[delchiante]

But He hasn’t. He lets the tree blossom, photosynthesize, and produce fruit until it’s fully grown
......

And that may be the most incorrect premise.

Maybe the tree over there is fruitless.

Lots of leaves..

No fruit.

A desolate house.

And if the Church wants to feel a little nervous about the end times, maybe that fig tree parable has everything to do with Old Covenant Israel in the literal AND New Covenant Israel in the spiritual.

[Ezekiel]

fig tree *parable* (language in a figure)

fig. tree:

The other day (here) I explained how the Hebrew phrase for "hangman" rearranges to "I have a letter!"