“and seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.”
Mark 11:13 KJV
Jesus, feeling hungry, noticed a leafy fig tree in the distance, so He walked over to see if there was any fruit on it, but there was none—only leaves (for it wasn’t yet the season for bearing figs). The fig tree is first mentioned when Adam and Eve first sinned against God and then covered their nakedness with fig leaves. Fig leaves were a covering for fallen mankind to hide behind. It also became a hiding place for Zaccheus, who climbed a sycamore fig tree to see Jesus. The tree with leaves but no fruit symbolises the religious system that does not depend on a relationship with Jesus our Saviour. After this, Jesus went to drive out the moneychangers from the temple, who were rotten fruit. The firstfruits of the harvest Jesus was looking for, came on the day of Pentecost, at the end of the Feast of Firstfruits. Let’s choose to bear much fruit because we totally depend on Jesus, our Vine, apart from Whom we can do nothing. Amen!
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