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1 | What does "this generation" mean? | Matt 24:34 | kalos | 189540 | ||
Does “this generation” mean “this generation”? How can one understand Jesus' reference to "this generation" (Matthew 24:34-35) as referring to any group of people other than Jesus' contemporaries, as something other than the people standing before Jesus at the time? NASB Matthew 24:34 "Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place." ‘Dispensationalists will say that [in Matthew 24]…"this generation" must mean something other than "this generation….The problem is, on all four earlier occasions in Matthew, Jesus's use of "this generation" always refers to the people alive at the time. It never refers to a future generation.' (Frank Turek, www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/0849901847) |
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2 | What does "this generation" mean? | Matt 24:34 | stjohn | 189545 | ||
Hi Kelos, Maybe this will help. Easton's Bible Dictionary GENERATION Genesis 2:4, "These are the generations," means the "history." 5:1, "The book of the generations," means a family register, or history of Adam. 37:2, "The generations of Jacob" equals, the history of Jacob and his descendants. 7:1, "In this generation" equals, in this age. Psalms 49:19, "The generation of his fathers" equals, the dwelling of his fathers, i.e., the grave. Psalms 73:15, "The generation of thy children" equals, the contemporary race. Isaiah 53:8, "Who shall declare his generation?" equals, His manner of life who shall declare? or rather equals, His race, posterity, shall be so numerous that no one shall be able to declare it. In Matthew 1:17, the word means a succession or series of persons from the same stock. Matthew 3:7, "Generation of vipers" equals, brood of vipers. 24:34, "This generation"equals, the persons then living contemporary with Christ. 1 Peter 2:9, "A chosen generation" equals, a chosen people. The Hebrews seem to have reckoned time by the generation. In the time of Abraham a generation was an hundred years, thus: Genesis 15:16, "In the fourth generation" equals, in four hundred years (comp. verse 13 and Exodus 12:40). In Deuteronomy 1:35 and 2:14 a generation is a period of thirty-eight years. --------------- It seems that Dispensationalists, are not "changing" the definition at all, just useeing it in a way that would make more sense. Obviously the word does not just mean the group of people that are alive at that time. It would appear that sense all the people that were alive at that time are now dead, and most of the prophesies have not yet come to pass, that this would not be a stretch of the definition, at all. It would seem more logical to use a definition that would explain the fact they are now long dead. Your post declared, that the word always meant the people that were alive at that time. I would like to ask, how do we know what Jesus meant wenever he said the word generation? He also, at other times, could have been useing it in it's braoder sense. His thoughts, are not our thoughts. God bless. John |
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3 | What does "this generation" mean? | Matt 24:34 | kalos | 189580 | ||
John, Thank you for your reply. Grace to you, Kalos |
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4 | What does "this generation" mean? | Matt 24:34 | stjohn | 189584 | ||
Kalos, you are very welcome, grace to you too! God bless. John |
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