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Authors of the Bible - Israelites
To whom : The 12 Tribes of Israel - Southern Kingdom, Judah (2 tribes, Judah and Benjamin) - Northern Kingdom, Israel (10 tribes, the rest) |
Isaac step-brother, Ishmael is not included
Jacob's twin brother is not included The God of the Bible punished the Israelites when they disobey - and restored them out of compassion - He would have 185,000 killed (Assyrians) to protect the Israelites
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The Northern Kingdom (Israel) would be 'dispersed' in around 700 BC by the Assyrians
The Southern Kingdom (Judah) would be exiled for 70 years by the Babylonians Finally the last temple would be destroyed by the Romans in AD70, since then, no blood sacrifices ... |
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There are idiots telling my friend Moses received the Law from God and not angels despite my friend quoting scriptures.
Acts 7:30 “After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai. |
John 5:45
“But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set. |
John 8:44
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. |
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The focus of the bible are on Abraham (though Ishmael is 'excluded' from the promise), Isaac and Jacob (Esau, the twin brother is not included)
So, the bible is not written TO us, but we can use the principles within it, eg. Do what is right (and sensible, my addition) to live life to the Full. And also, to honour your parents, and to leave your father and mother when you are married to your spouse (live your life according to both husband/wife decisions for their new family. Many what to do, but no HOW to do to live a pleasant life!!! Technologies and Processes are fairly lacking. |
So, if we know about history, 6 millions Jews exterminated by Hitler and gang.
Latest, Russian invaded Ukraine - many children, women and others are killed (mostly bonds and missiles) - no spiritual forces protection!!! Some believe that the God of the bible is in control
I wonder - control what? Did He give gifts (children) to us? - how come certain races have got more children and follow certain ideologies to get rid of others whom they disagree? |
GENTILES
If an Indian migrated with his Indian wife from India to England, and his children were subsequently born in London, the children get citizenship in England. The children are called 'ENGLISH'. However, the children are of Indian origin.
If an Indian man migrated to England and married an English wife (white, black or whatever), their children receive English citizenship - The children are called 'English'. However, the children follow their father, and thus are of Indian origin.
In the Bible, there are the Southern Kingdom (Judah) and the Northern Kingdom (Israel).
- The Southern Kingdom, Judah, are called Jews, still Israelites.
- The Northern Kingdom, Israel, are non-Jews, but Israelites.
When Jesus came for the children of Israel, he came for the Israelites, the Jews and non-Jews of Israel.
Matthew 15:24 NIV He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.”
Who are the lost sheep of Israel?
- these of the Southern and Northern Kingdoms only?
If an Indian migrated with his Indian wife from India to England, and his children were subsequently born in London, the children get citizenship in England. The children are called 'ENGLISH'. However, the children are of Indian origin.
If an Indian man migrated to England and married an English wife (white, black or whatever), their children receive English citizenship - The children are called 'English'. However, the children follow their father, and thus are of Indian origin.
In the Bible, there are the Southern Kingdom (Judah) and the Northern Kingdom (Israel).
- The Southern Kingdom, Judah, are called Jews, still Israelites.
- The Northern Kingdom, Israel, are non-Jews, but Israelites.
When Jesus came for the children of Israel, he came for the Israelites, the Jews and non-Jews of Israel.
Matthew 15:24 NIV He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.”
Who are the lost sheep of Israel?
- these of the Southern and Northern Kingdoms only?
Simon Yap is with Lightman Chum - 2022 March 5 at 2:51 PM ·
Every time you tell someone that gospel was meant for Israel and Judah they will quote to you John 3:16.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Let me show you something.
Before John 3 there is John 1.
This.
John 1:29
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
Now notice how John uses the word “world”.
See.
John 1:31
I myself did not know him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that he might be revealed to Israel.”
Note. Israel.
Now read this.
Hebrews 9:15
For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance —now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.
Do you see that Jesus died only for people who lived under the first covenant?
Look at this as well.
Hebrews 9:22
In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
It was the law which required the blood.
Hence. Jesus was the Lamb to Israel.
Why the world?
You see Israel was divided to Judah and Israel during the reign of Rehoboam. Israel then was invaded by Assyria.
Many Jews and Israelites were sold to Greece as well as around the world. This event is call the diaspora.
Joel 3:6
You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, that you might send them far from their homeland.
