Our paragraph topic is: (The destruction of Jerusalem) Part 6.
Infants and children, those we are, by nature, given to protect, we will do all to save from harm. We will give our own lives that they might live. For they are our hearts and souls and to see them suffer or endure harm tears at the very fabric of our humanity. Yet Christ made his prediction that those with infants would suffer most because of the destruction of Jerusalem.
He spared no one the horror of the coming evil. He wanted all to know, to become aware. He, the gentle man of compassion, told the world that Jerusalem would suffer and see destruction. Imagine the horror and the despair that spread throughout the populace when the people heard of his prediction. Woe to those with child: "Or have infants at the breast in those days!"
Attack the defenseless and the innocent children. Make them the basis, the foundation of the coming destruction and everyone will understand. Everyone will believe and know the effect of what was to come. Prepare now or suffer the little children. Hear the words of peril; listen and learn or disbelieve and know the truth of the prediction of the words of God.
These were the words of Christ to the people and his disciples that they should know what was coming to their precious city of Jerusalem. They were proud of their city. They were proud of what their religion had given them. The Jews were a proud race of people guided by the hand of God throughout the centuries. He watched over them, protected them, guided them for many years. So how could this man, this Christ, say that their city would be destroyed. They did not know. They did not believe. They did not see the writing on the wall that was before them. The Messiah had come down from heaven just as it had been written by the prophets of old and they did not believe. It was all there for them to see. It was there for them to know if they only looked. But they were a proud people who did not want to give up what they had. They did not want to change. And Christ came to bring about change.
Even today we need change, change in our hearts and minds, change in our thoughts and how we live, change in what we believe. We believe there is a heaven and a hell but we don't know it. We do not live it. We do not feel it in our hearts. We are but shells that carry the true self of who we are but our shells control us and not that which is within us.
Christ came to give us life, a new life, a more abundant life. He came that we might not die if we only believe. And what we believe is life that is within us that is eternal, not physical, not flesh and blood, but created in the image of God the Father. The light of life is within us if we only believe. The light of life is within us if we only see. The light of Christ is given us if we only know that he is with us always. This is the truth that is with us today, tomorrow and always if we believe. Let nothing or no one change your belief from the life that is within you.
Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself. Do not study it in parts reading one passage nd then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ . The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in.
