Two baskets of figs

 

 

 

 

Yahuah showed me, and look, there were two baskets of figs set before the sanctuary of Yahuah (Jeremiah 24:1).

Yahuah showed this parable to Jeremiah after the heads of Judah were exiled to Babylon. 2 Kings 24:15-16 And he exiled Jehoiach into Babylon. And the sovereign’s mother, and the sovereign’s wives, and his eunuchs, and the leading men of the land he exiled from Jerusalem to Babylon. And all the mighty brave men, seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths, one thousand, all who were strong and fit for battle, these the sovereign of Babylon brought to Babylon into exile.

 

Jeremiah 24:2 One basket had very good figs, like first ripe figs. And the other basket had very bad figs which could not be eaten from their badness.

Israel is equated as a fig tree as there were good and bad figs; so was the nation with its inhabitants.

 

The good figs

Jeremiah 24:5-7 So says Yahuah, the Elohim of Israel, like these good figs, so I will acknowledge the exiles of Judah whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for good. For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land. And I will build them and not tear down; and I will plant them, and will not pluck up. And I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am Yahuah. And they shall be My people, and I will be their Elohim. For they shall return to Me with their whole heart.

 

Isaiah 10:22 and repeated in Romans 9:27 clearly shows that although Israel will grow into mighty numbers in their diaspora that only a remnant (good figs) would return. The good figs are the remnant.

Jeremiah 31:33 “For this is the covenant I shall make with the house of Yisra’el after those days, declares Yahuah: I shall put My Torah (commands/instructions) in their inward parts, and write it on their hearts. And I shall be their Elohim, and they shall be My people. Read Hebrews 8:10.

 

The bad figs

Jeremiah 24:8-10 And like the bad figs which cannot be eaten from badness, so says Yahuah: So I shall make Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his rulers, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt; I will even make them a horror among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, for a reproach, and a proverb, a gibe, and a curse, there in all places where I will drive them. And I will send the sword, the famine, and the plague among them until they are consumed from being upon the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.

 

Jeremiah 9:16 “And I shall scatter them among the gentiles, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. And I shall send a sword after them until I have consumed them.” Jeremiah 15:2 “And it shall be, when they say to you, ‘Where do we go?’ then you shall say to them, ‘Thus said Yahuah, “Those for death, to death. And those for the sword, to the sword. And those for scarcity of food, to scarcity of food. And those for captivity, to captivity.” ’

Let this be a warning to those who call themselves the chosen people, we cannot do what we want because we are the chosen. The message is: are you from the good figs or are you from the bad figs. It is ONLY the good figs that are the chosen people of Yahuah.

Clearly, not all Israel is Israel and not all who know Yahuah within Israel will be delivered (saved).

Do not let man tell you otherwise.