The blood of all the prophets may be charged against THIS GENERATION

[tonychanyt]

Jesus spoke on "this generation" 6 times in Luke 11:

29 When the crowds were increasing, he began to say, “This generation is an evil generation. It seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah. 30For as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so will the Son of Man be to this generation.

This evil generation would witness Jesus' sacrifice on the cross.

31 The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here. 32 The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.

This was an evil generation. Focusing on the Pharisees:

42 But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

And focusing on the lawyers:

46 And he said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load people with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers. 47Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed. 48So you are witnesses and you consent to the deeds of your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their tombs. 49Therefore also the Wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,’ 50so that the blood of all the prophets, shed from the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation,

Why this generation? What's so special about this generation?

51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.

Why did this generation have to pay for all their father's sins?

Actually, I don't think Jesus meant exactly that. Jesus meant that he was the one who would pay for all their sins. This was the generation that would witness the Son of God dying on the cross.

In another sense, this generation paid for their father's sins when Jerusalem and the temple were destroyed in 70 CE.

 

[Aaron112]

Now, today, is very much appearing as what happened in Noah's time,
and the children, the offspring, of most of the world are led in darkness and raised in darkness and rarely are brought into LIGHT, if ever.