The Fig Tree

I recall a story in the Gospel of Mathew, there was a fig tree by the side of the road but it wasn't the season when figs are produced. Fig trees make small bumps on their bark called taqsh(tash) , I think they're the plant tissue used to make a flower to produce the fig fruits. People would break them off and chew them in their mouth to settle their hunger urges. 

Jesus reached out to grab some taqsh from the tree but there was none, not even on the higher branches that were out of reach. This means the fig tree was barren, people would know this but they didn't get around to chopping it down or they thought they should leave it there for the shade or for some other reason. 

When Jesus saw that it wasn't making taqsh baby figs, he said may you never bear fruit again to the tree. The tree instantly started to die and fall apart. 

He showed everyone that we have free will but our essence doesn't, if Jesus says burst into flames, you'll burst into flames, if Jesus tells a storm to stop it stops, if he tells a fig tree to die, it dies. That's probably why demons are so afraid of him. He even told some people to come back to life after they had died. 

I think that is what they were trying to tell us when they wrote that passage. 

Before Jesus

It is written in the scriptures that Jesus will return to Earth one day and raise the dead to be Judged with the living.

There were many people that were born and lived on Earth before Jesus lived as a man. How will those people be judged? They didn't reject the gospel, they lived and died before Gospel was present. What will happen to those people? They didn't get a chance to choose the Gospel or reject it.

Would God give them a second chance? Would he make them live again or just know what they would do already? What would happen to all those people? Would they all share the same fate?