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The fig tree's first appearance in the Bible is in Eden. In this paradise, God created Adam and Eve and provided them with an abundance of food, including the fig tree. Here in Genesis, the fig represents the abundant provision that God provided for humanity before sin entered the world.
The seven species are wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives, and honey (dates). Even today, these fruits and grains represent the fertility and richness of the Promised Land, underscoring God's covenant with Israel and His promise to provide for His people.
In the Book of Micah, a prophetic vision of the Messianic Age is presented, where the entire world will gather in peace and learn God's ways. The prophet said...
"He will judge between many peoples and decide for mighty nations far off.
Micah foresaw a time of prosperity, safety, and unity, where each person will enjoy the fruits of their labor, including sitting securely under their own fig tree.
The disciples of Jesus were also longing for this day to come, and they discussed it many times in the Gospels.
Yeshua spoke of the fig tree numerous times, using it as a symbol for Israel. His teachings hold profound significance for us today, especially concerning the rebirth of Israel.
A few days before His crucifixion and resurrection, He promised this to His followers...
"Now learn the parable from the fig tree. When its branch becomes tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near. So also, when you see these things happening, recognize that He is near, right at the door."
Jesus used the blooming of the fig tree (symbolic of the nation of Israel) as a massive signpost for us. He wanted us to know that when the fig tree returns to life, He is near, right at the door.
For Believers, the fig tree began to bloom again in 1948.
After almost two millennia of exile, the Jewish people returned to their Promised Land and the nation of Israel was reborn.
Since the fig tree has so much spiritual symbolism, we knew we had to somehow weave it into our newest jewelry. And so we did!
It's a stunning piece of jewelry in a timeless style, allowing women of faith to be reminded every day that the King of Israel is near, right at the door.
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To understand how the world will end, you must first understand it's beginning, says Del Tackett.
Christians often throw around biblical books like Daniel, Revelation and Ezekiel as holding the secrets to the end times, but Tackett says it is Genesis that can truly open up a believer's eyes. In Is Genesis History, re-releasing in theaters for one night on Feb. 22, host Tackett, the former president of the Focus on the Family Institute, explores the details of the foundations of the earth and how Satan has twisted truth to deceive generations.
"[Peter tells us] there will come a time where there will be scoffers, where the promise of His coming escapes their notice," Tackett says. "But this takes us back to creation and the created world. [God] formed the world and destroyed the world, and people willfully unnoticed this. The Greek word here implies they were capable of noticing but it willfully escaped their notice. And God will one day again destroy it all with fire, which lays out a very high view of the metanarrative of God, creation, the fall of man, the judgment and flood, and the way to restore all things. He will destroy all things and then restore all things, and when we lose that understanding, we find ourselves in a position of scoffing historically at what God said He did."
When Is Genesis History? first released last year, theaters sold out showings across the country, and Fathom events ranked it as the No. 1 inspirational film for 2017. For 2018, Fathom decided to re-release the documentary and increase the 750 theaters showing it to 850.
The film returns to the big screen at a time when even Christian circles are turning away from biblical accounts of creation and embracing a theistic evolution.
"As a culture, society and people begin to openly declare that there is no God, then we have to by necessity reject the record of God's account, we have to reject the notion He has spoken to us, and in that kind of context, man is then left to determine his own right and wrong, and what always ends up happening is might makes right," Tackett says.
Understanding Genesis is critical to understanding how the world should work in both basic morals and overarching societal guidance.
"This has been seen in nation-states in the past that [might makes right] will always lead to oppression, lead to atrocities, eventually lead to destruction of that culture. When a people turn away from God, people will weep eventually, and that extends to our understanding of social order," Tackett says. "When that happens we have no basis, have no divine understanding of God's design for the state, of God's design for marriage, family, business, and how it's supposed to be carried out, no design for community. What happens, then, to male and female? We are racing rapidly towards a total cluelessness when it comes to the notion of male and female."
Tackett's personal history influences his role as film host. He created Focus on the Family's The Truth Project, a nationwide project to bring the Christian worldview to the body of Christ. He served more than 20 years in the U.S. Air Force and was appointed by President George H.W. Bush as the director of technical planning for the National Security Council.
His secular accreditation provide proof to unbelievers that the film's claims are accurate. The sought-after speaker stands on truth when he argues the first book of the Bible gives the answers to questions humans have asked for millennia and can be verified through science.
