How Long Is A Generation?

[ranrae]

Hello All,
  I am doing some personal research and have a question. Can someone please tell me, about how long a generation is? According to the Bible, it could be 40,60,70,80 or 100 years. Can someone come close to the right number for me?


God Bless!
Randy

[gmik]

Hi and welcome!

I always thought it was grandparent, parent, child= 3 generations.

I think different cultures count it differently also.  I have never seen anything that states biblically tho.  I know some of our posters will help out.  There is a lot of wisdom and smarts on this forum, and especially love!! Again, welcome.

[ranrae]

Hi and welcome!

I always thought it was grandparent, parent, child= 3 generations.

I think different cultures count it differently also.  I have never seen anything that states biblically tho.  I know some of our posters will help out.  There is a lot of wisdom and smarts on this forum, and especially love!! Again, welcome.

That is not what I mean. I want to know how many years are in a generation.
Thank You any way!
Randy

[chumkin]

Hi and welcome!

I always thought it was grandparent, parent, child= 3 generations.

I think different cultures count it differently also.  I have never seen anything that states biblically tho.  I know some of our posters will help out.  There is a lot of wisdom and smarts on this forum, and especially love!! Again, welcome.

That is not what I mean. I want to know how many years are in a generation.
Thank You any way!
Randy

you want to know what a generation according to the bible?

which era?


remembering this too;

generation can mean:

tribe.
nation.
offspring.
age.
the whole multitude of men living at the same time .
an age (i.e. the time ordinarily occupied be each successive generation), a space of 30 - 33 years .


  lots more,

be well
peace
chumps

[buddyjc]

A generation can mean a certain class of people such as 'the righteous' or 'wicked generation.' 

Brian

[lilitalienboi16]

Hello All,
  I am doing some personal research and have a question. Can someone please tell me, about how long a generation is? According to the Bible, it could be 40,60,70,80 or 100 years. Can someone come close to the right number for me?


God Bless!
Randy

Hi randy, i saved this post by another forum member. I can't remember who made it so i can't give him the credit he deserves but here was his post.

Hi all---------------

As every one here on the BT forum  knows,the bible is inerrant,the perfect Word of God.There are no mistakes to be found within it's pages,so when we come across statements that seem to be inaccurate,that stick out,you can believe that there is a reason and significance that was planned by the book's inspirer---God.The same is true for any mathematics and accounting in the text.With that in mind lets look at something...........

Matt 1:17 "So all the generations from Abraham to David are FOURTEEN generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are FOURTEEN
generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon into CHRIST are FOURTEEN generations."

Now if you take out your bible and read the names you will find that something is amiss.We should end up with 42 generations with Christ being the 42nd name on the list.But He isn't.Christ is infact number 41.There is one generation missing.So who is number 42?Who is THIS generation?Who are Christ's decendents and bare His name?Listen Up CHRISTains I am talking about you.


Isaiah 53;8-10 "He was taken from prison and from judgment: and WHO SHALL DECLARE HIS GENERATION? for He was cut off out of the land of the living: for the
transgression of my people was He stricken. And He made His grave with the wicked, and with the rich in His death; because He had done no violence, neither
was any deceit in His mouth. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him, He hath put Him to grief, when thou shalt make His soul an offering for sin, HE SHALL
SEE HIS SEED, HE SHALL PROLONG HIS DAYS, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand."


Psalm22:30-31 ''A seed shall serve Him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for A GENERATION. They shall come, and shall DECLARE HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS unto a people
that shall be born, that He hath done this."


I Peter 2:9 . . . "BUT YE ARE A CHOSEN GENERATION, a royal
priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of Him who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous light."


Now here is the icing on the cake-----Rev.11:15----"And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of OUR LORD AND OF HIS CHRIST; and He shall reign forever and ever."


Now if Jesus is LORD then WHO is His Christ?-------Psalms 2--"Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord,
and against His anointed (Christ), saying, Let us break THEIR bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh; the
Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. Yet have I set my king upon my HOLY HILL
OF ZION. I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, THOU ART MY SON: this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the
heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. THOU SHALT BREAK THEM WITH A ROD OF IRON: THOU SHALT
DASH THEM IN PIECES LIKE A POTTER'S VESSEL."

The annointed,the overcomer,the few,the chosen,the body  OF CHRIST----this is the 42nd generation 

Now i remember, the post was made by "Knuckle"

Hope this helps alittle,

God bless,

Alex

[gmik]

  Wow.  Glad you brought this back up again.  Very cool.