To think, you really did all this stuff around this time, 2000 ish years ago! Everything you did was with a purpose: Glory to God. May I have that purpose as well.
Love,
Matthew 21:18-19, Mark 11:12-14; Matthew 21:12-13, Mark 11:15-18.
So you're running up the road back to Jerusalem after spending the night in the outskirts of town, and you're hungry. You see a fig tree up ahead (And fig trees have figs that can be eaten most of the time year round) but it happened to be not the season for figs at the time. And you got mad at the tree and told it to never bear fruit again. Sheesh, Jesus, what a temper!
Or not.
But really, this next story doesn't help disprove the temper point.
You go into the temple and start driving out all the money changers. I mean, it was fine because it's a righteous anger from God. These men were using religion to get money. They were selling animals and such for sacrifices... Imagine what Jesus would have done if he had come across the Catholic church centuries later selling indulgences. Same principle. Eww...
*relooking over the passages and a little context*
So Jesus withered the tree so that the disciples would know the power of faith and prayer.Like we said, you had a purpose for everything...