John 7:35
The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we cannot find him? Will he go where our people live scattered among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
Jeremiah 16:16
“But now I will send for many fishermen,” declares the LORD, “and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and from the crevices of the rocks.
Who are these fishes?
Jeremiah 16:15
but it will be said, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north and out of all the countries where he had banished them.’ For I will restore them to the land I gave their ancestors.
Now look here.
1 Peter 1:1
1 Peter
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,
To God’s elect, exiles scattered throughout the provinces of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia,
1 Peter 1:1
Greeting
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,
To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
The “world” here meant all Israelites including those scattered to the whole world.
Now.
Am I trying to say God loved Israel only?
No. I am saying God loves everyone.
But.
Only the Israelites needed saving.
From their mindset. A mindset which was placed on them by the Law.
You see.
Jesus did not save them from their sins. Jesus save them from the old covenant.
That’s how Jesus saved them from their separation and unified them and made them one into a new humanity by disposing off the temple.
This unified Israel is called the new creation, the new heaven and earth.
The new world.
It has nothing to do with you.
Every time you tell someone that gospel was meant for Israel and Judah they will quote to you John 3:16.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Let me show you something.
Before John 3 there is John 1.
This.
John 1:29
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
Now notice how John uses the word “world”.
See.
John 1:31
I myself did not know him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that he might be revealed to Israel.”
Note. Israel.
Now read this.
Hebrews 9:15
For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance —now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.
Do you see that Jesus died only for people who lived under the first covenant?
Look at this as well.
Hebrews 9:22
In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
It was the law which required the blood.
Hence. Jesus was the Lamb to Israel.
Why the world?
You see Israel was divided to Judah and Israel during the reign of Rehoboam. Israel then was invaded by Assyria.
Many Jews and Israelites were sold to Greece as well as around the world. This event is call the diaspora.
Joel 3:6
You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, that you might send them far from their homeland.
John 7:35
The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we cannot find him? Will he go where our people live scattered among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
Jeremiah 16:16
“But now I will send for many fishermen,” declares the LORD, “and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and from the crevices of the rocks.
Who are these fishes?
Jeremiah 16:15
but it will be said, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north and out of all the countries where he had banished them.’ For I will restore them to the land I gave their ancestors.
Now look here.
1 Peter 1:1
1 Peter
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,
To God’s elect, exiles scattered throughout the provinces of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia,
1 Peter 1:1
Greeting
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,
To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
The “world” here meant all Israelites including those scattered to the whole world.
Now.
Am I trying to say God loved Israel only?
No. I am saying God loves everyone.
But.
Only the Israelites needed saving.
From their mindset. A mindset which was placed on them by the Law.
You see.
Jesus did not save them from their sins. Jesus save them from the old covenant.
That’s how Jesus saved them from their separation and unified them and made them one into a new humanity by disposing off the temple.
This unified Israel is called the new creation, the new heaven and earth.
The new world.
It has nothing to do with you.
Simon Yap - 2022 March 10 at 8:09 AM ·
The Gentiles here are not you and me but northern Israel.
Ephesians 2:11-20
Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” (only Judah cared about whether anyone was circumcised because they kept the Law whereas the North didn’t) by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (these are the Jews from the south) (which is done in the body by human hands) — remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel (the exclusion can be seen in Hosea 1:10, where in God called Israel “not my people) and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. (You cannot be excluded if you were never included in the first place).
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away (this also talking about how the northern kingdom was scattered all over the world by the Assyrians) have been brought near by the blood (Hebrews 9:22 tells you it’s the Law that needed the blood, only Israel and Judah were under the Law) of Christ.
For he himself is our peace, (we were never in any war with the Jews but this enmity was made worse when Ezra and Nehemiah rejected the northern Israel’s help to rebuild the temple because they accused the north as unholy due to their mixed bloodline and their pagan practices) who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by setting aside in his flesh the law (as such, it was the Law that drew the dividing wall between the north and south. You can also see from John 4 the north build a temple of their own in Samaria, and through the years tried to desecrate the temple in Jerusalem to make their temple “holier”) with its commands and regulations.
His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. He came and preached peace to you (Jesus constantly said he was sent to the lost sheep of Israel, he never came to us) who were far away and peace to those who were near.
For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people (Judah, note the reference to “people who are “not my people” will be my people” in Hosea 1:10 are referring to Israel) and also members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone.
So please.
Read this.
