{"id":801,"date":"2011-11-10T10:36:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T14:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/?p=801"},"modified":"2011-11-10T10:36:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T14:36:55","slug":"did-the-fig-tree-talk-to-god","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/?page_id=801","title":{"rendered":"Did the fig tree talk to God?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Question:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In Mark 11:14, Jesus <em>answered<\/em> the fig tree.\u00a0 Does this mean that the fig tree actually talked to God?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Scripture confirms that <em>things<\/em> do; communicate with God; Luke 19:40, \u201c\u2026..if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.\u201d\u00a0 Everything in one form or another, communicates with God; Ps. 69:34, \u201clet the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.\u201d\u00a0 Although it is possible for the fig tree to speak to God; however in this case, the text does not indicate that it actually spoke to Jesus.\u00a0 The Strong\u2019s word for <em>answered<\/em> is #G611 and it means: <em>to conclude for oneself<\/em> and <em>to begin to speak<\/em>.\u00a0 When Jesus found no fruit on the fig tree, he concluded that this tree was unfruitful; Mt. 3:10, \u201c\u2026..every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down\u2026..\u201d\u00a0 This tree should have been producing fruit but for some unknown reason, it was not producing; therefore Jesus <strong>concluded<\/strong> it was unfruitful and he <strong>begin to speak <\/strong>to it; thus destroying the fig tree forever.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In Mark 11:14, Jesus answered the fig tree.\u00a0 Does this mean that the fig tree actually talked to God? \u00a0 Answer:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Scripture confirms that things do; communicate with God; Luke 19:40, \u201c\u2026..if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.\u201d\u00a0 Everything in one form or another, communicates with God; Ps. 69:34, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-801","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/801\/revisions\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}