39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
It is ambivalent as to the exact meaning. So I personally cannot say it is X or Y or Z .
The generation means two things. A genea is a blood lineage. A generation is also a period of time.
The blood lineage is clearly the Levites, (or the Levites + Jews & Benjamites)
The fig tree is actually the symbol of Levi, so let's say it is Levites.
What does "and to your children, to all that are afar off" mean? Again, ambivalent. It means both the House of Israel, and surely also means the future generations of Jews.....
Save yourselves from this untoward generation clearly has a primary urgent meaning of "save yourselves from the 70th week, (AD 67-73)."
40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
It is ambivalent as to the exact meaning. So I personally cannot say it is X or Y or Z .
The generation means two things. A genea is a blood lineage. A generation is also a period of time.
The blood lineage is clearly the Levites, (or the Levites + Jews & Benjamites)
The fig tree is actually the symbol of Levi, so let's say it is Levites.
What does "and to your children, to all that are afar off" mean? Again, ambivalent. It means both the House of Israel, and surely also means the future generations of Jews.....
Save yourselves from this untoward generation clearly has a primary urgent meaning of "save yourselves from the 70th week, (AD 67-73)."
"A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas."
"O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh."
The phrase you ask about concerning the promise to the true believers and to their children and unto all that are afar off, is a phrase meaning all the true believers in Christ have this promise of life in Christ. The term 'afar off' is used to describe all over the earth where true believers are allowed to hear the gospel unto salvation, and particularly as they have escaped the spiritual downfall of congregations of the church age, typified by Babylon. "Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come."
"And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things."
"And came and preached peace to you which were afar off"
"remember the LORD afar off"
and so forth