Whose calendar do we use to reckon the 2000 years? The year 2004 is the year 5765 on the Hebrew Calendar. That pushes things back another 35 years.
I think the "fig tree" Jesus refers to are the signs he gives in Matthew 24. Some of those prophecies had relation to the Roman's destruction of Israel (specifically the instructions for those Judea to flee to the mountains and the Abomination of Desolation mentioned in Daniel) in 70 A.D. and others had reference to the latter days, such as the appearing of the sign of the Son of Man and the gathering of his elect from the four quarters of the earth.
GW
Enjoy your construction on reality as long as you can.
I don't think it will last another 3-15 years.
"Matt 24:3. And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
4. And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you."
In vs.3, the disciples ask Jesus TWO QUESTIONS. The first one was "when shall these things be?" - the things Jesus had talked about in vs.2 - and then ANOTHER QUESTION - "what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?" - which Jesus had not talked about.
The two questions are NOT RELATED.
Jesus uses the rest of the chapter to describe what conditions will be "the sign of thy coming".
The majority of Bible scholars have designated the "fig tree" to represent Israel; and the "blooming of fig tree" as Israel becoming a state in 1948.