My Dear Precious Child,
Jesus Christ demonstrated faith in His prayers and words on many occasions. One time after He had upset the tables of the money changers in the temple and the chairs of the people selling pigeons, He told the religious leaders that His house was supposed to be a house of prayer but it had become a den of robbers. To demonstrate what was supposed to happen in the temple, what the true use for the temple was intended by Me, Jesus demonstrated its true use by curing the blind and lame people who came to Him that day in the temple. Because of the wonderful things that He did in the temple, demonstrating that it was supposed to be a house of prayer where the needs of people would be met, children began shouting to Him, "Hosanna to the Son of David," in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes were indignant that He was being praised for doing My good works in their temple, and so they asked Jesus if He had heard what the children were saying to Him. Jesus answered yes and quoted scripture that said that it was out of the mouths of children, babes in arms, that I receive perfect praise. After rebuking the chief priests and the scribes, He left them and went out of the city where He spent the night. (Matthew 21:12-17)
The next day Jesus Christ returned to a city in the early morning hours and felt hungry. He spotted a fig tree by the road, went up to it and found nothing on it but leaves. He spoke to the tree and said that it would never produce fruit again. At that instant the tree withered. The disciples were amazed and and asked Him what happened to the tree, that it had withered there and then so quickly. He told them solemnly that if they had faith and did not doubt at all, that not only would they do what He had done to the fig tree, but even if they said to demonic mountains to get up and be cast into the abyss, that it would be done. He was reiterating His former parable about the time coming of My kingdom coming on earth as it is in heaven and their receiving My power to cast demons into hell and the angels escorting the demons into the blazing fire. (Matthew 13:36-42) He encouraged them that when they had My gift of faith that everything they asked for in prayer they would receive.(Matthew 21:18-22)
Jesus Christ in His curse of the fig tree proved to the disciples His prophesy about the temple that He made earlier to the chief priests and the scribes, meaning that the old Law had no power to bring salvation to My children in the world, that it would never bear fruit for salvation because the temple had become inhabited by robbers instead of being used for prayer to cure the sick and blind, like Jesus had done.
Again He went to the temple and taught there, where the chief priests and elders of the temple confronted Jesus Christ and demanded to know who gave Him the authority to teach in the temple and to cure the blind and sick people there. As was His habit when confronted by the Pharisees, chief priests and elders of the temple, He told them that He would answer their question if they correctly answered His question. He asked them from where John's baptism came, from heaven or from man? The religious leaders argued among themselves that if they said John's baptism came from heaven they imagined that Jesus would ask them why they didn't believe John. Some of the leaders also said that if they said that John's baptism came from man, then the people who followed Jesus would become inflamed and they feared what the people would do to them. So their reply to Jesus was that they didn't know the correct answer to where John's baptism was from, if it was from heaven or from men. Jesus's answer to them was that neither would He tell them under whose authority He was acting when He taught in the temple and cured the blind and the sick.
Jesus demonstrated by that entire scenario that there was no power in the temple to do what it had previously been meant to be used for. The fig tree was merely a visual sign of the absence of My anointing power in the Jewish religion of the temple where robbers and money changers were gathered. Only when Jesus Christ Himself taught there with My power and anointing was the temple used by Me, and only then to cast out demons, heal the sick and teach about My kingdom of heaven soon coming into the earth. Without Christ Jesus' ministry there, the use of the religious temple was merely a den of robbers. Jesus had told them that My real temple in the earth, which was Christ's own body, would be destroyed and be rebuilt in three days, speaking about His crucifixion and resurrection. (John 2:13-21)
All of the truths about My plan for the salvation of the world are found in the parables of Jesus Christ, plus all of the keys of My kingdom which give you access to having My thoughts, attitudes, words spoken and actions taken by you while you successfully live in My kingdom of heaven while in the earth. The parables of Jesus Christ contain all of the keys necessary for your having My abundant life while you live in the earth because in those keys are all of the necessary guidance for your having My ability to do My will in the earth by the power of My Holy Spirit.
There are many spiritual fig trees in the earth because of the prince of the world being the devil. Most are religious and political trees, the very people and organizations that pursued demeaning and harassing My Son Jesus Christ while He lived in the earth. Many of My children do not recognize them as being anti-Christ. Instead of displaying the fruit of My Holy Spirit those fig trees which claim to be of Me only display the fruits of hell. (Galatians 5:16-26) Yet, some of My deceived children continue to follow them into the pits of destruction and death which grieves My heart because I do not desire that even one will be lost by his or her lack of discernment by My Holy Spirit. Pray that your eyes will be open to recognize and discern the anti-Christ spirit that is still in the world masquerading as religious and political entities. A leopard doesn't change his spots and the anti-
Christ spirit never changed his strategies because they have always worked for him in deceiving My children.
That is why hearing from My Holy Spirit and His voice of discernment is paramount to your living successfully in My kingdom of heaven while you live in the earth. Christ died for it. Do not ignore His voice or you will be like the children of Israel who never entered into the promised land that I prepared for them. (Hebrews 3:7-19)
Your Father of Perfect Guidance and Discernment
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