"Why Did Jesus Curse the Fig Tree?...Except there's no fruit. The fig tree, once again, has failed. The Passover celebration, the tumult, the crowds, the singing—it's all a show. Jesus enters God's house of prayer and finds it a "den of robbers" (Mark 11:17). Lots of action, lots of bustle, but no righteousness. Leaves, but no fruit.."
PRAYING FOR MY BELOVED CRC MEMBERS & CALVIN COLLEGE et al to NOT ACQUIESCE TO FAR-LEFT LIBERALISM TO TRY TO BE ‘COOL’:
JESUS SAID: “I pray not that thou should take them out of the world, but that thou should keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
And for their sakes ..."