The Work of Christ
Pan-Generational ; Personal & Internal

Matthew 16:27-28 is Not About AD70 "Why would we expect the Lord to perform his acts of power and glory just once — be it in the past or the future? What good does that do all the other generations?  It seems to me that all prophecy ultimately finds its accomplishment in Christ internally and personally, as opposed to externally and historically. Even the cross must be received, and each follower must bear it as Jesus said."
 

Milton S. Terry (1904)

"The regeneration and spiritual elevation of mankind are not effected in a moment of time, nor are human hearts, with all their emotions and intelligence, the creation of an instantaneous act of omnipotence. A human spirit, possessed of intellect, feelings, and the freedom of moral action, is not changed from darkness to light or from light to darkness by any sudden and arbitrary exercise of divine power. In accordance with these facts we shall find that the self-revelation of God is a process running through ages and generations.

The great truths of incarnation may be shown to have had from the beginning both cosmical and personal expression in many different ways." (Biblical Dogmatics, p. 20)