THIS GENERATION by G. G. DUNHAM

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 30, 1869

THIS GENERATION.

By G. G. DUNHAM

It is supposed by some that the Saviour's words in Matthew xxiv, 34, have reference only to the generation to whom he was then speaking, and that the signs just mentioned in the preceding verses, were signs only of the destruction of Jerusalem. Now although there is Scripture enough, it seems to me, to convince any one that these signs are signs of the end, and that our Saviour's words have reference to the last generation, the very generation that sees these signs, we have other testimony which goes to show that such is the fact.

These signs were to appear immediately after the tribulation of those days. Verse 29. The tribulation of those days was the Papal persecution of the saints down to about the middle of the 18th century. Jerusalem was destroyed in A. D. 70, yet neither Josephus nor Milman mentions any of these signs as preceding the destruction of that city.

Josephus mentions many other signs, attending that event; but not one of those spoken of by our Lord, are, so far as I have read, mentioned. The book of Revelation was written A. D. 96, twenty-six years after the destruction of Jerusalem. In chap. i, 1, it says that the things therein revealed must shortly come to pass. In chapter vi, 12, 13, the same signs are mentioned again, and in such close connection with the end of time, and so long after the destruction of Jerusalem, that our friends should quibble no more upon this point.

G. G. DUNHAM.

Jackson Co., Mich.