse 2 to
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It says, and behold.
There was a man named Zacchaeus,

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which was the chief among the
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So he was basically a tax
collector and he sought to see

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Jesus who he was, and he
couldn’t because of the press

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because he was little of staff.
Yeah, and he ran before and

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climbed up into this.
Sycamore tree to see Jesus for

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he was to pass, by that way.
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place, he looked up and saw him
and said unto him, Zacchaeus

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make haste and come down for
today, I must abide at thy house

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and he made haste came down and
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Now isn’t this incredible that
we’ve got a man sat in a fig

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tree but But full of bitter,
figs.

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And there is a curious and I
would put it to you that in his

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life.
He had been a very, very bitter

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fig.
He had been somebody that had

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taken an extortion amount of
money off people because he was

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a tax collector and not only
that his Allegiance hadn’t been

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to the nation at all.
It had been to the Conquering

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Nation, the ruling nation and of
course, that was the Empire of

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Rome.
So here’s Allegiance was

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effectively back to Caesar.
And so we’ve all the sort of

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things that you could possibly
get in.

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If you’re thinking of a fig as
being a person either good or or

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evil in this, you know, there is
a curious in this tree

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epitomizing, everything to do
with bitterness and a fruit that

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was not one that you could do
anything with.

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But of course, there’s a curious
one.

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Thing to see Jesus.
He absolutely wanted to see

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Jesus and as we’ll see in the
next couple of verses Zacchaeus

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completely repented.
And so Jesus encourage Zacchaeus

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to come out of that bitter tree.
You notice that he says come

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down make haste get out of that
tree.

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Jesus is saying and and follow
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So when we look at what happened
next, In verse 8 of Luke, 19

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Zacchaeus stood and said unto
the Lord behold Lord, the half

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of my goods, I give to the poor.
And if I’ve taken anything from

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any man by false accusation, I
restore him fourfold.

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Which is a lot more than even
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And Jesus said unto him, this
day is salvation comes to this

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house for so much as he also is
a son of a Abraham for the son

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of man is to is come to seek and
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So Zacchaeus Was a lost fruit
and Jesus through his teaching

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at impacted Zacchaeus to the
extent that he completely

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repented.
And not only said the words I’m

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sorry said I’m not just going to
say I’m sorry to people I’m

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literally going to restore what
I have taken from them when I

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shouldn’t have.
Done. so again, to me, this is

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an amazing thing, especially
when you can link it back to the

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tree of knowledge of Good and
Evil and all that symbology that

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we’ve looked at So, now we move
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And now we’re in Mark chapter
11, and we’ve got these very

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interesting situation here.
Now, this is not just the last

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year, of Jesus’s Ministry.
We’re now in the last week of

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Jesus ministry.
And what we’ve got here is Jesus

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cursing and actual fig tree.
So, whereas, before the one that

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we looked at was a parable where
the, in the parable, the man

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wanted to Shut the whole thing
down here.

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What we’ve got is a real fig
tree.

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So in Mark 11 verse 11, it says
Jesus entered Jerusalem and went

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into the temple courts.
He looked around at everything

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but since it was already late,
he went out to Bethany with the

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twelve the next day as they were
leaving.

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Bethany Jesus was hungry seeing
in the distance, a fig tree and

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leaf.
He went out to find if it got

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any fruit.
When he reached it, he found

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nothing but leaves because it
was not the season for figs.

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Then he said to the tree, may
know one, The eat fruit from you

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again and his disciples heard
him, say it in the morning.

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As they went along, they saw the
Fig Tree withered from The

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Roots, Peter remembered and said
to Jesus.

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Rabbi look the Fig Tree, you
cursed has withered Now.

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There’s one thing that I’ve
highlighted on their in bold

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there because it seems a very
odd thing to do.

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Jesus is walking past the Fig
Tree and looking for figs, he

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doesn’t find any.
But he actually says there in

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the Bible that it wasn’t the
season for figs.

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And Jesus seems to be extremely
frustrated by the fact that

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there weren’t any figs even
though it wasn’t the season for

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figs.
And then he curses The tree and

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says right well you’re never
going to grow any fruits again

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and the next day they walk by
and lo and behold from the very

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Roots itself.
The whole fig tree had withered

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from Top while no, not from top
to bottom from pop from bottom

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to top, isn’t it?
Because it was the roots first.

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So the the million-dollar
question is well why did Jesus

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curse this fig tree?
When it wasn’t the season for

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figs?
That seems a bit of a harsh

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thing to do and the answer is
quite remarkable.

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Because what we haven’t covered
at all.

