A PROPHETIC BIBICAL GENERATION AND THE END OF THE AGE

 Yahweh appears to work prophetically in 100 year time frames. This equals two complete Jubilee periods of 50 years. A person could live 100 years and experience two complete Jubilee cycles, but no person in modern times has lived for 150 years. A close reading of scripture seems to confirm that Yahweh is moving prophetically in segments of 100 years.

 Currently on Yahweh’s calendar we are in the year 5783/2023 since the creation of Adam. The fall feasts will move us in to year 5778 on Yahweh’s calendar. The prophetic calendar is based on the biblical genealogies since the creation of Adam until the present day. It is possible that in the past generations the rabbis have changed the calendar for various reasons anywhere from 75 to 200 years. I have seen writings about this but have not yet been able to confirm it.

 In any event, we are living in prophetic times. Working in 100 year segments can help us understand how Yahweh views the time frame of a human generation. Very few people live past one hundred years. Each fresh hundred year period is then the beginning of a new generation. Israel as we know it today officially became a nation in 1948. This may have significant meaning based on a generation being 100 years!

 In this post look at a generation as a three-fold family. This would be parents, their children, and their children’s children…Parents, kids, and grandparents. This would encompass approximately 100 years.

 Genesis 15:12-16 (King James Version)

And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. and he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. and thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. The Israelites came out of Egypt 430 years to the date. This was during the time of the fourth generation (hundred years each).

 Genesis 17:1, 17, 21

1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless. 17 Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, “Shall a child be born to a man who is one hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?”

21 But My covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this set time next year.”

God is starting a new generation with Isaac when Abraham was 100 years old, welcome to the new generation.

 Genesis 5:32 (New King James Version)

And Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 7:6-7 (New King James Version)

 Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters were on the earth. So Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood. Before the flood the last generation of earth was 100 years old, these being Noah's children born when Noah was 500 years old. When they (Noah's children ) came out of the ark a new generation would be born. The children of Noah's children. The beginning of the next generation.

 Genesis 15:16

Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.” The Lord was telling Abraham that after 400 years (four generations) they would leave Egypt.

 THE FIG TREE IS ISRAEL

Hosea 9:10 - I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first fruits on the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal Peor, and separated themselves to that shame; They became an abomination like the thing they loved.

 Jeremiah 24:1-9 The LORD showed me, and there were two baskets of figs set before the temple of the LORD, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah…One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs which could not be eaten, they were so bad. Then the LORD said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “Figs, the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad.”…Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: ‘Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge those who are carried away captive from Judah, whom I have sent out of this place for their own good, into the land of the Chaldeans…‘And as the bad figs which cannot be eaten, they are so bad’—surely thus says the LORD—‘so will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, his princes, the residue of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt. I will deliver them to trouble….

 Matthew 24:36-39 (New King James Version)

“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.

 Summary

The word of God establishes a prophetic generation as 100 years. The coming of the Lord will be as the days of Noah. The word establishes Israel as the fig tree. Israel was established in 1948. Is the Lord coming in that generation? I am not saying the Lord is coming in 2048. He could come at any time during that generation which could be many years later. What I am saying is that we are living in the time of the end of the age. “No man knows the day.” The Lord, however, did tell us to watch and pray.

 Our three-fold family as stated at the beginning would therefore encompass the hundred years since the fig tree was restored. Only time and the playing out of current events will decide this issue. In any event we should be prepared for difficult times ahead.

Keep in mind that a Jubilee Year comes every 50 years. Therefore two Jubilees equal 100 years. Few people live to be 100 years old. Very few people within a group of people born within a 10 year span would surpass the 100 year two Jubilee cycle.

 Before the flood: "And the LORD said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” Gen 6.3

 After the flood: Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away. Ps 90.10 - The average of 120 and 80 = 100

Genesis 15:12-16 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. and he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. and thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

 The Israelites came out of Egypt during the time of the fourth generation.

 Matthew 24:32-34 (New King James Version)

The Parable of the Fig Tree

“Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near. So you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near—at the doors! Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place.