On Not Discerning the Time

" . . . One of our Lord's severest rebukes of the unbelieving Jews was for-- their failure, or refusal, to properly judge and identify the "time" of His advent among them, and the age of grace which He came to announce and inaugurate. "Ye hypocrites," He cried, "ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern [or interpret] this time?" (Lk. 12:54-57; cf. Mt. 16:1-4). Later, He wept over the city of Jerusalem because of the blindness and stupidity which prevented its people from seeing and evaluating things as they were with reference to Himself and His kingdom (cf. Jn. 1:10-11). "If thou hadst known, even thou, the things which belong unto thy peace!" He lamented, as He envisioned and foretold the coming devastation and carnage by the Romans. This destruction, He went on to declare, would be "because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation" (Lk. 19:41-44; cf. Mt. 11:20-24). " --Fred O. Blakely

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