Each Eschatological view.

Sure, J & the temple were soon destroyed, but the rest hasn't yet happened.

 

You'll hafta ask Jesus.

Also, please closely check out the meanings of the Greek "genea". It can also mean 'a people' Jesus could've meant that the Jewish people wouldn't pass away. After all, the prophesied eschatological events haven't yet occurred.

 

If you spend time on what Jesus taught, Amillennialism tweaked with Baptist church polity is the only valid position.

 

you ignore what was posted...you leave out the SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN IN HEAVEN.

 

"They" refers to those 1st century believers. Consider what Jesus told His disciples in Matthew 16:27-28 "Some of you standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom". Some argue that this refers to the Transfiguration, but that was only a few days away. None of them would have died. Others argue this refers to the far distant future when all of them would have died. Neither of these arguments make sense. Forty years after He spoke this prophecy, some had died, and some were still living when they saw (understood) that Jesus came in judgment on Jerusalem in AD 70.

 

Then we would also need to ask Him why ALL the other times He used the phrase "this generation", He meant just what it normally means - the people He was speaking to, not a future generation. The "genea" argument doesn't wash either. Again, it didn't mean "race" in Matthew 11:16, Matthew 12:41-45, Matthew 22:36, or anywhere else. There are those who insist upon a "literal" translation - until the literal translation trips up their views. Words can't mean what they never meant.

 

But the fact still remains that the prophesied eschatological events did NOT happen in that generation. Nothing can get you past that ig ole bear of a FACT.

 

Actually, you cannot overcome the fact that Jesus said - and meant - "this generation", not some future generation. The only options are 1) Jesus lied; 2) Jesus was mistaken; or 3) those events did happen just as He said they would.

 

I don't disagree with you on most of those passages. I also look forward to Christ's 2nd Coming. I still believe the 1,000 years of Revelation 20:6 to be symbolic. I believe 1 Thessalonians 4:17 points to our resurrection, not to a rapture (which I do not believe in). Clearly, there are many things we will not know this side of Heaven.

 

Yes, I know that is where we get the word "rapture" from, but I disagree with the "rapture" doctrine. Traditionally, 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 has been interpreted to refer to the General Resurrection and the 2nd Coming. Verse 17 tells us that after the dead are resurrected, those who are alive, will from that time forward get to be with Jesus and the resurrected forever. At Jesus’ “coming” or “appearing,” those who are still alive will be “changed” or “transformed” so that their mortal bodies will become incorruptible, deathless. This is all that Paul intends to say here.