Quote:
Matt 24:32-33
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
KJV
Haven't read so many commentaries about this. It may be talking about 1948. Plain reading of verse 33, however, tells us that when they see "ALL" of those things, they would know that "IT" is near.
Who is the "YE"? (Certainly, Jesus is not talking to people in the Church Age, not about the Church Age.)
What is the "ALL"? (All that was said beginning with verse 4, which is answer of the question in verse three. One has to admit that the "all" here refers to all of the events described to happen in the Tribulation period and "all" the signs just before the Second Coming.)
What is the "IT"? ("It" can't be the Rapture of the Church but the Second Coming of Christ on earth.)
Starting the "all these things" in 1948 can't be "near". But seven years (antichrist claiming to be Christ and confirms the covenant with Israel), three and one-half years (great tribulation), and falling stars (signs and wonders) just before "it" would signal that the Second Coming is "at the doors".
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yes, but 1948 is OUTSIDE of the tribulation period just as the destruction of the temple and the beginning of sorrows is OUTSIDE of the tribulation period.
There is absolutely no proof that the "beginning of sorrows" is the first half of the tribulation.
Quite the opposite, actually.