Matthew 24:30-15

Be prepared in season and out. Our feelings do not govern our walk…Our effort to keep our relationship to God does.

Listen closely to Holy Spirit He will guide you.

Matthew 24:30-35

32 “Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near. 33 So you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near—at the doors! 34 Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place. 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.

In the old testament, trumpets typically accompany religious or military events. The sound of the trumpet is also a motif signaling the day of God’s judgment. Jesus presents a brief parable to demonstrate how the disciples should discern the signs of the times. Just as a fig tree gives clear indications as to when summer will arrive, so too will the events of this chapter indicate the arrival of the Son of Man. Faithlife Bible.

The sign of the Son of Man probably refers to Christ Himself appearing in heaven. The tribes of the earth probably refers to Israel. The context here is the national repentance of Israel predicted in Zechariah. The Son of Man coming on the clouds will be a fulfillment of Daniel.

Gather refers to the gathering of the elect (God’s people, both Jews and Gentiles) that will gloriously begin Christ’s reign.

The fig tree does not necessarily indicate Israel here. We can predict the coming of summer from certain signs. The branches of trees become tender and produce leaves. In the same way, we will know the end is coming when we see the signs Jesus described in this passage.

Generation may mean “race,” indicating that Israel as a people will not cease to exist before God fulfills His promises to them. Another possibility is that the word describes a particular era in which people will see the end times. That is, the events will occur so rapidly that all will happen within one generation. Perhaps both interpretations are true. All these things includes the Antichrist, the tribulation, and most importantly the appearance of Christ in glory.

The words of Christ are more certain than the very existence of the universe. NKJ Bible.

Exodus 19:16 Then it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that there were thunderings and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain; and the sound of the trumpet was very loud, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled.

Deuteronomy 4:32 “For ask now concerning the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether any great thing like this has happened, or anything like it has been heard.

Deuteronomy 30:4 If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the LORD your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you.

Daniel 7:13 “I was watching in the night visions, and behold, One like the Son of Man, coming with the clouds of heaven! He came to the Ancient of Days, and they brought Him near before Him.

Zechariah 12:12 And the land shall mourn, every family by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves;