Oh let the Son of God and found you with his spirit and his life,

let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you

whole. you home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible Teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire

Bible. And on today's edition of the word for today,

Pastor Chuck continues with a fig tree as we pick up in Joel chapter 1 verse 7. And now with today's message here's

Pastor Chuck. I believe that when Jesus in talking to his disciples about the end times and the signs of

his return, when he said to them, now learn a parable of the fig tree that he is making reference to the

nation of Israel which God has likened unto a fig tree.

And thus I believe that that parable

that Jesus made of the fig tree has tremendous significance

in this day in which we live, as he said that the sign of the budding of the fig tree

would be one of the final signs of the nearness of his return

happening within the generation that sees it but.

So that the birth of the nation Israel is surely a remarkable sign that we need to be watching that signals the nearness of the

Lord's return. They've barked my fig tree, that is they've eaten the bark, they've made it clean bare.

The branches thereof are made white.

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