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Pamphlet #4102
Presents
Pamphlet #4102
My Note: Good Figs/Bad FigsRef. Scripture Jeremiah 24
Two baskets of figs were set
before the temple of the LORD
One basket had very good figs,
even
like the figs that are first ripe: and the
other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were
so bad.
Scripture: Jeremiah
24:1 ¶The LORD shewed me, and,
behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD,
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.
2 One
basket had very good figs, even like the figs
that are first ripe: and the other basket
had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
3 Then said the LORD unto
me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs;
the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten,
they are so evil.
Complete text: Jeremiah 24:1 ¶The
LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets
of figs were set before the temple of the LORD,
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.
2 One basket had very good figs, even
like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty
figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
3 Then said the LORD unto me, What seest
thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good
figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are
so evil.
4 Again the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying,
5 Thus saith the LORD, 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.
6 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.
7 And I will give them an heart to know
me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their
God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
8 And as the evil figs, which cannot be
eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah
the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that
remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:
9 And I will deliver them to be removed
into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and
a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.
10 And I will send the sword, the famine,
and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land
that I gave unto them and to their fathers.
If
you don't know about these figs, you don't have any idea when Christ might
return!
Mark 13:28 ¶Now learn a parable
of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves,
ye know that summer is near:
29 So ye in like manner, when ye shall
see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors.
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