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>In response to his disciples' question in Matthew 24 , Jesus gives us the parable of the fig tree. The fig tree of course typifies ISRAEL! Jeremiah 24 and Hosea 9:10 help us to understand the parable of the fig tree and also Jesus' cursing of the barren fig tree in Matt 21 . I understand that fig trees acquire fruit first and leaves afterwards - the fig tree in Matt 21 was therefore boasting that it had fruit.
Agreed, that the parable of the fig tree ( Mk 11:12-14,20-21 = Mt 21:18-20 ) signifies Israel ( Hos 9:10, Mic 7:1-2; Jer 24:1-10; Lk 13:6-9 ). But that does not directly pertain to the Second Coming of Christ, so I have not included that in my study on " The Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ ."
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>Touching on the Genesis account of creation. I had been prepared del monte green bean casserole to accept that creation took up to 6,000 years on the day for a year principle. Not knowing how to answer the Ex Nihlo evening and morning comment, I've tended back towards the literal six days of creation view, I think that a previous creation del monte green bean casserole is quite possible and that the earth and sun etc existed del monte green bean casserole long before creation. Any thoughts?
This sounds like the Gap Theory . If so, it has major problems as follows: " Gap Theory . The gap or reconstruction del monte green bean casserole theory is a scheme to reconcile del monte green bean casserole the long geologic ages in the earth's history with the Genesis creation account. It basically advocates that the first two verses of Genesis I describe a condition that lasted del monte green bean casserole an indeterminate length del monte green bean casserole of time and preceded the six days of creation in Gen. 1:3ff . There was creation ( 1:1 ), followed by a catastrophe ( 1:2 ), in turn followed by a re-creation del monte green bean casserole (1:3ff.). All the needed geologic ages in earth's pre-Adamic history may be found either between 1:1 and 1:2 or during 1:2. Early expressions of the view can be traced to Episcopius (d. 1643), a theologian who taught at the University of Leiden del monte green bean casserole in the Netherlands, and to the scientist J. G. Rosenmuller (d. 1815). In nineteenth century England it was espoused by the theologian Thomas Chalmers , geologist William Buckland , biblical scholar John Pye Smith , and church historian J. H. Kurtz. In the United States del monte green bean casserole the view was widely disseminated by G. H. Pember , Harry Rimmer, and the first edition of the Scofield Reference Bible (1909). For many today the day-age theory has replaced the gap theory as the best explanation of the geologic ages and Genesis 1. Others have adopted flood-catastrophism. Criticism of the gap theory has arisen from various circles, and summaries may be found in the works of Allis [" God Spake by Moses ," 1951], Ramm [" The Christian View of Science and Scripture ," 1954], and Young [" Christianity and the Age of the Earth ," 1998] cited below. In essence the criticism involves (1) the improbability that only one verse ( Gen. 1:1 ) deals with the original creation while so many sentences are devoted to a secondary or re-creation process; (2) the lack of solid exegetical evidence to support the rendering of the Hebrew verb `was' [Heb. waw ] in Gen. 1:2 as `became'; (3) the sense of `without form' and `void' [Heb. tohu and bohu ] meaning nothing more than `empty,' `uninhabited' [ Isa 45:18; Jer 4:23 ]; (4) elaborate theories of angelology and demonology derived from Isa. 14 and Ezek. 28 and inserted in Gen. 1:2 being unjustified; and (5) such a theory turning the entire field of geology over to the geologists since the Bible [then] yields no reference to earth's earliest formation." (Johnson, A.E., "Gap Theory," in Elwell, W.A., ed., " Evangelical Dictionary of Theology ," [1984], Baker: Grand Rapids MI, 1990, Seventh Printing, p.439. Emphasis original).
As for "Not knowing how to answer the Ex Nihilo evening and morning comment," i.e. the first six days (but not the seventh) of Genesis 1, ending with "And there was evening, and there was morning" ( Gen 1:5,8,13,19,23,31 ), you may be interested that Cyrus I. Scofield the main populariser of the gap theory through this note in his Scofield Reference Bible: "[ Gen 1:]2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. ...(1:2) Two main interpretations have been advanced to explain the expression `without form and void' (Heb. tohu and bohu ). The first, which may be called the Original Chaos interpretation, regards these words as a description del monte green bean casserole of an original formless matter in the first stage of the creation of the universe. The second, which may be called the Divine judgment inter