I learned today that reference to the 'fig tree' in the Bible, a lot of times is referring to the Israelites, God's chosen people. The Jews were messing up; they had all the advantage to recognize the Messiah, yet He walked among them and they didn't see. The fig tree was becoming fruitless the more and more they denied His deity. The parable of the Landowner talks of how the landowner was going to give the vineyard to the other vine-growers (us, the gentiles) because the people he had originally chosen rejected the son, the heir to the land. Jesus begins talking about what His church will be and sadly, for the most part, it will not consist of His people but of the gentiles. The gentiles wanted Him, wanted a Savior and for the first time were learning of the scriptures and the prophecy of the Messiah to save the world, and were excited.
"The stone which the builders rejected, this became the chief cornerstone..." v42
An amazing promise: "Truly I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, ... if you say to this mountain, 'be taken up and cast into the sea,' it will happen. And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive." v.21-22
Then there is the verse that describes my life: " 'Son, go work today in the vineyard.' And he answered, 'I will not'; but afterward regretted it and went. LOL Yep, that's me. But Jesus gives me some reassurance here in that He says it is better to go eventually than to say that I am going and then not go at all. Yea. However, better still if I would just go the first time I am directed. Superbowl Sunday today...I'm sure there is an analogy in there somewhere about a player not following the play called, until later...
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