Fruition

 

 

The colors of this image are taken from the gate and veils of the Tabernacle. The courtyard wall was white linen, but the gate was made of red and blue and violet. Likewise, the door to the Tabernacle itself, the veil that divided the courtyard from the Holy Place, and the veil before the Holy of Holies, were both also made of red and blue and violet. These colors symbolize God's Messiah.

Picture the Tabernacle pitched in the desert. It had to be a wonderful sight, a gleaming picture of God's plan for mans' salvation, a wall of pure white enticing all who saw it to come. And you could come to it from any direction, from wherever you were. But, once you found the Tabernacle (God's Salvation) there was one and only one way in, and that was through the gate. Moreover, the gate, the veil into the Holy Place and the veil into the Holy of Holies formed a straight line directly from mans' world to God Himself, to His Mercy Seat. Do you see the symbolism? You can come to God's salvation from anywhere, from wherever you are in life and life's circumstance, but the only way to God is through His Messiah (Matthew 7: 13, 14; John 14: 6).

So just how do these colors paint a picture of God's Messiah? Red, the color of His atoning blood, symbolizes that He is fully man. Blue, the color of the heavens, symbolizes that He is fully God. Finally violet, the color of monarchy, symbolizes that He is our King, the King of Kings. And it is no coincidence that the way one achieves violet is by combining red and blue, symbolizing that God's Messiah, our King of Kings, had to be both God and man.

So why do I call this image Fruition? By fulfilling the Law Jesus became the First Fruits of God's plan to reconcile mankind to Himself. And ever since the Feast of Weeks following His ascension we too are become the fruit of God's plan (Leviticus 23). In other words, in Jesus the Law has born fruit, or come to fruition. And therein lies the symbolism of this image.

The fish, symbolic of Christianity, bloom like petals of the flower that is the Star of David, symbolic of Judaism, showing the fruition of God's Word.

But, you will notice, not all of the petals actually bloom from the Star of David. Some only appear to be part of the flower. Not everyone who says "Lord, Lord," will enter His kingdom. Many will say unto Him, "Didn't we do great works in thy name?" And He will say, "I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity," (see Matthew 7: 15 - 23).

Jesus forewarned of this in Matthew 13, telling us that tares would grow up among the wheat, that not everyone who called themselves Christian would actually be Christian. He also made plain that until the time of fullness the two would be nearly indistinguishable. That ultimately the only real distinction would be the fruit they bear.