Ezekiel 31-33

Reading for Monday September 9, 2019

Ezekiel 31: 3-11
Behold, Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches and forest shade, and of towering height, its top among the clouds. The waters nourished it; the deep made it grow tall, making its rivers flow around the place of its planting, sending forth its streams to all the trees of the field. So it towered high above all the trees of the field; its boughs grew large and its branches long from abundant water in its shoots. All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and under its shadow lived all great nations.  It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its roots went down to abundant waters. The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it, nor the fir trees equal its boughs; neither were the plane trees like its branches; no tree in the garden of God was its equal in beauty  I made it beautiful in the mass of its branches, and all the trees of Eden envied it, that were in the garden of God.  "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because it[2] towered high and set its top among the clouds, and its heart was proud of its height,  I will give it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations. He shall surely deal with it as its wickedness deserves. I have cast it out

Is God really talking about a tree?

Meanwhile... in another part of the Bible

​Matthew 21:19
And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.

Jesus uses a fig tree to make his point.

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