BetteTheRed said:
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And it wasn't just that it didn't bear any fruit. It wasn't the season for it to bear fruit. And even if it were (or Jesus could tell by the condition of the tree that it wouldn't) and the tree weren't producing, that is the job/problem of the agriculturalist - to feed/water/prune it so that it does. The tree is incapable of getting up and moving to a more hospitable clime, as it were.
paradox3 said ------Kind of makes you feel sorry for the fig tree, doesn't it?
Again Worldly Glasses -----the Blind leading the Blind on Spiritual Matters ------
The Cleaning of the temple and The Fig Tree that Jesus cursed ---has Spiritual Significance showing the Spiritual condition of Israel ---the cleansing of the temple showed His criticism of the worship that was going on and He was denouncing this type of worship in His Father's house -------and the Cursing of the Fig tree Jesus was symbolically denouncing Israel as a Nation as they would have no relationship with Him they were Spiritual Dead Producing no Fruit------Very Important Spiritual stuff here ------
There are many today who Claim to be Christians who are like the dead fig tree ----they bear no fruit and are spiritually dead ------they mouth the word Christian but their heart is not in Christ -----
unsafe says -------and Posted ---------Jesus uses the Fig tree to represent Israel
Fig tree
Fig tree
Everywhere common in Palestine, both wild and cultivated. Figs were an important food. The tree is one of the earliest to show its fruitbuds, which appear before the leaves; thus a fig tree with leaves would be expected to also have fruit.
Jesus’ cursing the fig tree for its fruitlessness (Mark 11:12–13, 20–23) was an allusion to the fruitlessness of Israel. The time when the leaves appear indicates that summer is “nigh at hand” (
Matt. 24:32–33;
D&C 45:37–38;
JS—M 1:38–39). For other references to figs, see
Gen. 3:7;
1 Kgs. 4:25;
2 Kgs. 20:7;
John 1:47–50. The sycomore, spoken of in
Isa. 9:10,
Amos 7:14, and
Luke 19:4, was a variety of fig tree.
