Featured The fig tree represents Israel? That [Edit: may, in my opinion, be] Gnosticism

So a one odd bod, Ephraim, taught that, does that mean it should be a teaching of the church? Mede's writing was nothing like modern dispensationalism. It does agree, I think with Matthew 13:30 At the time of he harvest.the tares would be burnt, and good grain harvested. Saints will be raised on the last day, John 6:40, 39,44,54. John 11:24. It will also be he day of judgment. John 12:48.

 

Sometimes not.

HankD

 

From The Sermon on the Mount and Human Flourishing by Jonathan T. Pennington (2017)
Chapter 5 of the book alone makes the book worth its price, The Structure(s) of the Sermon and Its Setting within Matthew

"Matthew appears to be concerned less with the individual narratives per se than with how these stories fit together in conjunction with major teaching blocks to tell a larger story. Matthew's literary skill is all about structure. Many of the most important aspects of Matthew can only be discerned by paying attention to broader structures and themes rather than the individual story, noting how various aspects of the material are structured together.
Therefore, in reading and rereading Matthew one begins to sense that there is much more going on than first meets the eye in the arranging and crafting of the stories into groups and patterns." (p. 106)​

Basic Outline of Section

Sins of the leaders of Israel (Matthew 23)

Jesus lament over Jerusalem (23:37-39)​

Judgment of Jerusalem (Matthew 24)

Setting [WHEN WILL THESE THINGS HAPPEN? WHAT WILL BE THE SIGN OF YOUR COMING AND OF THE END OF THE AGE?] Two questions – two part answer in chapters 24-25​

To answer to disciples questions: “they are concerned about when he will renew his presence with them, and he is concerned about how they will live in his absence.” (Matthew, David Turner, 570)

Birth pangs
Abomination of desolation
Coming of the Son of Man
Lesson of the fig tree
Necessity of alertness
Parable of the servant
Parable of the ten virgins
Parable of the talents judgment of the nations​

Major views [and where dispensationalists fit in]
Preterist (past – predictions fulfilled in 70AD)
Futurist (speaking of Second Coming) [many dispensationalists]
Preterist-futurist (addressing both historical destruction of Jerusalem and yet-future coming of Jesus) [some other dispensationalists]

Does the fig tree represent Israel – without a doubt!

Almost anyone who has visited Israel can tell you about seeing ancient carvings depicting the fig​

Does the fig tree present a clear prophecy of the rebirth of the nation Israel in the last days prior to Christ's return?

Could be.​

It's not a sin to be wrong - but it's very harmful not to be ready (the very point of the passage)

Rob