The generation that will not pass
"So you also, when you see all these things, know that he is near, at the gates. I tell you the truth, this generation will by no means pass away until all these things take place" - Matthew 24:33, 34
Which generation was the Lord referring to when He said the above words?
Answering this question, which has become almost obsessive in recent years, is anything but of secondary importance because it is part of those prophecies that could change our situation and our point of view a great deal.
It is true that rivers of words have been wasted in this regard and, more often than not, more has been said than necessary.
To the point that today some even feel a certain embarrassment at having to deal with this part of the Word of God.
Embarrassment that one does not normally feel towards other scriptures.
Today, in front of a person who asks for explanations regarding this affirmation of the Lord, some will have to try their hand at an abstruse explanation of a phantom "multiple generation"... and that is groups of people (and periods) who intersect with others groups of people...
And this wouldn't even be the biggest problem if it weren't for the fact that this is just the umpteenth version/change to the meaning of "generation".
Mantre first took 1914 and asked "How old are, now, those who have seen the First World War?" now they're going to model Jacob's family and say something like, "They weren't all the same age, right? All their lives, with different ages, spanned one generation."
In short, a generation is no longer JUST a generation. Maybe it's two or three.
Mantre first took 1914 and asked "How old are, now, those who have seen the First World War?" now they're going to model Jacob's family and say something like, "They weren't all the same age, right? All their lives, with different ages, spanned one generation."
In short, a generation is no longer JUST a generation. Maybe it's two or three.
We have reached such a situation that, needless to deny it, it almost seems the Lord's fault for not having been more precise.
Maybe for someone it's easier to think that the Lord was deliberately enigmatic rather than re-discussing the starting year of that generation .
If we read only what is written, however, it seems like a simple and direct speech.
The generation that would have seen the beginning of the war and the other aspects of the sign would not have passed at all.
If by mistake we read only what is written, it would be clear that that "generation" cannot be that of 1914, whatever extension we wanted to attach to it.
The article dedicated to 1914 can be found at the following link:
Having made this premise, however, the words of the Lord remain and being part of the Word of God we must examine them without prejudice, forgetting our past.
Ultimately, the question is very simple.
What period of time would embrace the sign that Christians would recognize and for which they would have to “lift up their heads”? - Luke 21:28
As we have seen from our study of the book Revelation, after the warnings to the seven congregations and the opening of the seven seals, the trumpet blasts begin in chapter eight.
These trumpet blasts are messages of judgment and actual judgments against Satan's world.
In chapter nine of Revelation we speak of the last three trumpets which are different from the previous ones because they include the "woe" declared by the eagle.
It is clear that among these troubles there is war, in fact the horses, or the two cavalry armies, represent war.
Let's stop for a moment.
The Lord, in his description of the last days, mentioned warfare as one of those things that his followers could see and understand.
Then he talks about tribulation and persecution and so on.
Is the war described in Revelation the one Jesus referred to?
It certainly seems so because these events lead us to the scenario of Revelation chapters eleven, twelve and thirteen.
Whatever came before , or whatever interpretation you want to give to these cavalry armies, the fact is that from chapter thirteen onwards it is clearly seen that there is only one ruling power - Revelation 13:2
For there to be only one power left (among other things, mortally wounded), something must have happened in the previous chapters, right?
If we compare this with Daniel 11:40 we understand that that "something" has to do with war: the only thing that could justify the disappearance of the antagonistic king and a single beast to which Satan gives all his dominion, throne and authority.
So we can assume that when Christ said they would hear of wars and reports of wars, referring to the last days , he was referring to this great war (which will involve one nation after another).
We do not know when this war would have broken out or even how long it would have lasted, however, by comparing other scriptures referring to this period of time, always in the book of Daniel, we can understand the limits of this generation.
We have seen from Daniel chapter eight that the “little horn” that would become very great can be none other than the king of the north who would overthrow three kings.
The article dedicated to this can be found in this link
For now we cannot establish the starting date of the generation to which the Lord referred but this is absolutely independent in establishing the duration of the generation to which he referred.
We know that when the next great war breaks out, 2300 evenings and mornings will pass until the end of the preaching of the 2 witnesses dressed in sackcloth .
This means a little over six years (these 2300 evenings and mornings include the first 1260 days of preaching by the two witnesses) - Revelation 11:1, 2
Since we arrive at the "right condition" of the Temple, an event described in chapter 11 of Revelation and therefore subsequent to the first six trumpets, we know that the war between north and south must fall within this period (in another article we have seen that the war ends before the start of the preaching of the two witnesses so it must last less than 1040 days).
Shortly after the killing of the two witnesses and their resurrection "war breaks out in heaven" which, as we have seen by comparing Revelation with Daniel 12:11 , will last thirty days or less.
Then the false prophet appears and tramples God's people for forty-two months.
Doing the math, we have all the generation that would have seen the signs of the end of the system of things that would “not pass away at all.”
From the beginning of the day of the Lord until the outbreak of the war of Armageddon, about 10 years pass.
Doesn't it seem much more logical to fit these 10 years into one generation and say "it won't pass at all"?
We have no need to force the meaning of the word generation, to ask ourselves what the Lord really meant , to ask ourselves how long a generation can last, if there is anyone over a hundred years old still alive or how many meanings the word "generation" can have in Greek etc etc…
Understanding that the events described in Matthew as in other biblical books would take place over about 10 years, then we can simply read what is written.
We try?
"So you also, when you see all these things, know that he is near, at the gates. I tell you the truth, this generation will by no means pass away until all these things take place" - Matthew 24:33, 34
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