bbjummy:

I don't understand the spiritual interpretation you are attaching to it cos the bible was clear on the season of productivity.

Arjeeni:
See how Christians are struggling to to right the wrong that was very clear.
From this verse of Bible the following are true about christ.
- Jesus can never be God nor son of God
- He has no knowledge of unseen and limited knowledge about seen
- He was not a unique to other human beings save prophethood and mode of his birth.
- Many of this kind heresy were blatant lies and Christians can not do anything about it other than seize to be Christians.
- Further effect of covering the truth by Christians will open another mess that they can never have a solution for.
- Don't call me names I am just telling the truth.

sukkot:
[b]well like i said its only the priest class who will know the secrets. not everyone in heaven knows the secrets or else there will not be heirachy. so doesnt mean you will not make heaven if you dont know the secrets. it just means maybe you will not be in the priest class. its like ancient egypt or atlantis ? only the priest class knew all the secrets. its like america and england ? only the illuminated elites know all the secrets which is why they have private freemasonic lodges to hide the secrets. in the running of the world there will always be an illuminated priest class and then everyone else. thats how the universe is set up. point being there is heirachy in heaven and just cuz you dont know the secrets of the bible does not mean you will not be in the kingdom. however to make it to heaven your deeds have to be acceptable. its like the saying ' do unto others what you want them to do to you '. therein lies all the requirement. nobody wants anyone doing evil to them or stealing from them or etc etc so dont do it to others and only then will heaven be established on earth. its all about your deeds and the deeds are programmed in you. you dont need a bible to tell you when you are doing wrong[/b]

sweetcocoa:
Darn it! Sukkot, I can't deal.

Sexiestprince:
Please dont be misled!! And people should be very careful the way they make blasphemous statements against JESUS. Even if you don't believe in JESUS, accord him some respect and don't mistakenly or carelessly utter things that could turn against you later.

To answer the question that comes with this topic:
JESUS caused a fig tree without fruits with full knowledge that it wasn't its fruit season.
HE did that to explain to us that we are ought to be fruitful at all times.
Irrespective of time, season, place, we as children of GOD should prosper, excel and be fruitful in and out of season.
we serve a GOD that is not a respecter of Season!!!

Even though it was not the time for the fig tree to bear fruits, JESUS expected to meet fruits on the tree to teach us that GOD doesn't respect protocols when HE wants to bless you and I. HE breaks protocols to favour whoever HE chooses to.

JESUS healed a sick person on Sabbath day and the Pharisees came after HIM.

So brothers and Sisters, JESUS used the fig tree to teach us that HIS will is that we prosper and be Fruitful at all times regardless of Season, age, time or place.
GOD bless u all.

KORLAR:
He could have commanded the tree to bear fruits though since he had the power.

seguun:
So are you saying a woman who is suffering from barrenness and she's now growing old... has no place in your own creed and should be cursed?

sweetcocoa:
How do you people think it's okay to give this sort of explanation and be very confident about it, hmm, na wa o.

So he made seasons but somehow isn't a respecter of it, yet he insisted that there's a time for everything?
I just don't get it, this fig wasn't meant to bear fruit at the time for crying out loud,
how reasonable is it to demand or expect it to bear fruit, when you were the one that programmed it that way to even start with?
Jesus dey smoke cocaine?

Ben Stein: "If you met God in the AfterLife, what would you say to Him?"

Richard Dawkins: "BERTRAND RUSSELL was asked the same question,
and he said, that he would ask Him:

"WHY DID YOU MAKE IT SO HARD FOR US TO FIND YOU?" "

. -EXPELLED! NO INTELLIGENCE ALLOWED.

"Before the opportunity afforded by the Atomic Monopoly is gone."

. -ATOMIC WEAPON AND THE PREVENTION OF WAR, "Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, 2/7-8, (October 1, 1946,)

MuttleyLaff:
You sure dont look like you got the drift

The fig tree was programmed to bear fruit buds that comes out in the spring season
this particular fig tree fruit buds are called the profichi type
Notice from the narrative that, the fig tree had leaves, like as if it is protecting fruit buds
(i.e. this is what trees do with the leaves, to protect fruit from birds etcetera)

Now, what ''it wasn't time for the fig to bear fruits'' means, is that:
''Dont make the mistake that the fruits have already been harvested, to mean, that is why there arent any fruits left on the tree. No.
This tree, at this time in spring, is meant to have bore fruit buds
but it hasnt and only has leaves, pretending that it bears the expected and to be seen, fruit buds

Truth be told that, that it is a teaching about bearing fruits (i.e. good and/or useful fruits)
and the consequence for not bearing such fruits in expected time and/or due season

KORLAR:


In the beginning was THE WORD and THE WORD was with God and THE WORD was God.
Jesus is THE WORD. without Him, nothing made that was made.
Our God is Trinity.. GOD the father GOD the Son GOD the Holy Spirit.

How's Jesus the creator of the world?

sweetcocoa:
was it time for the tree to bear fruit or not?

sweetcocoa:
I don't know why you are running around saying fruit buds and whstnot.

oxmale:
This op is an hypocrite.... The bible says Jesus "Answered and said unto it"
Meaning the fig Tree must have spoken to Jesus.
The o.p omitted that part.
may God have mercy on you
Abeg make una read mark 11:14

MuttleyLaff:
It clearly was from the narrative, time for the tree to bear fruit, which is why Jesus approached it to take, when He was hungry

You wouldnt know about fruit buds because you obviously havent learnt about the fig trees and all the different seasons of the year they bears fruit buds, which incidentally are also known as fruitlets or small fruits

Memyselfu2009:
Example simple question go hungry for a day. Then tell me how u feel when u go home d food is been delayed. it show that why Jesus was no earth he was a man a human being like me and you not a spirt.

emis8:
bro, its all in the scripture.
if you read the whole chapter, you'll get to hear when Peter acknowledged that the tree he cursed actually died.

