Jerusalem is in Trouble, But I am her Deliverer

7/19/2002

Jerusalem is in trouble, but I am her Deliverer. Yet she does not call that I may answer. I seek for a remnant, but where is the remnant of My people?

Prepare for war. I am coming now in judgment, for did I not send My Son? You did not heed My servants the prophets. Nor do you heed My Son. So now what? Am I lax? Will I not fulfill My Word to you? Prepare for slaughter, for unless you repent of your evil deeds and iniquities, I will visit your transgressions with the rod and your iniquities with stripes. I will remember your iniquities though you do not receive as your iniquities deserve.

Do you never learn from your fathers? Your fathers sinned and I visited them. But I saved, I spared a remnant that they might rebuild the ancient places. Repent, for I come now to you, Jerusalem. Repent.

"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord." (Mat. 23:25-39)

See also Ez. 8-9, Zech. 12-14