How long is a Biblical Generation?

[Siena]

How many years long is a Biblical generation?

 

[NotWorthy]

How many years long is a Biblical generation?

I think it’s typically 40 years. God said that Israel would wander the desert till this generation passes - 40 years.

Jesus said that Jerusalem would be destroyed before this generation passes - 40 years.

In Judges, the tribes tended to follow the Lord for about 40 years before they turned away from God.

 

[exoflare]

I think it’s typically 40 years. God said that Israel would wander the desert till this generation passes - 40 years.

Jesus said that Jerusalem would be destroyed before this generation passes - 40 years.

In Judges, the tribes tended to follow the Lord for about 40 years before they turned away from God.

Is it also the same when Jesus speaks of a “generation”?

 

[NotWorthy]

Is it also the same when Jesus speaks of a “generation”?

Yes, around 30AD Jesus spoke of the destruction of Jerusalem. He said, “All this shall happen before this generation comes to pass” (I’m paraphrasing, sorry, I’m lazy tonight).

Jerusalem was destroyed in 70AD by the Romans, just as Jesus prophecied.

 

[Mystophilus]

How many years long is a Biblical generation?

Genesis 15:16 refers to ‘four generations’ for a period of 400 years. I cannot think of anything else which is specific for time, sorry.

 

[Daniel_Marsh]

Hal Lindsey in his Late Great Planet Earth book, set a generation at 40 years. He basically set a date for the end of the world in 1988 using the re-establishment of Isreal in 1948 as the beginning of the end. Since, 1988 went by and we are still here, many dispensationalists now set a generation to be 60 years, making 2008 the next failed prophecy. I expect based on Genesis 6:3 they will make a generation be 120 years next. Other dispensationalists have already back peddelled making a generation 70-80 years.

From Late Great Planet Earth book,

“When the signs just given begin to multiply and increase in scope it’s similar to the certainty of leaves coming off the fig tree. But the most important sign in Matthew has to be the restoration of the Jews to the land in the rebirth of Israel. Even the figure of speech ‘fig tree’ has been a historic symbol of national Israel. When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the ‘fig tree’ put forth its first leaves.
Jesus said that this would indicate that He was ‘at the door,’ ready to return. Then he said, ‘Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.’ (Matthew 24:34 NASB).
What generation? Obviously, in context, the generation that would see the signs – chief among them the rebirth of Israel. A generation in the Bible is something like forty years. If this is a correct deduction, then within forty years or so of 1948, all these things could take place. Many scholars who have studied the Bible all their lives believe that this is so.” pp.53-54.

geocities.com/Athens/Agora/3958/hal1.htm
biblicalperspectives.com/books/jigsaw_puzzle/1.html
apologeticsindex.org/l38.html

The current arguments for ?? years are,

A generation did not necessarily have a specific number of years. Genesis 15:13-16 apparently equates 400 years with four generations, thus 100 years per generation. **Numbers 32:11-13 may reckon a generation as 60 years, **it including people twenty and above and giving them forty more years to die. Or one may interpret this to mean a generation is the forty years of adulthood between ages 20 and 60. God promised Jehu his sons would rule to the fourth generation, apparently meaning four sons (2 Kings 10:30; 2 Kings 15:12). Jehu began ruling about 841 B.C., his first son Jehoahaz about 814 B.C. and the fourth generation Zechariah died about 752 B.C. The five generations ruled less than 90 years, while the four sons’ generations ruled about 60 years. This is reducing a generation to a quite small number. After his tragedies Job lived 140 years and saw four generations (Job 42:16). This would make a generation about 35 years. Basically, generation is not a specific number of years but a more or less specific period of time. (Compare Job 8:8; Isaiah 51:9.) The literal Hebrew expression “generation and generation” thus means through all generations or forever (Psalms 49:11). Similarly, “to your (his, their) generations” means forever (Numbers 10:8).

studylight.org/dic/hbd/view.cgi?number=T2239

For example, of the generation then living in Moses’ day, none of that entire generation then living - from 20 years and above - was to be allowed to enter the promised land. They were 40 years in the wilderness. So that generation was at least 60 years. The present living generation is probably longer. So UNDERSTAND! Jesus came with the GOSPEL (GOOD NEWS) ANNOUNCING the future coming of the KINGDOM OF GOD, immediately after He had QUALIFIED to replace the former super archangel Lucifer (Satan) on the throne at that time.

revelationsofthebible.com/BibleGeneration.htm

Additional Views On Life Span

Additional views for the life span of man (i.e., the length of a generation) include 100, 80, 70, 60, 50, and 20 years. A more recent theory divides the 2166 years from Abraham’s birth to the birth of Christ by the 42 generations listed in Matthew chapter 1 to give a generation length of 51.57 years. Due to space limitations, these views will not be discussed except for the 70-80 year generation concept.

raptureready.com/rap101.html

 

[Siena]

Thanks!!!