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In any of the talks so far is
that there are in fact, two

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crops of figs, but the first
crop, which is in towards the

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end of March is basically, they
called Brebeuf figs and they’re

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not really figs.
They’re, they’re almost like

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very small really can see there
it in the text, that’s on the

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screen, there’s small little
knobs.

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They’re tiny little things that
they’re not real figs at all.

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They’re like as it says there
and early Forerunner and they

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grow to the size of almonds or
almonds.

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I should say.
And what used to happen was that

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peasants and servants?
If you like, would would take

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these and eat them because they
weren’t ever harvested, they’ve

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got very, very little value, it
wasn’t really the fruit, but he

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is the Very interesting thing.
The interesting thing is that

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these little tiny green almonds
appeared when the leaves

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appeared.
So the leaves would come at the

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same time as these little bread
be fix.

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But if the if there’s no bread
Burrs on the Fig Tree, it will

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never produce real fruit.
When the crop is supposed to

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come, which is in September
time.

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So in March, you get these
little tiny, almond type figs

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aren’t real fruit.
And then later in September, you

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get the true figs.
But without the Preppers, you

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will not ever get the actual fig
because for some reason they the

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two things are sort of
connected.

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And so Jesus, when he looked at
this fig tree and it must have

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been in the March time and
obviously very close to, to his

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sacrifice.
Which we know was that time for

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that time of year, he goes and
he is another thing.

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Of course, Jesus is a servant.
He was, let’s call him a

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peasant, he was the lowest of
the low and saw himself as a

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servant to everyone and there.
He was looking for these tiny

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little brothers to eat and there
weren’t And because of that, he

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said you’re not going to produce
any fruit, they will be no figs

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on you and therefore, he cursed
it.

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Now, of course, this isn’t just
Jesus falling out with a tree

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because it didn’t have some
fruit on.

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Jesus isn’t walking around
thinking I’m fed up with you

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tree because you haven’t got
little arm and things for me to

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eat.
And I’ve got little brothers are

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for.
I’m just going to curse you.

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This isn’t what it’s about.
And of course, we know it’s not

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what it’s about, what it’s
about.

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It’s about Israel.
Jesus has reached the end almost

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of his whole journey has been
all around Israel, top to

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bottom, and is now coming into
Jerusalem, and he knows that he

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is going to be condemned and is
the the crowds are going to call

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for him to be crucified?
And it’s the culmination of the

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withering of the nation of
Israel itself.

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There were Some good figs in in
the land but very very few

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00:34:53,699 –> 00:34:58,100
compared to the masses and
that’s still the case today

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00:34:58,100 –> 00:35:01,400
isn’t it?
There’s very very few that truly

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00:35:01,400 –> 00:35:07,200
turned to Jesus and the and the
masses turn against him.

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So when Jesus was cursing, this
fig tree, it was basically him

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00:35:12,600 –> 00:35:17,400
cursing, the nation itself and
that picture that you can see on

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the screen there over tree.
Is withered away is exactly what

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was going to happen to the
entire nation of Israel.

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Now, here’s another interesting
thing, though, Jesus withered

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it, he didn’t destroy it.
He didn’t actually chop it down.

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He couldn T, have commanded for
that tree to be felled, but he

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didn’t command for the tree, to
be felled, he withered it and it

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stopped producing fruit and
anything that At Withers, as

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always got the ability to come
back to life again.

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Now, of course, we know in the,
in the New Testament in the

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Olivet prophecy that Jesus went
into a lot more detail about the

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complete withering of the Fig
Tree of Israel because he

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foretold, what was going to
happen in ad 70 when the nation

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of Israel was going to come.
So an end and they really the

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00:36:24,200 –> 00:36:30,100
terrible words, they’re really
disturbing words in Luke 21:20.

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This is Jesus speaking to his
disciples before.

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00:36:34,600 –> 00:36:39,800
He was crucified prophesying
about the time when Israel

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00:36:39,800 –> 00:36:46,000
itself was going to come to an
end and I’ve highlighted some

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00:36:46,000 –> 00:36:49,700
phrases are in yellow but our
let’s just read a few You of

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these, when you see Jerusalem
compassed with armies, then know

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00:36:52,900 –> 00:36:57,500
that the Desolation thereof is
nigh in verse 22.

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It says these be the days of
Vengeance, woe to them that are

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with child, woe to them, that
are pregnant woe to those who

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are breastfeeding.
There’s going to be great

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distress in the land and wrath
upon this people.

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00:37:14,200 –> 00:37:19,100
And the Wrath Came Upon all the
people living in the land.

