Bible Questions Answered:
Can you tell us what Matthew 24:34 is talking about?
Helen / Coventry, U.K.
Bible Answers:
Matthew 24:32-34 KJV
[32] Now learn a parable of the fig tree (Israeli Nation); When his branch is yet tender (Israel became a nation 1948), 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.
The word for “generation,” is the Greek word, “Genea: Breed, stock,kind, race, family.”
Or Lord was referring to one of two things.
1)
The Jewish Nation, which would endure all things until Christ's Second Advent.
For example::
Destruction of Jerusalem under Roman Emperor Titus (70 A.D.).
Dispersion
WWII
WWIII (Enemy from the north, Ezekiel 38/39)
Great Tribulation
Second Advent
2)
Or our Lord was referring to His Bride, the blood bought Church of Jesus Christ, the generation of believers that saw the budding of the “Fig Tree.”
From that date to this, some sixty years.
This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
Signs of these last days described in Matthew 24;
vs. 4 Deception
vs. 6 Wars and rumors of wars
vs 7 Famines, Pestilences, and earthquakes
vs 9 Religious and Ethnic Persecution
vs 10 Offense and Betrayal
vs 11 False Prophets
vs 12 Iniquity abounding, love declining
vs 14 Gospel preached in all the world.
Luke 21:28 KJV
And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
