Globalization has been on the the UN agenda for many decades.
Jesus didn't lie. You misinterpret what he said. The "generation" that Jesus spoke about are the ones who will rule with him in heaven. All of the first Christians were of that group, taken into the new covenant....but he also foretold that an apostasy would take place. "Weeds" of false Christianity would be sown in the world by the devil, "while men were sleeping", in order to take worship away from the true God once again. The ones who were holding back that apostasy were the apostles. Once they had passed away, (sleeping in death) the apostasy would gain momentum until the counterfeit was the only "Christianity" in existence. Christendom was born and took over to cultivate more weeds like themselves.
The choosing of that "generation" went into a sort of hiatus until the "time of the end" when God would cleanse a people and return them to true worship. (Daniel 12:9-10) Once again, there would be genuine Christians who would qualify for positions in the Kingdom. That "generation" did not pass away. Many of them are still with us.
The Revelation was written well after the fall of Jerusalem, so its outworking was yet future. The prophesy given to his disciples by Jesus in Matthew 24:3-14 had an initial fulfillment in the fall of Jerusalem, but Jesus took it further and applied it to his second coming. This prophesy has two separate fulfillments at two different times in history. The first was nothing compared to what is about to be unleashed on this earth in our time. The first fulfillment was local.....the next one is global. (Matthew 24:21)
After describing the destruction of the Temple and indeed the fall of the whole Jewish system, the disciples asked...
“Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your presence and of the conclusion of the system of things?”
4 In answer Jesus said to them: “Look out that nobody misleads you, 5 for many will come on the basis of my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will mislead many. 6 You are going to hear of wars and reports of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for these things must take place, but the end is not yet.
7 “For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be food shortages and earthquakes in one place after another. 8 All these things are a beginning of pangs of distress.
9 “Then people will hand you over to tribulation and will kill you, and you will be hated by all the nations on account of my name. 10 Then, too, many will be stumbled and will betray one another and will hate one another. 11 Many false prophets will arise and mislead many; 12 and because of the increasing of lawlessness, the love of the greater number will grow cold. 13 But the one who has endured to the end will be saved. 14 And this good news of the Kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come."
1914 saw the greatest war in the history of mankind...."nation against nation and kingdom against kingdom" the FIRST World War. Food shortages followed as well as the Spanish flu epidemic that followed, taking more lives than the war did. It was just the beginning of pangs of distress as it was overshadowed by a second and more heinous Second World War. 1914 was the beginning of "the time of the end". No one knows when the end will come....but all indications are, that it will be soon. Trust has all but disappeared from the world and "love" along with it. Everyone is out for themselves.
The fall of Jerusalem taught us a lot about obedience to Christ's commands. Those who did not obey his instructions may have felt secure as time went on and nothing happened. The Christians had left everything they owned and fled to the mountains when the Romans withdrew for no apparent reason, allowing the Christians to flee......but some may have received word that after several years, the Romans had not come back. They may have been lured into returning to what they had left behind. If they did, then they would have been caught by surprise as the Romans under General Vespasian and his son, Titus laid siege to the city and destroyed it completely....finishing what Cestius Gallus had started 4 years before.
Inside the city, rival Jewish factions engaged in vicious struggles. The city's grain reserves were destroyed, the area surrounding the temple was leveled, and more than 20,000 Jews were killed. Vespasian delayed his advance toward Jerusalem, declaring: ‘God acts as a Roman general better than I can do; our enemies are destroying one another with their own hands.’
The Jews failed to accept their Messiah and paid the price. (Matthew 23:37-39) The destruction of the Temple forever changed the way that Jews worshiped. The Temple and its priesthood were the center of Jewish worship and the only place where sacrifices could be offered for their sins. God never commanded that the Temple be rebuilt.....and for good reason.
The apostle Paul explained why. (Acts 17:24) The literal Temple was a shadow of something grander and more spiritual than anything man could build.....the true Temple was in heaven and it is where those chosen to rule with Christ (the appointed High Priest) will carry out their priestly duties for redeemed mankind. They will clearly have earthly subjects. (Revelation 21:2-4)
No, sorry, not to me. The Bible is all I need and my own instructors have helped me to see the big picture very clearly. I have no unanswered questions. I don't wonder about anything.....its all written in God's word. "Food at the proper time". (Matthew 24:45)
