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The reference to "this generation" always poses the question, "how long is this generation?"
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Yeah… that’s the million dollar question! I used to think a generation could be 40 yrs. Then, with a little help, I learned many people quote Psalm 90:10 to base what a generation is: “for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, Or if due to strength, eighty years”.
Others quote Genesis 6:3 “ Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”
Back then people easily lived 120 years. Not so today.
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But one thing is certain -- the prophecies are Israel-centric. All the prophets focused on what was happening in Israel.
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Very true indeed. There are some very good dispensationalist teachers out there. Their teachings explain how the Bible is written for all to read, but it is not written to everyone. The 4 gospels is mostly written TO the Jews, as is Acts 1 to about Acts 13. From Acts 1-13, the Good News is mostly preached to the Jewish people. In Acts 13, Paul begins preaching to the gentiles but he also preaches to the Jews. He sure was given a heavy duty task by God!
Oh…and the book of Hebrews… while we glean a LOT from it and I have grown spiritually from studying it, it is addressed to THE HEBREWS ! I have heard some teachers think it is very possible Hebrews will be the first book the Jewish people will read after the rapture. Interesting train of thought.I
There is also another so called controversial book in the NT (that is not controversial to me btw). And that book is James. It is addressed to the 12 tribes of Israel…
“ James, a bond-servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes who are dispersed abroad: Greetings”
It’s not being addressed to the converted Gentiles. But I personally have gleaned a lot from that book too. Another book the Jews will possibly read after the rapture.
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Yet as horrible as the WW2 Holocaust was, and many thought the end was then nigh, yet without the nation of Israel, without their capital Jerusalem, without possession of Mt. Zion, without their Temple, and without the restoration of "sacrifice and the oblation," (Daniel 9.27) the end is not yet…
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And sadly Israel will suffer terribly again during the coming Trib. However there will be many miracles too. IMHO, the 144,000 Israelites who will be sealed with the Seal of God on their foreheads, Revelation 7 will perform miracles providing shelter, food, water, healings to help people believe in Christ Jesus. Unlike those that take the mark of the beast, the 144,000 will have the Seal of GOD on their foreheads.
Those that take the mark of the beast, will have either the name of the beast or the number of his name. (Revelation 13).
Btw, I read somewhere that the word “end” really means “climax”. “The climax is not yet”. The climax will occur either at the battle of Armageddon or the final battle at the end of the millennium when Satan is loosed for a little while.
Many had foretold the coming of Christ around Y2K, based on the principle of 7 days of Creation foretelling 7 millennia of history. But that was based on the time of the birth of Christ, rather than the death of the Christ ~ AD 30.
Y2K was all the buzz around the world….yet we are still here.
But HOPEFULLY SOON :
