1 THE LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, ...If “the line separating good and evil passes ... right through every human heart”2 what happens to that line when human hearts formulate states, classes, political parties, nations, churches, NGOs, corporations, etc., etc.? Does the line not externalize through everything generated by humankind? Doesn’t history and scripture make it clear that there is always a compound and that the division is seldom 50/50?3
2 One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
3 Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
(Jeremiah 24:1-3).1
If we are observant, God’s word is filled with far more lamentation4 concerning “Israel” than praise (regardless of whether the chief tribe was Judah or Joseph/Ephraim), so why are we so suckered into silence or unmitigated defense when a basket of figs (again whether of Judah or Ephraim) claims to be good or justified or chosen or favored? What happened to “by their fruits ye shall know them”5? What happened to “resist not evil with evil”6? What generally happens to good (or even other bad) figs when evil ones have the power?
BUT is a history of victimization (some tragically real and some augmented7) sufficient reason to squelch every criticism? How many other tribes or groups have been the victims of genocidal agendas8? Does that excuse more atrocities? How specious to label a Semite as anti-semitic if s/he criticizes a fellow Semite or rejects a militant version of Zionism9! How false to weaponize it against every reasoned, legitimate criticism.
Every nation, kindred, tongue, tribe, or people have their two baskets: factions of good; factions of evil. When we refuse to acknowledge the divide — the compound nature10 — we distort truth and consequence. We open ourselves to a plethora of deception about what and who is real; what and who is false; what is prophesied; what is fulfillment of prophecy.
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1. Old Testament | Jeremiah 24:1-3 (Context)
1 THE LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
2 One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
3 Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
2. Full quote: “[T]he line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart—and through all human hearts.”
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (p. 746). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.
3. New Testament | Matthew 7:13-14
13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
4. https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2014/01/gods-lament.html
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2024/03/where-are-lamentations.html
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2024/03/isaiahs-lamentations.html
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2016/03/this-vale-of-sorrow.html
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/03/deja-vu-dilemma-watchmen.html
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2018/04/sighing-and-crying.html
Old Testament | Hosea 9:9-10
9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.
Old Testament | Jeremiah 29:16-17
16 Know that thus saith the LORD of the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this city, and of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;
17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
Old Testament | Amos 4:9
9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
5. New Testament | Matthew 7:15-20
15 ¶ Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
6. New Testament | Romans 12:17 ~ Recompense to no man evil for evil.
New Testament | 1 Thessalonians 5:15 ~ See that none render evil for evil unto any man;
New Testament | 1 Peter 3:9 ~ Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing;
New Testament | Matthew 5:39 ~ But I [Jesus] say unto you, That ye resist not evil [with evil]:
7. Menuhin, Moshe. "Not by Might, Nor by Power": The Zionist Betrayal of Judaism (Forbidden Bookshelf Book 22). Open Road Media. Kindle Edition.
Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro: The Empty Wagon: Zionism's Journey from Identity Crisis to Identity Theft
https://www.youtube.com/@RabbiYaakov/videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6PsKFBxY8Y
Meet The ‘Wrong Jew’ The Media Doesn’t Want You To Know Exists (Double Down News | Apr 28, 2024 | Time 4:00 min.) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mEuE-XiHj4
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide
9. See footnote 7
10.. Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 2:11, 15-16
11 For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so, ... righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility. ...
15 And to bring about his eternal purposes in the end of man, ... it must needs be that there was an opposition; even the forbidden fruit in opposition to the tree of life; the one being sweet and the other bitter.
16 Wherefore, the Lord God gave unto man that he should act for himself. Wherefore, man could not act for himself save it should be that he was enticed by the one or the other.
