There is a peculiar suitability in the use of the fig tree to symbolize Israel's religious history. Unlike all other trees, the fig has this unique feature about it, that its fruit appears before its leaves. It is as though the clothing of the tree, the outward show of religious observance, the ceremony and the regalia of formal worship, is really the aftermath only of the bearing of a real fruit. Earlier in this paper we proposed that all religion is descended from an earlier true spiritual understanding. Many people reverse this, enamored as they are with evolutionary philosophy, holding the view that religion gives rise to spiritual life.
Religion is a vestige of the real thing.
Under the fig tree one might now and then discover an olive. Signs in the Heavens, Avi ben Mordechai, pp. This forum is for the dissemination of pertinent information on an end-times biblical theme which includes many disturbing, unethical, immoral, etc. topics and should be viewed with a mature, discerning eye.