The last day of Jewish nation.
There was a generation in the last day of Jewish nation.It was the time when Jesus was working on earth about 2000 years ago as God's Messiah.
It was the day of the inspection of Jewish nation.
Did they accept God's Messiah, or did they show lack of faith?
The generation that God's Messiah worked for received an adverse judgment, and was destroyed by the Roman army in 70 C.E.
Lu 19:41-44
41 And when he got nearby, he viewed the city and wept over it, 42 saying: "If you, even you, had discerned in this day the things having to do with peace-but now they have been hid from your eyes. 43 Because the days will come upon you when your enemies will build around you a fortification with pointed stakes and will encircle you and distress you from every side, 44 and they will dash you and your children within you to the ground, and they will not leave a stone upon a stone in you, because you did not discern the time of your being inspected."
As shown above, the time when Jesus came on earth first time was a time of inspection of nation of Israel.
The generation at that time fail to be approved, so they received the adverse judgment.
Jesus viewed it a faithless and twisted generation.
Lu 9:41
41 In response Jesus said: "O faithless and twisted generation, how long must I continue with YOU and put up with YOU?
Lu 11:47-51
47 "Woe to YOU, because YOU build the memorial tombs of the prophets, but YOUR forefathers killed them! 48 Certainly YOU are witnesses of the deeds of YOUR forefathers and yet YOU give consent to them, because these killed the prophets but YOU are building [their tombs]. 49 On this account the wisdom of God also said, 'I will send forth to them prophets and apostles, and they will kill and persecute some of them, 50 so that the blood of all the prophets spilled from the founding of the world may be required from this generation, 51 from the blood of Abel down to the blood of Zechari′ah, who was slain between the altar and the house.' Yes, I tell YOU, it will be required from this generation.
The generation of Jews that Jesus worked for in the first century was in the inspection, that is a judgment day of Judaism.
Jewish nation failed to produce expected fruitage.
They demonstrated a lack of faith, so that they killed God's Messiah.
They acted against their own interests during the inspection period, just as their ancestors were always disrespectful to the prophets of God sent to them.
Because of that, they lost God's favor and were forsaken as a broken useless vessel in God's purpose.
Mt 23:37-38
37 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the killer of the prophets and stoner of those sent forth to her,-how often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks together under her wings! But YOU people did not want it. 38 Look! YOUR house is abandoned to YOU.
Heb 8:7-9
7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, no place would have been sought for a second; 8 for he does find fault with the people when he says: “‘Look! There are days coming,’ says YHWH, ‘and I will conclude with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah a new covenant; 9 not according to the covenant that I made with their forefathers in [the] day of my taking hold of their hand to bring them forth out of the land of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant, so that I stopped caring for them,’ says YHWH.”
The things happened to the Jewish nation is a prototype of the future judgment of the entire world.
Not just one generation, but all generations from the time of Adam will be judged when Christ return.
Judgment Day
The world alienated from God is destined to be judged by God through Christ.When Adam and Even fell into sin by Satan's plot, God announced the sentence of death to Adam's family.
Because of that, everybody dies.
We call the days from birth to death a generation.
Everybody has a generation.
One's generation that is lifetime shows how a person lived.
One's way of living becomes a basis for judgment as written in the Bible.
Ga 6:7-8
7 Do not be misled: God is not one to be mocked. For whatever a man is sowing, this he will also reap; 8 because he who is sowing with a view to his flesh will reap corruption from his flesh, but he who is sowing with a view to the spirit will reap everlasting life from the spirit.
2Co 5:10
10 For we must all be made manifest before the judgment seat of the Christ, that each one may get his award for the things done through the body, according to the things he has practiced, whether it is good or vile.
Ro 2:6-11
6 And he will render to each one according to his works: 7 everlasting life to those who are seeking glory and honor and incorruptibleness by endurance in work that is good; 8 however, for those who are contentious and who disobey the truth but obey unrighteousness there will be wrath and anger, 9 tribulation and distress, upon the soul of every man who works what is injurious, of the Jew first and also of the Greek; 10 but glory and honor and peace for everyone who works what is good, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. 11 For there is no partiality with God.
Christ has been appointed to judge all.
We have only one lifetime for the judgment.Everybody in all generations will be judged when Christ returns.
For this reason, one's way of living is the serious matter for anyone.
It is wise to live right in the eyes of God.
Heb 9:27
27 And as it is reserved for men to die once for all time, but after this a judgment,
In any era, and in any place, everybody has just one lifetime to be judged.
And the judgment is rendered by Christ during his 1000 years reign.
In due time, Christ will be back to begin his 1000 years reign that is the Judgment Day of Adam's family.
Many dead will be resurrected from the time of Adam to the generation when Christ will be back.
Since the dead is conscious of nothing at all, every dead person arrives at the time of resurrection that is the days of judgment by Christ instantaneously, so to speak.
