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REPLANTED AS AN ORNAMENTAL TREE BY KING SOLOMON IN THE
TEMPLE..." And what was this tree? None other than the fig tree!! (Ibid, P.211).

The Biblical Evidence

Last, but certainly not least in authority, is the Bible! Notice, now, Jeremiah 24:

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. ONE BASKET HAD VERY GOOD FIGS, even like the figs that are
FIRST RIPE: and the other basket had VERY NAUGHTY [EVIL] FIGS, which
could not be eaten, THEY WERE SO BAD. 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.
-- Verses 1-3, KJV.

Here we see the two baskets of figs, representing the two fig harvests, called
GOOD AND EVIL, HENCE THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND
EVIL! How plain and evident that is! Why have we not seen that before?

YEHOVAH continues, in verse 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 I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of
the earth for their hurt..."

There it is, as PLAIN as daylight -- THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF
GOOD AND EVIL IS NONE OTHER THAN THE FIG!

Now that we have clearly established the fig tree was indeed the Tree of the
Knowledge of Good and Evil, we can approach the question of the Messiah's enigmatic
action in cursing the fig tree of Mark 11.

Resolving the Enigma!

Recall that the next day after Yeshua cursed the fig tree alongside theroad from
Bethany, the disciples found it COMPLETELY WITHERED (Mark 11:20, 22;
Matt.19:19, 20)! Now what was so significant about that? Since the Tree of the
Knowledge of Good and Evil was a fig tree, and this tree, when Adam And Eve first ate
the fruit thereof, brought SIN AND DEATH to them (and, of course, in an extended
sense to ALL of humanity), then this tree (of the Knowledge of Good and Evil) is NOW
WITHERED AND DEAD, as pictured by the tree alongside the Jerusalem-Bethany
road!!