This Sunday we are blessed with Father’s Day here in the United States. A day we remember Father’s in whatever your definition is.
My Dad : Figs
is 90 years old and loves,God and Family and this post is all about the other thing Dad loves : Figs :
This tree is over a hundred years old still baring fruit every July. We pick the fruit and Dad makes Fig preserves he gives away to family and friends….Lisa
Fig tree in Bible :
The fig tree was a common symbol for Israel and may also have that meaning here, and the tree in the parable may refer to a Christian who has heard the gospel of Christ by faith unto salvation. … The vinedresser, who is Jesus, does not fail and has offered to cultivate it and so it will produce fruit.
Matthew 21:19-21 ESV
And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And the fig tree withered at once. When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree wither at once?” And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen.
