Chrisitans: Why did Jesus get angry & kill the innocent fig tree? Mark says clearly it was "not fig season"!!!

Mark 11, 12-20. What is the moral lesson keeping in mind that the fig tree was clearly just being "a fig tree". I partially understand if it was actually fig season and it bore no fruit however it was "NOT the season for figs".





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Chrisitans: Why did Jesus get angry %26amp; kill the innocent fig tree? Mark says clearly it was "not fig season"!!!
Seeing from afar a fig tree having leaves, He went to see if perhaps He would find something on it: Essentially, the tree was a picture of “false advertising,” having leaves, but no figs. Ordinarily, this is not the case with these fig trees, which normally do not have leaves without also having figs.





For it was not the season for figs: It wasn’t that the fig tree didn’t have figs, because it wasn’t supposed to. The problem is that it had leaves but didn’t have figs. The leaves said “There are figs here,” but the figs weren’t there.





There were many trees with only leaves, and these were not cursed. There were many trees with neither leaves nor fruit, and these were not cursed. This tree was cursed because it professed to have fruit, but did not.





In response Jesus said to it, “Let no one eat fruit from you ever again”: The tree is cursed for its pretense of leaves, not for its lack of fruit; like Israel, it has the outward form but no fruit. In this picture, Jesus warned Israel - and us - of God’s displeasure when we have the appearance of fruit, but not the fruit itself. God isn’t pleased when His people are all leaves and no fruit.





In all works in the ministry of Jesus, this is the only “destructive” miracle. The Old Testament is filled with miracles of destruction and judgment, but Jesus most perfectly showed us the nature of God. If this was the only miracle of its kind, we must see there is a great and important lesson in it. God doesn’t approve when there is profession without reality, talk without walk.
Reply:firstly, was Mark there? Because He gave a brilliant account of an 'incident' on a boat that He wasnt on, He heard it second hand....


secondly... The fig tree was used to signify i.e its symbology ... some were not ready/willing to accept who Jesus was, they were dead to His teachings.
Reply:Maybe he was just really, really frustrated and decided to take it out on a non-human.
Reply:The fig tree represents Israel, they were offered all God's blessings and now the greatest blessing of all was among them, but they weren't ready . . . they let the innocent Tree of Life be killed.





If you really care for fig trees then their growth %26amp; fruitfulness is one of the many blessings they were offered, but they were not willing to obey.





How do people find you - bearing good fruit, or covering up your own shame with leaves only??
Reply:Jesus was hungry--the tree wouldn't feed him--so he spat the dummy--%26amp; cursed the poor tree to die.
Reply:The fig tree represented Israel , most didn't accept Jesus , so they bore no fruit. They will after the rapture.
Reply:Jesus spoke in parables. However, I do believe He did kill the fig tree. It was symbolic of those that don't "bear fruit" or have good works. They will die. Not that works alone can save us, only Jesus can do that. However, "faith without works is dead" and a person without faith is as dead as that fig tree (spiritually)
Reply:Precisely. It wasn't the season for figs, but the tree's creator was hungry. It should have produced fruit regardless of the season.





The whole thing is an object lesson - you know, like you use with little kids. Rabbis of Jesus' time were always using object lessons. The tree represented the people of God who were without the 'fruit' desired by their God. So Jesus illustrated what would happen to them (in 70AD or thereabouts) by cursing the tree.
Reply:He was showing the power of faith.
Reply:Jesus used the fig tree as an illustration for His disciples. It was not done just to kill the tree but to teach them in a way that they would remember. Jesus knew that they were entering Jerusalem where He would be killed. He used the fig tree as an illustration and a warning of what ultimately awaits those who oppose the kingdom of God, like the Jewish leaders of that day. Rather than bearing useful fruit,the nation was misusing its privileges as God's people
Reply:His father was a psychotic who did not mind at all destroying his creations when he was of a mind to. His son simply had less psychotic tendancies than the parent. Jesus was most likely a good man because of the association he had with Joseph--who raised him. Didn't read anywhere where Joseph taught his son about how to mass murder--that was his fathers job--due to the contamination by joseph he wasn't very good at being psychotic--so he only messed with fig trees as an outlet.
Reply:Jesus did not get angry and kill an innocent fig tree
Reply:Poor fig tree. Should we all bow and say a prayer?
Reply:oh look at the religious robots' answers. they all came up with different interpretations.....silly robots. they can't even agree on something simple as a dead fig tree. to think they go about basing their lives on what the bible supposedly 'said.' sad indeed.
Reply:to kill would mean the tree had a life. however, they don't.





