The olive tree

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yaright

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To some it will be babel. To others; These will hear this from within on a personal plane.

Psalms 51;8
"I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in His mercy forever." Each tree has a specific nature and a specific purpose in biblical terms. The trees of the field are people who live in the ways of the world. The knowledge of trees will open understanding on a personal plain for those who desire it.

When the olive tree raised up in the ways of our Lord; From young to the days it begins to produce a full abundant harvest, is a covenant period of about forty years. Some who planted olive trees, did this for their children, knowing that in the parent’s life time, they likely would not see a full harvest from the trees they had planted. All these years the olive tree needs to be cared for, in a spiritual manner of the image of covenant period of learning in God's presence. The term “forty” (whether days or years) is a covenant period in a place separated from the ways of the world; not taking anything into account (of this world) according to the things that seem right to a man. This is called ‘fasting to our Lord’. After the first baptism according to the flesh, Jesus was moved by the Spirit to a (seemingly undesirable ‘place’ according to the flesh), a desolate place, where He fasted forty days. That covenant period is also a place of being tempted by Satan, having been removed from the ways of the world which the flesh desires, is a spiritual matter. Jesus did not partake of any desire that He was tempted with. Again, this is called fasting to the Lord. Afterward, it is said Jesus hungered. Most tend to miss this spiritual application. Jesus did not hunger for a sandwich, which some teach to this day. Jesus hungered to do His Father's will. It is at this moment that Jesus began His ministry. This is the long way to understanding the olive tree, but it is worth the time to carefully understand spiritual matters on a personal plain. The term 40 is about a covenant period set apart from the world; in the presence of God. This 'place' does seem desolate according to the things we had become used to in the flesh. This desolate place is within each of us as we were set apart to be shown the wisdom of God. I will give you an outward example of the inward experience. When Israel was called by God to follow Him out of the land of Egypt. a lamb or sheep had to be sacrificed and eaten in the last supper of the last day in that land of sin, before they crossed over into the presence and teaching of God in a seemingly desolate place (with God!). In this desolate place, Israel was being taught the ways of God; and at the same time they were tempted in their flesh. Does any of this sound familiar to you in the early part of your faith? These things needed to take place as a witness of the things which happened to you when God called you. In spiritual terms, the sacrifice of the lamb of God took place in our lives in the last meal of the last day we lived in a “place’ / land of sin. It was then we crossed over into a covenant period in the presence of God and we were surely tempted in this seemingly desolate land, saying “What is this place!” Some are so distraught in this experience, longing in their heart for the things they left behind; No different than Israel. To put it bluntly, this is the sin nature of all men. I've heard it preached concerning how wicked Israel was. That cannot be argued, but to think somehow that we are better would be a lie.

So now, back to the covenant period of carefully preparing the olive tree, whose very nature takes 40 years of grooming before it is prepared to have a nature over flowing of anointing oil. When Jesus went through the covenant period, after that was done, He began His ministry. He was then prepared, even as the olive tree is carefully prepared for God's purpose found in the The Olive Garden. This is where Jesus took His disciples to pray and sing praises to His Father in Heaven. This is the gathering of the anointed. There is more; When the olive tree is prepared, it brings the power of the anointing oil which is used for light, it is used for medicine, and it is used for food. All three of these are images of spiritual matters. What Jesus did when He began His ministry was bring light to where there was darkness, He healed the sick and became food for those who seek the Kingdom of Heaven. The caregiver is the husbandman who you have heard of. Jesus healed the nature of a man who was blind. But after that man was healed, Jesus asked him what he saw; And the man replied, “I see men like trees walking.”
When we look out at the world for signs, we are saying that we can see. Jesus said, "If you say you can see, you remain in your sin." Jesus is saying we are made blind by our sin. So when Jesus healed the eyes of the man, that man gave witness of spiritual things that cannot be seen according to the flesh. The olive tree is one of the trees walking, in the nature of an anointed man. It’s an awesome experience for a person to be able to see the hidden language which takes place from within. What a powerful thing to experience a personal relationship that teaches us who we are and why we are that way in God’s sight! Look for the teaching of young olive trees around the table of our Lord, and tell me what you see.
 
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Ramon

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I know this was on the other thread and that I have commented, but another thing I noticed too was about the oil!!

Jesus spoke of the husbandman. I wonder if he is the one who nurtures the tree for the next generations. It reminds me of something also in the beginning that the way of the Tree of life was kept, and a flaming sword turning every way protected it.

I don't know, but it is amazing how the eating and the oil came. Jesus said have oil in ourselves. The virgins had vessels of oil, or lamps, but some didn't have enough. Sometimes I wonder what that oil is. Is it joy? Is it love? Is it peace? And if it is all of these things, then it has to be from Jesus Christ.

From the beasts of the field, to the fowls of the air, to every living thing that creeps across the earth, it is a revelation of the relationship of the Father to his creation.

It is awesome to consider ourselves the way God considers us, then we can understand our nature truly in light of the Truth!!

May Jesus bless you.