Jesus set His Face toward Jerusalem, to fulfil the earthly mission and enter into His Heavenly one. Yet Luke’s Gospel charts the entry of Jesus around Jerusalem and before He enters it. Jesus weeps over Jerusalem as He looks down over the city.
Luke 19:41-44 KJV
[41] And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, [42] saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. [43] For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, [44] and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
https://bible.com/bible/1/luk.19.41-44.KJV
Jesus is prophesying about what would happen 40 years in the future. Romans would enter the city and destroy most of the significant buildings including the Temple.
Jesus saw the affliction that would come and He wept, the 2nd time He wept in Scripture. As recorded.
What He is weeping over is the fact that the events that would shortly take place would determine those future events. How they would treat Jesus is key to those events in 70AD.
Jesus was the embodiment of the Visitation of God in the context of mercy. A chance for being saved from millennium being spread over the earth.
We ask for the visitation of God without first understanding what that implies. Not all visitation of God are pleasant. They also contain judgments. We need to discern the kairos in this discernment process.
Even so Jesus has foreknowledge of the pain this future event causes. He sees it and His Heart breaks because He knows how human nature will be and how governments will join together to kill the Lord. So we know that as we walk with Jesus His heart is with us. It breaks in moments of pain and calamity. We do not serve a indifferent Jesus. He may not be able to stop the calamity coming but He can lead His people to safety.
Maybe at this time we have a opportunity by our discernment and attitudes to the things that can be set in motion by spiritual blindness. The religious leaders did not discern this and it is said that Caiaphas and Annas were more concerned taking the Temple tax and getting rich. They were blind to processes that we about to be set in motion.
Are we discerning the Lord? Are we discerning the times??
May we recognise the hour of His Visitation.
Maranatha!!!
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