Tag: fig_tree
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for it was not the season for figs – 3
You will break the oppressor’s rod,just as you did when you destroyed the army of Midian. Isaiah 9:4b NLT the Oppressor’s Rod We expect a powerful King to save us, not a loving, all-powerful King. “..and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Isaiah 53:3 We…
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for it was not the season for figs – 2
… and I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day. In that day, declares the LORD of hosts, every one of you will invite his neighbor to come under his vine and under his fig tree.” – Zechariah 3:9b-10 [circa 519 B.C.] Looking Back to the Prophets From Moses to the late Prophets at…
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for it was not the season for figs – 1
Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit,and he who guards his master will be honored. – Proverbs 27:18 Consider the Creator of the garden approaching a fig tree before its season. Who will guard the Son of Man as He enters the Temple and fast-approaches the reproach of the Cross? Prologue to this series…
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for it was not the season for figs – prologue
Lost in the glory of the entrance of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday we find a brief story much overlooked. The story of Jesus cursing a fig tree not only seems much out of character for the Lord, but relatively insignificant. I cannot recall ever hearing it preached simply on its own merits. In…
