By: Robert Serreyn
Question? In the Gospels WHO is the Fig Tree?
Answer:
The Fig Tree IS the Nation of Israel.
UNLIKE the False Teaching of Replacement Theology ALSO KNOWN as Preterism (see my Q- 401) who TAKE ALL the prophecies and promises GIVEN to the Nation of Israel and MIS – PLACE them UPON the Church (The Body of Christ).
Those such as Hank Hanegraaff, and R.C. Sproul just to name two well known men of that FALSE BELIEF SYSTEM take the words “Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever” of Matthew 21:19 AND FOCUS on the word “FOR EVER” and say “SEE” God is Done with the Nation of Israel” but this is not so THEY FAIL TO SEE the word “FRUIT”.
Matthew 21:19 And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.
The word “FRUIT” is in reference to the LOSS of Blessings and Rewards for NOT PROCLAIMING the Gospel and the Word of God and by REJECTING Christ as their Messiah and Crucifying him on the cross (which they have paid a HEAVY PRICE for the last 2,000 years).
Matthew 27:25 states…
Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
The word FOR EVER simply carries the meaning of LOSS OF Blessings and Rewards FOREVER for not having proclaiming the Gospel and the Word of God, NOT being rejected as a nation forever.
The same is true for every believer. If the Christian REFUSES to do the “Will of God” that believer WILL LOSE FOREVER and Forfeit ANY blessings here on earth and Rewards later in heaven for eternity.
1 Corinthians 3:11-15 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. (12) Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; (13) Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. (14) If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. (15) If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
IN CONCLUSION
In 70 AD was when the Temple (King Solomon’s Temple) was destroyed the Jews were captured and the remainder dispersed through out the world.
The words “Presently the fig tree withered away” refers to the fact that the Nation of Israel STOPPED being a nation AFTER 70 AD, God said TIME OUT Israel and set them aside as a Nation for the time being. But then on May 14, 1948 that all changed and Israel ONCE AGAIN BECAME a Nation and this is where the Prophecy of the Valley of dry Bones in Ezekiel Chapter 37 describes that this would take place and it did, Israel will have their RIGHTFUL PLACE in the Millennial Kingdom.
God IS NOT through with the Nation of Israel far from it, IN FACT he is going to USE THEM AGAIN during the Seven Year Tribulation Period TO PROCLAIM the Gospel, First with the Two Witnesses
Mentioned in Zechariah Chapter 4 and Revelation Chapter 11 WHO WILL lead 144,000 Jewish Men to Christ (Revelation Chp.7 & 14) and they in turn WILL LEAD many to Christ.
During the Millennial Reign of Christ here on earth the Nation of Israel will have ALL of their Land (The Promise Land) returned to them for they are the RIGHTFUL HEIRS.
– Gives the Boundries: Genesis 15:18-21 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: (19) The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, (20) And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, (21) And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
– Gives the Title Deed to Israel, Not the Arabs: Genesis 17:7-8 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. (8) And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
Those of Replacement Theology DO NOT want you know this, They ALSO TEACH that all prophecies CONCERNING ISRAEL are past history and that we are living as THEY CLAIM in the Millennial Kingdom of Christ, if this is so THEN WHY do we NOT HAVE the Following below…
– There would be NO WARS but PEACE.
Isaiah 2:4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Micah 4:3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
– The Lion shall eat straw like an ox.
Isaiah 11:6-9 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. (7) And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. (8) And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den. (9) They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
Isaiah 65:25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.
– A person will still BE CONSIDERED as a child at 100 years of age.
Isaiah 65:20 There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
The MOST IMPORTANT thing to know IS Jesus Christ as savior, just simply believe that Jesus Christ went to the cross and DIED and shed his blood, was BURIED and three days later RESURRECTED from the dead to pay for your sins.
The moment that you do YOU HAVE (at that second and forever) Everlasting Life which WILL NEVER be taken away no matter what.
The MOST IMPORTANT thing to know IS Jesus Christ as savior, just simply believe that Jesus Christ went to the cross and DIED and shed his blood, was BURIED and three days later RESURRECTED from the dead to pay for your sins.
The moment that you do YOU HAVE (at that second and forever) Everlasting Life which WILL NEVER be taken away no matter what.
-Christ DIED for you – Romans 5:8
-Christ PAID your sins in full – 2 Corinthians 5:21,1 Peter 2:24
-BELIEVE (Trust In Completely) in Christ ALONE as the complete payment of sin for salvation – John 3:16, Acts 16:31, Ephesians 2:8,9
“For the wages(payment) of sin is death (eternal torment in hell); but the GIFT(salvation) of God is eternal life THROUGH Jesus Christ our Lord”. Romans 6:23
IT IS THAT SIMPLE – THE GOSPEL TRUTH