“and if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.”
Luke 13:9 KJV
Jesus teaches a parable of the unfruitful tree, ‘if it doesn’t bear figs by next year, we’ll cut it down.’ This is an obvious picture of the nation of Israel. The Owner is the Father and the Gardener is Jesus, Who came to them, and for three years had longed to have true spiritual fruit from His spiritual Vine. The warning is that it would be cut down if it did not bear the fruits of repentance. Today too the purpose of this parable is to warn mankind that the times are nearing of the end of God’s grace toward them. It is not just Israel or the gentiles but the house of God itself. For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begins at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? Amen!
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