There is no sequence/chronology issue, it's been manufactured.
Luke 21:20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
Luke 21:29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees;
Luke 21:30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.
Luke 21:32 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.
Jerusalem was surrounded by the Roman armies in the 1st century destruction, that is the generation than lived to see the signs which would not pass away till all was fulfilled. it's really simple.
Greetings KT88!
"This generation" is directly linked to the generation that begins to see the signs mentioned in Matt.24, which haven't taken place yet.
* No seven year covenant was made
* No abomination was set up in the temple before it was destroyed
In addition, you would have to include all of the seals, trumpets and bowl judgments as taking place prior to Jesus return to end the age as well and those certainly haven't take place.
The key to understanding when all this is going to happen is found in the disciples question, "what will be the sign of your coming and the end of the age?"
The end of the age is where Jesus returns to the earth to end this present age and establish his millennial kingdom. Regarding this event Matthew 24:30 states that all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man arriving on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And regarding that same event Rev.1:7 says that every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. So shall it be! Amen. Consequently, there is no record of Jesus arriving on the clouds of heaven, nor the angels going out and gathering the elect. And you can't apply an allegory or symbolism here, because Jesus visual return on the clouds of heaven was the proof that He gave in being able to recognize the false Messiah's from the real one. Therefore, His arrival on the clouds and every eye seeing Him, must take place.
Luke may have been speaking about the event of the destruction of the temple and information regarding the end of the age, which as we know are at least 2000 years apart.
When Jesus said, "This generation will not pass away until all these events have taken place," He was not talking about His generation, but the one where those signs begin to appear:
Fig tree and all the trees blossoming = Summer it near
All of these events = End of the age is near
Jesus mentions the second and third seals as being apart of those signs:
Matthew 24:7 - Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.
Sixth Seal - And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.
Matthew 24:7 - There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Third Seal - When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “Two pounds of wheat for a day’s wages, and six pounds of barley for a day’s wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine.
If seals 2 and 3 are mentioned, then all of the seals, trumpets and bowl judgments, which are not mentioned in detail in Matthew, are those events that must take place before the Lord can return to the earth. And the world has certainly not seen those.
In addition to all of this, Jesus promise to gather His church, is to the entire church from beginning to until the resurrection, which ends the church period. However, seeing that the church is still here on earth being built, also demonstrates that the Lord has not yet come.
