Last month my husband and I purchased a fig tree, and on our way home, I began to think of the parable of the fig tree. You see, this little fig tree that we had purchased was to replace the one we had to cut down in our yard a year or so prior. The previous owners of our home had planted this fig tree right at the bottom of the porch and it had become fairly obtrusive and never produced any fruit. So, my husband, cut it down, and down she went.
What is the parable of the Fig Tree?
Luke 13:6He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. 7Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? 8And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: 9And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.
Yeshua was speaking of Himself here as the “certain man” and the fig tree represented the House of Judah, and Israel as a whole. Later on, we see Yeshua curse the fig tree and it withered away, which was a foreshadow to the destruction of Jerusalem: Continue reading “The Barren Fig Tree”