The Gospels record the words Jesus spoke to the generation of Israel that he had been sent to. In Matthew 24:30, he told his disciples of his coming. He indicated that his coming would happen immediately after they witnessed the Great Tribulation. “Then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven. And then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn. And they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory!”

Jesus told his disciples that his coming would happen before their generation passed!

Jesus then went on to make a solemn oath to his disciples, “Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled!”

What generation was he speaking of? Was it a generation of people thousands of years later?

No! It was the same generation that would witness the destruction of the ancient Jerusalem temple, which came to pass in 70AD!

They would live to see the coming of the Son of Man in the clouds of heaven.