Each Eschatological view.

Actually, I believe this passage is about our resurrected bodies. I think the audience relevance depends a lot on the overall context. On another note, I believe Christ did "return" in judgment of Jerusalem in AD 70.

 

It's simple-THE PROPHESIED EVENTS DIDN'T OCCUR IN THAT GENERATION !

 

We are in agreement there. Although He "came in judgment" in AD 70, Jesus didn't literally come to Jerusalem.

 

That doesn't explain why Jesus said "this generation" if He really meant "that generation". The simple truth is that those events did come to pass in that generation. As Forrest Gump would say, "that's all I got to say about that".

 

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time.[Revelation 20:1-3]


So, we see a lot of figurative language used. Satan depicted as a dragon. Is he literally a dragon? No, of course not. Was he literally wrapped in chains. No. So why take the 1,000 years literal?


How about this verse?


Know therefore that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps His covenant and His lovingkindness to a thousandth generation with those who love Him and keep His commandments;[Deuteronomy 7:9]

Is God faithful to a literal 1,000th generation? He could be, and if He is, then the world will be anywhere from 25,000 to 40,000 years old, seeing that a biblical generation was somewhere between 25 and 40 years. I’ve heard both so I don’t know which one is correct, but I think 40 to be the correct one, seeing Israel was in the wilderness for 40 years after leaving Egypt and entering into the Promised Land.

 

Matthew 24:29-31 happened in AD 70. Nowhere in the Olivet Discourse does it not refer to “this generation”. Just as Jesus said “who do I compare this generation to?” He was not talking about a future generation there, either, but that generation at that time.

 

Another huge problem for Premillennialists is flesh and blood cannot enter the kingdom. So when Satan is loosed at the end of the 1000 years, he has only glorified saints to rally as Gog and Magog against the rest of the glorified saints.

 

But that’s not my point. My point is that if 1,000 is literal in regards to years in Revelation 20:1-3, then the 1,000th generation would have to be literal as well. Then God doesn’t own the cattle in the 1,001st + hills, too.

 

MY evidence is obvious-THE EVENTS HAVEN'T HAPPENED YET.

Nupe! Israel is not "all the tribes of the earth", just a small part of them.

Your digging hit a boulder called "the preterist myth".

PROOF, please?

Because it'll be received on the right hand or forehead.

Your "proof" is ethereal, The BIGGEST proofs I have is that the earth is still going right on as it did in 65 AD, & 71 AD. And, the fact that if the trib has already occurred, Jesus is WAY overdue! You know what He said in Matt. 24, and He has NOT yet fulfilled His prophecy of His own return, IN GREAT POWER & GLORY, SEEN BY ALL, EVEN THOSE WHO PIERCED HIM! If He'd come & been seen by all, the Chinese, Japanese, Scythians, Germans, Gauls, Celts, Picts, etc. woulda mentioned it. And he said NOTHING about TWO returns.

I suggest you toss the trash you've been reading from Preston, Gentry, etc. & stick to what GOD had men write, and to works of history. Those pret authors are like Hal Lindsey-just out to make a buck.

 

How is 1,000 a literal 1,000 in one place but not a 1,000 in another place?

 

He didn't come at all then, except Spiritually, where two or more were gathered in His name, as He said, & as He does today.

No, they didn't. There's no evidence whatsoever saying they did.

 

You will not find Jesus changing course in that sermon. Even after vss 29-31, He said ”Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.”[Matthew 24:34]

Look at Ezekiel 5. I read that last evening, btw. Ezekiel shaves his beard and divides it. He then shows Jerusalem’s impending desolation by using that divided beard. It was to happen soon, not millennia later.

Fast forward to Matthew 24 and the Olivet Discourse. He is telling them, “this generation” not a “this generation” millennia later, of their impending doom, which happened in AD 70. It would be fruitless to tell them of a doom happening millennia later. It would be like God showing me your place where you live at(He doesn’t do this, but I’m proving my point here) and that 3,000 years later it’s nuked. I then warn you of that happening. Why warn about this when you’ll be long gone? Same with the Olivet Discourse. He was telling them, “this generation” about the impending doom to occur in AD 70.