tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1257433509654033096.post6945881062855177918..comments2023-09-12T06:28:01.241-07:00Comments on A Reformed Thinker:: Refuting Shepherd's Chapel - Good & Bad Figs (Jeremiah 24)Colby Bradenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17344662438862899708noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1257433509654033096.post-61444283449491390902016-11-26T17:08:16.890-08:002016-11-26T17:08:16.890-08:00The sons of CAIN KENITES/QAYANITES burrowed their ...The sons of CAIN KENITES/QAYANITES burrowed their way into the priesthood as the NETHENIMS. The western europeans are not jews they are the 10 tribes of ISREAL Ephraim Mannaseh Zebulon Simon GAD ect. ADAM and EVE covered their shame with FIG LEAVES not their mouths for eating an APPLE! As for Isreal in 1948 being a nation? That was nothing more than EDOM rebuilding the desolate heritages. YAWEH will tear them DOWN!ANONYMOUShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11637220586124496874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1257433509654033096.post-33339242182728755652015-12-28T06:25:36.197-08:002015-12-28T06:25:36.197-08:00Hello Just Me, Thank you so much for your comment!...Hello Just Me, Thank you so much for your comment! If you take the futurist approach they see Mark 13:28 where Jesus is saying to learn the lesson (parable) of the figtree to be referring back a couple of chapters to the event that happened in Mark 11:13-14. In that passage Jesus, using the figtree as a symbol for Israel, shows that they are no longer producing fruit (good works). In Mark 13:28 when Jesus using the Figtree symbol again as putting forth leaves this may simply refer to Israel producing fruit again (many Jews coming to faith before Christ returns).<br /><br />If one does not take the futurists approach there there does not seem to be any specific symbolic sense to this “fig tree” (such as the re-emergence of the nation of Israel), especially since the parallel passage (Luke 21:29) adds “and all the trees.” Jesus is simply saying that just as there are signs of what is to come in the natural realm, so it is in the spiritual (this is view I lean toward).<br /><br />as for Revelation 2:9 & 3:9. Smyrna was known as the crown of Asia where the Greeks held to strong emperor worship. They also had a large Jewish community and both the Romans and the Jews strongly persecuted Christians in this city. Although these Jews were Jews physically they spiritually aligned themselves with the Greek pagans in putting Christians to death. This is similar in the church of Philadelphia (briefly named Caesar’s New City) in Revelation 3:9. The Roman imperial cult and a large synagogue were known to be in Philadelphia around this time. Both Smyrna and Philadelphia were dangerous places for Christians to be.<br /><br />Jesus' statement "they say they are Jews and are not" is not Jesus denying their Jewish genealogy but rather their spiritual genealogy. Romans 2:28-29 declares "For no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly... But a Jew is one inwardly...". These Jews denied the Messiah and aligned with the emperor worshipers; thus Judaism became a "synagogue of Satan". The New Testament defines God's people in relation to Jesus, not genealogy. The "key of David" mentioned in Revelation 3:9 is simply Jesus' authority to admit to or exclude from God’s kingdom (see Isaiah 22:22, Mark 16:19).Colby Bradenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17344662438862899708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1257433509654033096.post-64791370734087721252015-12-26T16:18:33.553-08:002015-12-26T16:18:33.553-08:00So why did Jesus say to learn the parable of the f...So why did Jesus say to learn the parable of the fig tree? Who do you think the "imposter Jews" of Rev 2:9 and Rev 3:9 are ?Just mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16681880040951859376noreply@blogger.com