Enoch <e546439@rppkn.com> wrote in news:8bf45$4fadfe7a$457010e6$8433
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> "From the crest of Olivet, Jesus looked upon Jerusalem. Fair and
> peaceful was the scene spread out before Him. It was the season of the
> Passover, and from all lands the children of Jacob had gathered there to
> celebrate the great national festival. In the midst of gardens and
> capital. The daughter of Zion seemed in her pride to say, "I sit a
> queen, and shall see no sorrow;" as lovely then, and deeming herself as
> "Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion,"
> "the city of the great King." Psalm 48:2. In full view were the
> magnificent buildings of the temple. The rays of the setting sun lighted
> up the snowy whiteness of its marble walls, and gleamed from golden gate
> and tower and pinnacle. "The perfection of beauty" it stood, the pride
> of the Jewish nation. What child of Israel could gaze upon the scene
> without a thrill of joy and admiration! But far other thoughts occupied
> the mind of Jesus. "When He was come near, He beheld the city, and wept
> over it." Luke 19:41. Amid the universal rejoicing of the triumphal
> entry, while palm branches waved, while glad hosannas awoke the echoes
> Redeemer was overwhelmed with a sudden and mysterious sorrow. He, the
> Son of God, the Promised One of Israel, whose power had conquered death,
> and called its captives from the grave, was in tears, not of ordinary
> grief, but of intense, irrepressible agony."
>
> ...The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan
>
All religion is stupid, except atheism.
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