I have a fruiting fig tree in my garden. The fruit is already quite large. When will I know when it is ready to pick and eat? Can I eat the whole fruit after removing the skin. Any suggestions for recipes?
Fig Tree - When can I harvest the Fruit?
Figs are usually ready to eat mid to late august.
They become quite soft to touch and may even begin to burst on the tree!
To eat, you dont need to peel, the skin is very soft and sweet.
Have them freshly picked for breakfast with some honey!
Just remember to wash them first.
Mmmmmmm!
Reply:When they ripen and turn purple.
Reply:Fig jam is super...and so are peeled sliced figs soaked in a splash of sherry wine finished off with whipped cream for a party dessert. Black figs or yellow figs, both are tasty for eating "out of hand" or jammed if you get too many all at once.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Problem with my fig tree?
Hello fellow plant lovers...
I recently bought a fig as a houseplant, and it is a weeping fig bush species. I was lucky that it didn't drop it's leaves after a rather traumatic trip home, but I started noticing small yellow/grey discolourations on some of the leaves (but not very many). The spots are tiny, they don't cover the entire leaf (so it's probably not a light problem)
I don't think I've overwatered it. I just gave it a few fertiliser spikes, so if it's a nitrogen deficiency it should go away soon, but the spots keep appearing.
With all that detail, can anyone possibly identify this problem?
Problem with my fig tree?
Like you said yellow leaves usually a sign of a lack of nitrogen in the soil. The only other thing i can think of is if its outgrown the pot im not sure if you have transplanted it into a new pot when you got it home or not.
Reply:The place where you bought it had already fertilized it. We are not suppose to fertilize a new potted plant for at least six weeks after we bring it home. It is best to fertilize potted plants with a liquid fertilizer. Always read the directions on the container for outside and indoor plants.
You might lose this one, but that is how we learn. Buy another but read up on the care of fig plants/trees before you buy.
Reply:have you checked to see if the spots can be rubbed off?
if so they may very well be immature scale that are on the move.
if the plant was treated with a leaf cleaner or shine product that might be it.
sun scald is easier to identify but is another possibility.
let me know....
I recently bought a fig as a houseplant, and it is a weeping fig bush species. I was lucky that it didn't drop it's leaves after a rather traumatic trip home, but I started noticing small yellow/grey discolourations on some of the leaves (but not very many). The spots are tiny, they don't cover the entire leaf (so it's probably not a light problem)
I don't think I've overwatered it. I just gave it a few fertiliser spikes, so if it's a nitrogen deficiency it should go away soon, but the spots keep appearing.
With all that detail, can anyone possibly identify this problem?
Problem with my fig tree?
Like you said yellow leaves usually a sign of a lack of nitrogen in the soil. The only other thing i can think of is if its outgrown the pot im not sure if you have transplanted it into a new pot when you got it home or not.
Reply:The place where you bought it had already fertilized it. We are not suppose to fertilize a new potted plant for at least six weeks after we bring it home. It is best to fertilize potted plants with a liquid fertilizer. Always read the directions on the container for outside and indoor plants.
You might lose this one, but that is how we learn. Buy another but read up on the care of fig plants/trees before you buy.
Reply:have you checked to see if the spots can be rubbed off?
if so they may very well be immature scale that are on the move.
if the plant was treated with a leaf cleaner or shine product that might be it.
sun scald is easier to identify but is another possibility.
let me know....
Fig Newtons?
Are fig Newtons poisonous to dogs if they eat one?
Fig Newtons?
No. Dogs are not allergic to any of the ingredients in fig newtons. But if they eat a whole carton, they may throw up. Dogs usually don't eat things with much sugar.
I wouldn't intentionally give my dog a fig newton...
Reply:No, fig newtons are not. However, if you have a small dog, I would break it up into smaller pieces as the cookie's chewy consistancy may cause your dog to choke.
Reply:If your dog enjoyed it, I don't think it's poisonous. But chocolate in large quantity will be poisonous to dogs and cats.
Fig Newtons?
No. Dogs are not allergic to any of the ingredients in fig newtons. But if they eat a whole carton, they may throw up. Dogs usually don't eat things with much sugar.
I wouldn't intentionally give my dog a fig newton...
Reply:No, fig newtons are not. However, if you have a small dog, I would break it up into smaller pieces as the cookie's chewy consistancy may cause your dog to choke.
Reply:If your dog enjoyed it, I don't think it's poisonous. But chocolate in large quantity will be poisonous to dogs and cats.
Jesus and the fig tree, was Christ being unchristlike?
