Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!jlp From: jlp@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Wandering Jew and the Second Coming - (nf) Message-ID: <1005@inmet.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 23:56:45 EST Article-I.D.: inmet.1005 Posted: Tue Mar 6 23:56:45 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Mar-84 08:21:03 EST Lines: 31 #R:uw-june:-104800:inmet:11600007:000:1450 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) The Organ Keyboard of Jerryl Payne {esquire,harpo,decvax!cca!ima}!inmet!jlp