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They shall fall by the edge of
the sword and become taken

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captive into all nations.
Now, you might think this is a

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very harsh thing to have done
because, you know, there must

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have been, you might imagine
some faithful people in the

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00:37:35,900 –> 00:37:37,700
land, they’re clearly.
Weren’t that many?

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00:37:37,700 –> 00:37:43,600
Because the vengeance is upon
the entire on upon the entire

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people in the entire land.
But here’s the interesting thing

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00:37:47,200 –> 00:37:49,800
because in verse 21 that I
skipped out, Out.

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00:37:50,800 –> 00:37:56,200
Jesus did give a message to
those who would listen to him

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00:37:56,700 –> 00:37:59,700
that they could have fled the
destruction that was coming

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00:37:59,700 –> 00:38:03,000
because in verse 21, it says
when you see Jerusalem

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surrounded by armies, then let
them which are in Judea flee to

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00:38:07,600 –> 00:38:11,200
the mountains, let those which
are in the midst of it, depart

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00:38:11,200 –> 00:38:15,000
out and let them not that are in
the countries enter their into

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00:38:15,000 –> 00:38:16,800
it.
So in other words, you know,

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00:38:16,800 –> 00:38:20,400
when you see Jerusalem,
surrounded I’m Thank you, you

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00:38:20,400 –> 00:38:23,000
need to get out because the days
of Vengeance are coming.

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00:38:23,000 –> 00:38:25,300
There’s going to be Roth.
People are going to be killed

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00:38:25,300 –> 00:38:30,400
and led away captive and very,
very, very few people.

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00:38:30,400 –> 00:38:34,500
Historically looking back.
Fled, when Jesus told them to

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00:38:34,500 –> 00:38:38,800
flee, it was a miniscule
percentage that he did his words

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00:38:38,800 –> 00:38:42,800
and the vast, but majority
stayed in the land and the

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00:38:42,800 –> 00:38:46,600
Vengeance Came Upon them.
And again, it’s a lesson to us,

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00:38:46,600 –> 00:38:48,600
all, to listen, to the words of
Jesus.

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00:38:49,000 –> 00:38:53,100
And of course, Is all of these,
the Desolation, the Vengeance,

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00:38:53,100 –> 00:38:59,100
the Wrath, The Killing, and the
Captivity of people came about

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00:38:59,100 –> 00:39:06,300
because of God holding them, the
nation accountable for the

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00:39:06,300 –> 00:39:09,200
sacrifice and the killing of his
son.

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00:39:09,200 –> 00:39:12,400
That’s why they’ve days of
Vengeance and wrath.

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00:39:12,900 –> 00:39:15,900
And that’s what Jesus knew was
going to happen.

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00:39:15,900 –> 00:39:19,900
And of course, we know that even
A day.

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00:39:19,900 –> 00:39:23,200
I mean, this is an old map.
It goes back to 1991 but even

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now you can see that people have
been scattered into the Jews.

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00:39:27,700 –> 00:39:31,500
Sorry of been scattered into all
nations on Earth exactly.

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00:39:31,500 –> 00:39:36,700
As Jesus said that they would be
but of course it didn’t end

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00:39:36,700 –> 00:39:39,300
there.
We know it didn’t the Fig Tree

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00:39:39,300 –> 00:39:43,700
was withered it wasn’t destroyed
entirely forever and there’s the

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00:39:43,700 –> 00:39:46,500
little clue as to that.
At the end of that little

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00:39:46,500 –> 00:39:49,100
passage that we’ve just been
looking at in Luke 21.

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The end of verse 24, it says
that Jerusalem will be trodden

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down of the Gentiles non Jewish
people until the times of the

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00:39:57,800 –> 00:40:02,000
Gentiles be fulfilled.
And so there was going to come a

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00:40:02,000 –> 00:40:05,600
point since Jesus.
When actually, the Fig Tree is

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00:40:05,600 –> 00:40:11,500
going to Blossom again because
Jerusalem won’t be trodden down

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00:40:11,500 –> 00:40:14,800
of the Gentiles.
And the logic says therefore

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00:40:15,000 –> 00:40:20,400
that it would be controlled in
the future once again, when

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00:40:20,400 –> 00:40:27,200
Israel’s back in the land and of
course what we then linked to Is

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00:40:27,200 –> 00:40:33,300
almost the last few passages
about the Fig Tree, because in

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Luke 21 at the end of the
passage that we’ve just been

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00:40:36,000 –> 00:40:41,100
looking about looking at Jesus
tells a parable of the budding

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00:40:41,100 –> 00:40:44,200
fig tree.
So we’ve had the withering of

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00:40:44,200 –> 00:40:52,900
the physical tree a week ago or,
you know, when the instance that

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00:40:52,900 –> 00:40:57,100
we just looking at and now we’ve
got Jesus telling a Bullet the

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birding fig tree and Jesus said
to them a parable and he said,

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00:41:01,600 –> 00:41:05,200
behold the Fig Tree and all the
trees when they now shoot forth,

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00:41:05,200 –> 00:41:08,800
when you see them birding, you
see and know of your own selves

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00:41:08,800 –> 00:41:10,600
at Summers.
Now, nigh at hand.

