Parable of the Fig Tree

Mark 13:28 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves (out of season), ye know that summer (harvest time) is near:

A deception has been taking place and just before the Second Advent, people will believe that Jesus Christ has returned for them. This false return or "rapture" will be untimely and out of season because prophecy tells us that Satan will arrive first and pretend to be Christ. If you understand The Parable of the Fig Tree, you will know the season (generation) when Christ returns and you won't be deceived by Satan. Now learn.

Mark 13:29 So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things (seven seals, seven trumps, seven vials) come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors (harvest time - end of this earth age - Second Advent).

Mark 13:30 Verily I say unto you, that this generation (season - generation of the fig tree) shall not pass, till all these things (seven things) be done (all prophecy fulfilled).

Mark 13:31 Heaven and Earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.

The generation that Jesus refers to in Mark 13:30 is that of the fig tree. Jer 24 tells us when the fig tree was planted.

The House of Israel had been taken captive 200 years prior; the focus is on Judah and Jerusalem.

Jer 24:1 The Lord shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the Lord (Mount Zion), after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive (70 years) Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths (Nethinim) from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon (confusion).

The Nethinim (bad figs) were appointed to help the Levitcal priests (Ezra 8:20). They eventually started taking over the priests' duties - they conveniently mixed right in.

Jer 24:2 One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs (the tares of Matthew 13 - Kenites), which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

Jer 24:3 Then said the Lord unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.

Jer 24:4 Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

Jer 24:5 Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans (Babylon - confusion) for their good (by Titus in 70 AD).

Jer 24:6 For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land (Jerusalem): and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

Judah returned to Jerusalem in 1948 (State of Israel established). Both good figs (Judah) and bad figs (those who say they are of Judah but are really sons of Cain - Kenites).

Rev 2:9 is addressed to the church in Smyrna. Smyrna is the name of a fig - a good fig.

Rev 2:9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews (from Judah), and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan (Kenites).

Jer 24:7 And I will give them (good figs) an heart to know me (the truth), that I am the Lord: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.

Jer 24:8 And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the Lord, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue (residents that claim to be of Judah) of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:

Jer 24:9 And I will deliver them (bad figs - Kenites) to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.

Jer 24:10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.

They were dispersed from off the land by Titus in 70 AD and returned in 1948. The shoot (figs are planted by a shoot) was set out and has been putting forth leaves.

NOTES

Mark 11:13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.

Mark 11:14 And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever.

Bad fruit.

Rev 6:13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

Untimely or "unripe" figs are those which are not fit to harvest because they are green. Many people in this generation are green, "unripe" because they don't know the chronological events leading to Christ's return. They will be harvested "out of season" by Satan, who will arrive before Christ, pretending to be Christ.

2Peter 3:5-7, 13 Heaven and Earth

For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was (first earth age, Gen 1:1, Prov 8:22-26, Is 45:18), being overflowed with water (this is not Noah's flood), perished (Gen 1:2, Jer 4:22-24): But the heavens and the earth, which are now (second earth age), by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth (third earth age), wherein dwelleth righteousness. Three World Ages

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Leaves

Strong's (Greek)

#5443 an offshoot, i.e. race or clan - kindred, tribe

#5444 a sprout

#5453 to puff or blow, i.e. to swell up; used in the sense to germinate or grow - sprout, produce, spring up

Dictionary (English)

an outgrowth from the stem of a plant

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