Summer Is Nigh: The Parable Read Through
Four men looking at the temple were told they would see its summer.
A companion to the breakdown Summer Is Nigh. The parable runs start to finish with the meaning of each image carried beside it. Nothing is argued here.
MARK 13:28–31 — KJV
Now learn a parable of the fig tree [the tree they watched wither from the roots after it met Him with leaves and no fruit; a planting of men, Israel, whose fruit is righteousness, the commandments of Yahuah kept]; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, [the season turning, read from what the tree shows] ye know that summer is near [a basket of summer fruit, the end is come upon my people of Israel; the harvest is past, the summer is ended]: So ye [the four on the mount of Olives, looking across at the temple] in like manner, when ye shall see these things [the stones they admired thrown down, not one left upon another] come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors. [the end of that house standing at its threshold] Verily I say unto you, that this generation [the men standing before Him, on whom all the righteous blood would come] shall not pass, till all these things be done. [the house left desolate, and the Son of man come with the clouds to the Ancient of days to receive the kingdom] Heaven and earth shall pass away: [the stones, and everything that stands the way the stones stood] but my words shall not pass away. [the word of our God shall stand for ever; a dominion which shall not pass away]
Put together, the parable answers the disciples’ question about when the temple would fall. Israel was a planting of men in full leaf, its service running and its fruit of righteousness missing, and in the Prophets summer is the end come upon such a people. The generation that heard it saw the stones thrown down and the Son of man go up with the clouds to receive the kingdom.
Yahuah still comes to every tree He has planted looking for fruit, and leaves are not fruit. A full building and a busy calendar of services are the same leaves the temple carried; the fruit is the law kept, and a tree that meets Him with leaves has already been told what summer means.