Israel Moments | Israel is the Cursed Fig Tree

Israel Moment #43 - Israel is the Cursed Fig Tree
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Hello this is Pastor Steven Anderson from Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona. Today I want to talk about Mathew chapter 21, verses 18 through 20, where the Bible reads "Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered. And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward forever. And presently the fig tree withered away. And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away!" Now a very common theme amongst Zionists, is that they like to talk about Israel as being the fig tree, and they say that "in 1948, we witnessed the re-blossoming of the Fig tree!" They try to import that concept into Mathew 24, as being some kind of an "end- times fulfillment of prophecy, the the re-blossoming of the Fig tree." And they say "the Fig tree is Israel." Of course, Mathew 24, teaches no such thing. But if you want to talk about Israel being the Fig tree, here we have a great illustration of Israel, when Jesus comes to a Fig tree, in the spring time, and he seeks Figs, he seeks fruit on that tree, he finds no fruit. And he curses the Fig tree, and he says "let no fruit grow on thee henceforward forever." "FOREVER." And the tree withers away, and it's never going to produce fruit again.
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That Fig tree represents Israel. Jesus Christ came to Israel seeking for fruit, he found none, and now it's going to wither away, it's going to be cursed. It's never coming back, the Bible is clear. A lot of people say "well, Israel is just on the shelf right now, God is going to go back to dealing with them, they're going to come back to the Lord", and so forth. Well, according to this parable- and I'm going to back it up with some teachings a little later in the chapter- according to this parable of the Fig tree, or incident with the Fig tree... It's clear that henceforward forever they're not going to bear fruit, they're done. But look just a few verses down in verse 33, Jesus gives another parable. " Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise. But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son."
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Can you figure out where this parable is going? God has this vineyard that He is working in, and He keeps sending His servants the prophets... He keeps sending husbandmen. And they killed one, they beat one, they stoned another... Then finally He sends unto these people His Son, saying "they will reverence my Son." "But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him. When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen? They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons." Listen to what Jesus says. Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof." So right there we see this parable, where the nation of Israel is likened unto a vineyard, and God wants to get some fruit from that vineyard. And He keeps sending His servants the prophets, those are the husbandmen, to try to get fruit from the vineyard. Finally He sends His Son, and what do they do? They kill His Son. And what is He going to do? He is miserably going to destroy those murderers, He is going to destroy their city, and it says, He is going to let out His vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render Him the fruits in their season. Jesus then interprets it for them. He says "therefore, the kingdom of God, shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof."
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Today, Zionists say "oh, but they're coming back! Pastor Anderson, the re-blossoming of the Fig tree, in 1948!" No. The Fig tree withered away. He said it would never bring forth fruit forever. Here, with this parable, do we see these husbandmen being brought back later to handle the vineyard again? No, He says He is going to miserably destroy those murderers, and He is going to give the vineyard unto somebody else. It doesn't talk about them coming back.
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And then a few verses later, it says "And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them." They understood that Jesus was referring to the Jews, the Pharisees, and the people who rejected him. He is actually prophesying his own death here, because he talks about the son being sent and being killed. That hadn't happened yet. But he is making it real clear that the kingdom of God is going to be taken from them, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof, not that they themselves will later change their mind and produce fruit.
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That's not found in any of these scriptures, that's not a New Testament teaching. It comes from a perversion and misunderstanding of Romans 11, the whole rest of the New Testament makes it clear that God was done with the Physical nation of Israel, and that he's turned unto the gentiles in the New Testament. The only time the Israelites are coming back, is when they're resurrected for the millennium. That's what Romans 11 actually teaches, he talks about the fact that in the millennium, when all the dead in Christ, all those who are saved from Old and New Testament are all resurrected... Then the physical nation of Israel will again enjoy the land, because they will be all saved Christians, who are enjoying it. So again, this is just another clear scripture that teaches that the kingdom of God has been taken from the nation of Israel, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. Why? Because they are that Fig tree, that didn't produce the fruit when God wanted it, and so they've been cursed, and they will not bring forth fruit from henceforth, forever.
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Main Scripture/s Mathew 21:18-20, Romans 11
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