So, the return of Christ will be right after the life for anyone in any generation.
Then, no one knows when Christ will be back to begin the judgment, so it would happen anytime for anyone in any generation.
Everybody in any generation has a possibility that Christ's coming back would occur in one's lifetime.
For this reason, Christian in any era lives in expectation that Christ would be back during their generation.
They know that the reward would go along with them right after they finished their life. So they live in a way that assures the future.
In any generation they are ready for their master's return.
Col 3:23-24
23 Yes, whatever you’re doing, work at it wholeheartedly as though [you’re doing it] for the Lord and not for men. 24 And because you know that you’ll be rewarded with an inheritance from the Lord, you should slave for the Lord (the Anointed One), 25 since the unrighteous will be [judged] impartially for the unrighteous things that they’re doing.
Re 22:12
12 "'Look! I am coming quickly, and the reward I give is with me, to render to each one as his work is.
Those who alive when Christ returns.
From the first century, many generations of the sons of the kingdom have passed. Most of them fell asleep in death waiting for their Lord's return.The apostle Paul revealed what would happen to those who fell asleep in death, and those who still alive when Christ returns.
1Co 15:51-52, 58
51 Look! I tell YOU a sacred secret: We shall not all fall asleep [in death], but we shall all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, during the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised up incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
58 Consequently, my beloved brothers, become steadfast, unmovable, always having plenty to do in the work of the Lord, knowing that YOUR labor is not in vain in connection with [the] Lord.
Re 14:13
13 And I heard a voice out of heaven say: "Write: Happy are the dead who die in union with [the] Lord from this time onward. Yes, says the spirit, let them rest from their labors, for the things they did go right with them."
The sons of kingdom in any era know that they have to work for the kingdom, and the chance for that is only a generation that is one's lifetime, then after that, they will meet returned Christ by either resurrection or the state of being alive.
1Th 4:16-17
16 because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a commanding call, with an archangel's voice and with God's trumpet, and those who are dead in union with Christ will rise first. 17 Afterward we the living who are surviving will, together with them, be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and thus we shall always be with [the] Lord.
The end will come in a generation that is in one's lifetime, then will be the judgment.
Judgment on the rest of mankind.
Adam's family in all eras will be judged once for all time based on their life in Satan's world, during the Judgment Day of Christ.All the generations will be judged being resurrected in the Judgment Day of Christ yet to be in the future.
Lu 11:29-32
29 When the crowds were massing together, he started to say: "This generation is a wicked generation; it looks for a sign. But no sign will be given it except the sign of Jo'nah. 30 For just as Jo'nah became a sign to the Nin'evites, in the same way will the Son of man be also to this generation. 31 The queen of the south will be raised up in the judgment with the men of this generation and will condemn them; because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Sol'omon, but, look! something more than Sol'omon is here. 32 The men of Nin'eveh will rise in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it; because they repented at what Jo'nah preached; but, look! something more than Jo'nah is here.
The Judgment Day of Christ is still in the future.
Everybody has once to live.
Then after that, they will be judged eather being resurrected or confronted with returning Christ. So how we live in our own time is important to all of us.
Lu 14:12-14
12 Next he proceeded to say also to the man that invited him: "When you spread a dinner or evening meal, do not call your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors. Perhaps sometime they might also invite you in return and it would become a repayment to you. 13 But when you spread a feast, invite poor people, crippled, lame, blind; 14 and you will be happy, because they have nothing with which to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous ones."
Ti 2:11-14
11 For the undeserved kindness of God which brings salvation to all sorts of men has been manifested, 12 instructing us to repudiate ungodliness and worldly desires and to live with soundness of mind and righteousness and godly devotion amid this present system of things, 13 while we wait for the happy hope and glorious manifestation of the great God and of [the] Savior of us, Christ Jesus, 14 who gave himself for us that he might deliver us from every sort of lawlessness and cleanse for himself a people peculiarly his own, zealous for fine works.
(AEB2001 translation)
11 For the reason why God’s loving care is beeing displayed [through us] is so that we all might be saved. 12 And once they have rejected the godlessness and worldly desires, they must then be taught how to live sensibly, righteously, and devoutly in this age, 13 as they await the blest hope and the manifestations of the glory of the great God and Savior of us, the Anointed Jesus, 14 who handed himself up in order to free us by ransom from lawlessness, and to bring out a clean people for himself who are all zealous in doing whatever is good.
Re 22:11-12, 20-21
11 He that is doing unrighteousness, let him do unrighteousness still; and let the filthy one be made filthy still; but let the righteous one do righteousness still, and let the holy one be made holy still.
12 "'Look! I am coming quickly, and the reward I give is with me, to render to each one as his work is.
20 . . . "Amen! Come, Lord Jesus."
21 [May] the undeserved kindness of the Lord Jesus Christ [be] with the holy ones.
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