Learn The Parable Of The Fig Tree(Time Is Short).

Learn The Parable Of The Fig Tree.

In 1948 Israel budded again as a fig tree nation, after the destruction of Jerusalem, the temple and the dispersion in AD 70.

70 years ago(May 14, 1948), Israel was declared an independent state by David Ben-Gurion. Eleven minutes after the declaration, US President Harry Truman officially acknowledged Israel as a nation; but later regretted waiting so long to make that acknowledgement. 

To Harry Truman, eleven minutes was so long a time, to have waited before acknowledging the declaration. 

From Truman's acknowledgement 11 minutes after, to Trump's decision to move the US embassy to Jerusalem, 70 years after. No one who knows the scriptural significance of 70 years with respect to Jerusalem and Israel, would doubt that this is a very significant hour for Israel. The clamour of the Jews, to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem, couldn't have been fulfilled until such a day and hour when Jerusalem prophetically enters it's rightful place, as the capital city of Israel. 

Jeremiah 29:10  "For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place."

Daniel 9:2  "In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem."

It's not without significance, that exactly 70 years after(14th May 1948 - 14th May 2018), US moved it's embassy to Jerusalem, officially recognising Jerusalem as the capital city of Israel. Concerning this: Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu said: "Donald Trump, by recognising history, you have made history."

This however, has sparked a wide range of deadly protests in Palestinian borders.

Note: This significant move has prophetically set Jerusalem to become a cup of trembling and burdensome stone in the last days, as prophesied in Zechariah 12:2-3 "Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judahand against Jerusalem. And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it."

Israel As A Fig Tree.🌲 

1. Jesus spoke of Israel as a fig tree, that will be cut down.  

Luke 13:6-9 "He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. 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 cumbereth it the ground? And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down."

Following the coming of the Messiah to Israel, and his ministry to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, about the space of three years, he found no fruit on the fig tree(Israel); and just before his crucifixion, he prophesied it's cutting down(the invasion of Jerusalem, the destruction of the temple and the dispersion - Luke 19:41-44), which came to pass some years after the crucifixion, and after Israel was given an extra year to repent and receive the times of refreshing. Acts 3:13-21.

2. Jesus also spoke of Israel as a fig tree that will yet blossom again, as a sign of the imminence of his return/coming.

Luke 21:29-31 "And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand."

Jeremiah also spoke of Israel as a fig tree that will be brought back and planted again.

Jeremiah 24:1-6 "The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar 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. 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. 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. Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 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 for their good. 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."