"Have you not understood that the fig-tree is the house of Israel? Verily I say to you, when its twigs have sprouted forth in the last days, then shall false Christs come and awake expectation, saying, ‘I am the Christ who has now come into the world.’ And when they perceive the wickedness of their deeds they shall turn away and deny him whom our fathers praised, the first Christ whom they crucified and therein sinned a great sin. But this deceiver is not the Christ."
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/china-threatens-to-send-warships-inside-us-territorial-waters
ReplyDeleteThe Apocalypse of St. Peter sheds some light on the subject:
ReplyDeletehttp://palimpsest.stmarytx.edu/thanneken/th7391/primary/Ehrman(2003)LostScriptures-ApocalypsePeter.pdf
"Have you not understood that the fig-tree is the house of Israel? Verily I say to you, when its twigs have sprouted forth in the last days, then shall false Christs come and awake expectation, saying, ‘I am the Christ who has now come into the world.’ And when they perceive the wickedness of their deeds they shall turn away and deny him whom our fathers praised, the first Christ whom they crucified and therein sinned a great sin. But this deceiver is not the Christ."