QUESTION: When it says in Luke 21:3232Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled. (Luke 21:32), "Verity I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled," is this the coming of the Son of Man?
ANSWER: Here the apostate nation of the Jews is meant, the nation that crucified Him. When we get Him as the Son of Man, it is in connection with the earth: "This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled." The Christian has nothing to do with these things of which He speaks, for they belong to another day. They are signs for another people and are signs in connection with His coming as the Son of Man. We do not wait for Him to come as the Son of Man; we wait for Him as the Lord from heaven.
In Philippians 3:20-2] it says, "Our! citizenship has its existence in the heavens, from which also we await the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior." We wait for Him in that character: "the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior, who shall transform our body of humiliation into conformity to His body of glory, according to the working of the power which He has even to subdue all things to Himself" (JND).
The signs in Matthew, Mark and Luke are for another people. The Jews today and the Jews ever since that day area continuation of the generation that crucified the Lord. And when the Lord comes, "They shall look upon Me whom they have pierced" (Zech. 12:1010And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. (Zechariah 12:10)), not the same individuals, but the continuation of the same generation—the same people.