Jesus don’t even know (The budding fig tree Mark 13:28-33)

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Jesus don’t even know (The budding fig tree Mark 13:28-33)
Working in the mining industry I have known several individuals who have found themselves on a lung transplant list due to the damage mining caused on their lungs. The thing about being on the transplant list is that once you are on the list you have no idea when it is going to occur. You must be ready to go at any time, but you have no idea when you are going to be called by the hospital because you are waiting for an organ donor to pass is a match for your body. If you are out of range or unable to be contacted when the time is right, then there is a possibility that you will completely miss your opportunity and be passed up for someone else who is ready to go. In the parable of budding fig tree Jesus closes by telling the crowd to be alert and on guard because no one knows when the end will come. Jesus says that He does not know the day or hour, the angels in heaven does know, no man on earth knows, only the Father in heaven knows the day and hour that judgment will come to this earth.
If you are on a transplant list, you better be ready when you are called to get to the hospital quickly but more importantly when God says it is time for this age to end you better be in good fellowship with the Triune God who spoke creation into existence. Jesus does not give a very specific list of things to look for in Mark 13 to make individual paranoid or scared, He gives the list so that everyone will be prepared and not caught off guard. The god of this world (satan) is a master of distracting individuals from what is important and placing their focus on things that are truly meaningly. The world looks at those who are waiting and watching for the return of their savior as fools just as described in 2 Peter 3:4, “where is the coming he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning.” They want you to give up hope, they want you to be distracted, and they want you to be caught with your pants down because the plan of satan is to deceive as many as he possibly can. He knows his eternal fate is sealed in the lake of fire and his goal is to take as many with him as he possibly can. Jesus did not want us to be caught off guard by His return, so the question is, “Are you Ready?”

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