Jotham's Parable (Vine Tree ==> Judges 9:12-13)

(Class Notes)

• Earthly Adam (Genesis 2:16-17)
  • In the BEGINNING - the VINE TREE was associated with SIN and PHYSICAL DEATH (Genesis 2:16-17):
    • The FIRST ADAM (I Corinthians 15:45) PHYSICALLY PARTOOK of its FRUIT (Genesis 3:6) and introduced SIN and PHYSICAL DEATH into the world (Romans 5:12 cf. Genesis 3:8,19)
      • The FIRST ADAM (I Corinthians 15:45) LOST the IMAGE of GOD (Genesis 5:3 cp. Genesis 1:26), i.e. he LOST his EARTHLY HEADSHIP (Genesis 9:6 cf. Genesis 1:26) to the ADVERSARY (John 12:31 cf. Ephesians 2:2)
      • The FIRST ADAM (I Corinthians 15:45) LOST the LIKENESS of GOD (Genesis 5:3), i.e. he LOST his DIVINE CLOTHING of LIGHT (Psalms 104:1-2) - that CLOTHING was REPLACED by the "COATS of SKINS" (Genesis 3:21) TAKEN from the SLAIN LAMB (Revelation 13:8)
    • The LAST ADAM (I Corinthians 15:45) PHYSICALLY PARTOOK of its FRUIT (John 19:28-30 cf. Matthew 26:27-29) and, thereby, "DESTROYED him that hath the POWER of DEATH" (Hebrews 2:14; Revelation 1:18)
      • The LAST ADAM (I Corinthians 15:45) will RESTORE to MAN the IMAGE of GOD (Hebrews 2:6-9), i.e. his EARTHLY HEADSHIP (Psalms 8:4-8)
      • The LAST ADAM (I Corinthians 15:45) will RESTORE to MAN the LIKENESS of GOD (Matthew 17:1-2), i.e. his CLOTHING of CELESTIAL LIGHT (Daniel 12:3; Matthew 13:43)
    • The LAST ADAM (I Corinthians 15:45) will also PHYSICALLY LIBERATE from "the BONDAGE of CORRUPTION" (Romans 8:21) the CREATION which was TAINTED under MAN'S DOMINION due to MAN'S FALL (Romans 8:19-20)

• Earthly Israel (Psalms 80:8-9)
  • As ISRAEL is God's FIRSTBORN among the NATIONS (Exodus 4:22), so is her MESSIAH the FIRSTBORN "among MANY BRETHREN" (Romans 8:29):
    • The EARTHLY INHERITANCE of "the SONS of NOAH" (Genesis 10:32) was to be determined by "the NUMBER of the CHILDREN of ISRAEL" (Deuteronomy 32:8):
      • JAPHETH ... 14 NATIONS (Genesis 10:2-4)
      • HAM ........... 30 NATIONS (Genesis 10:6-7,13-18)
      • SHEM ......... 26 NATIONS (Genesis 10:22-29)
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      • TOTAL ........ 70 NATIONS ~ 70 SOULS of JACOB into EGYPT (Exodus 1:1-5)
  • ISRAEL WENT INTO EGYPT as a FAMILY (Genesis 46:5-7) to AVOID STARVATION (Genesis 45:4-7) and CAME OUT OF EGYPT as a NATION (Genesis 46:3-4) - "a VINE OUT OF EGYPT ... PLANTED ... and it FILLED the LAND" (Psalms 80:8-9):
    • Her MESSIAH as the "TRUE VINE" (John 15:1) was also made to "FLEE INTO EGYPT" to AVOID DESTRUCTION (Matthew 2:13) and then was CALLED "OUT OF EGYPT" AFTER "the DEATH of HEROD" (Matthew 2:15 cf. Hosea 11:1)
  • ISRAEL under the LAW had become an "EMPTY VINE" (Hosea 10:1) having been "PLUCKED" and "WASTED" (Psalms 80:12-13) due to IDOLATRY (Jeremiah 18:15-17):
    • Her MESSIAH will yet "RETURN" and "LOOK DOWN FROM HEAVEN" and "VISIT THIS VINE" (Psalms 80:14 cf. Isaiah 64:1-3; Zechariah 14:1-3)
    • The VINE will be RESTORED and SAVED (Psalms 80:15-19) and be REPLANTED in the LAND to NO MORE have to bear the "SOUR GRAPES" of its REBELLIOUS FATHERS (Jeremiah 31:27-30)
    • In MESSIAH, "the TRUE VINE" (John 15:1) - ISRAEL will become a FRUITFUL VINE (John 15:5 cf. Zechariah 8:11-12) and will NO LONGER be a CURSE, BUT a BLESSING "AMONG the heathen (NATIONS)" (Zechariah 8:13) and as such - she will be THEIR HEAD and NOT THEIR TAIL (Deuteronomy 28:13)
    • She will indeed then be that VINE whose WINE "CHEERETH both God and man" (Judges 9:12-13) - "REJOICE ye GENTILES with His people" (Romans 15:10 cf. Deuteronomy 32:43)

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