History in action

"And seeing from afar a fig tree having leaves, He went to see if perhaps He would find something on it. When He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. In response Jesus said to it, 'Let no one eat fruit from you ever again.' Then Jesus went into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves." (Mark 11:12-17)

Jesus cursed a fig tree just before He cleansed the temple and drove out all those who bought and sold there. The contrast in these parallel acts is striking. The cursing of the fig tree represented the destruction of a fruitless religious system. It served as a visual object lesson of what Jesus had come to do in the Jewish temple before He established the new covenant.

When Jesus cursed the fig tree He was cursing forms of religion that rob the heart of power. There are some concepts found in Christianity today that are robbing many of the true power of God.

When Constantine, emperor of Rome, made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire in the fourth century, it marked the beginning of the institutionalization of the church. Constantine made the Church a state institution. Thus  the power of the spirit is reduced in the philosophy. From that point in time until the period of the dark ages (A.D. 1500) much of the True body  died, the real assembly or ecclesia was reduced to  political power and the hypnotic addiction  to  Greek philosophy  replaced the revelatory power of Christ into man's manageable lifeless systems. fs

What we've seen in the last 500 years has been the renewal, revival and restoration of many truths that had been lost in the assemblies age. Yet there remains a recovery and a resurrection of the effects of the institutionalization of the state church to be changed by a return to the  original spirit led body  without all the external  unholy unions.

Back to Christ  and the internal presence of God.

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