2A The greatest sign of the end of this age (when the last three and a half years of the great tribulation are about to begin) is the preaching of the gospel of the kingdom to the whole inhabited earth — v. 14; Rev. 6:2.
3B Another great sign of the Lord’s coming is when Israel, represented by the fig tree, was miraculously restored as a nation; to the believers this fig tree is a sign of the end of this age — Matt. 24:32-35; Jer. 24:2, 5, 8.