What are the Fig Tree Generation Prophecies? What is going on in the World? Why the Urgency? I am assuming you do not know the prophecies, or how they line up with today’s news. If that applies to you, then this is written for you.
First lets address some assumptions you may have. Something you believe to be true, but leaves out the whole truth: You may think talk about unfulfilled prophecies and an urgency is just my age, my health and my life because you’ve been led to believe that, “No man knows the day or hour…” But is that true, does the Bible really say that?
I think you’re going to find something to think about as I go over the Scriptures regarding that. Permit me, first, to talk about the Signs of the Seasons. Imagine it is the Thanksgiving week. Families are planning to get gather, and friends are planning to meet. Some will thank God, others will thank the cook. Some will struggle to feel thankful as they contemplate their losses.
Yet, every year as we count down to Thanksgiving it seems all the stores proclaim that Christmas is about to happen. But before Christmas, there is always Thanksgiving! The signs are for Christmas, but they also tell us that another event is about to happen before it. Thanksgiving is about to happen, while we shop for Christmas.
Back in 2019, the weather forecast here was for snow at Thanksgiving. It hadn’t snowed yet, but anyone paying attention knew that, even without a calendar, the summer was far spent and it was Fall. Leaves were changing, leaves were falling and the temperatures definitely fell. We could feel it in the air, it was going to snow. We didn’t know the day or hour with absolute precision, but we had the forecast and we knew the signs. It was going to snow, and it wouldn’t be long before it did.
Not knowing the day or hour does not mean you have to be completely in the dark. Being in the dark is a choice you make, and that choice is to not be in the light. Those famous words, “no man knows the day or hour,” come at the end of a parable in the Olivette discourse. It is prompted by the disciples asking questions after Jesus' prophecy of the destruction of the Temple. (The Temple did meet it's destruction as prophesized, 70 years later.)
The Parable of the Fig Tree, is about a Fig Tree and it is in the Olivette discourse. It will help you to have a better understanding of what it means if you have a few facts. The fig tree represents Israel. Before I go into the Olivette parable let’s look at the Parable of the Barren Fig Tree. (The more you know, the easier to decide.)
In Luke 13: 6-9 “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. Then he said to the keeper of his vineyard, ‘Look, for three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none. Cut it down; why does it use up the ground?’ The keeper answered and said, ‘Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it. And if it bears fruit, well and good, but if it does not, after that cut it down.’ ” Keep in mind that Jesus taught about who He was for three years in Israel, this is the first parable about the Fig Tree.
Luke records another Fig Tree parable: Luke 21: 29-33 “Then He (Jesus) spoke to them a parable: ‘Look at the fig tree (Israel), and all the trees (all the nations). When they are already budding, you see and know for yourselves that summer is now near. So you also, when you see these things happening, know that the Kingdom of God is near. Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all things take place. Heaven and Earth will pass away but My Words will by no means pass away.’
Here is an interesting fact about "trees" The “Fig Tree” and “All The Trees” Israel – 1948; Egypt – 1922; Iraq – 1932; Jordan – 1946; Pakistan – 1947; Lebanon – 1943; Syria - 1945; and The Independent States of the Russian Federation, Ukraine, and Belarus came together in 1991.
As we go thru the prophecies, keep this in mind, this concerns the prophecies about Israel. It is not about “the Church.” I’ll talk about that later, but you need to know this before it will make sense.
What “generation,” has seen the budding of Israel? And what generation is seeing “all these things take place?” What are “all these things?”
With that information, let’s get back to the Parable of the Fig Tree as recorded in Matthew 24: 32-35. In Matthew we see that well known line: “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only.” *But...as the days of Noah were, “so also will be the coming of the Son of Man be.”*
another clue here. What happened in the days of Noah – It is important for you to know. While Israel will not know the day or hour, there are plenty of signs they were given so they will know the season. (I think I should say at this point that it snowed the day before and the day of Thanksgiving. The signs were there.)
Here is the Matthew 24 Parable of the Fig Tree: Matthew 24: 32-35 "Now learn this parable from the fig tree. When it's branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near. So you also, when you see these things, know it is near - at the doors! Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place. Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away."
Let's break it down: Matthew 24: 32-35 "Now learn this parable from the fig tree." (Learn from what happens to Israel.) "When it's branch has already become tender and puts for leaves, you know that summer is near." (Israel is a young nation. It became a nation in one day - May 14, 1948. As a country Israel is very young but it has put forth leaves - today it is the worlds 8th largest economy and is set to rise up with it's recent discoveries of oil and natural gas.) "So you also, when you see these things, know it is near - at the doors!" (What does this tell us of where we are on the prophetic time line? It is getting very close. The things Jesus told the disciples would happen, are in our news headlines today. Nation against nation & famines & pestilences & earthquakes.)
(And not just like it was in previous generations, all of these prophetic signs are rachet up in intensity.) "Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place. Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away."
I was born in 1948, I believe that I am part of the generation that has seen Israel born and bloom. I do not believe this generation will pass away before all these things take place. I believe that this generation is the one that has seen the Fig Tree put forth branches, and before this generation passes away the prophecies will begin. Just watch the news...
But before they begin - just as Thanksgiving comes before Christmas, the Rapture of the Church will precede the fulfillment of the tribulation that is about to come. Keep oil in your lamp. Don't be like the foolish virgins of Matthew 25, in the Olivette discourse. Church - the bridegroom will come, don't be left behind. Check out the page The Days of Noah.
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