"At that time some Pharisees came to JESUS and gave HIM this warning, 'Leave this place and go on your way, for Herod wants to kill you.' JESUS said to them, 'Go and give that fox MY answer: 'I drive out demons, and I heal today and tomorrow, and on the third day I finish MY course!' Nevertheless, I must go on MY way today, and tomorrow, and for a little longer; for it would not be fitting for a prophet to be killed outside Jerusalem.
O, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you slay the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often have I tried to bring together your children, as a bird gathers her young under her wings. But you refused! From now on, you will be left, with your temple. And you will no longer see ME until the time when you will say, Blessed is HE who comes in the name of the LORD!'" - Luke 13:31-35
(How harshly JESUS speaks! Jerusalem was destroyed in the year 587 B.C. If we read the prophets, we find that Jerusalem's destruction was a punishment for its crimes. Now, JESUS announces another destruction of wider historical consequences: the blood of the prophets, the blood of CHRIST, the blood of the first Christians killed by the Jews.
Your house shall be left to you, deserted! The presence of GOD in HIS temple would leave them once more and be established among the converted pagans, as in Ezra 8. There will be no further intervention by GOD to establish HIS kingdom in Israel among the Jewish people until the day they welcome the CHRIST.
For Luke, disciple of Paul, it is certitude: the day will come when Israel will recognize CHRIST [see Romans 11:25-32]. For JESUS has come to save Israel, which means to give sense to its history. It will then, doubtless be the end of all other histories.)
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