There have been many who have said that a generation after Israel was born as a nation was the fig tree budding that Jesus is talking about. The problem with this is Jesus right after giving the illustration about the tree says no one knows. This means no one knows. We don’t know. The timeline people have created is only good, if and that is a real if, the fig tree represents Israel becoming a nation, and not something else: Israel taking all of their lands?, an event in spiritual Israel?, a revival among Jews?. The idea of a timeline that we can know completely breaks down if Jesus is just using the fig tree in an illustration and the fig tree not being an image, type, or figure of a Jewish nation. At the end of the day, what matters is that we are faithful no matter what is happening around us be it noon, night, morning, or when the rooster crows, which if you have been around roosters is anytime they feel like it. Whichever, WATCH!
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