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To: O'Hara who wrote (9147)	10/29/1997 5:58:00 PM
From: yard_man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

Hi Shalom, Perhaps I've underanalyzed this parable. I've always taken the application to be individual. First principle: Faith. He tells his disciples that if they ask and do not doubt ... Of course it is followed shortly with the Vineyard parable -- directly applicable to God's disappointment with Israel and Israel's rejection of Christ which Jesus had just experienced earlier in the chapter. Agree there is probably deeper meaning. Could it be connected to this verse: 43"Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit. ? This would tend to yield a more direct interpretation, no?

To: O'Hara who wrote (9147)	10/29/1997 6:21:00 PM
From: Lee Bush	Respond to of 39621

Shalom: Re: The Fig Tree. Yes, I agree that each is known by it's fruit. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, an evil man brings forth evil things (Matt 12:33-37; Luke 6:43-45). Yet, there seems to be something more here. In Luke 21:29-32, we see reference to the fig tree as a sign of the end times, depending upon your interpretation of the kingdom of God. In Mark 11 vs. 12-14 we read the interesting account of the withered fig tree. This parable is between the triumphant entry into Jerusalem and the cleansing of the temple. It was not the season for figs, but Jesus expected this tree to have figs on it. Why? Because this tree should have known, through faith, that the Messiah was coming. In the version in Matthew, we see Jesus following this experience with a lesson on faith. So, I believe that there is a second teaching concerning this particular fig tree. If the people of Israel had been exercising their faith at that time, they would have been ready for Messiah. As it was, that generation failed to enter into the kingdom. In the Psalms we have the prophetic words: Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness; and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake...The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein (Ps 69:20-23, 36) Thank the Lord there is a remnant of Judah that does understand and walks the walk of faith in Yeshua, their Messiah. Shalom, Lee