What is the meaning of the Parable of the Fig Tree? | GotQuestions.org

[@prissystacks]

Amen, amen I needed this!!!

[@troygreen8959]

I appreciate that "Got Questions Ministries" concentrates on the primary meaning of the texts with a focus on application. We would do well to study the Bible the same way, "What does this mean? and what should I do about it?" God, as the parable shows, is looking for fruit (faith and its works).

[@darrendavenport3094]

Indeed! We should pray for wisdom and discernment concerning the Lord's word and He will give it to us

[@brucejones381]

Absolutely 💯 I agree the loud music takes away from trying to hear the true meaning of your explanation and illustration of your video.

[@zanycarnivore3036]

Praise the Lord for his mercy last everlasting ❤

[@charlesmorris8791]

Great teaching, thank you very much for sharing. May God Bless you, your loved ones, and everyone who hears this message. The Spirit and the Bride say, Come Lord Jesus...

[@NithiyaAdithiya1808]

Glory be to God Thank you Isho

[@docuwithjerry-official]

Praise Lord! God bless GQ Ministries! wonderful way to spread the Gospel through these Illustration & animation. Blessings

[@lar7199]

Hallelujah, AMEN 👏🙏

[@johndavo5365]

Great video and teaching. Thx GQ's

[@newcreationinchrist1423]

Amen GQ 🙂🙏 thanks for sharing

[@gracepilditch9388]

Please please please remove the background music it’s such a distraction

[@LambsGrace]

I agree. The background music is too loud and distracting from the important explanation.

[@RCF300]

If i can be honest the music wasnt bothering me until i read your comment about it 😂

[@gracepilditch9388]

@@RCF300 I think I know what you mean. Sometimes it’s hard to concentrate especially when dealing with a tricky parable like this, I didn’t feel dramatic background musical effects were necessary. There’s more than enough drama in God’s Word! But thank you for your comment. It was helpful.

[@viceroybear6298]

Make your own . create don't whine.

[@achildofthelight4725]

I don't recall anyone telling the bustling crowds in the streets of Jerusalem to quiet themselves so they could hear Jesus speak... Focus on one thing only, and you will not be bothered by the background, and there will you accept seperation.

[@IAMhassentyou]

Amen 🙏

[@beadoll8025]

I'm usually distracted by music in videos, but this was actually perfect. Thank you so much for your thorough explanation. I now fully understand and love this parable.

[@superjumpbros64]

Thank you

[@dsfsdf-rm6pj]

In Matthew 21:17-20 we read about Jesus cursing a fig tree on the Mount of Olives. He was coming from Bethany and going into Jerusalem. We know that the village of Bethphage was very close to Bethany. Bethphage means "house of figs." It is very likely that the fig tree in our verses was near Bethphage. Jesus was hungry and saw a fig tree with leaves on it. This was not the season for figs to be ripe. In fact, this was not even the season for the fig tree to have leaves. When Jesus found that the tree did not have any fruit he told the tree that it would never again give fruit. It quickly withered away. Jesus was giving a lesson by cursing the tree. He was telling us that it is wrong to put on a false face. We should not give the impression that we are doing something when we really are not. The tree gave the impression that it was giving fruit. It really was not. But an even more important message was in what Jesus did. The Jewish Sanhedrin had a special meeting house in Bethphage. The Sanhedrin were in charge of judging many things of a secular and of a holy nature. They set the limits on legal measurements. In fact, the Sanhedrin would have probably been the ones who made the final judgment regarding the crucifixion of Christ. Jesus was making a point that the Sanhedrin had a face of being fruitful but that they really had no fruit. And it would not be long before they would be made to wither away like the fig tree. There would be a new place to get fruit. The Old Law was going to be nailed to the cross with Jesus and would no longer give life to the Jews. Jesus would institute the New Law beginning on the Day of Pentecost just a couple of months later. He makes this very point in verse 43 when he states, "Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth fruits thereof."

[@michaelseay9783]

You no clue what you are talking about regarding the fig tree.

[@0mar-777]

​@@michaelseay9783no I think he is correct all these scriptures can have diff meanings/interpretation or what ever is called. Im sure you know this. It might or can depend just where you are in life anyhow how the original comment explained it is exactly kinda off how i took it

[@michaelseay9783]

@@0mar-777 the Fig Tree represents the House Of Israel. The Jews had stopped producing fruit. They were done away with.

[@rainygorges3403]

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[@SDJ992-q9t]

The barren fig tree that Jesus cursed was a symbol of the unfruitful ancient Jewish nation. Although this nation had been in a covenant relationship with God, the appearance was deceptive, for the nation proved barren of good fruitage, even rejecting God’s own Son! The cause of this unfruitfulness was lack of faith. (Romans 9:31,32) By causing the fig tree to wither, Jesus was demonstrating what the end result would be for that fruitless, faithless nation.

[@Fraevo10]

Luke’s gospel the first chapter said John the Baptist’s elderly parents Zacharius and Elizabeth “were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless”. Please help me understand how that is not “works righteousness”. I am humbly trying to understand . Thank you. Shalom

[@dank2476]

There are only 2 reasons when death comes. One is that we have been faithfully fruitful and it's time for us to finally rest in peace. Two is God sees no more fruits in us and we have become useless so He ends our lives.

[@BrockJamesStory]

That parable is about Israel not the body of a Christ though

[@dank2476]

@@BrockJamesStory The story of Lot shows that God will destroys cities where there is no righteous people. Anyway, when God takes away lives or allows lives to end is when His purpose for that person has ended.

