David Mead's use of 'generation' and the founding of Israel (1948) as a prophetic countdown trigger

Mead builds target dates by stacking different 'generation' lengths from Scripture (120-year, 70-year, 40-year) and anchoring them to 1948 (Israel re-established as a nation). Mike rejects this as a misunderstanding of Jesus's words. He also notes it is always easy retrospectively to find a 'significant date' to anchor a number onto — the absence of interpretive rules allows any date to serve any purpose.