I think, therefor I am. Trees don't think, they don't have a life.





I could care less what happened to the tree and why
Reply:There was a demon possessing the tree. It was the real object of the Lord's ire. Just guessing.
Reply:I could not help you with this in my own words so I looked in some commentaries which were not very helpful on this passage. Your question is a very good one. This is the best I could find, but the actions that Jesus took against the fig tree still seem odd. I like the way you put it: "the fig tree was clearly just being "a fig tree".





Any way here's something:





Mark 11:12-26


This was intended to be a type and figure of the doom passed upon the Jewish church, to which he came, seeking fruit, but found none (Luke 13:6-7); and though it was not, according to the doom in the parable, immediately cut down, yet, according to this in the history, blindness and hardness befel them (Rom 11:8,25), so that they were from henceforth good for nothing. The disciples heard what sentence Christ passed on this tree, and took notice of it. Woes from Christ's mouth are to be observed and kept in mind, as well as blessings.


(from Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible: New Modern Edition, Electronic Database. Copyright (c) 1991 by Hendrickson Publishers, Inc.)
Reply:He didn't kill it He cursed it.
Reply:It is absolutely hysterical that the bible thumpers are bending over backwards to excuse their Saviour for acting like a spoiled brat, just because he was hungry.





They have done Exactly what their own bible tells them NOT to do...to ADD or TAKE away from anything in the Bible.





Mark makes a definite point of saying "..HE WAS HUNGRY"....there is no parable in THAT....Mark continue: '..."He SEARCHED and found nothing but leaves"....and he was so pissed off, he CURSED it, "May no one ever eat of your fruit again".....and just to show how REALLY pissed off he was, he heads right for the temple and starts whuppin' the money changes and turning over their tables!!!!. Next day when Peter notices the tree was DEAD...Jesus gets really cryptic and tells him "Have faith in God"....because faith can remove mountains???? What the hell does THAT have to do with the dead fig tree?????





Face it, the simple fact is: Jesus was hungry, he was peckish, he was pissed off and he took it out on the Fig tree and the money lenders. To turn this into an Anti-Jewish parable is simply a continuation of the Anti-Semitism that stunk up Christianity for years.
Reply:To help us understand Romans 11.


The fig tree is a picture of the Jews (not to be confused with the Olive tree of Romans 11).


The Significance of Romans 11 is that the Jews will be temporarily blinded for a while, but then in the end, they will be revived before the second coming of Christ.


This also helps explain Jesus mentioning of the fig tree in prophecy (Matt. 24:32-33).
Reply:I'm not an expert in figs. The commentaries I've read, however, say that the figs come before the leaves. The leaves come out to protect the figs from the sun. If there are leaves on the tree, it is promising that there are figs ripening.
Reply:That was a parable.





Jesus did not kill the Innocent fig tree. Beside the fact I don't know any tree or plant to be guilty of anything or innocent. It is a parable to how a person is wasting their potential. If you have the ability, per say, to play a piano. don't waste that gift, and play music tell your heart sing. The tree is supposed to produce, and not producing is way of wasting its' potential for what is was supposed to.





The fig tree is us. Two points. Have faith, and don't waste your potential.





My thoughts, and words.





Thank You.
Reply:Jesus never got angry and killed an inoccent fig tree. That's blasphemy. Secondly, it was a parable, just to prove a point.
Reply:%26lt;shrugs%26gt; If God wants figs out of season, He should get figs out of season. If God said the sky was purple it would be true, so the fig tree was being rebellious, lol.
Reply:He was a carpenter, he needed wood.