34 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.35 Look, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’[b]”
As we approach Easter Sunday, this section catches my attention. Don't you think it's strange that Jerusalem is considered to be the Holy city, and yet the most horrible atrocities happen there? It is the "temple"....and yet so many of the holy-est have been killed there? The obvious one is Jesus, but wasn't Stephen stoned outside of Jerusalem? So much hated and evil in a place that is considered to be the center of the world's religion.
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it is strange, maybe a battle ground for the devil to try to attack because of the potential for him if he was successful?
ReplyDelete24 “Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.
Also on this Easter remembering there is only one path to Heaven. Nothing we can do, only by his Grace through Jesus can we enter his kingdom forever.
knut