Well, having well studied what Godâs Word declares about the events for the last days, I have to give warning, because it is not going to be how most brethren expect and have been taught. I cannot stress enough how important ânot being deceivedâ at the end is that Lord Jesus warned us.
Iâm not saying these things to scare folks either. Those who remain in the Faith already have the victory through our Lord Jesus. But we have reached the times close to the end of this world where itâs time to heed the watchman, as Lord Jesus commanded us to âwatchâ regarding the SIGNS of the end He gave us.
End time prophecy points to a âfakeâ rapture that will happen first by the coming false-Messiah. And then the real rapture by Lord Jesus when He comes after that false one. Apostle Paul warned us about that in 2 Corinthians 11, as Lord Jesus did also at the end of Luke 17, and in His Olivet discourse.
And one of the reasons Lord Jesus commanded us to learn a parable of the fig tree is because that parable also includes the following prophecyâŚ
Rev 6:12-13
12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
KJV
The 6th SEAL is actually in two parts. The above two verses are the 1st part, and is about the coming of Satan and his angels to earth because of the war in heaven per Revelation 12:7 forward. Notice that âuntimely figsâ idea, whatâs that?
In real horticulture of the fig in the middle east, there is a Winter fig that grows in the winter and falls off in the Spring. Itâs an early fig, and not the juicy ripe fig that is harvested later in the year. In the parable of the fig tree in Matt.24:32, Mark 13:28, and Luke 21:30, Lord Jesus showed that His coming will be symbolic summer. By this âuntimely figsâ idea with the âstarsâ falling, which per Rev.1 uses the idea of stars symbolic of angels, it is about a false coming of Messiah, a mimic of Christâs coming early, and not in symbolic summer.
Thus Lord Jesus anchored the idea of a supernatural false-Messiah coming early, like âuntimely figsâ to play Him, and with the power of miracles to fool the whole world into believing it, except Jesusâ elect. And if we ignore our Lord Jesusâ warning about that event we could wind up with Him shutting the door on us when He does return. Like Apostle Paul said in 2 Corinthians 11, I want to present brethren as âa chaste virginâ to our True Husband Jesus Christ.