Wow I never heard about that Fig tree story before this question, so I researched it. Jesus was hungry and he went to get fruit from a fig tree, but the tree was bare since it was not the season for fruit, so he cursed the tree saying "may noone ever get fruit from you again" the next day the tree had died, and jesus told his followers ask and you will receive. doesnt that seem spitefull and selfish? If i cant have it noone can! Jesus wasnt being very christian ironically.
Jesus and the fig tree, was Christ being unchristlike?
Uh oh........here come the "you're not reading it in context" or "consider it this way or when you look at it another way" crowd. OR " that has such a deeper meaning that you need to understand"...................They might even add a new verse somewhere in the new testament.
Reply:I like the explanation that in cursing the fig, F.I.G., Jesus was preemptively attacking Kant's doctrine of Freewill, Immortality, God. You can make "sense" of anything if you're willing to be disingenuous enough - even the Bible!
It's interesting, though, that the fig was also a symbol of sexuality - see the "Song of Songs," chapter 2 verse 13. Interesting because we all know how "Christians" feel about sex.
Reply:What do you do ,wake up in the morning and start to complain ,Bet you don't have any friends
Reply:Christ was proving a point. What He was saying was telling His disciples who were with Him when the tree withered, that they too are capable of doing such things with faith. Wnough faith in Christ and anyone can wither a tree and later He goes on to say that with enough faith as a Christian we can move mountains if only we believe. It was not about the tree not feeding Him, it was about another lessons that He was teaching the disciples. God Bless.
Reply:We read about how Jesus looked at a fig tree for figs and there were none there; there was only leaves on the tree. With that Jesus cursed the fig tree and the next morning the apostles noticed that the tree that Jesus cursed dried up and was dead. This seems to be a strange event. First, because Jesus seemed to be expecting something and it did not happen. And second; because Jesus seems to takes out his disappointment on a tree. But we must remember Jesus did things to give us illustrations.
The first thing that Jesus did when he came to Jerusalem and the temple was to look around. Mark 11: 11; “And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and when he had looked round about upon all things”. The first thing that Jesus did with the fig tree was to look for fruit.
Often in the Bible the fig tree is used to represent the nation of Israel (cf. Hos 9:10; Nah 3:12; Zech 10:2). The tree was fully in leaf, but it lacked fruit. So too was the nation. Its spiritual center, the temple, was rife with religious activity but it bore no fruit.
In the Old Testament God used the blooming of Aaron’s rod at the beginning of the levitical priesthood in Num. 17:8. This rod was a type of Christ and it bloomed with flowers and almonds. This was a sign of blessing. However this time it’s the opposite. The temple was ripe for judgment and, like the tree, it would never be revived. Both the temple and its sacrificial system were finished. Jesus would build a new one (Heb 12:22-24).
Reply:how could Christ be unChrist like? can Greg be unGreg like......how can the picture tell the painter its the wrong color
Reply:In the symbolism of the Scriptures, a fruitless, withered tree was worthy of nothing more than being cut down (cf. Psa. 90:6; Hos. 9:16). “Withering” was a symbol of imminent death (Joel 1:12). In the blasting of this fruitless fig tree, the Son of God was suggesting this:
The nation, as a political entity, had become a worthless mechanism in the sacred scheme of things. It thus was worthy of nothing but destruction.
That destruction would shortly come (within forty years—A.D. 66-70) with the invasion of the land by the Roman armies (cf. Mt. 22:7ff; 24:15ff).
The punishment would be complete and final; the “tree” would be dead from the very “roots” (Mk. 11:20).
Conclusion
There was a very good reason why Jesus Christ acted as he did on this occasion. It was not an impulsive act, it was not a misguided, irresponsible gesture. It was a deliberate, highly instructive warning. Unfortunately, the lesson conveyed has been lost upon the minds of many.
Reply:My Pastor once preached about Israel who weren't bearing fruit. And that also Israel was destroyed later for being religious more than having faith in the LORD God.
Well Israel was taken over later %26amp; this religion who really didn't know the Father God, will never bear fruit again.
So, until Israel says, "Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the LORD!".
Jesus Christ is Lord.
Reply:The tree was a picture of the nation of Israel. Since Israel produced no fruit, though it should have, the blessings were passing over to the Gentiles.
Reply:well its like a story with a message, like people saying theyre christians yet when jesus goes to them they have no fruits of the spirit (complex i know)
ben
Jesus and the fig tree, was Christ being unchristlike?
Uh oh........here come the "you're not reading it in context" or "consider it this way or when you look at it another way" crowd. OR " that has such a deeper meaning that you need to understand"...................They might even add a new verse somewhere in the new testament.
