The Text:
Mark 11:13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet. (KJV)
The Challenge:
im asking you for a explanation as to why your god didnt know that the fig tree he creates didnt have any figs on it. Give me your explanation. Stop copy pasting what others have said. Im haveing a discussion with you, so give your input from your understanding. Give your explanation.
So here goes again; explain why your god didnt know, that the fig tree he created, didnt have any figs on it?
My Answer:
There is nothing in the Bible that remotely suggests that our Lord Jesus Christ was not aware of the nature and seasons of produce of the fig tree.
Jesus in His human nature, according to the New Testament record, sometimes chose not to know what He surely in His Divine nature did know (John 16:30; 21:17). Jesus spoke of not knowing the day and hour of His return (Mark 13:32). He did not know who touched Him when a woman touched the hem of His garment and was immediately healed (Mark 5:25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31). So with the fig tree in question: Jesus in His human nature did not choose to know ahead of time how much, if any, fruit was on the tree.
The real problem with understanding what is reported in Mark 11:13 is that modern readers are not familiar with fig trees since they do not live there like Jesus did.
Fig trees in Israel produce two or three crops of figs in their seasons.
(1) There is an early crop, the early figs, mentioned in Isaiah 28:4 as “the hasty fruit before the summer.” It is also mentioned in Jeremiah 24:2 and Nahum 3:12.
Isa 28:4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
It is also mentioned as the “firstripe in the fig tree” in Hosea 9:10,
Hos 9:10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.
(2) There is the summer fig which is not eaten fresh but is dried on the housetops for use in the winter. The summer fig crop is mentioned in Jeremiah 24:2, Amos 8:2, and Micah 7:1.
(3) Then, weather permitting, there is the third crop or winter fig gathered as a delicious morsel in the spring.
The tree which Jesus sought fruit to eat had leaves visible from a distance. The leaves grow on the fig tree in a manner that they cover the fruit to protect it from the direct sun, But when he got to the tree, he found nothing on it but leaves, though it should have had fruit at that point in its fruit bearing cycle.
Since the tree grew so near to the public walkway, the owner should have left some of the fruit on the tree, according to the Law of Moses as recorded in Leviticus 19:9, 10; 23:22; Deuteronomy 24:19, 20, 21. Jesus, finding no fruit left, said “No man eat fruit of thee hereafter forever.”