Matthew 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that kills the prophets, and stones them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not! 38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
The servant of The Lord in commenting on the close of probation for the Hebrews writes the following, and we must of necessity observe carefully what is being said concerning the state of mind that gripped the nation. We will see that with the demise of their reasoning powers the close of their probation is also closely linked.
[The Great Controversy pp 88] The long-suffering of God toward Jerusalem only confirmed the Jews in their stubborn impenitence. Satan aroused the fiercest and most debased passions of the soul. Men did not reason; they were beyond reason.
The same situation obtained with the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah whose close of probation was closely associated with the utter dissolution of their reasoning powers. For instance, when the angels smote the crowd that was gathered at Lot’s front door with blindness, that singular providence should have been sufficient to arrest any reasonable thinking person in their tracks but because the damage to their minds was already done, they had now crossed over into never land, and the rest is history.
Genesis 19:11 And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
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