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Subject: Re: Wandering Jew and the Second Coming - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 23:56:45 EST
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inmet!jlp    Mar  5 17:38:00 1984

Re: Clarification of the quote

The passage quoted is Matthew 24:34: "Verily I say unto you, This generation
shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled." (KJV)

The question may then be asked, "Of which generation is Jesus speaking?" The
answer is provided in the context of the passage. The presenting question to
Jesus was "when shall these things be? And waht shall be the sign of thy
coming, and of the end of the world?"

Jesus spends the next 30 verses answering this question, describing the
conditions and things to be observed before all fulfillment is complete.
The conditions described have not yet happened in their entirety, although
segments of the conditions have been around for the last 2000 years.
In the Luke account of this passage, chapter 21, Jesus gives a parable of
the fig tree before the statement in question. The impllication of the parable 
is that the generation which see the signs described in this discourse shall
be the generation which will not pass away, until all the signs are fulfilled.

"Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; When they shoot forth, ye see and 
know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. So likewise ye, when
ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the knigdom of God is nigh at
hand. Verily I say unto you, this generation shall not pass away, till all be 
fulfilled." (Luke 21:29-32)

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