All the signs Jesus named to look for just before His return are here today!!! Are you ready to meet Jesus as your Lord and Savior OR as your final Judge??
The end days could not have started before our generation as the HUGE sign of the end days was Israel (God's fig tree)becoming a nation again after 2000 years May 14,1948 and Israel regaining control of Jerusalem July 1967 the generation that sees these signs will not pass away before the return of Jesus!! The only question is =how many years is a generation? some say aprox.52 years, some say 70 years some say 120 years because Moses lived to be 120 years old. I like the 52 years for a generation !!! So 1967 + 52 =2019 =the return of Jesus yet today or before the end of 2019 "if" there has been no calendar error!! PTL Are you ready?? Come quickly Lord Jesus!!
There in lies your problem. You have taken the Greek word "γενεὰ" and applied the meaning of "a descendant generation" whereas this same Greek word is used in Genesis 15:16 in the LXX as the translation of the Hebrew word "וְד֥וֹר", "wə·ḏō·wr" which only occurs twice in the OT according to the Biblehub.com, which tells us that this Hebrew word also occurs in Ecc 1:4. If we say, that Isaac, the first descendant of Abraham, was born in 2052 BC and the descendants of Abraham returned to the land of Canaan in 1948, then the time span is around 4,000 years. If this is the case, then a generation is more likely to be around 1,000 years in length than it is to be around 70, 80, 90, 100, 110 or 120 years in length.
I agree that Christ did indicate when the Millennium Age would begin with the Parable of the Fig Tree budding, but this parable is very dependant on the length of time of the Early or late spring. If an early spring is associated with the budding of the leaves of the fig tree, then the length of time between the leaves budding and the beginning of the Summer Season could be up to around 100 days which can then be considered to represent a 100 year duration. If, on the other hand, a Late spring occurs, then the length of time between the fig tree's leaves budding and the beginning of the Summer Season could be as short as 80 years in duration.
Because of this uncertainty of when the Fig Tree's leaves bud, around the time of the start of the Spring Season, all that we can be certain of is that the Millennium Age will begin in around 10-30 years from this present time.
A better indicator of when the Millennium Age begins, is when Christ comes for His Bride, a redeemed Israel, at the beginning of the Millennium Age. Israel will be redeemed when the 2,300 year time span of the heathen Gentiles trampling the sanctuary in Jerusalem Daniel 8:14 is fulfilled, Romans 11:25-26, when the Kings of the earth goes up to Armageddon Revelation, 16:12-16, to be judged, Isaiah 24:21-22, and Christ comes out to do battle with the Kings of the Earth, Revelation 19:11-16, and Israel, sitting on the sideline, in the grandstand so to speak, decide to seek the Warring King's terms of peace as Jesus suggested in Luke 14:31-32 parable.
So when Jesus was speaking of "this generation," in Matthew 24:34, he was referring to the length of time of the next age, which man has labelled as the "Millennium Age," when many of the things that He had spoken about would occur before the heavens and the earth would pass way but that His words would not pass away.
Has the sign of the Armies of the Kings of the world assembling together at Armageddon occurred yet? Revelation 16:12-16 has partly been fulfilled, but the drawing of the Kings of the earth to assemble their armies at Armageddon is presently being work out and it is a near future event within the next 10-30 years.
Presently we are in the time of Jacob's tribulation troubles of the visitation of the iniquities of the fathers during the first two ages of Israel's existence is still being visited upon their children and their children's children in the third and the fourth (age) which still has around 10-30 years yet to run before it is complete.
The above, is why I asked the question, "Really, are you sure you have it right yet?", because we have had people suggesting that the year of the end of this present age will occur going back to the early 1900's up and including the latest time of 2018. How many times did Harold Camping predict the year in which this present age would end?
If I focus on the rapture, the escape "clause" for being refined, then I will not be focused on the work that Christ has for me to do as set out in Isaiah 58 which tells us that when the Sabbath Day for all of mankind comes, that we will enter into that "Day of the Lord/Age" and that we must do all the things that keep it Holy.
Many of the rapturist people believe that they can do that by lording over the peoples of the earth when they "return with the Lord to rule over the people of the earth." What I do not hear is a servants heart in their theological understanding of the end days.
Shalom