Hosea 1:10-11
“Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted. In the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘children of the living God.’ The people of Judah and the people of Israel will come together; they will appoint one leader and will come up out of the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.
This is the exact same verse Paul used to address the “Gentiles” in Romans.
Romans 9:24-26
even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles? As he says in Hosea:
“I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people;
and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one,”
and,
“In the very place where it was said to them,
‘You are not my people,’
there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”
This is about the unification of Israel and Judah.
You were never under the Law why should the Law seperate you and the Jews?
Only people who broke the Law were considered enemies of the people who keep the Law.
You and I are not Israelites. We never had any covenant with God.
We never needed one.
Hope that clarifies the confusion.
The Gentiles here are not you and me but northern Israel.
Ephesians 2:11-20
Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” (only Judah cared about whether anyone was circumcised because they kept the Law whereas the North didn’t) by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (these are the Jews from the south) (which is done in the body by human hands) — remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel (the exclusion can be seen in Hosea 1:10, where in God called Israel “not my people) and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. (You cannot be excluded if you were never included in the first place).
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away (this also talking about how the northern kingdom was scattered all over the world by the Assyrians) have been brought near by the blood (Hebrews 9:22 tells you it’s the Law that needed the blood, only Israel and Judah were under the Law) of Christ.
For he himself is our peace, (we were never in any war with the Jews but this enmity was made worse when Ezra and Nehemiah rejected the northern Israel’s help to rebuild the temple because they accused the north as unholy due to their mixed bloodline and their pagan practices) who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by setting aside in his flesh the law (as such, it was the Law that drew the dividing wall between the north and south. You can also see from John 4 the north build a temple of their own in Samaria, and through the years tried to desecrate the temple in Jerusalem to make their temple “holier”) with its commands and regulations.
His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. He came and preached peace to you (Jesus constantly said he was sent to the lost sheep of Israel, he never came to us) who were far away and peace to those who were near.
For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people (Judah, note the reference to “people who are “not my people” will be my people” in Hosea 1:10 are referring to Israel) and also members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone.
So please.
Read this.
Hosea 1:10-11
“Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted. In the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘children of the living God.’ The people of Judah and the people of Israel will come together; they will appoint one leader and will come up out of the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.
This is the exact same verse Paul used to address the “Gentiles” in Romans.
Romans 9:24-26
even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles? As he says in Hosea:
“I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people;
and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one,”
and,
“In the very place where it was said to them,
‘You are not my people,’
there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”
This is about the unification of Israel and Judah.
You were never under the Law why should the Law seperate you and the Jews?
Only people who broke the Law were considered enemies of the people who keep the Law.
You and I are not Israelites. We never had any covenant with God.
We never needed one.
Hope that clarifies the confusion.
Acts 13:44-14:7 New International Version
44 On the next Sabbath almost the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord. 45 When the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy. They began to contradict what Paul was sayingand heaped abuse on him.
46 Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “We had to speak the word of God to you first.Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.47 For this is what the Lord has commanded us:
“‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles,
that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”
48 When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and honored the word of the Lord; and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.
49 The word of the Lord spread through the whole region. 50 But the Jewish leaders incited the God-fearing women of high standing and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them from their region. 51 So they shook the dust off their feet as a warning to them and went to Iconium. 52 And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.
In Iconium
14 At Iconium Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue. There they spoke so effectively that a great number of Jews and Greeks believed. 2 But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the other Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers. 3 So Paul and Barnabas spent considerable time there, speaking boldly for the Lord, who confirmed the message of his grace by enabling them to perform signs and wonders. 4 The people of the city were divided; some sided with the Jews, others with the apostles. 5 There was a plot afoot among both Gentiles and Jews,together with their leaders, to mistreat them and stone them. 6 But they found out about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and to the surrounding country, 7 where they continued to preach the gospel.
44 On the next Sabbath almost the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord. 45 When the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy. They began to contradict what Paul was sayingand heaped abuse on him.
46 Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “We had to speak the word of God to you first.Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.47 For this is what the Lord has commanded us:
“‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles,
that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”
48 When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and honored the word of the Lord; and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.
49 The word of the Lord spread through the whole region. 50 But the Jewish leaders incited the God-fearing women of high standing and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them from their region. 51 So they shook the dust off their feet as a warning to them and went to Iconium. 52 And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.