Why did he curse the fig tree
1. Jesus is the creator of the world
In the beginning, all trees he created rought forth fruits in and out of season, there was always fruits for Adam and Eve to eat. As the creator, he expected that the fig should have fruits wether its his season or not. The fig should have responded to His demand at least.
Remember Jesus said, everyone of us who does not bear fruit, my father will uproot, and those of us who do bear fruits, He will trim so that we bear even much fruit.

2. He cursed the tree to teach them about Faith
when Peter acknowledged that the fig tree he cursed actually died, Jesus told them to "have faith in God"
He told them that if they have the slightest level of Faith, they can speak to a mountain to move from where it is to another place and it will happen as it happened to the fig tree.

As a Christian, if you put the little faith you received (as you got born again ) to use, nothing shall be impossible to you. You can speak to anything including money and it will answer you.

Have a glorious Sunday Service.

MuttleyLaff:
It clearly was from the narrative, time for the tree to bear fruit, which is why Jesus approached it to take, when He was hungry

You wouldnt know about fruit buds because you obviously havent learnt about the fig trees and all the different seasons of the year they bears fruit buds, which incidentally are also known as fruitlets or small fruits

PastorAIO:
So obviously the writer of that Gospel didn't know anything about fig seasons because he himself said it wasn't the season for the fig to bear fruit.

I know that you guys are now going to flout logic by claiming that 'it was NOT the season, but it was the time for the tree to bear fruit' or some such nonsense.

sweetcocoa:
Smh, seriously how can't you tell that your attempt at twisting this is nothing but pathetic?
How can it be time when the book of mark said it wasn't? Who is lying?

MuttleyLaff:
[size=1pt]Read the excerpt below, if you really are a firm believer in logic and reason

Read the below before getting the hump or unnecessarily getting your knickers in a twist

There is a very reasonable explanation why Jesus cursed the fig tree even though it wasn’t the season for figs.
Even before the season, fig trees produce little knobs which are eaten by a passerby.
As the late renowned NT scholar F.F. Bruce noted:

"The other miracle is the cursing of the barren fig tree (Mk. xi 12 ff.), a stumbling block to many for PastorAIO, freecocoa and the likes. They feel that it is unlike Jesus, and so someone must have misunderstood what actually happened, or turned a spoken parable into an acted miracle, or something like that.

Some, on the other hand, welcome the story because it shows that Jesus was human enough to get unreasonably annoyed on occasion. It appears, however, that a closer acquaintance with fig trees would have prevented such misunderstandings.

‘The time of the fig is not yet,’ says Mark, for it was just before Passover, about six weeks before the fully-formed fig appears. The fact that Mark adds these words shows that he knew what he was talking about.

When the fig leaves appear about the end of March, they are accompanied by a crop of small knobs, called taqsh by the Arabs, a sort of fore-runner of the real figs. These taqsh are eaten by peasants and others when hungry. They drop off before the real fig is formed. But if the leaves appear unaccompanied by taqsh, there will be no figs that year.

So it was evident to our Lord, when He turned aside to see if there were any of these taqsh on the fig-tree to assuage His hunger for the time being, that the absence of the taqsh meant that there would be no figs when the time of figs came.

For all its fair foliage, it was a fruitless and a hopeless tree."
(Bruce, Are The New Testament Documents Reliable? [Intervarsity Press; Downers Grove, Ill, fifth revised edition 1992], pp. 73-74;

Another noted Evangelical scholar Craig S. Keener makes the following observation:

"At Passover season in late March or early April, fig trees are often in leaf on the eastern side of the Mount of Olives.
At this time of year, such fig trees contained only green early figs (Arabs call them taqsh), which ripen around June but often drop off before that time, leaving only green leaves on the tree. A leafy tree lacking such early figs, however, would bear no figs at all that year,"
(Keener, A Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew [Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, July 1999], p. 504)[/size]

PastorAIO:



Ultimately the purpose of writing the story is to glean the message out of it and the message is the same. It is a reference to Israel.

fridex:
how can you tell it's not in its season. secondly no matter if it is not in it season atleast it should have fruit on it as a sign DAT it is fruitful. thirdly do you know if he came a season before he didn't meet a single fruit on it. he came another season same thing happened. when next he comes don't you think he has right to cursed such tree dat as refused to bear fruit. food for thought

PastorAIO:
What is this long convoluted nonsense?

Mark, who you say should know what he is talking about, told us the reason why he found nothing on the tree.

When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.

The reason he found nothing but leaves is because it was not the due season. And furthermore, Mark made it clear that he went to the tree to seek Fruits, not some buds

PastorAIO:
Furthermore if you look at the wider context of other parables in the gospels the find stories like this:

6Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it, but did not find any. 7So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I have come to search for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Therefore cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’

This parable is almost exactly the same story as what Mark tells us was an actual event.

The parable and the history are the same story and they have been conflated.

The exact same story, but in one version it is a parable and in another version it is told like an historical event.

Ultimately the purpose of writing the story is to glean the message out of it and the message is the same. It is a reference to Israel.

Terye:
then I guess your Jesus was wicked. Isn't the the lord who created the tree? He should have known its not the time for it to fruit since he is the same person that created it.. Your doctrine makes no sense to me.. (No offense)... Why will God be hungry in the first place?