QUOTE(Sophiera @ Aug 14 2014, 06:43 PM)
1000 years ago a lot of people believe it's the end of the world due to the black plague. Tunggu Jesus. Yet we are still here 1000 years later.
It may look like it's coming true now, but mana tahu plot twist. Then 500 years later our descendants read back and go 'Jeez why do people believe that? It hasn't come to pass also."
Wah ... I thought I was pessimistic about the condition in Christianity and the Lord's coming back will be delayed. Like 14-9 mentioned on the fig tree, in Matthew 24, Lord gave a clear revelation concerning the restoration of Israel.
In verse 32 the Lord said, "But learn the parable from the fig tree: when its branch has already become tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that the summer is near." To the saints, the fig tree is a sign of the consummation of the age. In Matthew 21:19, during His last visit to Jerusalem, the Lord Jesus cursed a fig tree because He could not find any fruit on it.
The fig tree is a symbol of the nation of Israel (Jer. 24:2, 5, 8). Because Israel was stubborn and rebellious and had no fruit that could satisfy God, she was rejected by God. In A.D. 70, Titus, the Roman prince, brought with him a great army to destroy Jerusalem and the temple, as prophesied by the Lord when He said, "A stone shall by no means be left upon a stone which shall not be thrown down" (Matt. 24:2). From that time, the children of Israel were scattered among the nations. Not only did their nation fall, but even their homeland was lost. Humanly speaking, there was truly no hope for the nation of Israel to be reformed. However, the Bible contains a prophecy saying that one day the cursed and dried up fig tree would become tender and put forth leaves.
Two events really shows the tree truly had "become tender."
1) 1948 the nation of Israel had been restored
2) Then, after another nineteen years, in 1967, during the six-day war, Israel seized Jerusalem; that was the fig tree "putting forth leaves."
Only left is the temple to be built up.
The last time I posted on the red heifer in that the animal was thought to be extinct. Now they managed to produce one in US and have contacted the Temple Institute.
This is the picture of the Lord's vicarious death for our sins in the type of the ashes of the red heifer (Numbers 19).
I mean the Jews are definitely preparing everything and doing everything for the rebuilding of the temple.
How about us?

But it's true we will never know when .... it will happen as always unexpectedly regardless those 1000 websites guessing who the Anti Christ is or when it will end etc etc.
This post has been edited by pehkay: Aug 15 2014, 08:34 AM