There has been a lot of debate about what “this generation” means in Matthew 24:34. We know ultimately the context is talking about the Tribulation and so we use the signs in Matthew 24 as indicator that we are fast approaching this period of time. I wanted to provide you with a view that not many are talking about regarding “this generation.”
➡️ A view, which is an old dispensational view and at the same time relatively new in current dispensational circles takes seriously both the Old Testament background of the word geneá ("generation," דור in the Hebrew OT) and how "this generation" (e genea aute) is characterized throughout Matthew and the rest of the New Testament. E genea aute in Matthew 24:34 describes unbelieving, rejecting humanity, unresponsive to God's messengers, and headed toward eschatological judgment.45 John Nelson Darby, the acknowledged father and developer of dispensational premillennialism, made the point over a century and a half ago that e genea aute in Matthew 24:34 refers to an evil type of people.
He wrote: "The difficulty as to "this generation shall not pass away" is a prejudice flowing from the English use of the word "generation." It is quite as much used for a moral class in scripture, as for the period marked by human life; and if Deuteronomy 32:5, 20 (where this very subject is treated of) be referred to, the sense is plain."
Again Darby commented: "As to the generation not passing away, a reference to Deuteronomy 32:5, 20, will give the plain and sure sense of it, and that in reference to this very subject [the Lord's coming]. The mere common use of the word is a class of persons, as, the generation of the wicked, not the period of a man's life."
(Source: https://www.preceptaustin.org/matthew_2434_commentary#ndn)
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