We will all see the signs, before the Antichrist is revealed. Jesus gave his followers signs to watch out for, and Paul gave his followers signs and according to the prophet, Daniel, there will be the Antichrist declaring peace and safety for 3 1/2 years, and then he will break the peace and declare himself Christ….demanding worship. We will leave just prior to that. The restrainer is removed and then it all begins. Our leaving will be the start of the Great Tribulation.
I thought you said you understood that we aren't Israel. ??
The Body of Christ will not see a single day of Jacob's (Israel's) trouble.
The rest of what you said there has already been refuted without response.
I will go back to the generation that sees the fig tree bloom will not pass a way until all be fulfilled. That generation born in 1948 when Israel became that nation born in a day.
You REALLY need to read through some of that 88 Reason book! I'm telling ya, he got all 88 reasons wrong, one of which was this one you just gave.
The creation of a secular political entity is not the blooming of the fig tree. Jews have no more faith in Jesus Christ today than they had two millennia ago. If they had, they'd put their trust in His power, boot out the foolish Muslim God haters and rebuild God's temple. No! Israel is far away from anything that remotely looks like blooming with faith. Isreal today remains the fig tree without fruit that God cut down about a year after it was 'fertilized' with the Holy Spirit at their Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) (See Luke 13:6-9).
But!
When we, His Body, are raptured out and God turns again to Israel and His Spirit stirs the hearts of His people again, now that is going bring a bumper crop of figs, although not without a lot of pain and suffering as they are purged through the tribulation period.