This generation shall not pass...! Which generation?

"This generation shall not pass..."

About Yeshua's quote:
"This generation shall not pass..."
Which generation did He referred to?

In Matt 24:29: we read:
"Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: 30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other."

The lesson of the Fig Tree
(Mark 13:28-31; Luke 21:29-33)

32"Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: 33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. 34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. 35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away."

The Fig Tree refers after the antichrist has appeared:

What do we read about the lesson of the fig tree outside the bible:

Let's see what the Apocalyps of Peter tells us: (I've emphasized the answer!)

http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/apocalypsepeter-mrjames.html

"And the Master (Lord) answered and said unto me: Understandest thou not that the fig-tree is the house of Israel? Even as a man that planted a fig-tree in his garden, and it brought forth no fruit. And he sought the fruit thereof many years and when he found it not, he said to the keeper of his garden: Root up this fig-tree that it make not our ground to be unfruitful. And the gardener said unto God: (Suffer us) to rid it of weeds and dig the ground round about it and water it. If then it bear not fruit, we will straightway remove its roots out of the garden and plant another in place of it. Hast thou not understood that the fig-tree is the house of Israel? Verily I say unto thee, when the twigs thereof have sprouted forth in the last days, then shall feigned Christs come and awake expectation saying: I am the Christ, that am now come into the world. And when they (Israel) shall perceive the wickedness of their deeds they shall turn away after them and deny him [whom our fathers did praise], even the first Christ whom they crucified and therein sinned a great sin. But this deceiver is not the Christ. And when they reject him (false christ/antichrist) he shall slay with the sword, and there shall be many martyrs. Then shall the twigs of the fig-tree, that is, the house of Israel, shoot forth: many shall become martyrs at his hand.

First the antichrist must appear before the twigs of the fig-tree shall shoot forth!

"This generation shall not pass..."
Who was Yeshua speaking to? To the Jews of course, His fellow brothers, not us!

Of which generation is Yeshua referring to in this passage regarding the requiring of the blood of those they killed? This generation! He is pointing to the Jews again.

Luke 11:
45 "Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also. 46 And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers. 47 Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. 48 Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres. 49 Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute: 50 That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; 51 From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation. 52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered."

We know that the Yeshua and the Jews in those days were living in the Ages of Pisces. He said: 'this generation' not 'that generation' as pointing to a particular generation of Jews in a distant future, but in Matt 24:34 Yeshua is referring to all the generations of the Age of Pisces in which they already lived in, and which is still our age today, and ends around 2160 AD!

Yeshua's generation term in this case, is not to be considered as we do today, or a 70 yrs generation term as elsewere in the bible, for these are bloodline generations. How could Yeshua possibly have spoken about a particular Jewish generation (1948 - Jewish state as many claim) somewhere in a distant future when He was speaking to His own people at the beginning of the Age of Pisces? Would He have said this with the comprehension that those who He was speaking to would understand what He meant by 'this generation', and should He have referred to a current generation according our terms of what a generation represents? I don't think so.

It can only be logical to assume that He was speaking of the whole generation of this particular age; thus all Jewish generations and many others outside the Jewish bloodlines living in the beginning of that age from day one (since Yeshua's birth) until the age ends.

In Luke 11 we see the difference:

Did Yeshua required the blood in those days from the wicked Jews He was reproving? No, but will do that on His appointed time at the end when judgment occurs. He then will do that of that particular and apparently wicked generation during His days. Why? Because of their evil works and greatest sin: "Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered." Fact that these elites didn't preach the truth but lied in their favor and led many astray, they will be punished for all ancient and wicked deads of their forefathers and their own false behavior.

...and He will do that to everyone, not only the Jews!

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What do we read about the lesson of the fig tree outside the bible:

Let's see what the Apocalyps of Peter tells us: (I've emphasized the answer!)

http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/apocalypsepeter-mrjames.html

Enoch and Elias shall be sent to teach them that this is the deceiver which must come into the world and do signs and wonders to deceive. And therefore shall they that die by his hand be martyrs, and shall be reckoned among the good and righteous martyrs who have pleased God in their life.

And he showed me in his right hand the souls of all men, And on the palm of his right hand the image of that which shall be accomplished at the last day: and how the righteous and the sinners shall be separated, and how they do that are upright in heart, and how the evil-doers shall be rooted out unto all eternity. We beheld how the sinners wept (weep) in great affliction and sorrow, until all that saw it with their eyes wept, whether righteous or angels, and he himself also.

