Douggg
anytime rapture, non-dispensationalist, futurist
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When Jesus and the disciples were entering Jerusalem there was a fig tree beside the road, but did not have figs on it because it was out of season.Where did He say anything about Israel being a nation again or Jerusalem being back in the hands of the Jews in Matthew 24:1-31? Nowhere that I can see. So, how can those things be among "these things" that He said would be signs that the end was near? That makes no sense. You're reading that into the text.
Jesus cursed the fig tree as a sign that generation of Jerusalem was going to reject him as her king.
On the way back out of Jerusalem, the disciples were amazed that the fig tree had withered up and died.
So when Jesus gave the parable of the fig tree generation, the fig tree represents Jerusalem, which must be back in the hands of the Jews for them to say to him, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Matthew 23:39.
A central them in the four gospels is that Jesus is the promise King of Israel, coming in the name of the Lord. That is to say, the one chosen by God to be their King.
The Antichrist is another, they will embrace for a while as their King of Israel, instead of and against Jesus the rightful King of Israel. Coming in his own name means that he is not the one God chose to be their King.
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