Rene,

You really made a remarkable statement:

Now, if we just knew EXACTLY what God considers a "generation"!

I've wondered about that, as well, so, what a great question: "What does the LORD consider a generation?"

Yes, in many minds, "generation" had been tied to the 40 years in the wilderness, to Israel becoming a nation again, and  "88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988".

With the term, "generation", always considered as a length of time.

Moses wrote in Psalm 90, that, apparently, the average lifespan would be 70, and possibly 80 for some:

Psalms 90:10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Yet Joseph & Joshua lived to 110, while Moses lived to 120.

So, is a generation, then, 70 years? or 120? or what about like it was before the flood, 900 years?

Or could the term, "generation", also be used to describe those living through a shared experience?

Like the generation that died in the wilderness, or the generation who entered the promised land, or the generation who went to Babylon, or the generation who returned,

or the generation who rejected Jesus, or the generation who suffered the holocaust, or the generation who will suffer the time of Jacob's trouble,

or even the generation that will receive Jesus as their Messiah and live with him in the kingdom?

Is that use possible, or would it be safer to stick with the length of time use?

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