Can people pick grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles?
Matthew 12:33 – If you make a tree good, its fruit will be good, and if you make a tree bad, its fruit will be bad; for a tree is known by its fruit. Mark 4:20 – But those sown on rich good soil hear the message, accept it and bear fruit – thirty, sixty or a hundred fold. John 15:8 – This is how my Father is glorified – in your bearing much fruit; this is how you will prove to be my disciples. • Both trees have their beginnings in the Garden of Eden – First Tree the Tree of Life – believed by Jewish sages to be the almond tree – represents God’s Kingdom • – pictured in the menorah – the 7 branched candlestick found in the Holy of Holies in the Temple in Jerusalem – Exodus 37:17 – He made the menorah of pure gold. He made it of hammered work; its base, shaft, cups, rings of outer leaves and flowers were a single unit. There were six branches extending from its sides, three branches of the menorah on one side of it and three on the other. On one branch the three cups shaped like almond b