THE FIG TREE

By

Alvin Mitchell

All prophecy, John penned in the Revelation, is about Jesus (Rev. 19:10—“…the Spirit of prophecy is Jesus”, his angelic, apocalyptic host informed him.). Jesus Christ is therefore Bible prophecy’s theme and chief point of focus. If this simple assertion be true then, for this reason alone, the subject and the study of Bible prophecy is tremendously elevated in the thinking of the saints, both Jew and Christian, given that it puts the genre on a par with the four gospels, in terms of relevance and importance. Furthermore, one might think of prophecy, therefore, as a kind of Fifth Gospel.

Book Description

Judgment Day: Volume 4 The Screenplay

The Book of the Revelation is not a standalone tale of the end times. That is, it was never intended to be the complete history written in advance of how God intends to bring life on earth as we know it to a close. Rather, as the totality of this study attempts to show, it is an organized saga, woven together around three fundamental themes, which are the sums of many other eschatological subthemes that must be extracted and stitched together, as it were, so as to construct the narrative God wants this, what might be termed our terminal generation, to see.

Having then accomplished the bulk (or most if not all) of the heavy lifting, the question before us now is how does it all fit together? Knowing as we do that the road to Armageddon begins with a coordinated attack that brings about the collapse of an end times economic colossus, the preservation and rise of Israel to the level of a Superpower followed by the events of the Revelation, what should be our take-away in terms of how this will or might actually play out in sequence if we could see all the parts acted out before us, as if on the “big screen”? What message does God want His saints to convey to the world at large relative to His plans for the end of this age (Obviously, the symbols and pictures presented to John and to us suggests that God has a specific vision or image that He wishes to implant upon our minds)? Or, put another way, what should the “big picture” look like?

This book, Judgment Day, Volume 4, Acts of GOD verses Gods of Earth (The Screenplay), is the finale in an effort to lay out a compilation designed to paint a virtual portrait of the end times road that leads to the return of Christ and the Battle of Armageddon. The verse-by-verse discussion already having been done, it will flesh out, in a matter of speaking, or put another way, the primary objective here is to explore the topic of Judgment Day in its three primary themes from its purely cinematic point of view—namely

• #1) Judgment Day USA,
• #2) Judgment Day: Israel a Global Superpower, and
• #3) Judgment Day: God’s Last Call.

If those of you on my rss.com feed have enjoyed or otherwise found the this initiative in anywise worthy of your attention, you may find this coagulation of this all effort equally intriguing, if not informative. In addition to weekly blog posts, The full audio version as well as a printed (pdf) version is available here, on WordPress: Audio Book: Judgment Day, Volume 4: GOD Verses Gods of Earth! – 1 Bible Study Hour 4U.com

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Nipped in the Bud

Hereby, Solomon shattered any hope he ever had that his family line would ever host the Messiah. Although certain of his descendants were faithful, in a manner comparable to king David, Solomon’s failure was all that was necessary to void the promise, where he and his offspring were concerned. Effectively, with every opportunity in the world before him to succeed on the one hand (ostensibly, that is, given the family factor, which still could have wrecked any success on his part), he never had a chance, on the other. He did not merely do something wrong; that would have been bad enough. Rather, this, the wisest man of all time—by the Hand and generosity of the God of his father, no less—did completely sever his good relationship with the God of his fathers, choosing and committing himself to doing evil in His sight, in deference to his three hundred wives and seven hundred concubines—most or many of whom were pagans, to whom he should never have been married in the first place (he never repented or returned; Ezekiel 3:20-21).

“Because you have done this, having refused to obey My commandments and My statues, I will now take the Kingdom from you and give it to your servant…you will be left with only one tribe, and that, only for sake of My servant David, and for Jerusalem, which I have chosen…so as to preserve on his behalf a Light in My presence, forever” (I King 11:11-13, 36; that Light “preserved forever” is none other than the Light of the world—the Messiah Himself).

The Last Glimmer of Hope

Immediately prior to the Babylonian invasion and captivity, as if to squeeze every glimmer of any remaining light out of a dark, lightless chapter long closed and dead to the Solomon clan with reference to the grand plan, God makes the following declaration regarding the last of David’s rebel descendants to rule upon the throne in Jerusalem: “even if Coniah (Jehoiachin, son of Jehoiakim) …were a signet upon My right hand, I would nonetheless pluck it off…this is what the Lord has to say, ‘write this man off as one who has never had a child, one who will not prosper, ever, in his life…given that none of his progeny will ever prosper, sitting (as king) upon the throne of David, or ruling any more from Judah’” (Jer. 22:24-30).

The point of Jeremiah’s prophecy is not that Coniah would never have sons. Rather, God was emphasizing finality of his determination that no son or descendant of Solomon would ever be included in the Messianic line-up. His proclamation was, therefore, the final death nail in a series, on top of the ultimate of death nails, this man would never have a son who would ever serve as king in Jerusalem. The lineage listing in Matthew’s gospel shows quite clearly that Jehoiachin did in fact have sons, albeit, in captivity, after he was deported by the Babylonians. None was ever a king; had it been otherwise, then Joseph, husband of Mary and stepfather to the Christ, would have been king at the time of the birth of Jesus. “…if you forsake Him, He will forsake you, forever”, David, the incumbent king, warned Solomon in his waning moments (I Chron. 28:9). King Solomon never returned or repented of his evil.