The Last Generation
Written in April, 2010
God’s Word reveals that “this generation” is the
Last Generation.
Israel was re-established as a nation in 1948. It is
then more than coincidence that Psalm 48, the Psalm that corresponds with 1948,
describes exactly what happened immediately following Israel’s Declaration of Independence.
For, lo, the kings
were assembled, they passed by together.
They saw it, and so
they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.
Fear took hold upon
them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
Thou breakest the
ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
As we have heard, so
have we seen in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God will
establish it for ever. Selah.
Psalm 48:4-8 KJV
Compare the statements made in these verses with the
actual history of what occurred in Israel in the last half of May, 1948, and
the summer of 1948.
Our God is amazing!
Give Him glory!
The Psalmist predicted these events some 3,000 years
in advance of their fulfillment. Glory to God! Praise the Lord!
Mark ye well her
bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation
following.
Psalm 48:13 KJV
In other words, the latter part of Psalm 48:13 in
the Hebrew text literally reads, “…..that ye may tell it to the last
generation.”
Since this Psalm talks about the re-establishment of
the nation of Israel, and the Lord was referring to the re-establishment of the
nation of Israel in “The Parable of the Fig Tree,” then isn’t it obvious that
the Psalmist and the Lord were both speaking about the same “generation? The
Psalmist, writing by Divine Inspiration, says that it is “the last generation.”
This truth is confirmed a second time in Psalm 78.
This Psalm corresponds with 1978, the year that Israel signed a “Peace Treaty”
with Egypt.
We will not hide them
from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord,
and His Strength, and His wonderful works that He hath done (78:4 KJV).
An exact same word is used in the Hebrew text that
is used in Psalm 48:13. “…..showing to the generation to come [acharon] the
praises of the Lord…..” In the literal Hebrew, “…..showing to the last generation…..”
This deals with the re-established nation of Israel, again confirms that “this
generation” mentioned by the Lord in the Parable of the Fig Tree is “the last
generation” in this present dispensation. Glory to God! Hallelujah! God’s
people [true believers] are soon going “home.”
I do not want any reader to misunderstand the truths
presented in these passages. The reference to “the last generation” in both of
these passages does not mean that there will be no future generations of
people. Such an idea would be totally contrary to God’s Covenant with Noah in
Genesis 9:8-12, and many other passages in God’s Word. According to God’s
inspired Word, there will be future “generations.”
The “last generation” referred to in Psalm 48:13 and
Psalm 78:4, and “this generation” in Matthew 24:34, then has to be understood
in the Light of God’s great “Plan of the Ages.”
Verily I say unto you,
This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled (KJV).
In His great plan, the Lord appointed six days
[6,000 years].
But, beloved, be not
ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years,
and a thousand years as one day.
2 Peter 3:8 KJV
For mankind to prove themselves capable of handling
all the affairs of man upon the Earth, as they labor upon the Earth. (See
Exodus 20:9-11, 23:12, 31:15, 34:21, 35:2, Leviticus 23:3, and Deuteronomy
5:13-14).
In these 6,000 years the only thing mankind has
proven, is that humanity is a total failure without the Presence and Leadership
of the Almighty God.
Now we are living in “the last generation” of the
“Dispensation of Grace”
If ye have heard of
the dispensation of the Grace of God which is given me to youward:
Ephesians 3:2 KJV
We are living in “the last generation” of “the times
of the Gentiles.
And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and
shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down
of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Luke 21:24 KJV
And, we are living in “the last generation” in which
man’s leadership shall prevail upon the Earth.
And in the days of
these kings shall the God of Heaven set up a Kingdom, which shall never be
destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall
break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
Dan 2:44 KJV
All future “generations” shall be under the direct
Leadership and Administration of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. Praise God!
Glory to God! Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!
“But thanks be to God,
which giveth us the Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians
15:57).
Hallelujah!