Randy Kluth
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This is an exercise in moving goal posts. 1st it was 40 years, then 70 years, next it will be 140 years. The real problem is that the use of the word "generation" was intended to be applied to the then-present generation of Jesus. "This generation" means "my generation."--not some specific generation in the future when "all these signs" will unfold simultaneously.Or maybe not so clear.
Psalms 90:10
10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
A generation of strength is 80 years. The generation that sees the fig tree put forth leaves will not pass away until all these things come to pass.
All these things are false Christs, wars and rumors of wars, famines, pestilences, The Great Tribulation, and the coming of Jesus at the 6th seal.
The fig tree put forth leaves in 1948. A generation of strength is 80 years. Adding 80 to 1948 gets you to 2028. If Jesus comes for the second (rapture) harvest, which is the gathering from heaven and earth, when we fly away, that flying away occurs after the tribulation and before the wrath of God. This harvest before wrath In 2028 would line up perfectly with the asteriod, Apophis, that comes in April of 2029. Strangely an asteroid comes in the 3rd trumpet of wrath.
Nothing to see here. It's just a coincidence. Yeah right..............
In my view the Spring blossoming of the fig tree is correlated with the "Birth Pangs" that Jesus said would precede the fall of the Temple, the false Messiahs, the wars, the famines and earthquakes. These were actually only the *beginning* of Birth Pangs.
They would include the persecution suffered by Jesus' Disciples until the Abomination of Desolation would "stand in the holy place." To explain the authors referred to Daniel 9, which indicated "the people of the ruler to come," an Army, would be set against the Temple. Jesus said this Army would surround Jerusalem. This all happened in Jesus' generation, some 40 years after he said this.
Why did Jesus use the fig tree as a metaphor, which would normally seem to be a positive thing? It is because in prophecy national judgment was often associated with disappointment, expecting a baby to be born only to have it miscarriage. It was like suffering a drought in the time of year when the trees are green and should be flourishing. The fig tree, in the time it should be producing, will only produce the signs of imminent desolation.
But I suppose we'll know for sure in another 5 years or so? I don't live my life waiting for signs to be fulfilled or not. I depend on what God's word is saying to my heart now. We are to live a righteous life. In this way we are to always be prepared for the coming of Christ's Kingdom.