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00:41:10,900 –> 00:41:15,200
So likewise, ye when you see
these things come to pass know

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00:41:15,200 –> 00:41:17,800
that the kingdom of God is nigh
at hand.

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00:41:18,100 –> 00:41:23,100
So when you see the fig tree
growing again and sprouting

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00:41:23,100 –> 00:41:26,400
again and putting forth its
leaves again shooting forth.

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00:41:26,700 –> 00:41:29,100
The kingdom of God is is about
to come.

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00:41:29,100 –> 00:41:32,900
It’s nigh at hand verily.
I say unto you this generation

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00:41:32,900 –> 00:41:38,000
shall not pass away till all be
fulfilled and of course the

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00:41:38,000 –> 00:41:43,500
Wonder of it all is is that
Israel came to an end in ad 70

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but in 1948 Israel was born
again.

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00:41:48,400 –> 00:41:53,300
The Fig Tree did reappear on
planet earth once again almost

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00:41:53,300 –> 00:41:59,100
2000 years later Israel.
Born again, which is, which is

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00:41:59,100 –> 00:42:02,800
absolutely astounding.
Isn’t it to think that these

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00:42:02,800 –> 00:42:06,900
things have happened, which must
put us in the territory of the

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00:42:07,100 –> 00:42:10,600
kingdom of God, being night at
hand.

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00:42:11,400 –> 00:42:14,400
Now, there’s a little phrase
there, which a lot of people

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00:42:14,400 –> 00:42:17,900
have thought about and know I
have over the years where it

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00:42:17,900 –> 00:42:21,100
says this generation shall not
pass away.

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00:42:21,100 –> 00:42:25,400
So the generation that sees the
Fig Tree coming to life again

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00:42:25,700 –> 00:42:28,100
will not pass.
Us away until everything’s been

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00:42:28,100 –> 00:42:31,100
fulfilled and I’m just going to
play you a little video clip.

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00:42:31,100 –> 00:42:33,600
It lasts about two minutes.
Hopefully we’ve got a bit of

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00:42:33,600 –> 00:42:35,900
time.
Just going to play this little

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00:42:35,900 –> 00:42:38,900
part video.
It’s not a christadelphians

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00:42:38,900 –> 00:42:42,300
video, but I think it puts
across very well.

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00:42:43,400 –> 00:42:46,800
What?
All of this might mean in terms

627
00:42:46,800 –> 00:42:59,500
of this parable, One of the most
enduring prophetic perspectives

628
00:42:59,500 –> 00:43:03,300
is popularly, called the Fig
Tree prophecy which some

629
00:43:03,300 –> 00:43:06,500
Christians believe the Lord
revealed as an end times.

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00:43:06,500 –> 00:43:11,200
Parable in a nutshell, many
prophetic students of the Bible

631
00:43:11,200 –> 00:43:14,400
who seek to understand the
mystery of this Parable revealed

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00:43:14,400 –> 00:43:18,600
by Jesus, at the end of his
ministry, conclude that if the

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00:43:18,600 –> 00:43:22,300
Fig Tree represents Israel, then
the parable is meant to notify

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00:43:22,300 –> 00:43:26,100
us that the generation that
Witnesses The Rebirth of Israel

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00:43:26,400 –> 00:43:28,800
will.
Not pass away until the time

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00:43:28,800 –> 00:43:32,900
when Christ comes again to set
up as literal, 1000 year kingdom

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00:43:33,100 –> 00:43:36,600
here on the earth.
The key to understanding this

638
00:43:36,600 –> 00:43:41,400
Parable is to First understand
that in a parable, one thing

639
00:43:41,400 –> 00:43:45,600
stands for another thing in this
Parable, It is believed that a

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00:43:45,607 –> 00:43:48,900
tree isn’t really a tree, but
rather a tree stands for a

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00:43:48,900 –> 00:43:52,600
nation, the solution to the
parable is not based on trying

642
00:43:52,600 –> 00:43:54,400
to figure out the length of
generation.