"If you look at the history of the people who have taken the accounts in the Bible and at some point made the declaration that it was historically inaccurate," Tackett says. "In many cases, all of these accusations were found to be faulty. For a long time, for example, there was the position that there was never a King David, nor were there Jews in Egypt, nor did they migrate from Egypt into modern the Palestinian era. Archaeological evidence later uncovered that the Bible got this correct. Want to look at historical record associated with Jesus, His miracles, death, resurrection? The historical account was attacked, held to be a nonvalid/mystical analogy. There has been a tendency for people to try to take the historical record and turn it into something else, either inaccurate history or genre analogy or myth or poetry. The history of those attempts has in almost all cases that I know of—especially archaeological—the Bible gets history correct, and it gets history right on origins, as well.
"The most important things to understand is who we are," Tackett says. "It's very easy to get caught up in scientific paradigm that attempts to tell us about our origins, that our origins are through a mindless random process of evolution that has produced us by chance. This creates a fundamental platform for who we are as human beings, telling us we're no different than any other element in the universe around us. A dog is a pig is a rat is a boy. There is nothing about the human race that has meaning or purpose beyond existing. It drives humanity toward a narcissistic kind of life where we basically are after pleasure, comfort, 'all about me.' It's a very self-centered thing. ... That critical understanding of who we are, the Genesis account tells us we are a special creation by God. In the context of our existence on earth, it provides an understanding of right, wrong, good evil, hope in midst of fallen world. These are extremely critical aspects of understanding our origins, or we fall."
Clouds and Mountains in North Carolina, USA - the Glory of the Lord speaks forth daily from heaven and earth. (Photos by Steve Martin, Love for His People, Inc. June 15, 2017)
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Pineville, NC 29134 USA Gen 1:1-2:3 B’resheet GENESIS Parashah 1: B’resheet (In the beginning) 1:1-6:8 1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was unformed and void, darkness was on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God hovered over the surface of the water. 3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. So there was evening, and there was morning, one day. 6 God said, “Let there be a dome in the middle of the water; let it divide the water from the water.” 7 God made the dome and divided the water under the dome from the water above the dome; that is how it was, 8 and God called the dome Sky. So there was evening, and there was morning, a second day. 9 God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered together into one place, and let dry land appear,” and that is how it was. 10 God called the dry land Earth, the gathering together of the water he called Seas, and God saw that it was good. 11 God said, “Let the earth put forth grass, seed-producing plants, and fruit trees, each yielding its own kind of seed-bearing fruit, on the earth”; and that is how it was. 12 The earth brought forth grass, plants each yielding its own kind of seed, and trees each producing its own kind of seed-bearing fruit; and God saw that it was good. 13 So there was evening, and there was morning, a third day. (A: ii) 14 God said, “Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to divide the day from the night; let them be for signs, seasons, days and years; 15 and let them be for lights in the dome of the sky to give light to the earth”; and that is how it was. 16 God made the two great lights — the larger light to rule the day and the smaller light to rule the night — and the stars. 17 God put them in the dome of the sky to give light to the earth, 18 to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. 19 So there was evening, and there was morning, a fourth day. 20 God said, “Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open dome of the sky.” 21 God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that creeps, so that the water swarmed with all kinds of them, and there was every kind of winged bird; and God saw that it was good. 22 Then God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, multiply and fill the water of the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” 23 So there was evening, and there was morning, a fifth day. (A: iii) 24 God said, “Let the earth bring forth each kind of living creature — each kind of livestock, crawling animal and wild beast”; and that is how it was. 25 God made each kind of wild beast, each kind of livestock and every kind of animal that crawls along the ground; and God saw that it was good. 26 Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, in the likeness of ourselves; and let them rule over the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the animals, and over all the earth, and over every crawling creature that crawls on the earth.” 27 So God created humankind in his own image;in the image of God he created him:male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them: God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea, the birds in the air and every living creature that crawls on the earth.” 29 Then God said, “Here! Throughout the whole earth I am giving you as food every seed-bearing plant and every tree with seed-bearing fruit. 30 And to every wild animal, bird in the air and creature crawling on the earth, in which there is a living soul, I am giving as food every kind of green plant.” And that is how it was. 31 God saw everything that he had made, and indeed it was very good. So there was evening, and there was morning, a sixth day. 2 1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, along with everything in them. 2 On the seventh day God was finished with his work which he had made, so he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3 God blessed the seventh day and separated it as holy; because on that day God rested from all his work which he had created, so that it itself could produce.
