What do you see?

 Yahweh asked, “what do you see?”

“Figs,” I said. “Some are very good, but the others are very bad, too rotten to eat.”

Then Yahweh replied, “This is what I, Yahweh, the God of Israel, say to you: ‘The good figs are the people of Judah whom I sent away in exile to Babylon.  My eyes will compassionately watch over them for their good,  to bring them back to this land, to build them up and not to tear them down, to plant them and not to uproot them.  I will give them a willing heart to know that I am Yahweh. They will be my beloved people, and I will be their loving God, for they will return to me with every passion of their heart. 

“ ‘As for the bad figs that were too rotten to eat, they represent those who went to live in Egypt. I will punish them with such a disaster that everyone on earth will tremble in horror when they hear about it. I will force the people of Judah to go to foreign countries, where they will be an object of scorn, cursing, and insult.  I will send the sword, food shortages, and plague against them until they have vanished from the land I gave to them and their ancestors.’ ” 

                                                     Jeremiah 24 

And the OLD prophet asked: Where the young prophet went?    

And he said unto his sons: saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon and went after the man of God ( the young prophet ), and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him: Are you the man of God? And he replied: I am.

   Then the old prophet said unto him: 'Come home with me, and eat bread'.

   And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place. For it was said to me by the Word of the Lord: Thou shalt eat NO bread NOR drink water there, NOR turn again to go by the way that thou came.

    So the old prophet  said unto him: I am a prophet also just as you are; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the Lord, saying: Bring him back with thee into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But HE WAS LYING to the young prophet.

    So the young prophet ( man of God ) went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and DRANK WATER.

    And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the Lord came unto the old prophet that brought him back.

   And he 'cried' unto the man of God, saying: Thus saith the Lord: BECAUSE YOU disobeyed the mouth of the Lord, and did not keep the commandment which the Lord thy God commanded thee, and came back, and ate bread and drunk water in the place, of the which the Lord did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; your body shall not be buried in the grave of your fathers.

And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcass was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcass. And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcass cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcass: and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt. 

                                        I Kings 13:11-25