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Unit 25

Segment 16 of 18 [#167]

A Plan for One Last Effort (servants are called for additional grafting, pruning, digging, and nourishing; the bad branches are gradually removed)

Jacob 5:60 - Jacob 5:69

Duration: 2:43

contextual study / concordance

Jacob 5:60

And because that I have preserved the natural branches and the roots thereof,

and that I have grafted in the natural branches again into their mother tree,

and have preserved the roots of their mother tree,

that, perhaps, the trees of my vineyard may bring forth again good fruit

and that I may have joy again in the fruit of my vineyard,

and, perhaps, that I may rejoice exceedingly

that I have preserved the roots and the branches of the first fruit —

Jacob 5:61

Wherefore, go to, and call servants,

that we may labor diligently with our might in the vineyard,

that we may prepare the way, that I may bring forth again the natural fruit,

which natural fruit is good and the most precious above all other fruit.

Jacob 5:62

Wherefore, let us go to and labor with our might this last time,

for behold the end draweth nigh,

and this is for the last time that I shall prune my vineyard.

Jacob 5:63

Graft in the branches;

begin at the last that they may be first, and that the first may be last,

and dig about the trees, both old and young,

the first and the last; and the last and the first,

that all may be nourished once again for the last time.

Jacob 5:64

Wherefore, dig about them, and prune them,

and dung them once more, for the last time,

for the end draweth nigh.

And if it be so that these last grafts shall grow, and bring forth the natural fruit,

then shall ye prepare the way for them, that they may grow.

Jacob 5:65

And as they begin to grow

ye shall clear away the branches which bring forth bitter fruit,

according to the strength of the good and the size thereof;

and ye shall not clear away the bad thereof all at once,

lest the roots thereof should be too strong for the graft,

and the graft thereof shall perish, and I lose the trees of my vineyard.

Jacob 5:66

For it grieveth me that I should lose the trees of my vineyard;

wherefore ye shall clear away the bad according as the good shall grow,

that the root and the top may be equal in strength,

until the good shall overcome the bad,

and the bad be hewn down and cast into the fire,

that they cumber not the ground of my vineyard;

and thus will I sweep away the bad out of my vineyard.

Jacob 5:67

And the branches of the natural tree will I graft in again into the natural tree;

Jacob 5:68

And the branches of the natural tree will I graft into the natural branches of the tree;