Peering down the ages, he saw the agreement individuals dispersed in each land, "similar to wrecks on a desert shore." In the fleeting reprisal going to fall upon her youngsters, he saw yet the primary draft from that cup of anger which at the last Judgment she should deplete to its residue. Divine pity, longing love, discovered expression in the distressed words: "'O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how regularly would I have accumulated thy youngsters together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under the care of her, and ye would not!'Oh that thou, a country supported over each other, hadst known the hour of thy appearance, and the things that have a place unto thy harmony! I have remained the blessed messenger of equity, I have called thee to contrition, yet to no end. It isn't just workers, agents, and prophets, whom thou hast cannot and dismissed, however the Holy One of Israel, thy Redeemer. In the event that thou craftsmanship crushed, thou alone workmanship capable. 'Ye won't come to me, that ye may have life.'"
Christ found in Jerusalem an image of the world solidified in unbelief and resistance, and rushing on to meet the retributive decisions of God. The troubles of a fallen race, squeezing upon his spirit, constrained from his lips that surpassing harsh cry. He saw the record of wrongdoing followed in human wretchedness, tears, and blood; his heart was moved with boundless pity for the distressed and enduring ones of earth; he longed to mitigate them all. However, even his hand probably won't turn around the tide of human trouble; few would look for their lone wellspring of help. He was eager to spill out his spirit unto passing, to bring salvation inside their span; yet few would come to him that they may have life.
The Majesty of Heaven in tears! the Son of the endless God pained in soul, bowed down with misery! The scene filled all Heaven with amazement. That scene uncovers to us the surpassing evil of wrongdoing; it shows how hard an assignment it is, in any event, for boundless force, to spare the liable from the outcomes of violating the law of God. Jesus, peering down to the last age, saw the world associated with a duplicity like what caused the demolition of Jerusalem. The incredible sin of the Jews was their dismissal of Christ; the extraordinary sin of the Christian world would be their dismissal of the law of God, the establishment of his administration in Heaven and earth. The statutes of Jehovah would be detested and set at nothing. Millions in servitude to sin, captives of Satan, bound to endure the subsequent demise, would decline to tune in to the expressions of truth in their day of appearance. Horrible visual impairment! weird captivation!
Two days before the Passover, when Christ had for the last time left from the sanctuary, subsequent to condemning the false reverence of the Jewish rulers, he again went out with his followers to the Mount of Olives, and situated himself with them upon a lush slant sitting above the city. Again he looked at its dividers, its pinnacles, and its castles. Again he observed the sanctuary in its amazing wonder, a diadem of excellence delegated the consecrated mount.
1,000 years prior, the psalmist had amplified God's courtesy to Israel in creation her sacred house his abode: "In Salem additionally is his sanctuary, and his home in Zion." He "picked the clan of Judah, the Mount Zion which he cherished. Furthermore, he constructed his asylum like high royal residences." The principal sanctuary had been raised during the most prosperous time of Israel's set of experiences. Immense stores of fortune for this reason had been gathered by King David, and the designs for its development were made by divine motivation. Solomon, the most astute of Israel's rulers, had finished the work. This sanctuary was the most radiant structure which the world ever observed. However the Lord had proclaimed by the prophet Haggai, concerning the subsequent sanctuary, "The greatness of this last house will be more prominent than of the previous." "I will shake all countries, and the Desire, all things considered, will come; and I will fill this house with magnificence, saith the Lord of host."
After the demolition of the sanctuary by Nebuchadnezzar, it was remade around 500 years before the introduction of Christ, by a people who from a long lasting imprisonment had gotten back to a squandered and nearly abandoned nation. There were then among them matured men who had seen the brilliance of Solomon's sanctuary, and who sobbed at the establishment of the new structure, that it should be so second rate compared to the previous. The inclination that won is persuasively depicted by the prophet: "Who is gone out in her first wonder? also, how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in examination of it as nothing?" Then was given the guarantee that the greatness of this last house should be more prominent than that of the previous.
However, the subsequent sanctuary had not risen to the first in superbness; nor was it consecrated by those noticeable badge of the celestial presence which related to the primary sanctuary. There was no indication of otherworldly capacity to check its commitment. No haze of magnificence apparently filled the recently raised safe-haven. No fire from Heaven slipped to devour the penance upon its special raised area. The shekinah no longer residence between the cherubim in the most sacred spot; the ark, the leniency seat, and the tables of the declaration were not to be found in that. No voice sounded from Heaven to make known to the inquisitive minister the desire of Jehovah.
Good read!