Not yet, that happens at the very end after the anti-christ comes to rule the entire world. Claiming to be Christ. When the two witness start to testify and the elect hear that voice, they are delivered up. This is what this is talking about.
The last generation started in 1948, when the fig tree was set out. Juda is the fig tree. A biblical generation lasts 120 years. What is called Israel is just the tribe of Juda. The house of Israel was taken into Assyrian captivity and last seen moving north through the Caucasus mountains into Europe so the prophecy of Ephriam and Manassa could be fulfilled.
With one becoming many nations and one becoming a great nation.
16 Behold, I am sending you out like sheep in the midst of wolves; be [ c]wary and wise as serpents, and be innocent (harmless, guileless, and [ d]without falsity) as doves.
17 Be on guard against men [whose [ e]way or nature is to act in opposition to God]; for they will deliver you up to councils and flog you in their synagogues,
18 And you will be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a witness to bear testimony before them and to the Gentiles (the nations).
19 But when they deliver you up, do not be anxious about how or what you are to speak; for what you are to say will be given you in that very hour and [ f]moment,
20 For it is not you who are speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
21 Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child; and children will take a stand against their parents and will have them put to death.
22 And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake, but he who perseveres and endures to the end will be saved [[ g]from spiritual disease and death in the world to come]. |
