That was not my point. My point is that all the OT prophecies were not fulfilled at the first coming of Jesus Christ. I quoted Jesus saying in Luke 24 that his purpose for coning is to fulfill all (with the emphasis on all) those OT prophecies and a great number of them concerned fulfilling the Abrahamic Covenant, the Davidic covenant and the Palestinian (land) covenant. De 30. According to how I interpret these scriptures concerning this generation, which is literally, God is working out the plans for his rule over the earth through this generation cycle of the Jewish nation.
Ga 4:4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Time is a most important element when discerning truth.
What we call the NT scriptures has much in them about the prophecies of the OT scriptures and Jesus ruling of earth but the OT scriptures has nothing spoken plainly about the church of Jesus Christ. These truths are new revelations and new and separate truths concerning an age that is missing from the OT, an age we call the church age and the Bible calls the dispensation of the grace of God. The church and their particular promises are call the "mysteries of God" and require revelation from God to understand them. The natural man cannot understand them we are told in 1 Corinthians 2. 13-14. Because of their stubborn rejection of their King, Jesus Christ, concerning his kingdom, he has graciously received the few believers in his person, the son of God, on a one on one "family" basis rather than a national basis, along with every gentile on the planet. This would in no way cancel any one of his unconditional covenants he has made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and David. All those prophecies that lack fulfillment will be fulfilled exactly as they are given.
The death of the generation charged to receive the kingdom of God by receiving Jesus Christ took place in the 12th chapter of Matthew when the rulers on behalf of the nation committed the unpardonable sin. They, would die before the kingdom as those who refused to go into the rest of God under Moses, (see He 3). The Hebrews in Asia Minor, the strangers and pilgrims, would have secured the kingdom except for the interference of the Judaizers who persuaded them to return to the law of Moses as the means of their salvation. The nation lost it's identity with a national dispersion., the temple destroyed, and the people of God, Israel, were as gentiles and will be until the church is removed by the gathering of the church into heaven, a mystery not understood by a strict intellectual approach to the scriptures.
God interrupted his generation with death when time does not pass until he brings it back to life, first physically and then spiritually.
Ps 115:15 Ye are blessed of the Lord which made heaven and earth.
16 The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord's: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
17 The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence.
18 But we will bless the Lord from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the Lord.
