After Messiah was cut off, Prince who comes confirms "Mt. Sinai Covenant" ?!
Okay, let me explain something clearly what Scripture actually says before deal with your fig tree claim...
Luke 19:44
- "And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation."
Don't you see that Christ is not talking about a physical city, but the Old Testament congregation of Israel, and how it would be brought to ruin or desolation? It's so obvious. And it is also obvious that it was not in 70 A.D. by the Romans, but by Christ's own people who rejected Him. The Holy City and Sanctuary "represent" the Lord's Old Testament congregation, the people of Israel. Moreover, when God fulfills Scripture, it's not halfway, pick and choose or contradictory, it's total harmony with itself.
Daniel 9:26
- "And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined."
The people who destroyed the city were not the Romans, it was
the people of the Prince, the Messiah, ACCORDING TO THE CONTEXT! Christ was cut off at the cross, not in 70 A.D., and not for Himself--for His people. Indeed true to his prophecy, the
city and the sanctuary were destroyed or brought to desolation by the people of the Prince.. This is what Christ spoke about as He wept over the Holy City Jerusalem concerning its desolation. Not that it would take play over 30 years later in 70 A.D., but them being cut off and blinded when He (whom the city and sanctuary represented) was cut off. It's not talking about physical stones falling, but spiritual stones falling as the kingdom was taken from them and given to another. Not God's building the ruins again by physical stones, but by spiritual stones, with Him (
whom they had rejected as Messiah) as the chief corner stone of
that rebuilding. Sure, there are professing Christians running to and fro looking for a physical rebuilding of the Holy Temple and a Physical restoring of the land and city, but this is private rather than God's interpretation of the Prophecy.
Mark 12:9-12
- "What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.
- And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:
- This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
- And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way."
How is it that they knew, but Christians today with so much more information choose to think it terms of physical stones and buildings. Even these of Israel perceived that this building Christ spoke about in parables was about them, and the rebuilding with Christ as the cornerstone, was spoken about Him. Today we muse about how stone falling and being in rebuilding must be taken in a literal fashion
simply because of Josephus' testimony of the Romans who laid siege upon and sacked Jerusalem. That's all well and Good, but where is the Biblical validation that "this" fulfills prophecy? Simply because it
seems so doesn't cut it.
As for "
Fig Tree"...
It is a matter of accepting the
words of men versus the word of God, and God's word wins out
every time because only His word is one hundred percent
authoritative, true and trustworthy.
Matthew 21:19-20
- "And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away."
Matthew 21:43
- "Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof."
Forever is a long time right? It did not last until 1967!! But
FOREVER! The Fig Tree is national Israel (old testament congregation) who bore no fruit when Christ came the first time at the time of their visitation, and
His judgment was that it would never bear fruit.
...as it hasn't to this very day.
Of course, there are people out there, like you, are free to teach that God is "not finished with national Israel" if they choose, but unless God is going to go back on His Word and have the Fig Tree bear fruit, or He is now going to remove the Kingdom from the New Testament congregation that it was given to when He took it from National Israel (gasp),
then I'd say God's word again trumps anything man has to say on the matter that I testified here. There are lots of ideas floating around out there, but you see
the word of God is my anchor--meaning it's sure and grounded. It's not something that theologians can move here or there, relocate or shift around like I saw some people doing here, to conform to their own actual beliefs and theories.