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00:43:54,800 –> 00:43:58,000
But by understanding that
though, Those the generation

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00:43:58,200 –> 00:44:02,000
that was born coincidental to
the miracle birth of Israel on

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May 14th. 1948 will not pass
away until Jesus returns.

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00:44:08,700 –> 00:44:13,700
After the 7-year Great
Tribulation upon his coming, he

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00:44:13,700 –> 00:44:16,400
will destroy the enemies of
Israel administer.

648
00:44:16,400 –> 00:44:19,900
The sheep and goat judgment and
establish his 1000 year kingdom

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00:44:19,900 –> 00:44:23,600
here on the Earth.
We read in the Psalms that a man

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00:44:23,600 –> 00:44:27,400
is given a life span of 70 years
and if by reason of strength 80

651
00:44:27,400 –> 00:44:32,200
years this is the general time
period of man’s longevity and it

652
00:44:32,200 –> 00:44:37,600
is true to this day.
If you add 80 years to 1948 the

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00:44:37,600 –> 00:44:41,500
year, Israel became a nation.
You may end up with the

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00:44:41,500 –> 00:44:46,100
expectation that Jesus will
return in 2028.

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00:44:47,100 –> 00:44:51,600
While the birth of Israel is a
date fixed is it Possible.

656
00:44:51,600 –> 00:44:56,900
That Jesus might return in 2030.
Will there still be a remaining

657
00:44:56,900 –> 00:44:59,600
part of the generation that
witness a rebirth of Israel

658
00:45:00,200 –> 00:45:06,500
alive at the age of 82?
What about 2033 will there be a

659
00:45:06,500 –> 00:45:09,500
remnant of the generation that
witnessed Israel, becoming a

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00:45:09,500 –> 00:45:12,000
nation who have reached the age
of 85.

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00:45:12,600 –> 00:45:16,400
It is not impossible to imagine,
although I believe it is both

662
00:45:16,400 –> 00:45:20,600
unlikely and not the correct
understanding of the parable.

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00:45:20,700 –> 00:45:23,700
So while these dates are all
possible, the one that matches

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00:45:23,700 –> 00:45:27,800
the biblical Revelations Seems
to be the 80 years beginning in

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00:45:27,800 –> 00:45:34,600
1948 and ending in 2028.
In other words, the generation

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00:45:34,600 –> 00:45:37,500
that was born the same day.
Israel was born.

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00:45:38,000 –> 00:45:41,700
They will reach the age of 80 in
2028.

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00:45:42,500 –> 00:45:46,000
What I have just described is
the most common and times

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00:45:46,000 –> 00:45:50,300
prophetic understanding of the
parable of the fig tree.

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00:45:51,400 –> 00:45:54,000
That’s quite interesting.
Isn’t it to think about this?

671
00:45:54,000 –> 00:45:56,700
And what we do?
And to do is put dates on it.

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00:45:56,700 –> 00:46:01,000
But clearly Jesus is saying if
when you see Israel being

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00:46:01,000 –> 00:46:05,300
recreated in the Fig Tree
sprouting forth, then a

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00:46:05,300 –> 00:46:09,700
generation will not pass away,
and I think that’s a really

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00:46:09,700 –> 00:46:12,800
important point for us to make
the generation will not pass

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00:46:12,800 –> 00:46:14,700
away.
In other words, it is going to

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00:46:14,700 –> 00:46:18,900
come back before the generation
has passed away.

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00:46:19,200 –> 00:46:25,000
So it might be before 20:28,
maybe it’s after, but something,

679
00:46:25,400 –> 00:46:29,100
Is definitely putting us in the
very, very last days, isn’t it?

680
00:46:29,100 –> 00:46:33,800
This Parable, that Jesus is
talking about what, however, we

681
00:46:33,800 –> 00:46:36,400
want to Crunch the numbers, what
everyone to think about, in

682
00:46:36,400 –> 00:46:41,900
terms of dates, we know with
absolute assurity, that all

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00:46:41,900 –> 00:46:48,300
things will be fulfilled for the
generation that saw G the

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00:46:48,500 –> 00:46:53,000
Israel, being reborn on the 14th
of May 1948.

685
00:46:55,200 –> 00:46:59,200
So, we must be in the very,
very, very last days.

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00:46:59,800 –> 00:47:02,600
Because, as we say, the
generation shall not pass away

687
00:47:02,600 –> 00:47:04,600
till all these things, be
fulfilled, which puts the

688
00:47:04,600 –> 00:47:09,600
current turmoil in the world
with covid and then lurching

689
00:47:09,600 –> 00:47:12,600
straight into potentially world
war.