In Iconium
14 At Iconium Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue. There they spoke so effectively that a great number of Jews and Greeks believed. 2 But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the other Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers. 3 So Paul and Barnabas spent considerable time there, speaking boldly for the Lord, who confirmed the message of his grace by enabling them to perform signs and wonders. 4 The people of the city were divided; some sided with the Jews, others with the apostles. 5 There was a plot afoot among both Gentiles and Jews,together with their leaders, to mistreat them and stone them. 6 But they found out about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and to the surrounding country, 7 where they continued to preach the gospel.
Simon Yap - 2022 April 03
People quote the scriptures as if it is written today. That’s why they live as is hell is on earth today.
Guys just look at this.
Romans 3:26
he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the *present time*, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.
Romans 8:22
We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the *present time*.
Romans 11:5
So too, at the *present time* there is a remnant chosen by grace.
Romans 13:11
And do this, understanding the *present time*: The hour HAS ALREADY COME for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
Hebrews 9:8-9
The Holy Spirit was showing by this that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still functioning. This is an illustration for the *present time*, indicating that the gifts and sacrifices being offered were not able to clear the conscience of the worshiper.
Notice at that present time, the temple was still standing?
Now look at this.
Mark 10:29-30
“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this *present age*: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life.
Galatians 1:4
who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the *present evil age*, according to the will of our God and Father,
Ephesians 1:21
far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the *present age* but also in the one to come.
Titus 2:12-13
It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in *this present age*, while we wait for the blessed hope—the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,
Now.
Read this.
Hebrews 6:5
who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of *the coming age*
So the people in the Bible were actually waiting for an age to come.
Now.
Look at this.
Hebrews 9:26
for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
That age cumulated at the death of Jesus on the cross. The beginning of that coming age was at the beginning that “coming age”.
That because that age is not our age but the age of Moses.
Neither is it for our generation.
Matthew 12:39
But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous *generation* seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
Matthew 12:41-42
The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with *this generation* and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here. The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with *this generation* and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
Matthew 23:36-37
Truly, I say to you, all these things will come upon *this generation.*
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!
Notice that generation is the people of Jerusalem in Jesus’s day and that age was coming to an end during that generation.
This is what it means by this.
Matthew 24
Jesus left the *temple* and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”
As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of *the end of the age?”*
Look at how Jesus answered.
Matthew 24:34
Truly, I say to you, *this generation* will not pass away until all these things take place.
So.
Are you the people in Jerusalem in that generation?
If your answer is “no”, are you still in that “age”?
If your answer is “no”, is Christianity relevant to you?
People quote the scriptures as if it is written today. That’s why they live as is hell is on earth today.
Guys just look at this.
Romans 3:26
he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the *present time*, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.
Romans 8:22
We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the *present time*.
Romans 11:5
So too, at the *present time* there is a remnant chosen by grace.
Romans 13:11
And do this, understanding the *present time*: The hour HAS ALREADY COME for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
Hebrews 9:8-9
The Holy Spirit was showing by this that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still functioning. This is an illustration for the *present time*, indicating that the gifts and sacrifices being offered were not able to clear the conscience of the worshiper.
Notice at that present time, the temple was still standing?
Now look at this.
Mark 10:29-30
“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this *present age*: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life.
Galatians 1:4
who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the *present evil age*, according to the will of our God and Father,
Ephesians 1:21
far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the *present age* but also in the one to come.
Titus 2:12-13
It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in *this present age*, while we wait for the blessed hope—the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,
Now.
Read this.
Hebrews 6:5
who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of *the coming age*
So the people in the Bible were actually waiting for an age to come.
Now.
Look at this.
Hebrews 9:26
for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
That age cumulated at the death of Jesus on the cross. The beginning of that coming age was at the beginning that “coming age”.
That because that age is not our age but the age of Moses.
Neither is it for our generation.
Matthew 12:39
But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous *generation* seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
Matthew 12:41-42
The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with *this generation* and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here. The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with *this generation* and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
Matthew 23:36-37
Truly, I say to you, all these things will come upon *this generation.*
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!
Notice that generation is the people of Jerusalem in Jesus’s day and that age was coming to an end during that generation.
This is what it means by this.
Matthew 24
Jesus left the *temple* and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”
As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of *the end of the age?”*
Look at how Jesus answered.
Matthew 24:34
Truly, I say to you, *this generation* will not pass away until all these things take place.
So.
Are you the people in Jerusalem in that generation?
If your answer is “no”, are you still in that “age”?
If your answer is “no”, is Christianity relevant to you?
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