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Mat 12:38 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.
NIV Matthew 12:39 He answered, "A wicked and adulterous generation [geneav] asks for a miraculous sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet JonahBR>
Did you ignore the preceeding verse? It was His contemporaries who asked for the sign!!
NIV Hebrews 3:9 where your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did. 10 That is why I was angry with that generation, and I said, 'Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.'

Again the preceeding verse gave you the 40 year clue. He said that is why He was angry with that generation.
NIV Acts 13:36 "For when David had served God's purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep; he was buried with his fathers and his body decayed.
David served his purpose for God in his own (contemporaries) generation/geneav.

Thanks for letting me prove my point. There is NOT ONE place geneav is used as a "race" or "nation". That word is Gennema (or gennehma). NOT GENEAV.

Mat 24:32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: Mat 24:33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see allthese thingsow that it is near, even at the doors.

He is saying the signe are the key for them to know when it is coming.

Mat 24:34 Verily I say unto you, This generation [geneav] shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

He followed it as He always did as in Matt16:28, Luke 21:32, Matt 23:36, etc.
He followed it, so they would make no mistake, that their generation, geneav, would see it. Him using geneav, not gennehma, is how we can know this to be true!!!

And they did NOT mistake it.

Heb 1:1 In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets; Heb 1:2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.

The writer differentiated the times, the times of the prophets and hie present time, the last days!

1Jo 2:18 Children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come; therefore we know that it is the last hour

John knew it too!