690
00:47:12,600 –> 00:47:15,900
Three, many of people are
talking about that at the moment

691
00:47:16,000 –> 00:47:19,600
with the events in Ukraine.
And Russia you know, all of this

692
00:47:19,600 –> 00:47:23,400
certainly shows us that we
really are at the very end of

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00:47:23,400 –> 00:47:25,500
time now.
There’s one of the Quick thing,

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00:47:25,500 –> 00:47:28,400
I wanted to mention in relation
to this Parable because it isn’t

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00:47:28,400 –> 00:47:31,700
just the Fig Tree.
Notice, it says, behold the Fig

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00:47:31,700 –> 00:47:36,300
Tree and all the trees.
So Jesus is saying, don’t just

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00:47:36,300 –> 00:47:40,500
look for the birth of Israel
look for other trees that are

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00:47:40,500 –> 00:47:44,700
starting to sprout forth.
Have a look at this, the

699
00:47:44,700 –> 00:47:49,800
addition of Jesus statement
regarding all the trees, makes

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00:47:49,800 –> 00:47:54,100
the prophetic Parable even
clearer and more compelling.

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00:47:55,300 –> 00:47:58,700
A book could be written and
perhaps it has about what

702
00:47:58,700 –> 00:48:00,900
happened at the end of World War
1.

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00:48:01,200 –> 00:48:05,000
When the Ottoman Empire that had
ruled the entire Middle East,

704
00:48:05,000 –> 00:48:10,300
with an iron hand for over 400
years came to an end.

705
00:48:11,100 –> 00:48:16,100
And the first part of the 20th
century, the Ottoman Empire

706
00:48:16,100 –> 00:48:19,400
supported Germany, in the first
world war and when Germany lost

707
00:48:19,400 –> 00:48:23,800
the war, the Ottoman Empire was
dismantled and reassembled by

708
00:48:23,800 –> 00:48:26,700
the French and the English.
Such a way that they hope the

709
00:48:26,700 –> 00:48:30,500
Empire would never rise again.
Let me paint these events with

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00:48:30,500 –> 00:48:33,600
the broad brush in order that
you might appreciate that.

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00:48:33,600 –> 00:48:38,200
The parable of Jesus was
actually a forecast of one of

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00:48:38,200 –> 00:48:41,000
the most earth-shaking events in
all human history.

713
00:48:41,300 –> 00:48:45,200
The end of the Ottoman Empire
and the re-establishment of a

714
00:48:45,200 –> 00:48:48,000
dozen, new nation states, with
new borders drawn by the

715
00:48:48,000 –> 00:48:50,900
English, and the French to keep
this simple.

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00:48:51,000 –> 00:48:54,200
Let’s look at the nation states
that were re-established.

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00:48:54,200 –> 00:48:59,100
That border Did ancient Israel.
The date palm tree began to

718
00:48:59,100 –> 00:49:05,600
Blossom as the modern Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia was founded in 1932

719
00:49:06,300 –> 00:49:09,200
the cedar tree began to Blossom,
as the French protectorate

720
00:49:09,200 –> 00:49:14,000
Lebanon became a Sovereign
Nation in 1943.

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00:49:14,400 –> 00:49:17,400
The palm tree began to Blossom,
as Jordan became a sovereign

722
00:49:17,400 –> 00:49:23,900
Kingdom in 1946 and the Olive
Tree began to Blossom as Syria

723
00:49:24,200 –> 00:49:31,800
became a Auburn Kingdom in 1943.
The Fig Tree began to Blossom on

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00:49:31,800 –> 00:49:35,900
May 14th, 1948.
And if there is any question

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00:49:35,900 –> 00:49:39,700
about the Fig Tree being a
picture of Israel, one only need

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00:49:39,700 –> 00:49:44,300
read the gospel narrative.
The cursing of the fig tree is

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00:49:44,300 –> 00:49:46,800
not to be confused with the Fig
Tree prophecy.

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00:49:47,100 –> 00:49:51,200
They are two separate events.
What links them together is a

729
00:49:51,200 –> 00:49:55,400
simple fact that Jesus picked
the Fig Tree as a picture of

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00:49:55,400 –> 00:49:58,100
Israel.
The cursed fig tree was a

731
00:49:58,100 –> 00:50:03,100
picture of Israel that Fruitless
and therefore useless it was

732
00:50:03,100 –> 00:50:06,000
cursed.
The parable of the Fig Tree, on

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00:50:06,000 –> 00:50:09,100
the other hand is a picture of
the Fig Tree coming back to

734
00:50:09,100 –> 00:50:11,500
life.
In other words, Israel is reborn

735
00:50:11,800 –> 00:50:15,600
and will produce fruit and be a
light to the nation, just, as

736
00:50:15,600 –> 00:50:18,400
prophesied.
When does this happen?

