One should really ask self, are we the follower of Jesus?
Or a political entity?
Yeah, no point arguing.
Until one step back and see the entire elephant
.Replacement theology? Yes or No.
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Or a political entity?
Yeah, no point arguing.
Until one step back and see the entire elephant
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The teaching is similar as familyradio.org
The current one, not decades ago.
All god's promises to Israel are fulfilled in Jesus and His bride
False. There is sooooo much more.
And very clearly elucidated and illuminated in Scripture. If you have eyes to see with.
BTW, your denial of the prophetic exemplar of Gomer is conclusive proof of your willful ignorance. Among sooooo many other prophetic types of similar nature.
Oh and BTW, Christ Jesus is emphatically warning us to "WATCH" for certain things. What things?
Greek formulations (such as gregoreuo—to watch, be vigilant, or stay awake—and hypnos/agrypneo—to keep awake or stay sleeplessly alert), and immediate contextual imperatives tied to the prophetic signs of His coming, the phrase and its direct equivalents occur across 7 key instances in the New Testament.
One should really ask self, are we the follower of Jesus?
Or a political entity?
Yeah, no point arguing.
Until one step back and see the entire elephant
Yes I think done, futile, plus hard on the soul the way the diminish Christ Jesus at every turn.
Throughout scripture God uses different trees as examples of Israel infrastructure as a nation. Israel today has these different tree emblems embedded in documents, flags, and ect .displayed on monuments, buildings
The fig tree represent health and wealth of not only the individual but also as a nation.
What I find both comical and at the same time sad is all the "proofs" (Naomi, Gomer ....la la la la) and here we are just following the clear, precise words of Christ Jesus.
Oh and BTW, there is VAST content of Scripture that has nothing whatsoever to do with the mystery Bride Church.
To provide a rough approximation of how much of the Bible's overall content focuses on these post-harpazo (rapture) and eschatological themes, it helps to break the Bible down into its structural blocks.
If we define the scope to include:
* The Tribulation / Daniel's 70th Week (the period immediately following the church harpazo)
* The Second Coming (His physical return to the Mount of Olives)
* The National Redemption / Restoration of Israel (Romans 11:26, Ezekiel 36–39, Zechariah 12–14)
* The Millennial Kingdom (Revelation 20, Isaiah 2, 11, etc.)
* The New Heavens and New Earth (Revelation 21–22)
Here is a macro-level breakdown:
1. The Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) — ~25% to 30% of the OT
While the historical and legal books lay the foundation, an enormous portion of the Prophets and Psalms is fundamentally oriented toward the "Day of the Lord," the physical restoration of the Jewish remnant, the earthly Davidic Kingdom, and the New Creation.
* The Major and Minor Prophets: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi are heavily weighted toward end-time national Israel and the Messianic Kingdom. Conservative dispensational metrics often note that roughly one-third of the entire Old Testament text is prophetic, with the vast majority of those unfulfilled or partially fulfilled prophecies culminating in the Day of the Lord and the Millennium.
2. The Christian Scriptures (New Testament) — ~15% to 20% of the NT
While the Gospels establish the first advent, redemption, and the mystery form of the Kingdom (the Church Age), the epistles and the Apocalypse dedicate extensive real estate to future eschatology.
* The Gospels: Contain major eschatological discourses directly addressing Israel's future and the Second Coming (e.g., the Olivet Discourse in Matthew 24–25, Mark 13, Luke 21).
* The Pauline & General Epistles: Regularly anchor believer endurance to the "blessed hope," the Day of Christ, and the future manifested kingdom (e.g., Romans 9–11 on Israel's future; 1 & 2 Thessalonians; 2 Peter 3 on the new heavens and new earth).
* The Book of Revelation: Chapters 6 through 22 (roughly 75% of the book) form the single most concentrated block of text detailing the post-harpazo tribulation judgments, the campaign of Armageddon, the national salvation of Israel, Satan's binding, the 1,000-year reign, and the eternal state.
The Rough Aggregate Approximation
Across the entire 66 books of the Bible, scholars who track thematic real estate generally estimate that roughly 20% to 25% of the biblical text directly addresses or anticipates these specific eschatological events—making the future redemption of Israel and the establishment of God's physical rule on earth one of the most heavily emphasized macroscopic subjects in Scripture.
When averaged across the entire 66 books of the Bible, the explicit doctrinal teaching, identity, walk, and destiny of the mystery Bride Church occupies roughly 10% to 12% of the total biblical text (concentrated almost entirely within the New Testament epistles).
