Hi Marilyn....I really appreciate all the effort you've gone through to try to prove your points of my apparent errors.  I only understand the things I've absorbed from the bible by using common sense.  Actually, it was mainly your book, "Exit 2007" which really impressed me with how much one can get from studying bible facts and chronology.  I loved that book, and I still have it among my most important books on my shelves.

I guess we can agree to disagree on the fig tree.  Trees are men and not nations...Mark 8:24.  IF the fig tree are certain men, and leaves indicate spiritual growth (a dead fig tree indicated no spiritual growth), then maybe the end time sign will be people starting to wake up to our Lord's gospel message.  Is that possible?  I don't know.  Luke 18:8 asks this question but does not give the answer.  In Jeremiah there are "bad figs" and "good figs".  And Rev. 2:9 ! talks about the "Synagogue of Satan".  Since most of the Jews in Israel at this time are unbelievers, I do not believe that God considers them "good figs" even if they were "the fig tree".

As for your statement on Saturn being the "Throne of Jesus", I am highly in doubt of this.  Jesus told us that His kingdom was not of this world.  I understand this to mean that His kingdom was not of this dimension which we can see, hear, or touch.  If Paul was taken to the third heaven and saw things he couldn't talk about, I don't think he was spirited away to another planet in our universe.  Saturn, as a planet, is capable of being seen by the human eye, if even through telescopes.  We can't see heaven until we are transformed into our spiritual bodies.  God is much too big to be contained on any one planet when He made the whole universe.

Finally, Saturn is worshiped by some very evil people.  And in it's description, it doesn't l! ook much like the description of New Jerusalem in Rev. 21.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4WYyBcjzZg

None of us know all the truth at this point.  But we do have to dispense with those things we know can't be true.  The Bible tells us that the "natural" comes first.  It is but a shadow of what is to come....the "spiritual".  That seems to be the way God works.  I think we will all spend our remaining days trying to figure it all out.  The more I learn, the more I know I don't know....and I am the first to admit to that.

Arlene