Matt 24:32-34
Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his
branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves,
ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye,
when ye shall see all these things, know that it
is near, even at the doors. Verily I say unto
you, This generation shall not pass, till all
these things be fulfilled.
The fig tree is Israel:
Hosea 9:10
I found Israel... I saw your fathers as the
firstripe in the fig tree...
Mark 11:13-15
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. And
Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat
fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his
disciples heard it. 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...
Matt 21:18-19, 43b
Now in the morning as he returned into the city,
he hungered. 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 thee henceforward for ever... The
kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and
given to a nation bringing forth the fruits
thereof.
A generation is 70 years:
Ps 90:10
The days of our years are threescore years
and ten...
Isa 23:15b
Seventy years, according to the days of
one king...
Dan 9:24
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people
and upon thy holy city, to finish the
transgression, and to make an end of sins,
and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and
to bring in everlasting righteousness, and
to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to
anoint the most Holy.
Here 'weeks' is shabuwa, derived from sheba,
the number seven. Sheba is derived from shaba,
a primitive root of which means 'complete.'
So 70 weeks may mean 70 completions, and
so could be years:
Dan 9:2b
He would accomplish seventy years in the
desolations of Jerusalem.
Has the Lord given Israel back the 70 years
lost in Babylon?
Is the Lord giving Israel one last chance to
get things right?
Dan 9:25
Know therefore and understand, that from the
going forth of the commandment to restore and
to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince
shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two
weeks: the street shall be built again, and the
wall, even in troublous times.
A modern command to restore Jerusalem came
with the November, 1947 UN resolution which
said, in effect, let there be a state of Israel
again. Jesus Christ could return 69 years
(7 'weeks,' and 62 'weeks') after this
commandment. During the 70th year he as
Jewish King would fulfill every requirement
of Dan. 9:24 in the physical, just as he did
in the spiritual at his first coming.
Dan 9:26-27
And after threescore and two weeks shall
Messiah be cut off, but not for himself:
and the people of the prince that shall
come shall destroy the city and the
sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be
with a flood, and unto the end of the war
desolations are determined. And he shall
confirm the covenant with many for one week:
and in the midst of the week he shall cause
the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and
for the overspreading of abominations he shall
make it desolate, even until the consummation,
and that determined shall be poured upon the
desolate.
Here the Messiah may refer to a false Jewish
Messiah that may be ruling Israel 62 years
(sixty-two 'weeks') after the command to
restore Jerusalem. Here 'cut off' is karath,
to cut off, down or asunder, specifically, to
covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain,
originally by cutting flesh and passing between
the pieces). So 'cut off' can mean covenanted or
treatied.
After defeating the false Jewish Messiah ("with
the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from
before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the
prince of the covenant," Dan 11:22), the Antichrist
could make a treaty with him (the "profane wicked
prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity
shall have an end," Ezek 21:25), and this is the
"covenant" he "confirms with many" for a 7-year
period. The 'week' of the treaty is the same as the
seven 'weeks' in Dan 9:25 because seven of anything,
even 7 sevens, can be referred to as a seven, and
'week' means seven.