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66 books by 40 authors, and yet we now discover it's an integrated message system from outside our time domain.

Welcome to 6640, the ministry outreach of Koinnea House and Koinnea Institute.

Today's Bible teacher is Chuck Missler, connecting the Bible to your life and the world around you.

In today's study, Chuck completes his teaching on the book of Mark, chapter 11.

Thank you. 11.

You want to look at Jatham's parable in Judges chapter 9, his parable of the... There's actually a handful of parables in the Old Testament.

People are surprised about that. Nathan has a parable of the U-Lam in 2nd Samuel 12, the parable of the woman of Tocco in 2nd Samuel 14, parable of the Thistle in 2nd King's 14, and the parable of the vineyard in Isaiah 5. And we're going to deal with that too before we're through here. But Jothan's Parable of the Trees, I'd like to take a look at Judges Nine.

This is an interesting parable because the rabbis believe in the, what we call this, the

principle of expositional constancy.

The Holy Spirit tends to use the same symbols consistently throughout the scripture.

Well, when you get to the parable of the trees by Jotham, Judges 9, when they told it Jotham,

he went and stood at the top of Mount Garazim and lifted up his voice and cried and said

on them, Harken unto me, ye men of Shechem,

that God may harken unto you. The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them.

And they said unto the olive tree, reign thou over us. But the olive tree said on them,

should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honor God and man and go to be promoted over the trees?

And the trees said to the fig tree, come thou and rain over us.

And the fig tree said to them, should I forsake my sweetness and my good fruit and go to

be promoted over the trees.

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