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00:50:19,000 –> 00:50:22,000
The answer is immediately.
After the time of Jacob’s

738
00:50:22,000 –> 00:50:26,800
trouble, when Christ sets up his
kingdom in Jerusalem, and Israel

739
00:50:27,100 –> 00:50:30,200
is no longer the tail.
But the Head of all the nations

740
00:50:30,200 –> 00:50:33,100
of the world.
Jesus, clearly was identifying

741
00:50:33,100 –> 00:50:36,100
Israel as the Victory.
And so the cursed fig tree is

742
00:50:36,100 –> 00:50:39,100
one book end.
And the fruitful fig tree is the

743
00:50:39,100 –> 00:50:44,700
other bookend met.
A guy, the cast is one end and

744
00:50:45,000 –> 00:50:48,300
the Revival of the Fig Tree is
the other book end.

745
00:50:48,600 –> 00:50:53,800
In fact, of course, we read in
Zechariah 8:23 that in the

746
00:50:53,800 –> 00:50:56,000
future.
This is what’s going to happen.

747
00:50:56,000 –> 00:50:59,200
This is what the Lord Almighty
says in those days.

748
00:50:59,500 –> 00:51:03,600
This is when Jesus is back, 10
people from all the languages

749
00:51:03,600 –> 00:51:08,500
and Nations will take firm hold
of one Jew by the Hem of His

750
00:51:08,500 –> 00:51:10,400
robe.
And say, let’s go with you

751
00:51:10,400 –> 00:51:13,000
because we’ve heard that God is
with you.

752
00:51:13,300 –> 00:51:16,500
And that’s exactly what that
person was just saying on that

753
00:51:16,500 –> 00:51:21,100
video, that this is going to be
the case that and this is now,

754
00:51:21,300 –> 00:51:27,300
the Fig Tree fully bearing fruit
and people recognizing that the

755
00:51:27,300 –> 00:51:30,700
very last reference to As though
isn’t here.

756
00:51:30,700 –> 00:51:35,000
It’s actually in the Book of
Revelation and in Revelation we

757
00:51:35,000 –> 00:51:38,100
read about the final Judgment of
the world.

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00:51:38,100 –> 00:51:43,000
Be being like falling, figs,
remarkably because in Revelation

759
00:51:43,000 –> 00:51:49,100
6 verse 13, it says the stars of
Heaven fell unto the Earth, even

760
00:51:49,100 –> 00:51:53,600
as a fig tree casts, her
untimely figs when she is shaken

761
00:51:54,000 –> 00:51:58,000
of A Mighty Wind and the heaven
departed as a scroll, when it is

762
00:51:58,000 –> 00:52:00,300
rolled together and Every
Mountain Mountain and Island

763
00:52:00,300 –> 00:52:03,000
were moved out of their places
and the kings of the earth and

764
00:52:03,000 –> 00:52:06,200
the great men and the rich men
and the chief captains and the

765
00:52:06,200 –> 00:52:10,500
Mighty Men And every bondman and
every free man hid themselves in

766
00:52:10,500 –> 00:52:14,100
the dens and in the rocks of the
mountains and said to the

767
00:52:14,200 –> 00:52:18,000
mountains and rocks fall on us
and hide us from the face of him

768
00:52:18,300 –> 00:52:22,100
that sits on the throne and from
the Wrath of the lamb.

769
00:52:22,400 –> 00:52:26,000
And when it says untimely figs
there that are falling.

770
00:52:26,300 –> 00:52:31,000
It basically means unwrite, or
I’m pollinated figs.

771
00:52:32,000 –> 00:52:36,700
In other words, what’s going to
happen is anybody that is not

772
00:52:36,800 –> 00:52:40,400
pollinated by Christ.
In other words, hasn’t accepted

773
00:52:40,400 –> 00:52:43,000
his sacrifice.
Remember, we come back to the

774
00:52:43,000 –> 00:52:46,600
tree and we said that the tree
of knowledge of Good and Evil is

775
00:52:46,600 –> 00:52:51,000
got two different types of figs.
There are those who are evil

776
00:52:51,000 –> 00:52:54,800
that have, just wholesale
rejected, God and Christ and

777
00:52:54,800 –> 00:53:00,000
there are others that are green
and good but to be a good

778
00:53:00,000 –> 00:53:05,100
figure, you’ve got to have it.
Accepted the sacrifice of Jesus,

779
00:53:05,800 –> 00:53:10,500
and anybody that hasn’t will
wither and will fall, and that

780
00:53:10,500 –> 00:53:15,300
is the final judgment.
And what is left, is purely,

781
00:53:15,500 –> 00:53:19,100
good, figs, that’s all that’s
left on the tree after the

782
00:53:19,100 –> 00:53:23,500
Judgment when all the bad things
have fallen and all those who

783
00:53:23,500 –> 00:53:27,400
have rejected Jesus of Fallen,
all you’re left with are good.

