Now comes the best part of this message. See, some people think, some teachers, they think that when Jesus talked about, “That generation shall not pass away,” He was talking about Israel. But I find it very odd. Why? Because He’s talking about a generation that is going to watch Israel. He doesn’t talk about the fig tree. He talks about the generation that will see the fig tree come back to life. Wow. So I believe it talks about the believers of that time. I believe that the most significant end time prophecy is the rebirth of Israel and the rebirth of the fig tree.
History is replete with world changing events. The American Revolution, the Industrial Age, the Great Depression, two World Wars, and even the Cold War would have a rightful place on our list of memories.
All, however, pale in comparison to the rebirth and regathering of the Jewish people back into their God-given homeland. Yet, in spite of this world-changing, incomparable event, many see no significance to the reconstitution of the Jews in Israel, and many even view it negatively.
Matthew 24:32-35
“Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near. So you also, when you see all these things, know that 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.”
Jesus had just been teaching about the Tribulation and the Second Coming, so His parable would be illustrating that same subject. The fig tree, as representative of national Israel (Joel 1:7; Hosea 9:10), tells us that Israel is back in the land and all the things recorded in the Olivet Discourse are about to take place.
We live in a time that could not only be added to the list of world-changing events, but which is firmly implanted at the top! We are soon going to experience the rapture of the church which must happen for the Tribulation to begin. The denial of the rapture and the rejection of the Israel of today as being Biblical Israel are also indications that summer is near. It is noteworthy that the fig trees in the Middle East bear fruit in the spring and late summer, and the latter of the two timeframes parallels when all Israel will believe in Yeshua as Messiah (Zechariah 12:10).
We live in a time when our Bible confidence should be at an all time high. We have seen more prophetic fulfillment than any generation before us.
This should put everything in its proper place by comparison, because the world is about to experience an unprecedented world-changing event. And for us, that change will quite literally be out of this world!
Even so, come quickly Lord Jesus,