In the bible, John the Baptist rebukes the Pharisees and Sadducees by referring to them as a brood of vipers
The Pharisees are a symbol for religious egos
The Sadducees are a symbol for religious and non religious vanity
Vipers are known for their fangs so the The egocentric and bang are both destructive to the fibre of healthy moral society and pray on the healthy by exploiting them through their taste and personal preference for hostility and negativity and hatred and anger and hostility and violence
The fruit here since it is explicitly stated as being in compliance and yet distinction to repentance is the good labours
While the tree is a symbol for the spirit which is itself a symbol for motives
So John is saying to produce good labour’s in combination to their renunciation of evil
The Wheat that is gathered into the barn is the industrious and hard working truth speaker and servant of God
While the Tate is the socially dependent who leeches off others and destroys the good work of others by telling lies and serving only himself
Here you determine whether you want to be
a) A truth speaker like John the Baptist who is estranged from the ego of the pharisees
and
b) A truth servant like Jesus who is estranged from the vanity of the Sadducees
Or whether you want to exploit people and things for personal gain
While contributing nothing to the world and going to hell after you die
There are other lessons you can learn from this passage but I thought I would stop here
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