Tu B’shevat The New Year for Trees.

Key verses: Gen 2:9. Deut 20:19. Psalm 1:3. Is 55:12. Jer 17:7-8.

This is a minor festival within Israel that takes place before Pesach/Passover, in the biblical month of Shevat (January or February).

Man is compared to a tree in Deuteronomy 20:19. ‘For the tree of the field is man’s food.’

Tu B’shevat has turned into an ecological time of planting new trees in Israel to sustain man and the environment. It is our God given task from the beginning to tend the land and to preserve nature.

 

The Physical Tree and the Spiritual Tree.

  • Trees develop as they grow – Just as we do in our Lord Yeshua, the Anointed One.  2 Peter 3:18. 
  • Trees acquire scars – Just as we do along the way. 1 Peter 5:10.

3)Trees need water – We need the Water of the Word to wash us clean –   Eph 5:26. Titus 3:5-6. 

4) Trees bend in the winds – We bend the knee in prayer re the storms of life – 1 Thess 5:17. Isaiah 4:6.

 Trees have:

  1. a) A Root System. Avraham, Yit’zak, Ya’aqov and Yeshua.
  1. b) Trunk, Branches and Leaves. Israel and the Commonwealth of Israel are known as the Church/House of God.
  1. c) Fruit and Seeds. The fruit of Holiness of Life and the seeds of The Gospel (The Good News of Redemption)

The Four Trees of Scripture showing

Israel’s History and Future.

  1. THE VINE – ISRAEL’S SPIRITUAL PRIVILEGES.

‘the choicest vine’ (Emblem of Fruitfulness)

Isaiah 5:2.

“And He fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine…”

 

  1. THE OLIVE – ISRAEL’S RELIGIOUS PRIVILEGES.

‘fatness of the olive tree’ (Emblem of Testimony)

Romans 11:17.

“….and with them partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree.”

 

  1. THE FIG – ISRAEL’S NATIONAL PRIVILEGES.

‘first ripe in the fig tree’ (Emblem of Sweetness)

Hosea 9:10.

“I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the Fig Tree…….”

 

  

  1. THE FIR – ISRAEL’S MILLENNIAL PRIVILEGES.

‘like a green fir tree’ (Emblem of Freshness)

Hosea 14:8.

‘Ephraim shall say’, “What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard Him, and observed Him; I am like a green fir tree. From Me is thy fruit found.”

4 Pictures –  The Vine Tree.  The Olive Tree.   The Fig Tree.   The Fir Tree.

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