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Everything in the Bible points to something else. The fig tree mainly points to Revelation, wherein all people not bearing “fruit” in the “season” of the apoca
by undershirt 5y ago
Everything in the Bible points to something else. The fig tree mainly points to Revelation, wherein all people not bearing “fruit” in the “season” of the apocalypse, when He is “hungry” only for the righteous, will be judged to “wither away”.
We build stuff out of trees, so I think he straight-up killed that tree to build a parable out of doing it. It was in his sovereignty to uproot what isn’t Good. In the very next paragraph, he does the same by throwing the merchants out of the temple.
His response to his apostles after they mention the dead tree is interesting. It seems like he ignores them to explain that if they pray about anything, it will happen if they believe it. I think this has something to do with 1) the role of faith in avoiding the tree’s fate so that they may be bear the fruit no matter how impossible it seems since it was “not the season for bearing fruit”, or 2) a picture of the reality of the Kingdom after the harvest, where the Good will have reign to move mountains.
Proofs blossom like trees from epistemic axioms. It’s confounding to believe “Christ is perfect”, but it does bear fruit, however confounding it is. Theology isn’t popularly known, but it’s there if you’re curious.