[@BrockJamesStory]

@@dank2476 that’s not true though, the story of Lot does not tell us that God destroys cities, it tells us he destroyed that city

[@DRVenard]

Also, the fig tree not having nodules with the leaves would have reminded His Hebrew audience of Jeremiah 8:14. I will take away their havest declares The Lord, there will be no grapes on the vine. There will be no figs on the tree and their leaves will wither. What I have given them will be taken from them. Essentially: they look good on the outside, but not producing fruit.

[@saltnprepper]

Jeremiah 8:13. Thanks for sharing

[@glenhowell6909]

Revelation 3:20 isnt used properly.

[@sevendayoptions6704]

I noticed the reply is glitched on my phone, sorry about the repeated post, I kept hitting reply and it wouldn't do anything, apparently it was posting even though it seemed it wasn't.

[@Kattchatt]

For the love of Pete, that's not what the knocking on the door means. It's in revelation for crying out loud, it's about his return. When he returns to HIS house, he expects to see diligent workers of Christ doing the work assigned to them. It's about his second coming.

[@Dukelanovic]

In this representation we see the impact that Jesus had to a fig tree - He wanted the tree to live but the tree was made by God to be barren. Even if the tree was barren the Gardener loved that tree and begged for mercy to have fruits from it later, for he was a good gardener. But it came to pass that the tree was having a certain destructive impact from God - Allah - Adonai Elohejnu and that the hungry Jesus then started to rebel in the Jerusalem Temple - And that was what the Romans spectated about Jesus - the destructive impact in Jerusalem the town that they also wanted to claim as holy and to proclaim it as Alijina capitola - what there means the holy city of the Bosnian Alia people in the former Roman empire - who there also always represented in ancient Rome a certain threat to the Roman empire since ever. The Roman loved the Alia tribe and they fought many battles with those who indeed have been the best Roman spies. The Alia guys might surely been impressed by the first destructive wonder of Yeshua as the swines have been all running into the sea and they saw that as a certain release from their own slavery in the Roman system (What there indeed angered the swine keepers and the Romans - or Greek who ate from that food that those believed was from a Godess to have Odyseus as man - who there represented in Rome and in Greek mythology a certain power of God. - A man who loved Zeus (Or later the Roman main God) and his family more than a Godess with which he could live forever hwo there was transforming his fellows into swines. That was the reason why the Roman secret service was not crucifying Jesus immediately - but they kept an eye on Jesus and his behavior.

[@Dukelanovic]

Surely Yeshua might have been dead and some apostels survived during the Romans and Greek made the failure to bring the swine into the Jewish Temple and so they gained a certain war among secret services until the day today where we are living. - When will it ever stop and when will we have peace and is a world in peace that what we desire? The question is if the whole story might function in another way?

[@BrockJamesStory]

Your not correct on the more time though, the more time was roughly a year after the ascension, with the 12 apostles trying to plead with Israel one last time, but at Acts 7 with the stoning of Stephen, Israel was set aside and God raised up the apostle Paul to go to the Gentiles and to reveal the mystery “the body of Christ”

[@badoshep]

Backround music is annoying

[@aliceyong4110]

My

[@downside1237]

The fig tree is the national symbol of Israel. Israel is symbolized by the fig tree. Israel is the center of God's dealing with his own people and all the nations. History centers around the messiah and his people. Sixty nine weeks have passed, only one more (the last 7 is the time of Jacob's trouble the tribulation)and at the end of the seventieth, the kingdom comes.

[@InGodsTime24]

One question asked.... 20 different answers. Christians seldom agree on anything in the Bible. I guess that's why we have thousands of denominations. 🤔

[@sevendayoptions6704]

He never said to repent from sins because that's impossible to do, he said to repent from dead works which doesn't mean you get saved but it's a start. Jesus to repent and believe, which is to say turn from unbelief to belief in Jesus christ, never repent from sins since that won't do anything and it's a works based system, which is a dead works. So one must repent from thinking they must repent from sins, and just believe through faith and nothing else.

[@Gardentrellis]

Then why did Jesus tell the adulterous woman to repent from her sins? And also this: John 5:14 But afterward Jesus found him in the Temple and told him, “Now you are well; so stop sinning, or something even worse may happen to you. To say that it’s impossible to repent is like saying, I see a trap in front of me but it’s impossible to not fall into. Yet you have eyes to see it and go around it….repenting is a choice.

[@gracepilditch9388]

Mark 1:15 days “The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!” Also Jesus tells the woman taken in adultery to go and sin no more. We must indeed repent of our sins

[@bjornegan6421]

2 Corinthians 7.

[@gracepilditch9388]

@@bjornegan6421such clarity in these verses from 2 Corinthians 7: your sorrow led you to repentance. For you became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way by us. 10 Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.

[@sevendayoptions6704]

Repenting from a sin is like eating a donut, changing your mind about the donut and puking it back out and reforming the donut back to its original for. Notice he says repent and stop sinning. There's a difference. Repentance is changing one's mind and turning to something. You can't turn away from the sins you committed because you already committed them. If you could than there would be no need to christ to exist.

[@NarrowPathDoctrine]

I enjoyed this but "Stands at the door of each man's heart" 🤦‍♂ You know very well that the verse you're alluding to in Revelation has nothing to do with that. So good parable explanation, awful use of a verse within that explanation.

[@paulysguitarjournal]

Was thinking the same thing.

[@NikoMoorshead]

Stupid story