September 2011

There Shall Be No Good Fruit From Among the Jews – Forever!

From Luke Chapter 13: 6 Then He spoke this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit in it and found none. 7 And he said to the vine-dresser, ‘Look, it is three years from which I have come seeking fruit in this fig tree and I find none. Cut it down, for why should the land be useless?’ 8 But answering he says to him: ‘Master, leave it this year also, until when I should dig around it and cast manure 9 and so then it may produce fruit in the future, but otherwise if not, you shall cut it down.’”

Following the feasts and Passovers counted in the Gospel of John, we see that the ministry of Christ did indeed endure for three-and-a-half years. By this we are assured, that Christ used the symbol of the fig tree in this parable to represent Jerusalem in His day, and the three years and the fourth were representative of His ministry.