What the exiles endured in the hands of Chaldeans may be disgusting and fall from grace but if it were accepted as ordained from God they shall find God gathering them after 70 years and they shall be established once more in their homes. Those who refused God's chastisement as the writer to the Hebrews said they were base and bastards. This is what the two baskets of figs now signify.
Perpetual backsliding of the nation and not God who should be blamed for their desolations. This being the case destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD lay in future and we may be certain that they would certainly face dispersion in our century as well. Prophet Jeremiah predicts nature of desolations and these are set in God's Time. In the end only a remnant shall be found.
Here two baskets of figs and it is interesting to note where these were set. The temple of the Lord is not qualified as of any nation in particular. It is not any building built of the historical time but of eternity.
TheLordshewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of theLord, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
"Thus saith theLord, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good./For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up./And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am theLord: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart./And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith theLord,"
What the exiles endured in the hands of Chaldeans may be disgusting and fall from grace but if it were accepted as ordained from God they shall find God gathering them after 70 years and they shall be established once more in their homes. Those who refused God's chastisement as the writer to the Hebrews said they were base and bastards. This is what the two baskets of figs now signify.
Perpetual backsliding of the nation and not God who should be blamed for their desolations. This being the case destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD lay in future and we may be certain that they would certainly face dispersion in our century as well. Prophet Jeremiah predicts nature of desolations and these are set in God's Time. In the end only a remnant shall be found.
Here two baskets of figs and it is interesting to note where these were set. The temple of the Lord is not qualified as of any nation in particular. It is not any building built of the historical time but of eternity.
TheLordshewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of theLord, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
"Thus saith theLord, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good./For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up./And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am theLord: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart./And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith theLord,"
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