Hi GAMErs!
Today’s passage is Mark 13:28-37. Let’s go!
Mark 13:28-29 (NIV)
28 “Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near.
29 Even so, when you see these things happening, you know that it is near, right at the door.
On verses 28-29: “When you see these things happening”, Jesus says, “you know that it is near” (v29). What things? What’s near? For us today the significance of these words are this: When you see Jesus coming in the clouds in power and glory (v26) and God’s people being gathered to him (v27), you know the end is near.
Mark 13:30 (NIV)
30 I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.
On verse 30: “This generation” can be interpreted narrowly to mean the disciples and their contemporaries living at that time (see for example, Mark 8:12 and 9:19). Or “this generation” can be interpreted broadly to mean a group of people who come from one common ancestor, and thus “generation” here is sometimes translated “race” as in the human race.