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You have fallen for the mistranslation that Scofield's study Bible invented out of thin air for the Greek term "genea". This word "genea" typically speaks of all those living at a certain point of time - in other words, contemporaries.AND by the way, 'Jesus saying 'this generation' Luke 21:32, he is referring to the current evil age down here on the earth, this creation, before it is remade into New Heavens and a New Earth. This means the old creation, not the NEW Creation in Christ. Do not think of generation like some 40 yr time period of men, it is more like genesis which means
"the origin or mode of formation of something:"
Jesus spoke of "this generation of the wicked" out of whom He had cast devils (Matt. 12:43-45). During its "first state" of Christ's earthly ministry among them, that "wicked generation" had devils cast out of them on multiple occasions by Christ and the disciples. But in their "last state", those unclean spirits would return in sevenfold numbers more wicked than those which had been cast out earlier when Christ was among them.
This entire Matthew 12 passage about "this generation" (genea) showed that Christ was addressing those ethnic Israelite men and women and their families living at that particular period of time in the first century. The Queen of Sheba would rise up in the judgment against that particular "generation" (genea) because a greater than Solomon was there speaking to them in the person of Christ. Likewise, the men of Nineveh would rise up in the judgment against that particular "generation" (genea) because a greater than Jonah was then presently speaking to that generation in the person of Christ Jesus.
Those ethnic Israelite adults and their children of that single first-century generation would experience all the predicted disasters of the Olivet Discourse, which is why Christ on the way to the cross told the weeping women not to weep for him, but for themselves and their children for what was going to come upon them.