Of all the cities of this world, I suppose we may say Jerusalem is the most noted. It is the place where God had seen fit to put His Name. It was there the wonderful temple stood that Solomon had built which was God’s house then, and the people there were God’s people, and they owned Him as their God, although the hearts of many of them were far from Him.
When the Lord Jesus came near to Jerusalem, at the descent of the mount of Olives and a multitude of His disciples with Him, they rejoiced and praised God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen, “Saying, Blessed he the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.” Luke 19:3838Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest. (Luke 19:38). Then the Lord had to answer them,
“I tell you that, if these would hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out. And when He came near, He beheld the city, and wept over it.”
He knew what would happen to that city, for they would reject Him, they would cry out, “Away with Him, we will not have this Man to reign over us.” They would put Him on the cross between two thieves, and rejoice that they were getting rid of Him. But O, the sorrow it brought to them.
The city was destroyed, according to the Lord’s word, not one stone left upon another, and many of the people were slain, and the rest from all over the country were scattered among the nations of the world.
Now I ask you, dear reader, How is it with you? Are you still rejecting God’s Son, the Lord Jesus Christ? What will your punishment be? For you not only know the wonderful works of God among them, which they knew of, too, but you know the terrible results.
ML 03/13/1938