Or
3. Jesus didn't say the generation of people he was speaking to at that moment but the generation of people living when Israel became a nation again (the Lesson of the Fig Tree, Matthew 24) would still be alive at the end times Tribulation when Jesus returned.
Do you really believe that:
Luke 9:27 27”Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God.”
Matthew 16:28 28”Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”
Mark 9:1 1And he said to them, “Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see that the kingdom of God has come with power.”
Means anything other those standing there with Him as he spoke?
Matthew 24:34 34Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.
Luke 21:32 32”Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.
Mark 13:30 30Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.
Matthew 23:36 36Truly I tell you, all this will come on this generation.
Means anything other than the CURRENT generation at THAT time?
Revelation 1:1 The revelation from Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what *** must soon **** take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
Does SOON mean around 2,000 years later?
Now even a child would reason that when their mom or dad said “Those standing here” (the child and whomever else) “Will this take place” (Would KNOW it meant them and not someone else 2,000 years later)
How is it possible that a man cannot understand what a child so easily grasps? The answer is simple; AS Paul attests:
2 Timothy 4:3-4 “For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.”
Who did Jesus say to become like?
Matthew 18:1-9 “1At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” 2He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. 3And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”
What more does Jesus need to say for one to let go completely all heresy, tradition and strongly held conviction and THEN to read the Words of God as a child; accept them as spoken, and then search for the treasures behind them.