@Justme: in case you believe what you wrote, I will indulge in a little Biblical analysis: what you have above is not a "literal" reading in any sense, nor is what you claim to be a quote the text in any standard translation. I give you an excerpt from the King James Version of the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 24:
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
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:
33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
So the fig tree is there very specifically as a parable or metaphor of noticing changes in the world. Also, we see here Jesus himself (or at least Matthew's record of him) warning against using his teachings as a calendar. The Bible itself says to not take large parts of it literally. This makes both your and Godzman's statements nonsensical. The better theologians are all quite aware of this (for example, I'm cribbing this whole post from my grade-school catechism teacher).