This Generation Will Not Pass Away (Luke 21:25–38) — A Sermon by R.C. Sproul

Sola Fide Deum which means faith alone in God in Latin. Let God’s Peace be with you always (To Reader). Praise God always. Amen🙏🙌

Christ is King!

Amen! I’m throwing my corporate hat into the air🧢💨!! Jesus’s words will never fail. If it’s in scripture it’s there for a reason. We search the scriptures like RC went to multiple passages to try to discern the meaning of a text. That’s the least we can do to be like the faithful Bereans. God bless Ligonier and all the saints in Christ’s church waiting for when the culmination of our redemption draws nigh🙏✝️

Great teaching from a great teacher.

Amen!.

And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. Matthew 24:14 ESV The end is almost here. Almost all nations have witnessed. There are only a small number of people groups left. Be someone who will help fulfill the prophecy and spread the gospel to the unreached!

' This' generation refers to ' the' generation who will experience the things mention.

10:51 then problem statement 19:20 this generation

What if Christ was not wrong but was very right about his timing, maybe its our past that we have been lied to about.

There is no problem. Take Jesus at His Word. He meant His coming was soon and in that present generation. It makes no sense that Christians believe He was talking 2000 years plus for then. The Disciples were concerned about them. And all the things were fulfilled.

If the passage in Luke 21 and Matt 24 refer to a "coming of Christ" in vengeance, in 70AD as RC said, then what are we to do with Christ words "And he will send forth his angels with a trumpet blast and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other." Did this happen in 70AD? Surely not. This refers to the resurrection.

Well, John MacArthur would totally disagree with this teaching.

Hes a partal preterist

Jesus trained 12 men for 3 years to reach everybody with the gospel. How? By making disciples. For the next 200 years the body of Christ multiplied because they obeyed Jesus' commandment for everybody to share the gospel baptize the believers, receive the Holy spirit and teach others to do the same. Then the Roman Empire established preachers, congregations, buildings, church on Sunday, We are still doing Rome's strategy 1900 years later. And not reaching everybody with the gospel. Our so-called prophets and preachers are so blind they don't even mention that we haven't reached everybody. That's all we ever needed to do (Mark 16;15) for the end to begin to come (Mathew 24:14.) Almost half the people in the world still haven't heard the gospel. The majority of the body of Christ have never shared the gospel with anybody. Why do our so-called great preachers fail to see this or mention it? Hey R.C.? Where did Jesus command us to prove the Bible was true to everybody? He didn't. Reply

Jesus thought he would return In that era but only the Father Knows when!

"Generation" isn't that difficult to define in the context here and in Matthew. It is the "generation" where the Jewish leaders continue to reject Jesus as their Messiah. He will not return until the remnant turns and recognizes and honors Jesus as the Christ. THEN the 2nd Advent will occur. But first they must be purified via the trials of "the hour," i.e. the Time of Jacob's Trouble/ Daniel's 70th wk. For Israel, the first half of the week is relatively peaceful while the rest of the earth is suffering the wrath of the first 4 seal judgments. But when the one who makes a "covenant of death" goes into the temple and commits the "abomination of desolation" then the 7th trumpet heralds the "Great Tribulation." Eschatology is straight forward as Paul's witness/gospel to the uninitiated Gentiles as recorded in 1st and 2nd Thess. The Church/Bride of Christ is first removed before the "great apostasy" and the revealing of the "man of sin." i.e. the Antichrist. The Church does not experience the "wrath to come" and do not suffer the "hour of testing." The Church has NOT replaced Israel as Paul clearly taught in Rom 9-11. The seven year tribulation is contextually a continuation of the previous 69wks which is the purification of Israel. The Church was purified by the death of Christ on the cross, "Therefore there is no condemnation for thiose who are in Christ Jesus." As for "some shall not see death" are those who were at the Transfiguration. Moses and Elijah are to be the 2 witnesses during the last half of the Tribulation (probably). There are some aspects of the "birth pangs" that occurred but were not fulfilled by the sacking of Jerusalem which occurred from 65-70AD. That cannot be the 42wks or the 1260 days of the last half of the Tribulation. Again, it really isn't that difficult. However, what is important to each and everyone of us— If a scholar like RC lets his theological system blind him to the true biblical teachings on the end times, then we ALL need to humble ourselves and take a serious look at whether or not our own theological systems are clouding our own judgments. When I listened to a John Gerstner's lecture where he gave a diatribe against dispensationalism, I realized that even great biblical scholars could and did both fail to understand what another system actually taught and to go so far as to cast doubt of those holding to a system to be, indeed, outside of Christ.

Informative refutation of preterism. It's all a big mistranslation. YouTube MZTV 336 and MZTV 1137-39.

Just talking in circles..like all of these

13:35 Why are you people so obstinate and dull, when Jesus says this generation he clearly switches, he refers vaguely to this generation, but by inference all we have a right to assume is the maximum absolute, ie " man, " " humanity,". don't get so hung up on individual words or even phrases decontextualized. Jesus is always very concrete and direct with any pertinent information we need to have, so when he backs away from specificity and uses more layered or ambiguous/uncertain terms, just sit back and take it like a man -or like a woman. It doesn't matter, that's the whole problem, it's the meat of the message that matters, and always is with Jesus, not the circumstantial details; i think the sense that he affirms is "SOON" whether it's a generation of one person or a thousand ; Christ is NOW! that's what he really wants us to take away ; live like Christ is manifest in our lives here and now, that's what it, the truth, is all about; if you don't get that you have already missed the point. I always say, read the new testament, 300 pages, like a book! then read the old testament one day! you will not have lack of anything after reading the gospel, rather you will have everything you need to know and abundantly more

Unfortunately, that's a fail. RC ignores (1) v 27 of Mt 16: 'For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done,' and (2) vv30-31 of Mt 24: 'Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.' That says something much bigger than just the destruction of Jerusalem! But RC just couldn't bring himself to see the obvious conclusion.