The good figs that are described in Jeremiah 24:2 are a spiritual picture of the true believers who obey God’s commandment and leave the physical organized church during the Final Tribulation Period. The bad figs that are described in Jeremiah 24:2 are a spiritual picture of those who do not obey God’s commandment and leave the physical organized church during the Final Tribulation Period.

The first ripe figs are identified with the crop associated with harvest that occurs in late June. The Jewish calendar equivalent is the month of Tammuz. Tammuz is also referred to in Amos 4:7 as the month that is 3 months from Harvest (Tishri 15, this concept will be explain in a separate study).

Jeremiah 24:1 The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

Jeremiah 24:2 One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first [bikkuwrah 1063] ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

1063. bikkuwrah, bik-koo-raw´; feminine of 1061; the early fig:—firstripe (fruit).

1061., bik-koor´; from 1069; the first-fruits of the crop:—first fruit (-ripe (figuratively)), hasty fruit.

The Fig Tree in the first instance applies to natural Israel, but the good fruit of the fig tree also represented a summer harvest of fruit (figs). In Jeremiah 24:2, the Israelites who left Judah (obeyed God’s commandment) parallels the summer harvest of good figs (true believers) that leave the physical organized church during the final tribulation period. The actual gathering of good figs that shoot forth (germinated) are the start of summer that occurs outside the physical organized church near the end of time as Jesus makes reference to this point in Luke 21:29-30.

Luke 21:29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees;

Luke 21:30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.

In addition, the actual gathering of good figs near the end of time cannot refer to National Israel, but only to the true believers who were sprinkled throughout the physical organized church (new testament Jerusalem) on Earth. This point is clear, when Jesus specifically stated in Matthew 21:19 that national Israel would never again bear fruit and thus, national Israel is only relegated to bearing leaves (no figs), as further evidence the Nation of Israel of today has no interest in Christ as Savior. Thus, The edible figs of summer (first ripe) in Jeremiah 24:2 spiritually can only be those saved believers found in the New Testament Jerusalem on Earth (the physical organized church), who leave the physical organized church during this time of Great Tribulation. The bad figs (can't be eaten) are similar in nature to the leaf bearing figs of Matthew 21:19 (no edible fruit) for either National Israel (has no interest in Christ as Savior) or those that stay in the physical organized churches (has no saving gospel because it does not receive its latter rain).

Matthew 21:19 And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.

We see in Jeremiah 24 4-5 that that goods figs were carried out of Judah (the physical organized church), while the bad figs in Jeremiah 24 8-9 remained in Judah and Egypt (the physical organized churches).

Blessing - Good figs removed from Judah by God are under the blessing of God.

Jeremiah 24:4 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

Jeremiah 24:5 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good.

Judgment -Bad Figs that stay in Judah and Egypt (physical organized churches) come under the Judgment of God.

Jeremiah 24:8 And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:

Jeremiah 24:9 And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.

Jeremiah 24:10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.