Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Luke 19

For those who think that the God of the Old Testament (His wrath and punishment for evil and it's doers) disappeared with Jesus in the New Testament, read Luke 19:41-44:

"When He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it, saying, 'If you had known in this day, even you, the things which make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes. For the days will come upon you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, and surround you and hem you in on every side, and they will level you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.'"

"This is precisely the method used by Titus when he laid siege to Jerusalem in A.D. 70. He surrounded the city on Apr. 9 cutting off all supplies and trapping thousands of people who had been in Jerusalem for the Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread (just completed). The Romans systematically built embankments around the city, gradually starving the city's inhabitants. The Romans held the city in this manner through the summer, defeating various sections of the city one by one. The final overthrow of the city occurred in early Sept.
Jerusalem's utter destruction was divine judgment for their failure to recognize and embrace their Messiah when He visited them." John MacArthur study notes.

Also, along the lines of Christ's deity: As Christ was entering Jerusalem, "...the whole crowd of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with  a loud voice for all the miracles which they had seen, shouting, 'Blessed is the King who comes in the Name of the Lord; Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!' Some of the pharisees in the crowd said to Him, 'Teacher, rebuke Your disciples.' But Jesus answered, 'I tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out!'" v. 37-40

I love that!

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