Versus "THIS generation" as referring to the generation that sees these signs. I do not get into prophecy debate much (and am suffering from a gall bladder attack), but it seems like if Revelation was fulfilled in 70A.D, then you must believe that:
The Lord has come and gathered together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other." (Matthew 24:31)
The great river Euphrates was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. (Revelation 16:12)
The great city Babylon has been thrown down, so that it has been "found no more at all". - Revelation 18:21
And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, has been heard no more at all in it; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, , has been found any more in it ; and the sound of a millstone has been heard no more at all in it ; (Revelation 18:22)
The devil has been "cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season." (Revelation 20:3)
Or that all these prophecies are somehow allegorical, as with the extensive description of the future temple in Ezekiel.
Sorry: I do not buy it.
Jesus then talks of THIS generation - the generation of the Apostles. He talks of how Jerusalem will be destroyed
And it was destroyed within that generation
Jesus then talks of THIS generation - the generation of the Apostles. He talks of how Jerusalem will be destroyed
And it was destroyed within that generation
Matthew 24 begins as a response to the apostles marveling at the splendor of the Jerusalem temple
Your quotes are the problem - you shouldn't read excerpts. Matthew 24:31 is talking of the tribulation and destruction of the Temple, the world to the 2nd Temple Jews
The drying of the Euphrates - the Romans crossed over the Euphrates on their way to demolish Jerusalem, coming from the east
And the image of the city being cast like a millstone into the sea is the same as that in Rev 8:8 and Luke 17:1-2 "Temptations to sin are sure to come; but woe to him by whome they come! It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea, than that he shoudl cause one of these little ones to sin"
John's imagery is how Christ Himself said in Luke 17 and it is applied by John to Jerusalem. So then, the city, the once bride of God, now a harlot has led the nations into sin by falling into sin herself is cast into the sea with a millstone
This is in line with the 1000 years between David and Jesus.
Must be a sign.
Return to Jesus' words and away from personal vanity