lol,In the parable of the fig tree,right above that verse,when did the branch become tender and put forth leaves? will you continue in your path of literal doesn't apply,or will you point to something in the events of the first century and say it was literally fulfilled?
Jesus lists the things:
False Messiahs
Wars and rumors of wars
Famines and earthquakes
Persecutions
Betrayal
Abomination of desolation standing in the Holy Place
False prophets
Jerusalem surrounded by armies
A fig tree has nothing to do with anything, it was a parable.