You know that’s one of the greatest signs we have today of the coming of the Lord, is see those—those Jews returning from across the world. It’s a wonderful. I used to sing a little song about nations are breaking, Israel awakening, the signs that the Bible foretold. Something about the fig tree budding and so forth. My, I was talking with an infidel not long ago; it’s been about five, four or five years ago, he said, “Looky here, preacher, I can prove by the Bible and by Jesus Christ’s Word, that you call Him, that He told something was wrong.” I said, “Oh, no.” He said, “Yes, He did,” said, “I can prove it in the Bible.” He said, “He said, over there in Matthew 24, He said, ‘All these things,’ said, ‘when they come to pass, why then, they—that generation would not pass until they had seen all things fulfilled.’” I said, “That’s just what He meant.” He said, “Well, that generation’s been dead long ago, long ago.” I said, “No, not that generation, but the generation that sees the fig tree putting forth buds, that’s the generation that’s not going until…He said, ‘When this generation,’ the generation He was speaking of, not speaking to, speaking of. And when that generation sees this, will not pass until all things be fulfilled.”

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