Mat 24:32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
Mar 13:28 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near:
Luk 21:29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees;
Luk 21:30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.
If the fig tree is Israel, who are all the other trees that are budding?
Found this:
Mark Twain in the Holy Land
Mark Twain visited Israel in 1867, and published his impressions in Innocents Abroad. He described a desolate country – devoid of both vegetation and human population:
"...A desolation is here that not even imagination can grace with the pomp of life and action. We reached Tabor safely… We never saw a human being on the whole route. We pressed on toward the goal of our crusade, renowned Jerusalem. The further we went the hotter the sun got and the more rocky and bare, repulsive and dreary the landscape became… There was hardly a tree or a shrub anywhere. Even the olive and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country. No landscape exists that is more tiresome to the eye than that which bounds the approaches to Jerusalem… Jerusalem is mournful, dreary and lifeless. I would not desire to live here. It is a hopeless, dreary, heartbroken land… Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes...”
From:
http://www.simpletoremember.com/articles/a/return_to_the_land_of_israel/
All the other trees did their budding within five years of Israel becoming a nation. Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Egypt share borders with Israel.
From the CIA World Fact Book:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/wfbExt/region_mde.html
Click the name of the country then "introduction" you'll find this:
Lebanon
Following World War I, France acquired a mandate over the northern portion of the former Ottoman Empire province of Syria. The French separated out the region of Lebanon in 1920, and granted this area
independence in 1943.
Jordan
Following World War I and the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, the UK received a mandate to govern much of the Middle East. Britain separated out a semi-autonomous region of Transjordan from Palestine in the early 1920s, and the area gained its
independence in 1946; it adopted the name of Jordan in 1950.
Syria
Following World War I, France acquired a mandate over the northern portion of the former Ottoman Empire province of Syria. The French administered the area as Syria until granting it
independence in 1946.
Egypt
Following the completion of the Suez Canal in 1869, Egypt became an important world transportation hub, but also fell heavily into debt. Ostensibly to protect its investments, Britain seized control of Egypt's government in 1882, but nominal allegiance to the Ottoman Empire continued until 1914. Partially independent from the UK in 1922,
Egypt acquired full sovereignty with the overthrow of the British-backed monarchy in 1952.
All between the years 1943 and 1952 – all within five years of the birth of The Fig Tree in 1948. These guys were not even nations before WW1 they were just parts of the Ottoman Empire and then parts of the British Empire or the French. Their birth around the birth of Israel in 1948 makes them look like
"all the trees" to me.
And all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Then
all the trees of the woods will rejoice before the Lord.
For He is coming, for
He is coming to judge the earth.
He shall judge the world with righteousness,
And the peoples with His truth.