784
00:53:27,600 –> 00:53:32,800
Figs and the final slide here,
Is a picture that I showed you

785
00:53:32,800 –> 00:53:37,300
before because this is quite an
amazing passage because it talks

786
00:53:37,300 –> 00:53:42,400
about Jesus being back on this
Earth and all the world going to

787
00:53:42,400 –> 00:53:46,300
hear about the truth about God’s
word.

788
00:53:46,300 –> 00:53:48,600
And it says, in the last days,
it will come to pass.

789
00:53:48,600 –> 00:53:51,700
That the mountain of the house
of the Lord shall be established

790
00:53:51,900 –> 00:53:54,400
in the top of the mountains.
And it be exalted above the

791
00:53:54,400 –> 00:53:58,800
hills and people will flow unto
it, and many nations shall come.

792
00:53:58,800 –> 00:54:02,600
And say come, let’s go up to the
Mountain of the Lord and to the

793
00:54:02,600 –> 00:54:06,000
house of the god of Jacob and he
would teach us of his ways.

794
00:54:06,000 –> 00:54:09,500
And we will walk in his paths
for the Lord shall go forth of

795
00:54:09,500 –> 00:54:13,200
Zion and the word of the Lord
from Jerusalem and he shall

796
00:54:13,200 –> 00:54:17,500
judge among many people and
rebuke, strong Nations, afar

797
00:54:17,500 –> 00:54:21,000
off, and they shall beat their
swords into plowshares and their

798
00:54:21,000 –> 00:54:24,400
Spears into pruning.
Hooks Nation shall not lift up a

799
00:54:24,400 –> 00:54:27,900
sword against Nation.
Neither shall they learn War

800
00:54:28,200 –> 00:54:30,000
anymore?
And you know what?

801
00:54:30,000 –> 00:54:37,900
The next verse says But they
shall sit every man under his

802
00:54:37,900 –> 00:54:43,500
Vine and under his fig tree and
None Shall make them afraid for

803
00:54:43,500 –> 00:54:46,800
the mouth of the Lord of hosts
has spoken it for all.

804
00:54:46,800 –> 00:54:50,000
People will walk, every one in
the name of his God, and we will

805
00:54:50,000 –> 00:54:54,000
walk in the name of the Lord,
Our God forever and ever and

806
00:54:54,000 –> 00:54:58,100
said, the final picture that we
given is of you and me, God

807
00:54:58,100 –> 00:55:02,200
willing who’ve put their faith
and trust in Jesus accepted his

808
00:55:02,200 –> 00:55:05,400
sacrifice.
Still being on that tree of

809
00:55:05,400 –> 00:55:08,500
Israel at the very end as a good
fig.

810
00:55:08,700 –> 00:55:11,900
Not because we are good, but
because we’ve accepted his

811
00:55:11,900 –> 00:55:14,700
sacrifice.
The final picture is that we sit

812
00:55:14,700 –> 00:55:19,600
under a fig tree under his fig
tree in the Kingdom.

813
00:55:20,100 –> 00:55:25,800
No more being afraid and living
for ever and ever in a perfect

814
00:55:25,800 –> 00:55:28,500
world.
And that is why at the very

815
00:55:28,500 –> 00:55:32,900
beginning I call this, the Fig
Tree assign for all time because

816
00:55:32,900 –> 00:55:36,900
it truly Is a sign for time.
We started in Genesis and went

817
00:55:36,900 –> 00:55:41,000
right the way through the whole
history of Israel and even

818
00:55:41,000 –> 00:55:47,100
points to the Future when Jesus
is here and there is a time of

819
00:55:47,100 –> 00:55:51,000
great peace and righteousness
and that is the time, surely

820
00:55:51,300 –> 00:55:55,100
that we all long for and surely
with the parable of the Fig

821
00:55:55,100 –> 00:55:57,800
Tree.
It shows us that we are so very,

822
00:55:57,800 –> 00:56:01,100
very close.
So that day coming, thank you

823
00:56:01,100 –> 00:56:01,700
for listening.