There was nothing in all of Jesus Christs words to inspire the disciples to ask about events 2,000 years into their future. Jesus did not proceed to speak about our day in 2003. All that He spoke about in Matthew chapter 21 through Chapter 24 was the implications of Jerusalems rejection of His triumphal entry, and how the kingdom would go to another nation, while Jerusalem would be judged. When He walked into the temple the day they rejected Him, and looked, only to find no welcome of praise for Him, He left and cursed a fig tree for having many leaves, but no fruit to receive (Mark 11:11-14). That fig tree was Israel. And she had all the trappings, like leaves, of religious activity, without the actual fruit of praise and godly servitude to the Lord. Israel was cursed by Jesus Christ. Their house would soon be left desolate, as a result. He looked back to women of Jerusalem, weeping for Him as He carried His cross up Calvarys hill (Luke 23:28-30). And He told them to weep for themselves and for their children -- that generation. He said the days would come when they would call for the rocks and mountains to cover them. This was the very picture noted in the sixth seal of Revelation 6:16! Why does the Book of Revelation speak so much about the judgment upon Israel for rejecting Him in the days of His revelation? Simply realize that the Lord spent many parables and discussions concerning that very issue in the Gospels! He is simply being consistent in both the Gospels and the Revelation. Revelation shows two contrasting groups of people who accepted Him and were blessed, or rejected Him and were cursed. Christ brought a New Jerusalem into existence. A New Israel. A New Temple, called the Church, comprised of both Jews and Gentiles born again, losing their Gentile and Jewish states, and made a new nation altogether! He even told the resisting Pharisees that if the people praising Him during His triumphal entry should cease, the stones would cry out. He meant that there would be a new temple comprised of lively stones, from amongst the quarries of the good and the bad, and the halt and the lame, who would accept Him (1 Pet. 2:5, 9). And this new temples stones of the souls of precious people born-again, would become a house of God built up and inhabited by Jesus, Himself, showing forth His praises!
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 01:21:56 +0000
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