
If you were born in 1997, read Lincoln saying in 1861, “when this generation has passed away,” and then insisted with a straight face that Lincoln meant YOU standing here in 2026, the problem would no longer be interpretation. It would be that some outside system had so thoroughly colonized your reading that ordinary language could no longer reach you.
That's exactly what you're doing to Christ’s words when you drag “this generation” two thousand years into the future without a single verse authorizing it. At that point, the text is no longer being interpreted. It's being overruled by the system.