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The withering of the fig tree along the Bethany road can also be applied to the
Church of God. When the Messiah returns -- WHATEVER THE SEASON -- he expects
to find fruit in his church; and if disappointed, He will have the tree [church] wither away
to a state of utter uselessness. The very fact that Yeshua said "Let no fruit grow on you
ever again" clearly implies that the fig tree ONCE HAD FRUIT! So, too, did the
Laodicean Church! In the early years of Herbert Armstrong the church bore much fruit
and had much truth; but in the declining years of its leader and, after his death, in the
years of Joseph Tkach and his son, the fruit of the fig tree has fallen to the ground and
rotted; and the tree has become BARREN. WAKE UP AND DUNG YOURSELF
BEFORE ITS TOO LATE!

The Trees of Life

The identification of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil has enabled us
to draw back the veiling curtain that has obscured the TRUE understanding, and
significance, of that baffling event that occurred on the road to Jerusalem just a few days
before the Messiah, the Lamb of God, sacrificed Himself for ALL humankind that ever
lived! The cursing of the fig tree was a CRUCIAL HIGHLIGHT in the stream of events
that had to occur as our Lord and Savior Yeshua the Messiah closed out the final chapter
of His first presence on this earth.

The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is now withered and dead-- NO
LONGER WILL MANKIND PARTAKE OF THIS TREE AND HAVE TO SUFFER
THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR ACTIONS WITHOUT HOPE OF FORGIVENESS
AND RESTORATION UPON REPENTANCE AND ADHERENCE TO THE LAWS
OF OUR GRACIOUS GOD!

When YEHOVAH God returns to the Mount of Olives and enters the Temple
through the eastern gate, a river will flow out from the Temple to the Dead Sea. Along
the banks of this river will grow trees just like those to be in the New Jerusalem:

Then the angel showed me the RIVER OF LIFE, as clear as crystal, flowing from
the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city.
On each side of the river stood the TREE[S] OF LIFE bearing twelve crops of
fruit, yielding its [their] fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree[s] are for the
HEALING OF THE NATIONS. NO LONGER WILL THERE BE ANY CURSE.
Rev.22:1-3.

In a direct reference to the WITHERING of the fig tree, we find this in Ezekiel
47:

Along the banks of the river, on this side and that, will grow all kinds of trees [of
life] used for food; THEIR LEAVES WILL NOT WITHER, AND THEIR FRUIT
WILL NOT FAIL. They will bear fruit every month, because their water flows
from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for HEALING. --
Verse 12.