That was a good video Tammie and worth the watch for anyone who hasn’t seen it. Nann, that is so cool! That actually supports a theory I have had for some time now and really encourages me! Quite a few years ago when I started thinking about the “Fig tree” generation I came up with this theory: I theorized that if we are talking about a generation of people, it cannot be referring to a generation of people that were born around the same time as Israel, but it had to refer to a generation of people slightly older because in Matthew 24:33-34 where Jesus is telling this parable He says “when you SEE” implying that a generation would witness these things and be of some minimum age to actually be able to understand what they are seeing. So I got to thinking, a baby’s born in 1948 wouldn’t qualify, probably a young child would be oblivious to such an event, and I considered, I was in high school about 17 taking a contemporary issues class as an elective when I started paying attention to national and world events (funny you said your mom was 17!). So I figured the fig tree generation must be a teenager or young adult at the time that would not only see, but to some extent understand the significance of what they are seeing. So I started asking people of this age - do you remember when Israel was reborn? My grandparents who were of this generation had already passed away, but I still had a few older acquaintances. My last interview was a couple of years ago, a neighbor of mine, a WW2 vet, so he would certainly qualify - so I asked him and his wife if they remembered the rebirth of Israel and they said they really didn’t remember it making news. Disappointing. Up to this point I figured somewhere over in Israel there must be someone in their 80s or 90s that remembered when their nation was born but so far I couldn’t find anyone that I knew - so your mom is actually the FIRST that supports this “theory” of mine that there are some that actually remember Israel’s rebirth and saw it and are part of this fig tree generation as far as people are concerned! This is very encouraging and is the strongest interpretation of the fig tree generation I think. We like to speculate on the start date of the fig tree generation (hence the whole idea of this post) did it start on May 14, 1948 or did it start a little later on the next Shmitta cycle? And we may never fully know this side of heaven - but the strongest prophetic fulfillment of the words of Jesus concerning the fig tree generation is the fact that there are still some alive and remaining like your mom that actually DID SEE these thing begin to happen and are still around to see it through to the end! Looking forward to meeting you and your mom at the rapture an hearing her talk about what it was like when she was 17! A jubilee year and the 70th shemitah cycle! Very promising prospects for this year! How much if any time between the Rapture and tribulation?!!!! Springtime could be the season of our “engagement/betrothal” while Fall ushering in the Rapture! TR So I got to thinking, a baby’s born in 1948 wouldn’t qualify, probably a young child would be oblivious to such an event, and I considered, I was in high school about 17 taking a contemporary issues class as an elective when I started paying attention to national and world events (funny you said your mom was 17!). So I figured the fig tree generation must be a teenager or young adult at the time that would not only see, but to some extent understand the significance of what they are seeing. I think someone born in the 60s would be a child of the 70s. Born in the 70s, child of the 80s............ Did anyone see this … someone did a youtube on RITA facebook and noticed WWI, WW2 and Invasion in Ukraine all have something in common … the #68 … just wondering if 68 is a meaningful number to any of you and in the Bible? B-) - Fair Use - 68 was my jersey number one year when I played football so I'm good with that! lol :mdrmdr: I also saw that somewhere a while back Geri and although I don’t know of the biblical significance of 68, wherever I saw this was advancing the theory that the Ukraine war was well planned and will be the beginning of WW3. There are writings by Albert Pike I think, who as very much involved in freemasonry and satanism that stated that the way that they would eventually bring in their New World Order was by three world wars. If Ukraine was not planned and set to spread into a broader world war in the future, it sure is a big co-incidence! Speaking of the year of Jubilee that Tammie was referring to in CJ Lovek’s video above - if a new Jubilee year is in the offing for this fall - here is another scripture that has been banging around in my head all day today. ““Therefore thus says the Lord: ‘You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and every one to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim liberty to you,’ says the Lord—‘to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine! And I will deliver you to trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth.” Although this was initially fulfilled when Judah was carried away to Babylon, this sure does sound a lot like God declaring the opening of the tribulation with at least 3 of the 4 horsemen mentioned in this scripture on a year of liberty/Jubilee - what do you all think? Geri, Very interesting — I did a bit of digging for fun :calvin Psalm 68 is all about God scattering the enemy Deuteronomy 28 is the only book with 68 chapters (although in the original Hebrew this is not so) Per strong’s 68 is the number for God’s mercy; the words royalty and battle are used 68 times in the Bible 68 is the numerical values of Hebrew word HLL meaning to pierce or to be pierced Also, Mark Lane is either a genius with numbers or totally off but I find his web sight for the WWW III very intriguing, although very heavy. And his statement on the invasion of Ukraine telling Be forewarned, you can spend hours there and the end is still the same — we are soon out of here! :prayer-hands: You will also find Ezekiel 7:1-27 very intriguing for Israel during the tribulation - Known as The Lord’s Wrath Ezekiel 7:1–22 (ESV): The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “And you, O son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land. 3 Now the end is upon you, and I will send my anger upon you; I will judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations. 4 And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity, but I will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
Jeremiah 34:17
5 “Thus says the Lord God: Disaster after disaster! Behold, it comes. 6 An end has come; the end has come; it has awakened against you. Behold, it comes. 7 Your doom has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. The time has come; the day is near, a day of tumult, and not of joyful shouting on the mountains. 8 Now I will soon pour out my wrath upon you, and spend my anger against you, and judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations. 9 And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the Lord, who strikes.
10 “Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! Your doom has come; the rod has blossomed; pride has budded. 11 Violence has grown up into a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, nor their abundance, nor their wealth; neither shall there be preeminence among them. 12 The time has come; the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all their multitude. 13 For the seller shall not return to what he has sold, while they live. For the vision concerns all their multitude; it shall not turn back; and because of his iniquity, none can maintain his life.
14 “They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but none goes to battle, for my wrath is upon all their multitude. 15 The sword is without; pestilence and famine are within. He who is in the field dies by the sword, and him who is in the city famine and pestilence devour. 16 And if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity. 17 All hands are feeble, and all knees turn to water. 18 They put on sackcloth, and horror covers them. Shame is on all faces, and baldness on all their heads. 19 They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing. Their silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. For it was the stumbling block of their iniquity. 20 His beautiful ornament they used for pride, and they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore I make it an unclean thing to them. 21 And I will give it into the hands of foreigners for prey, and to the wicked of the earth for spoil, and they shall profane it. 22 I will turn my face from them, and they shall profane my treasured place. Robbers shall enter and profane it. Ezekiel 7:23–27 (ESV): Forge a chain! For the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence. 24 I will bring the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the strong, and their holy places shall be profaned. 25 When anguish comes, they will seek peace, but there shall be none. 26 Disaster comes upon disaster; rumor follows rumor. They seek a vision from the prophet, while the law perishes from the priest and counsel from the elders. 27 The king mourns, the prince is wrapped in despair, and the hands of the people of the land are paralyzed by terror. According to their way I will do to them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, and they shall know that I am the Lord.”
