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Spiritual Leaders Must Understand Clearly What Jesus Christ Teaches Regarding Israel and Jerusalem
Luke Chapter 21 could be a difficult Chapter to learn and study. What's Jesus actually talking about and what does He really mean when He speaks these words to His disciples? This Chapter also handles the area of Israel, and the importance of Israel, in the plans and purposes and economy of God. Our knowledge of Israel is crucially important. This is usually a longer study since there is no way this passage could be divided. Read it most carefully and know very well what Jesus is revealing.

After speaking about the danger of deception, wars and revolutions, natural disasters and increased suffering as consequence, and persecution and using such times as opportunities to witness and testify, Jesus speaks about armies surrounding and overthrowing Jerusalem.

All this happened, some thirty years later and we know that those that fled when Rome overrun Jerusalem were saved from onslaught.

It pays to provide heed and attention to the prophetic words of Jesus. Their lives depended upon acting upon the words of Jesus.

Verse 24. We read of Jerusalem being trampled. That indicates that it is out of Divine order. God never means anything to be trampled upon. All this was fulfilled literally. Notice that word 'until'. We often see this in prophecy. Such and any such thing will happen 'until'. You will have a scattering of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, 'until'.

In verse 29, we read of the fig tree reappearing and growing in its own soil; growing in its own land and getting into leaf. The fig tree. as symbolic of Israel, reappeared in 1948, having been absent for 2 2,000 years. We cannot go into all the details here. There are several excellent books with this. Lance Lambert and Derek Prince and David Pawson explain all this, most thoroughly and comprehensively. Then in 1967, Israel begun to re-govern Jerusalem for the first time in 2,000 years and the trampling was over. We Gentiles had trampled over that city and 2,000 years is really a long time.

We want things to happen within two weeks or 8 weeks, and certainly within two years. For Israel, she had to wait 2,000 years, but God brought her back.

Jerusalem always flourishes under Jewish control, and languishes under Gentile control. You merely have to look at photographs of Jerusalem before 1967 and after 1967. You'll not think it had been the same city.

Now, from what Jesus says, the liberation of Jerusalem from Gentile control and domination points to the close return of Christ.

Once the fig tree, or any tree, sprouts leaves, it really is springtime and you know that summer is near. It isn't yet summer, but summer is around the corner. When Israel reappears you understand that the Coming Again of Jesus Christ is near. It will not happen just yet, but it will happen soon.

Verse 22. Enough time of punishment is over. Note that it is Jesus Who uses the term 'punishment' and 'wrath' in verse 23, and 'perplexity' in verse 25. Perplexity means 'no way out'.

Anguish, fainting and fear - are all central themes as Jesus speaks to the disciples, and because He is talking about His Coming Again, He tells the disciples to operate and 'lift up your heads', and know. Don't doubt or wonder or question. God wants us to learn. There are particular truths which God wants us to know and have an obvious understanding.

You will find a parallel here . In the same way hardly any believed Jesus concerning the destruction of Jerusalem, so a comparatively few people, even within church circles, believe what Jesus says here regarding His Coming Again. This is where Jesus issues another warning. Jesus issues warnings!

Be cautious or your hearts will undoubtedly be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness, and the anxieties of life, and that day will close in you unexpectedly just like a trap.

Don't go overboard. Watch your step. Don't give in to indulgence. In other words, discipline yourself. How terrible it could be, if on that day when Jesus Christ comes again, we were not ready for His coming, and we were caught unawares, and taken by surprise.

Jesus says, watch and pray, so as to stand prior to the Son of Man. Be alert and prayerful. Be familiar with everything that is going on around you.

Jesus is giving His disciples all this for a purpose; in order that we will know what is going on in the world and not be deceived or afraid, therefore that we will never be taken in by false prophets or follow false Christs, therefore that we will not be swayed and over- influenced by current trends fashions values and standards. This will keep us from giving directly into certain pressures to compromise.

Jesus is quite clear, very precise, and very practical, also it always pays to pay attention to what of Jesus.

check here is significant that teaching is recorded in Matthew and Mark too.

Last week that question arose that is answered in Zechariah Chapter 12, and I request you to read that Chapter too in this connection and understand the importance of what Jesus Christ, the Son of God, says.

All of the nations of the planet earth will be gathered against Jerusalem. 3 x he says this. Jerusalem is going to occupy a central put on the world's stage. It'll be a focal point of controversy, conflict, and war. Its status and destiny can be a cup of wine into which includes been poured a poison, and anyone who meddles with Jerusalem will find they poison themselves and paralyse themselves. It'll be such as a heavy stone, which if they attempt to lift it, the result will be they rupture themselves, and their lifting days are over.

God will pour out a spirit of grace and supplication, and they'll "look on me, the one they have pierced". Jesus Christ is the key to all of this.

Yes, this can be a more difficult Chapter but it is worth all of the serious study. Can you recall my saying many months ago that folks suggest that if only the Church would adhere to and keep to the words and teaching of Jesus? Well, Lovelywholesale Dresses Review are what of Jesus.

Sandy Shaw

Sandy Shaw is Pastor of Nairn Christian Fellowship, Chaplain at Inverness Prison, and Nairn Academy, and serves on The Children's Panel in Scotland, and contains travelled extensively over these past years teaching, speaking, in the us, Canada, South Africa, Australia, making 12 visits to Israel conducting Tours and Pilgrimages, and most recently in Uganda and Kenya, ministering at Pastors and Leaders Seminars, in the poor areas surrounding Kampala, Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu. He broadcasts regularly on WSHO radio out of New Orleans, and writes a weekly commentary at http://www.studylight.org entitled "Word from Scotland" on various biblical themes, as well as a weekly newspaper column.
His M.A. and B.D. degrees are from The University of Edinburgh, and he continues to run and exercise regularly to keep a level of conditioning.
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