a 70 year generation is this year- but back when Christ spoke those words- what was considered a generation average age? not so long ago- a generation meant just 30-40 years or so- I would ‘Assume’ that when Christ mentioned ‘generation’ He may well have meant the ‘average age of a generation’ ‘at the point when Israel becomes a nation’ which would have been around 60-70 years back then I believe’
I don’t put much stock in dates and alignments, secret hidden meanings within text, and this and that really (ala Dan Brown’s idiotic book the davinci code)- but I do say “It’s possible that it could happen in such and such a way- keep an eye out for unfolding events- if nothing happens, then so be it, if the speculations are correct, then we’ll be going home soon and that’s just fine by me”
Again- I’m not a big numbers person EXCEPT for the fact that the bible does seem to be big on the numbers 7 and 70 (Which are the numbers of perfection, of God- Man’s number being 6)- which would SEEM to indicate that we ‘could be’ very close to the rapture- One can hope anyways-
Well the bible says by reason of strength, fourscore. And this would be actually living people. It’s not unknown for this to push into the nineties given modern medicine. And if this even means the ability to procreate... well ask Mick Jagger, for instance.
We need certain other events to play out. That is one thing that I would keep on confronting people with. Don’t hit me with a prediction of something spectacular and far into Revelation when we don’t even have seeming time for what needs to precede it.
And practically... almost all Christians are going to have gone to heaven by dying. Not by rapture or meeting a returned Jesus. That’s the normal pattern. If I die before Jesus comes, I still meet Jesus, so that’s fine with me. God surely frowns on my asking (or worse, presuming) to stick around only so I can crow about having met Jesus returned on earth.