Trees absolutely function as national metaphors throughout Scripture, but I also have to be precise: the biblical text uses different trees to illustrate different aspects of Israel’s life, stability, covenant blessing, or judgment—not as fixed national emblems, but as living symbols of Israel’s spiritual and social condition.
Matthew 24:46
Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
When Jesus tells us to "watch",
he is not telling us to watch for signs of the "rapture".
Your comparisons between the Ruth story and modern Israel would only be meaningful if that was God's intention in giving us the book.
I think the book is here to teach us about Jesus, but for you probably less than 1% of the Bible is about that.
No problem, you can have modern Israel and I will have Jesus,
and we both get what we want.
The entire scripture is God center, not human centered, not political nation centered.
From beginning to end. Same God. Same Jesus blood covenant. Not about a political nation.
In the beginning, God.....
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The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen.
From beginning to end. Same God. Same Jesus blood covenant. Not about a political nation.
In the beginning, God.....
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The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen.
Conservative metrics often note that roughly one-third of the entire Old Testament text is prophetic, with the vast majority of those unfulfilled or partially fulfilled prophecies culminating in the Day of the Lord and the Millennium.
ROFL.
The rapture has no signs associated with it.
So then what exactly do these SIGNS and PROPHECIES that are so prominently codified point to?
I mean it takes up at LEAST 30% of the content of the Bible for pity's sake!
Do you need a pot of coffee to think this thru?
A kindergarten age child would have the answer in an instant. What is your problem?
The fig tree is so prominently linked to the Nation Israel in Scripture that only an insufferable ignoramus could deny it.
The fig tree is repeatedly associated with Israel in the Old Testament and in Jesus’ ministry, so there is strong exegetical warrant for seeing it as an Israel-symbol in passages where the context supports that reading.
The major texts are especially striking. Hosea 9:10 compares Israel’s fathers to “the firstripe in the fig tree.” Jeremiah 24 uses baskets of good and bad figs explicitly to represent groups within Judah. Joel 1:7 places “my fig tree” alongside “my vine” in a judgment oracle against the land. Micah 7:1 portrays the prophet searching Israel for righteous fruit as one looks for figs. The vine-and-fig-tree imagery also becomes characteristic of Israel’s covenant prosperity and restoration (1 Kings 4:25; Mic. 4:4; Zech. 3:10).
And then Jesus uses the imagery in a way that is extraordinarily difficult to detach from national Israel. In Luke 13:6–9, the owner comes seeking fruit from a fig tree planted in his vineyard. It has received privileged cultivation but has produced no fruit; judgment is delayed briefly before threatened removal. In the immediate context Jesus has been warning Israel to repent. The national significance is hard to miss.
The clearest dramatic instance is Matthew 21:18–20 / Mark 11:12–21. Jesus finds a fig tree with leaves but no fruit and curses it. Mark deliberately sandwiches the cleansing/judgment of the Jerusalem Temple between the cursing and discovery of the withered fig tree:
Fig tree judged → Temple judged → fig tree found withered.
That literary structure is almost certainly intentional. The leafy but fruitless tree becomes an enacted parable of the covenant nation—particularly its religious establishment—which possessed impressive outward profession but lacked the fruit Messiah sought. This sits beside Jesus’ declaration:
So when Jesus later says:
it is understandable why dispensational interpreters have asked whether He is again invoking Israel. That possibility is not remotely ignorant or fanciful. It arises from an already-established biblical and Matthean symbolism.
The qualification is that Matthew 24:32 itself says, at minimum, when the branch becomes tender and puts forth leaves, summer is near—that is, observable signs indicate proximity. Luke's parallel even says “Behold the fig tree, and all the trees” (Luke 21:29), as a means of confirmation and amplification.
the Ruth story and modern Israel would only be meaningful if.......
Those hearing that intentionally prophetic typological account had their head screwed on.......
That is exactly how the biblical writers used it: as a living symbol of health, prosperity, stability, and covenant well‑being.
But there is no Old Testament precedent for the fig tree functioning as a national symbol for Israel.
That idea is a later interpretive overlay, not something the Hebrew Scriptures ever establish.
When I read the OT in its own historical and linguistic context, the fig tree is always a condition‑symbol, never an identity‑symbol.
It represents prosperity, peace, domestic stability, and covenant well‑being — but never Israel itself.
The olive tree can symbolize covenant continuity, the vine can symbolize national fruitfulness or failure, the cedar can symbolize strength — but the fig tree never carries the meaning “Israel as a nation.”
That is why Jesus’ parable in Matthew 24 is so explicit: “look at the fig tree and all the trees.”
He prevents exactly the misreading that later interpreters try to impose.