The Lord Christ Jesus preaches the Prophets as well as the Law.
Read Habakkuk or any prophet and see the Lord predicted in days & centuries Before Christ.
Jesus shares scripture in ways few understand. Application may well apply to these last days as well. RH
Roger@TalkofJesus.com
This series from summer 2017 began here. https://talkofjesus.com/not-season-figs-prologue/
The Lord warns of the tree and it’s fruit
In the early preaching of Jesus (right after the golden rule) Jesus offers this warning.
A Tree and Its Fruit
15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16 You will recognize them by their fruits.
Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
17 So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. 18 A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit.
19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.
Though the fig tree does not blossom
What shall we do?
“We live thistle-bound lives in lands of lost promise.”
“For the nations are led astray by men and women who seek not the will of the Lord.”
The garden of the Lord seems long lost to sin.
Leaders listening to the Lord’s command are no more.
Judges enact rules of unrighteousness.
Kings conquer, covet and divide.
Prophets no longer warn of God displeasure of even ‘christians‘ living this ‘life’ and the Lord’s silence disheartens the generations.
In the first century A.D. during Jesus’ ministry:
The head of John the Baptist has passed on a platter and crowds of Jerusalem under Rome look for a Messiah and King.
A prophet seven centuries earlier had cursed a fig tree on their behalf echoing the hearts of this Passover procession with Palms – our Palm Sunday multitude.
Habakkuk 1: NKJV
O Lord, how long shall I cry,
And You will not hear?
Why do You look on those who deal treacherously,
And hold Your tongue when the wicked devours
A person more righteous than he?
O, faithless fig tree, dear dried up vine; do you believe that you alone have cried out to the Lord for mercy?
Habakkuk 3:
O Lord, I have heard Your speech and was afraid;
O Lord, revive Your work in the midst of the years!
In the midst of the years make it known;
In wrath remember mercy.
A Hymn of Faith
17 Though the fig tree should not blossom,
nor fruit be on the vines,
the produce of the olive fail
and the fields yield no food,
the flock be cut off from the fold
and there be no herd in the stalls,
18 yet I will rejoice in the Lord;
I will take joy in the God of my salvation.
19 God, the Lord, is my strength;
he makes my feet like the deer's;
he makes me tread on my high places.
A second look at a triumphal entry
17 Though the fig tree may not blossom,
Nor fruit be on the vines;
Though the labor of the olive may fail,
And the fields yield no food;
Though the flock may be cut off from the fold,
And there be no herd in the stalls—
18 Yet I will rejoice in the Lord,
I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Matthew 21:
4 This took place to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet, saying,
5 “Say to the daughter of Zion,
‘Behold, your king is coming to you,
humble, and mounted on a donkey,
on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.’”
9 And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”
10 And when he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?”
11 And the crowds said, “This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”
12 And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. 13 He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”
14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.
17 And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany and lodged there.
To be continued…