Reply:I like the explanation that in cursing the fig, F.I.G., Jesus was preemptively attacking Kant's doctrine of Freewill, Immortality, God. You can make "sense" of anything if you're willing to be disingenuous enough - even the Bible!
It's interesting, though, that the fig was also a symbol of sexuality - see the "Song of Songs," chapter 2 verse 13. Interesting because we all know how "Christians" feel about sex.
Reply:What do you do ,wake up in the morning and start to complain ,Bet you don't have any friends
Reply:Christ was proving a point. What He was saying was telling His disciples who were with Him when the tree withered, that they too are capable of doing such things with faith. Wnough faith in Christ and anyone can wither a tree and later He goes on to say that with enough faith as a Christian we can move mountains if only we believe. It was not about the tree not feeding Him, it was about another lessons that He was teaching the disciples. God Bless.
Reply:We read about how Jesus looked at a fig tree for figs and there were none there; there was only leaves on the tree. With that Jesus cursed the fig tree and the next morning the apostles noticed that the tree that Jesus cursed dried up and was dead. This seems to be a strange event. First, because Jesus seemed to be expecting something and it did not happen. And second; because Jesus seems to takes out his disappointment on a tree. But we must remember Jesus did things to give us illustrations.
The first thing that Jesus did when he came to Jerusalem and the temple was to look around. Mark 11: 11; “And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and when he had looked round about upon all things”. The first thing that Jesus did with the fig tree was to look for fruit.
Often in the Bible the fig tree is used to represent the nation of Israel (cf. Hos 9:10; Nah 3:12; Zech 10:2). The tree was fully in leaf, but it lacked fruit. So too was the nation. Its spiritual center, the temple, was rife with religious activity but it bore no fruit.
In the Old Testament God used the blooming of Aaron’s rod at the beginning of the levitical priesthood in Num. 17:8. This rod was a type of Christ and it bloomed with flowers and almonds. This was a sign of blessing. However this time it’s the opposite. The temple was ripe for judgment and, like the tree, it would never be revived. Both the temple and its sacrificial system were finished. Jesus would build a new one (Heb 12:22-24).
Reply:how could Christ be unChrist like? can Greg be unGreg like......how can the picture tell the painter its the wrong color
Reply:In the symbolism of the Scriptures, a fruitless, withered tree was worthy of nothing more than being cut down (cf. Psa. 90:6; Hos. 9:16). “Withering” was a symbol of imminent death (Joel 1:12). In the blasting of this fruitless fig tree, the Son of God was suggesting this:
The nation, as a political entity, had become a worthless mechanism in the sacred scheme of things. It thus was worthy of nothing but destruction.
That destruction would shortly come (within forty years—A.D. 66-70) with the invasion of the land by the Roman armies (cf. Mt. 22:7ff; 24:15ff).
The punishment would be complete and final; the “tree” would be dead from the very “roots” (Mk. 11:20).
Conclusion
There was a very good reason why Jesus Christ acted as he did on this occasion. It was not an impulsive act, it was not a misguided, irresponsible gesture. It was a deliberate, highly instructive warning. Unfortunately, the lesson conveyed has been lost upon the minds of many.
Reply:My Pastor once preached about Israel who weren't bearing fruit. And that also Israel was destroyed later for being religious more than having faith in the LORD God.
Well Israel was taken over later %26amp; this religion who really didn't know the Father God, will never bear fruit again.
So, until Israel says, "Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the LORD!".
Jesus Christ is Lord.
Reply:The tree was a picture of the nation of Israel. Since Israel produced no fruit, though it should have, the blessings were passing over to the Gentiles.
Reply:well its like a story with a message, like people saying theyre christians yet when jesus goes to them they have no fruits of the spirit (complex i know)
ben
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Fig question?
Do you like fig? Why or why not?
Fig question?
i love love love fresh figs. the best figs i have ever had were in amman jordan. when they are in season, they sell them on the side of the road in cases for so cheap. they were unbelievable! havent been able to find any in the states that compare. mmmmmmm figs!
Reply:no.i can only eat about 1 every hour or so because the taste is kinda weird!
Reply:I like figs because they taste good. Many years ago, my aunt made a fig pie. Haven't had one since.
Reply:sure Fig Brownies
Reply:i like them. they taste sweet and are very good for you as well.
Reply:Fig newtons.......mmm, mmmmm.
Fig question?
i love love love fresh figs. the best figs i have ever had were in amman jordan. when they are in season, they sell them on the side of the road in cases for so cheap. they were unbelievable! havent been able to find any in the states that compare. mmmmmmm figs!
Reply:no.i can only eat about 1 every hour or so because the taste is kinda weird!
