Isaac, the confirmation of the Covenant that God entered in with Abraham, was born in the solar year 2,049 after the creation of Adam, (AA) or in a dating system we have adopted, in the year 2052 BC. Now if we accept that some of Abraham's descendants established themselves in the Land of Canaan in the solar year 1948 AD then in the solar year from when Isaac was born until some of Abraham descendants returned to the land exactly 4,000 solar years past.
Now Exodus 20:4-6 foretells us that the visitation of the fathers' iniquities will be upon their children and the children's children during the third and the fourth generations/ages of their existence. When did the visitation of the Fathers' iniquities begin? They began at the start of the third generation/age/day of the Lord in the year 4097 AA of the nation of Israel or in the year 4 BC, which is also the fifth generation /age/Day of the Lord of the existence of all of mankind, and the visitation of these iniquities will end 2,044 solar years later in the year 6,144 AA or in 2044 AD.
As such the return of some of Abraham's descendants returned to the Land of Canaan 96 years before the completion of the fourth generation/age/day of the Lord of the visitation of the fathers' iniquities.
How did I come to this understanding? By my careful study of the scriptures from Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22:21 and understanding where contextual inaccuracies required to be corrected with our current "Bible Translations." Matthew 24:34 is one verse where the contextual inaccuracies occur, particularly when we apply today's conventions on the meaning of words.
I have not displaced Christ from His place in scripture or in the historical record. All that I have done is placed Christ in His righteous place in our understanding of Him and His works.
Shalom
You just demonstrated the entire problem in one post.
I asked you one very simple question:
Where did JESUS define “this generation” as a 1,024-year prophetic age?
Not: Where can you build a chronology?
Not: How many solar years can you calculate from Isaac?
Not: How many passages can you connect across thousands of years of biblical history?
Not: What private numerical system have you constructed after studying Genesis through Revelation?
I asked:
WHERE DID JESUS SAY IT?
And instead of giving me Jesus saying it, you gave me:
Isaac's calculated birth year,
4,000 solar years,
Exodus 20,
“generations/ages/days of the Lord,”
a 2,044-year visitation period,
1948,
2044,
and finally the staggering declaration that
Matthew 24:34 itself contains a “contextual inaccuracy” which must be corrected.
There it is.
The whole issue has finally been dragged into daylight.
Jesus says:
“THIS generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.”
And your answer is effectively:
“You can't understand that statement by reading what Jesus actually said according to the normal meaning of the words. First you must accept my chronology, my equations, my definitions of generations/ages/days, my historical calculations, and my correction of the text's apparent meaning.”
That is
not explaining Jesus.
That's putting a system between the reader and Jesus and then requiring Jesus to speak through the system.
And by Jack's own stated standard, if changing God's Word rather than submitting to it is “satanic,” then that standard doesn't suddenly stop applying when the alteration comes wrapped in chronology, mathematics, and prophetic terminology.
That standard cuts both ways.
You can't accuse other people of correcting Christ and then turn around and tell us that
Christ's own sentence requires correction before we're allowed to understand what He meant.
That's the very thing under dispute.
Genesis 15:16 says:
“in the fourth generation.”
It does
not say:
“A biblical generation is 1,024 solar years.”
Exodus 20:5 speaks of:
“the third and fourth generation.”
It does
not say:
“generation = age = Day of the Lord = 1,024 solar years.”
Those equations are yours.
Jesus
never gives them.
Jesus never tells His disciples:
“When I say ‘this generation,’ do not understand the expression as you normally would. Instead, calculate thousands of years from Isaac, convert generations into prophetic ages, identify those ages with Days of the Lord, construct a chronology reaching into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, correct the conventional meaning of my words, and you will eventually discover that I am actually speaking about people living thousands of years after you.”
He never says anything remotely like that.
That instruction doesn't exist.
And the context makes the problem worse, not better.
Jesus says in Matthew 23:36:
“Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon THIS generation.”
Then what happens?
He immediately leaves the Temple.
He predicts the destruction of that Temple.
His disciples ask Him about it.
And He begins speaking directly to them about what
they will hear, what
they will see, what
they will experience, and when
they should flee!
Then Luke makes the audience relationship almost painfully explicit:
Luke 21:20
“When
YE shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies…”
Not: “When people 2,000 years from now see…”
Not: “When the 1,024-year prophetic generation eventually arrives…”
Not: “When a mathematical reconstruction finally identifies the proper age…”
YE.
Then:
Luke 21:31
“When
YE see these things come to pass…”
And then:
Luke 21:32
“Verily I say unto you,
THIS generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.”
There's the chain.
YOU see Jerusalem surrounded.
YOU see these things happening.
THIS generation will not pass until all is fulfilled.
That's what the text actually gives us.
Against that, you've supplied an enormous private chronological reconstruction and then announced that the ordinary meaning of Christ's own words
can't be trusted because Matthew 24:34 contains a
“contextual inaccuracy” requiring correction.
Do you understand how serious that claim is?
You were asked to produce a statement from Jesus supporting your definition.
Instead, you produced a system that requires us to
reinterpret Jesus before Jesus is allowed to speak.
And then you wrote:
“All that I have done is placed Christ in His righteous place in our understanding of Him and His works.”
No.
Christ does not need you, me, a chronology, a prophecy chart, a mathematical reconstruction, or anybody else to
“place” Him into His proper position.
Christ speaks.
Our systems submit.
Not the other way around.
If your chronology conflicts with the ordinary force of Christ's words, then the burden is on
the chronology.
You don't get to declare Christ's statement contextually defective and then congratulate yourself for putting Christ back where He belongs.
The chronology has to bow to Christ.
Christ does not bow to the chronology.
So after all the calculations, all the solar years, all the generations/ages/days, all the dates, and all the claims about translation problems, we arrive right back where we started:
WHERE DID JESUS SAY THAT “THIS GENERATION” MEANS A 1,024-YEAR PROPHETIC AGE?
Book.
Chapter.
Verse.
Because:
“I studied the entire Bible and constructed a system which tells me Jesus' words must mean something different from what they naturally communicate”
is not Jesus defining the expression.
It's not exegesis merely because the calculation is elaborate.
It's not Jesus speaking merely because Scripture was used to construct it.
And it's not submission to Christ if Christ's words must first be corrected to make the system survive.
That's you defining the expression for Him.
And until you can produce Jesus actually saying it, 1,024 years is your number. Not His.