In response to regular questions on the Parable of the Fig Tree and references to the “last generation” I’ve written an article to explain it’s plain meaning.
The Parable of the Fig Tree: Prophecy or Overlooked Prophecy Key?
Literal, Logical Explanations for Bible Prophecy and Other Difficult Verses
In response to regular questions on the Parable of the Fig Tree and references to the “last generation” I’ve written an article to explain it’s plain meaning.
The Parable of the Fig Tree: Prophecy or Overlooked Prophecy Key?
A reply the your Fig Tree report:
Jeremiah 8:13 I will surely consume them, said the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.
Jeremiah 8:19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country (Lost Israel): Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
Jeremiah 8:20 The harvest is past,(the chosen of God the 144,000), the summer is ended (the Day of the LORD), and we are not saved.(????)
Jeremiah 24:1 The LORD showed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
Jeremiah 24:2 One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
Jeremiah 24:3 Then said the LORD unto me, What see you, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
Jeremiah 24:4 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Jeremiah 24:5 Thus said 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 for their good.(the good Jews were send into Babylon for 70 years for their own good)
Jeremiah 24:6 For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
Jeremiah 24:7 And I will give them a heart to know me, 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.
Jeremiah 24:8 And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus said the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:
Jeremiah 24:9 And I will deliver them 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.( the removal of all the remainder of the Jews into
the ungodly gentiles and barbarians of the rest of the world)
Jeremiah 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.
Amos 8:1 Thus had the Lord GOD showed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
Amos 8:2 And he said, Amos, what see you? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more. (the Northern Tribes of Israel was banished from their chosen land of milk and honey forever
Except a few, which joined the good Jews)
Amos 8:3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, said the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
Luke 13:6 He spoke also this parable; A certain man (Jesus) had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.
Luke 13:7 Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbered it the ground?
Luke 13:8 And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:
Luke 13:9 And if it bears fruit, well: and if not, then after that you shall cut it down.
Luke 13:10 And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.
Luke 21:29 And he spoke to them a parable; Behold the fig tree (Judah did not accept Jesus the Christ, and thus bore no fruit, except maybe the apostles and the 120 disciples), and all the trees; (Banished Israel)
Luke 21:30 When they now shoot forth, you see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. (In 1948 Jewish Israel was born, and 19 years later in the seven day war they conquered the holy City Jerusalem in 1967)
Luke 21:31 So likewise you, when you see these things come to pass, know you that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.
Luke 21:32 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.
Luke 21:35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
Luke 21:36 Watch you therefore, and pray always, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Mark 11:12 And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:
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 you hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.
Mark 11:15 And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;
Mark 11:16 And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.
Mark 11:17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but you have made it a den of thieves. ( this verse pertains to the fig tree with no figs above and that became withered)
Mark 11:18 And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine.(here is the answer, the Jewish Sheppard’s wanting to destroy their Messiah)
Mark 11:19 And when even was come, he went out of the city.
Mark 11:20 And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.
Mark 11:21 And Peter calling to remembrance said unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which You cursed is withered away.
Mark 11:22 And Jesus answering said unto them, Have faith in God.
Matthew 24:32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is nigh:
Matthew 24:33 So likewise you, when you shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
Matthew 24:34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
Matthew 21:18 Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.
Matthew 21:19 And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on you henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.
Matthew 21:20 And when the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away!
Matthew 21:21 Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If you have faith, and doubt not, you shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if you shall say unto this mountain, Be you removed, and be you cast into the sea; it shall be done.
Joel 1:7 He had laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he had made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
Joel 1:8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Joel 1:9 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD’S ministers, mourn.
Joel 1:10 The field is wasted, the land mourned; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languished.
Joel 1:11 Be you ashamed, O you husbandmen; howl, O you vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
Joel 1:12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languished; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
Joel 1:13 Gird yourselves, and lament, you priests: howl, you ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
Joel 1:14 Sanctify you a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD.
Joel 1:15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
Joel 1:16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Joel 1:17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
Joel 1:18 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
Joel 1:19 O LORD, to you will I cry: for the fire had devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame had burned all the trees of the field.
Joel 1:20 The beasts of the field cry also unto you: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire had devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
Zechariah 3:10 In that day, said the LORD of hosts, shall you call every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree.
Micah 4:4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts had spoken it.
James 3:12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
Hosea 9:10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.
Hosea 9:11 As for Ephraim (Lost Israel), their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
Hosea 9:12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
Hosea 9:13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
Hosea 9:14 Give them, O LORD: what wilt you give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Hosea 9:17 My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations. (Lost Israel)
Song-of-Solomon 2:13 The fig tree puts forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender
grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Isaiah 34:4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falls off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
Revelation 6:13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casted her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
Proverbs 27:18 Whoso keeps the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waited on his master shall be honored.
Isaiah 36:16 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus said the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat you every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink you every one the waters of his own cistern;
Habakkuk 3:17 Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
Kings-1 4:25 And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.
Judges 9:8 The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign you over us.
Judges 9:9 But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honor God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?
Judges 9:10 And the trees said to the fig tree, Come you, and reign over us. (Who will be in charge??)
Judges 9:11 But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?
Judges 9:12 Then said the trees unto the vine, Come you, and reign over us.
Judges 9:13 And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheered God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?
Judges 9:14 Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come you, and reign over us.
Judges 9:15 And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
Joel 2:22 Be not afraid, you beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree bears her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.
Joel 2:23 Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he had given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
Haggai 2:19 Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, had not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.
Kings-2 18:31 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus said the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat you every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink you every one the waters of his cistern:
Zechariah 10:1 Ask you of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.
Job 29:23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
Proverbs 16:15 In the light of the king’s countenance is life; and his favor is as a cloud of the latter rain.
Deuteronomy 11:11 But the land, whither you go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys,
and drinks water of the rain of heaven:
Deuteronomy 11:14 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain
and the latter rain, that you may gather in your corn, and your wine, and your oil. ( the first rain is before Jesus Christ, the latter rain in now)
James 5:7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waited for the precious fruit of the earth, and had long patience for it, until he receives the early and latter rain.
Hosea 6:3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
Hosea 6:4 O Ephraim (Lost Israel), what shall I do unto thee? O Judah (Jews in Israel), what shall I do unto you? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goes away.
Hosea 6:10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim(Lost Israel), Israel is defiled.
Hosea 6:11 Also, O Judah(Jews in Israel), he had set an harvest for you, when I returned the captivity of my people.
Isaiah 66:5 Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name’s sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.
Isaiah 66:6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendered recompense to his enemies.
Isaiah 66:7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.
Isaiah 66:8 Who hath heard such a thing? who had seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
Isaiah 66:9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? said the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? said thy God.
( Israel was born as a Nation in one day in 1948, and the next day was attacked by the moslem world, who saw to destroy this newborn babe of one day, but bless the Lord our God HE saved them that day and also in 1967 during the 7 day war)
Isaiah 66:10 Rejoice you with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all you that mourn for her