The Fig Tree Generation Revisited

As we near the end of 2021, the big question on the minds of those rapture watchers who believed that the rapture inevitably would happen on May 14, or even on September 23, is, what do we do now with the Fig Tree Generation rapture theory? I have an answer to that question, and it is one of those answers that stems from 20/20 hindsight.

Basically, we know that the Bible is true, and can't be faulted,so it is always our reading and interpretation of it that turns out to be flawed. So I think that when it comes to the Fig Tree Generation rapture, we are looking at this all the wrong way.

Firstly, the May 14 rapture theory came from the idea that we just add 80 years to May 14 1948, then back up 7 years for the 70th week of Daniel, and hey presto, we have a rapture date.

Here's where we went wrong: we assumed that the end of the fig tree generation is the second coming, not the rapture itself. I have always believe that there is a clear separation between the age of grace and what follows after. The rapture is what follows immediately after the age of grace, and I believe that when the church departs, Israel flees into the wilderness as described in Revelation 12. That's it: the generation is over, the opportunity for Israel to bear fruit by having a revival the flows outward into the world, as happened 2000 years ago, is gone. But God still has a plan.

So here's my working theory about how the Fig Tree Generation may end: if there is any value at all in the 4 year delay as reflected in the Barren Fig Tree Parable, why not start the 4 year delay count at the end of the 70 years, on May 14, 2018? That would take us to May 14, 2022.

I know, that leapfrogs what many are saying about a 2021 rapture, and I get that, but I'm just going with what presents itself, given that we have now passed the 2 most obvious rapture windows that were being anticipated in 2021. Sure, some are saying that there is a possibility of a delayed Feast of Trumpets rapture in October, and I'm not counting that out, but I am just floating this alternative theory now on the basis that if we fly past October, we then have a workable theory to go with coming into the new year of 2022.

Update 28/09/2021:
I have been mulling over the possibilities for October 2021, and it occurred to me, what if we apply the 4-year barren fig tree parable delay to the SECOND Revelation 12 sign? October 8, 2017 was the peak day for the Draconid Meteor Shower of that year, and followed 2 weeks after the first Revelation 12 sign . Four years later, we have a convergence of 2 timelines where the Feast of Trumpets crowd are talking about a delay of FOT by a month due to the calendar being incorrectly observed, and are predicting an October 7-8 rapture for that reason. Maybe so, but I wonder whether the Barren Fig Tree Parable combined with the 2nd red dragon sign of Revelation 12 would also point us to the same time frame. Only 10 days to find out...