Thanks for those verses.
Here are a few:
Old Testament:
King David says: "But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God..."
(Psalm 52)
Those who fear the Lord shall have offspring that are "like olive plants"
(Psalm 128)
#1. these two I can go with, but, a little iffy, but I can go with that because understand INDIVIDUAL men, meaning (males and Females) are either Olives trees, or wild grapes, or briers and thorns.
do you understand this? listen, Israel as a Nation, is look upon as a vineyard of a variety of Plants, not just olives, but grapes as well. I'll point this out later in the topic. when I get to it I'll remind you with these "****" ok.
"The Lord called thy name (The Children of Israel), A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit:..."
"...For the Lord of hosts, that planted thee..."
(Jeremiah 11)
#2. I hope you're not using this passage of scripture in your Identity as to where the two witness come from, because if you do, Jeremiah 11:16 "The LORD
called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it,
and the branches of it are broken.
Jeremiah 11:17 "For the LORD of hosts,
that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.
see he CALLED them a Olive tree, but turn out to be thorn and briers
let's check the record, Isaiah 5:3 "And now,
O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and
my vineyard.
Isaiah 5:4 "What could have been done more to
my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
Isaiah 5:5 "And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to
my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
Isaiah 5:6 "
And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
Isaiah 5:7 "
For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and
the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
"...the glory of Jacob shall be made thin..."
"...as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof..."
(Isaiah 17)
#3. WELL, WELL, WELL, you left something out. you left out the "
remnant" the vine which the TRUE VINE is to come. listen, Isaiah 17:6 "
Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it,
as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel".
AS, AS, AS, the shaking of an olive tree, but is not . see grapes are not olives.
"...I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow..."
"...and his beauty shall be as the olive tree..."
(Hosea 14)
here again
as, the olive tree. the olive is "A" individual person, not a nation.
New Testament:
"For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?"
(Romans 11)
see there is no tree in Israel any moer ... NOT OUTSIDE THE LORD JESUS, listen,
John 15:1 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
John 15:2 "
Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. (SEE, you're not a tree but a branch, understand now)
John 15:3 "Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
John 15:4 "Abide in me, and I in you.
As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide
in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
John 15:5 "I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit:
for without me ye can do nothing.
John 15:6 "
If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned".
see, if is a man abide. but in Isaiah 5:7 "For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and
the men of Judah his pleasant plant
there is no more a plant, why because the tree have been cut foo, listen, Zechariah 6:12 "And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and
he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD". this is the ROOT out of dry ground".
"Testament"
something that serves as a sign or evidence of a specified fact, event, or quality.
"growing attendance figures are a testament to the event's popularity"
synonyms: testimony, witness, evidence, proof, attestation; More
a testament is "a", "A", "a", witness, meaning an "
INDIVIDUAL" for a covenant consist of two person.
so an INDIVIDUAL is one each of the two witness.
Hope this helped.
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