And I asked him and said unto him: Lord, suffer me to speak thy word concerning the sinners: It were better for them if they had not been created. And the Saviour answered and said unto me: Peter, wherefore speakest thou thus, that not to have been created were better for them? Thou resistest God. Thou wouldest not have more compassion than he for his image: for he hath created them and brought them forth out of not being. Now because thou hast seen the lamentation which shall come upon the sinners in the last days, therefore is thine heart troubled; but I will show thee their works, whereby they have sinned against the Most High.

Behold now what shall come upon them in the last days, when the day of God and the day of the decision of the judgement of God cometh. From the east unto the west shall all the children of men be gathered together before my Father that liveth for ever. And he shall command hell to open its bars of adamant and give up all that is therein.

And the wild beasts and the fowls shall he command to restore all the flesh that they have devoured, because he willeth that men should appear; for nothing perisheth before God, and nothing is impossible with him, because all things are his.

For all things come to pass on the day of decision, on the day of judgement, at the word of God: and as all things were done when he created the world and commanded all that is therein and it was done -even so shall it be in the last days; for all things are possible with God. And therefore saith he in the scripture: [Ezek. 37] Son of man, prophesy upon the several bones and say unto the bones: bone unto bone in joints, sinew. nerves, flesh and skin and hair thereon [and soul and spirit].

And soul and spirit shall the great Uriel give them at the commandment of God; for him hath God set over the rising again of the dead at the day of judgement.

Behold and consider the corns of wheat that are sown in the earth. As things dry and without soul do men sow them in the earth: and they live again and bear fruit, and the earth restoreth them as a pledge entrusted unto it.

[And this that dieth, that is sown as seed in the earth, and shall become alive and be restored unto life, is man. Probably a gloss.]

How much more shall God raise up on the day of decision them that believe in him and are chosen of him, for whose sake he made the world? And all things shall the earth restore on the day of decision, for it also shall be judged with them, and the heaven with it.

And this shall come at the day of judgement upon them that have fallen away from faith in God and that have committed sin: Floods (cataracts) of fire shall be let loose; and darkness and obscurity shall come up and clothe and veil the whole world and the waters shall be changed and turned into coals of fire and all that is in them shall burn, and the sea shall become fire. Under the heaven shall be a sharp fire that cannot be quenched and floweth to fulfil the judgement of wrath. And the stars shall fly in pieces by flames of fire, as if they had not been created and the powers (firmaments) of the heaven shall pass away for lack of water and shall be as though they had not been. And the lightnings of heaven shall be no more, and by their enchantment they shall affright the world (probably: The heaven shall turn to lightning and the lightnings thereof shall affright the world. The spirits also of the dead bodies shall be like unto them (the lightnings?) and shall become fire at the commandment of God.

And so soon as the whole creation dissolveth, the men that are in the east shall flee unto the west, unto the east; they that are in the south shall flee to the north, and they that are in the south. And in all places shall the wrath of a fearful fire overtake them and an unquenchable flame driving them shall bring them unto the judgement of wrath, unto the stream of unquenchable fire that floweth, flaming with fire, and when the waves thereof part themselves one from another, burning, there shall be a great gnashing of teeth among the children of men.

Then shall they all behold me coming upon an eternal cloud of brightness: and the angels of God that are with me shall sit (prob. And I shall sit) upon the throne of my glory at the right hand of my Heavenly Father; and he shall set a crown upon mine head. And when the nations behold it, they shall weep, every nation apart.

Then shall he command them to enter into the river of fire while the works of every one of them shall stand before them (something is wanting) to every man according to his deeds. As for the elect that have done good, they shall come unto me and not see death by the devouring fire. But the unrighteous the sinners, and the hypocrites shall stand in the depths of darkness that shall not pass away, and their chastisement is the fire, and angels bring forward their sins and prepare for them a place wherein they shall be punished for ever (every one according to his transgression)."

We read: 'And so soon as the whole creation dissolveth,...' and, 'And I shall sit upon the throne of my glory at the right hand of my Heavenly Father; and he shall set a crown upon mine head.'

This is what happens before the great judgement, not before the Second Coming! After this event there will be a new heaven and new earth, all previous will perish.

Read 2 Esdras about the second coming and about te renewal of all things.

This text too confirms salvation of the elect at the end after more than an age of tribulations and God's endtime wrath, but saved before the last great wrath upon the wicked.

An age contains 2160 years. More on: The Ages of God's creation timeline

Blessed and Shalom,

TNC