Reply:I like figs because they taste good. Many years ago, my aunt made a fig pie. Haven't had one since.
Reply:sure Fig Brownies
Reply:i like them. they taste sweet and are very good for you as well.
Reply:Fig newtons.......mmm, mmmmm.
How can I help my fig tree produce better figs?
I inherited a very large old fig tree that produces many figs. But they don't ripen! They go from small and green to small purple and too dry to eat. Is this just a matter of watering more? If so, how can I make my watering more efficient to reach more roots?
How can I help my fig tree produce better figs?
If you are in the UK then the chances of getting good ripe figs every year is small. Ideally they like hot temperatures - say up to 35C - to swell the fruit and make sufficient sugars for sweet fruit.
You don't say if the tree is in the ground or in a big pot. If it is in the ground then consider making some sort of container of 10 -20 litres with a tiny (1 or 2 mm) hole that you can stand next to the tree to drip water continuously when it is filled. Several smaller ones around the tree would work just as well. Add a general fertilizer to the water according to the manufacturer's recommendation. The tree will produce more roots wherever you trickle the water. I had several when we lived in southern Spain.
Reply:Where do you live? What type of soil do you have? Are there pollinators around? Dammit Watson!, I cant make bricks without clay!
Reply:hey you people must not be paying attention,,she said she' s in northern California, and a tree this big has to be in the ground a pot would nt hold it;;now to the problem, the tree needs severe pruning, here in Mississippi i prune mine every winter, to keep it bout 8 to 10 feet tall, fertilize it with triple 8, and only water it bout once a month, if we don't get at least an inch of rain, cut off the largest branches first , and make the tree look like a giant umbrella , this also helps air circulate thru the branches, as for as pollination is concerned, fig trees are self pollinated
Reply:i think the heat has some thing to do with it. may be you should add some sand to your soil, and not sand from the beach because the salt will kill the plant.
after the sand is added water will be able to reach the roots easier and it will recieve the water much faster. the more water the better. in the summer water thouroghly every day, in the winter only water if in the 80s and since it probably wont dont water at all because if the groung is saturated when it freezes the tree may loose a few leaves or drop figs or not make any at all until new year IF YOU WATER IT IN THE WINTER
Reply:Be sure to cover the tree with a fruit/tree netting to keep the birds from pecking your fruit. You can buy these at nurseries and a few larger gardening centers. OR on the internet.
We had one we shared with our neighbor and collected lots of fruit from it each year. We found out that you need to eat them within a couple of days or can them. Seems they go bad pretty fast after they are picked.
How can I help my fig tree produce better figs?
If you are in the UK then the chances of getting good ripe figs every year is small. Ideally they like hot temperatures - say up to 35C - to swell the fruit and make sufficient sugars for sweet fruit.
You don't say if the tree is in the ground or in a big pot. If it is in the ground then consider making some sort of container of 10 -20 litres with a tiny (1 or 2 mm) hole that you can stand next to the tree to drip water continuously when it is filled. Several smaller ones around the tree would work just as well. Add a general fertilizer to the water according to the manufacturer's recommendation. The tree will produce more roots wherever you trickle the water. I had several when we lived in southern Spain.
Reply:Where do you live? What type of soil do you have? Are there pollinators around? Dammit Watson!, I cant make bricks without clay!
Reply:hey you people must not be paying attention,,she said she' s in northern California, and a tree this big has to be in the ground a pot would nt hold it;;now to the problem, the tree needs severe pruning, here in Mississippi i prune mine every winter, to keep it bout 8 to 10 feet tall, fertilize it with triple 8, and only water it bout once a month, if we don't get at least an inch of rain, cut off the largest branches first , and make the tree look like a giant umbrella , this also helps air circulate thru the branches, as for as pollination is concerned, fig trees are self pollinated
Reply:i think the heat has some thing to do with it. may be you should add some sand to your soil, and not sand from the beach because the salt will kill the plant.
after the sand is added water will be able to reach the roots easier and it will recieve the water much faster. the more water the better. in the summer water thouroghly every day, in the winter only water if in the 80s and since it probably wont dont water at all because if the groung is saturated when it freezes the tree may loose a few leaves or drop figs or not make any at all until new year IF YOU WATER IT IN THE WINTER
Reply:Be sure to cover the tree with a fruit/tree netting to keep the birds from pecking your fruit. You can buy these at nurseries and a few larger gardening centers. OR on the internet.
We had one we shared with our neighbor and collected lots of fruit from it each year. We found out that you need to eat them within a couple of days or can them. Seems they go bad pretty fast after they are picked.
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".
Please use your own thoughts and words when replying.
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.
Please use your own thoughts and words when replying.
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.
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