The fig tree is another of the incredible types and shadows in the Scriptures pointing to Christ our only hope in life and death.
Rather than the story of the fig tree causing one to examine themselves by their own standards and think that they are safe, I believe the message of the fig tree is the same that Jesus was always teaching which was this…
“Who then can be saved, with men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;
— John 5:39
Then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures.
— Luke 24:27
I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.
— John 15:5
When the first Adam fell,
Against God did rebel,
With fig leaves he’d tried
His sin to deny.
Ever since, the fig tree’s a teacher,
It’s fruit a preacher,
Pointing to the one;
A shadow of the Son.
God promised to crush the serpent
By a Son who was sent
To suffer God's anger
And save his children from danger.
Ever since, his children are known
By fruit that is sown,
Grown, and reaped
In the heart of God’s sheep.
Chosen by God, as trophies of grace
Only the blood bought can see His face.
Fruit born of God, so that no man may boast,
So the fruit of the fig tree represents those
Who were born not of the will of flesh or of man
But of God who alone can
Make the fig tree bear fruit
Or curse it, and kill its root
So the Scripture’s always pointing to Jesse’s root
Who alone would bear the perfect fruit
Required of man to with God be
In fellowship, and perfect harmony
They (the Scriptures) with the fig tree
Preach that He
Can alone create light out of dark
And soften the hard heart
The one who holds all things together,
By His powerful word and controls even the weather
Gives one tree its figs, curses another
Life to His sheep, while others still weep
Israel, planted by God’s hand
And given a land
By its own strength could not bear,
Cursed works of their hands, no fruit was there
But the promised Son
Forever the one
Who alone
For sin could atone
Makes the fig tree bear,
Makes the sinner wear
His righteous robes,
And fruit then shows
Fruit like humility, mercy, and peace,
Mourning, gentle, and merciful are these
Trees that God planted and caused to bear
The fruit of His Son in them to share
Life everlasting, His grace alone
In His children has shone
In our hearts, His light
Our fruit, His might.
