GOD'S LIGHT FOR THE WORLD

 

             

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THIS GENERATION

 

What generation was Jesus talking about here? It was His generation which according to research started with the 30 AD generation. A generation is 40 years. This generation passed in 70 AD with the Abomination of Desolation in Jerusalem which Jesus warned them was going to happen. 70 AD minus 30 AD is 40 years.

 

Therefore, it got me thinking, when our generation began. I was born in 1951 if a generation is 40 years my generation would be from 1951 to 1991. The next 40-year generation will be 1992 to 2031. Let me know what you think.

 

So much talk has been around a year of 2012 which the Mayans claim a disastrous calamity will occur. Now no one knows what this calamity will be or if anything will happen on this date. Some think it will be the end of the world. I honestly do not know for sure. However, I do know what the Bible says and believe in it before I will believe in anything man will say. The Bible was inspired by God and written down by man at God’s instruction and the Holy Spirit.

 

I refuse to time set anything because there is danger in that. It causes nothing but heartache when the promised thing does not occur as in John Miller’s day with the Seventh Day Adventist movement. The believed in a date when Jesus would return forgetting what they had read in the Bible, that not even Jesus knows when he is coming back, nor do the angels know, but only the Father knows.

 

Mat 24:36  But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

 

So why did John Miller and his group forget this message from Jesus? I think it was because they were still part of the world. If they were truly in tune with the Word of God they would not have missed that point and tried to date the coming of Christ.

 

I believe that history repeats itself, and that the prophecies in the Bible have duality, what has happened in the past will happen again in our time. We do not know if Jesus will come in our time or in the next generation’s time, but regardless of when He comes, we must be prepared and focus on the matters at hand.

 

Will this generation seek after signs and wonders, you bet. The Bible says so with the coming of false christs. Will there be destruction, wars, and rumors of wars, famine, and pestilence, diseases and earthquakes, Will there be nations rising against other nations? Of course there will. It says so in Mat 24:6  And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

Mat 24:7  For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

Mat 24:8  All these are the beginning of sorrows.

 

 Jesus even said it would be the beginning of sorrows on the earth. Do you see these things happening now? Have you not seen the escalation of the earthquakes and other natural disasters? Are we not in wars all around the world? Are there not countries starving for want of food and diseases we thought long buried coming back with a vengeance due to the traveling of peoples from third world countries? Think about it and open your eyes.

 

Therefore, as you read these verses, place your generation in the picture. See what God wants you to see and get prepared.

 

GOSPEL OF MATTHEW

 

Mat 11:16  But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows,

 

Mat 12:41  The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and, behold, a greater than Jonah is here.

 

Mat 12:42  The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

 

Mat 12:45  Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.

 

Mat 23:36  Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this

 

Mat 24:34  Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

 

GOSPEL OF MARK

 

Mar 8:12  And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this generation.

 

Mar 8:38  Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

 

Mar 13:30  Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.

 

GOSPEL OF LUKE

 

Luk 7:31  And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?

 

Luk 11:29  And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonah the prophet.

 

Luk 11:30  For as Jonah was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.

 

Luk 11:31  The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

 

Luk 11:32  The men of Nineveh shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and, behold, a greater than Jonah is here.

 

Luk 11:50  That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

 

Luk 11:51  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.

 

Luk 16:8  And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.

 

Luk 17:25  But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.

 

Luk 21:32  Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.