Final Movements Will Be Rapid Ones. Part [3] 03/31/2025 Morning thought)

Luke 23: 27 And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him. 28 But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem weep not for me but weep for yourselves, and for your children.

Hence the reason why Jesus wept as he stood upon Mt olives, and with prophetic eye observed the dark days that lay ahead, not only for the chosen people, but also for persons who would be living during the time when the final conflict would take place. When you read in the Bible that Jesus wept, it was not for being sad about Lazarus because He was just about to raise Lazarus from the dead, so it would be irrelevant for Jesus to weep for him.

Jesus’ weeping was about being sorry for those who would reject His messiahship, and the consequence of their rejection of Him, in spite of the abundance of undeniably convincing evidence that was given to them. This He referred to when, as He hung on the cross, people mourned for Him. Thus, after the servant of The Lord describes all the gory details of what took place back then, under the Roman Titus, she then makes the following cryptic statement, which aught to be a cause for concern, to any rational thinking person who is studying end time prophecies.

[Great Controversy pp 88] The Savior's prophecy concerning the visitation of judgments upon Jerusalem is to have another fulfillment, of which that terrible desolation was but a faint shadow. In the fate of the chosen city we may behold the doom of a world that has rejected God's mercy and trampled upon his law. Dark are the records of human misery that earth has witnessed during its long centuries of crime. The heart sickens and the mind grows faint in contemplation. Terrible have been the results of rejecting the authority of Heaven. But a scene yet darker is presented in the revelations of the future.

Luke 23:29 For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.

May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!

Final Movements Will Be Rapid Ones. Part [2] 03/31/2025 Evening thought)

Luke 23:30 Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us. 31 For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?

[The Great Controversy pp 88] The long-suffering of God toward Jerusalem only confirmed the Jews in their stubborn impenitence. Then God withdrew his protection from them, and removed his restraining power from Satan and his angels, and the nation was left to the control of the leader she had chosen. Her children had spurned the grace of Christ, which would have enabled them to subdue their evil impulses, and now these became the conquerors. Satan aroused the fiercest and the most debased passions of the soul. Men did not reason; they were beyond reason.

Satan was at the head of the nation, and the highest civil and religious authorities were under his sway. The leaders of the opposing factions at times united to plunder and torture their wretched victims, and again they fell upon each other's forces, and slaughtered without mercy. Even the sanctity of the temple could not restrain their horrible ferocity. The worshipers were stricken down before the altar, and the sanctuary was polluted with the bodies of the slain.

Yet in their blind and blasphemous presumption the instigators of this hellish work publicly declared that they had no fear that Jerusalem would be destroyed, for it was God's own city. To establish their power more firmly, they bribed false prophets to proclaim, even while Roman legions were besieging the temple, that the people were to wait for deliverance from God. To the last, multitudes held fast to the belief that the Most High would interpose for the defeat of their adversaries. But Israel had spurned the divine protection, and now she had no defense.

Mark 13:And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here! 2 And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!