04.24.2015 New Testament: Luke 19.42–44

To read the Bible in a year, read Luke 19.29–48 on April 24, In the year of our Lord 2015

By Don Ruhl

David, Solomon, and the righteous kings of Judah ruled from Jerusalem. What happened to this once glorious city? Luke shows Jesus approaching Jerusalem, weeping over it, and then speaking revealing words,

“If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation” (Luke 19.42–44). 

Although kings and prophets lived there, whose words we quote, the city was ignorant of its relationship with the God of heaven. The city did not recognize the great God when He walked right into town.

Yet, how many of the world’s population know of its Creator, although creation speaks to us of the Creator and the Scriptures reveal His plan for us clearly?