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21:22Luke 21:22
For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
The verse belongs to the Mount of Olives discourse in Luke 21:5-38, spoken privately to Peter, John, James and Andrew after the disciples pointed to the strength and beauty of the temple and asked when these things would happen and what would be the sign of His coming and of the end of the world. Jesus did not answer by treating the destruction of Jerusalem and the great day of His coming separately but mingled the description of the two events, in mercy because the disciples could not have endured the full sight of the future, leaving them to study out the meaning for themselves. The verse identifies Jerusalem's approaching destruction as the days of divine vengeance and judgment, when what had been written and the judgments foretold against the city would be fulfilled.
Jerusalem was doomed because its people rejected Christ, yet if they had received Him the city could have stood and become a source of peace to the nations. The coming judgment followed the people's rejection of truth and disregard of God's warnings, and because the warning was not heeded the destruction came upon the city as foretold. The warning was fulfilled about forty years later, when the Roman army destroyed and burned the city. Christians who obeyed Christ's instruction to flee escaped, and none of them perished in the city's fall.
During the siege and destruction many perished, including people killed in the temple while offering sacrifices. During the destruction crucifixion was revived and multitudes of Jews died on crosses, so that the doom they had pronounced upon Christ came upon them. These calamities were warnings to a guilty nation that unless the people repented and found refuge in Christ they too would perish, and a brief time of probation remained for them to recognize what would bring them peace. When starvation and other suffering came upon the city, the Jews remembered Christ's warning and understood it, and their suffering followed their neglect to let their God-given light shine to the world.
When referring to the destruction of Jerusalem, the prophetic words reached beyond that event to the final conflagration when the Lord shall rise out of His place to punish the world for iniquity. The entire discourse was given not for the disciples only but for those who should live in the last scenes of this earth's history, and the chapter represents events to come whose signs show that the Lord's day is near, with threatened judgments being permitted to take effect as the end approaches.
The verse belongs to the Mount of Olives discourse in Luke 21:5-38, spoken privately to Peter, John, James and Andrew after the disciples pointed to the strength and beauty of the temple and asked when these things would happen and what would be the sign of His coming and of the end of the world. Jesus did not answer by treating the destruction of Jerusalem and the great day of His coming separately but mingled the description of the two events, in mercy because the disciples could not have endured the full sight of the future, leaving them to study out the meaning for themselves. The verse identifies Jerusalem's approaching destruction as the days of divine vengeance and judgment, when what had been written and the judgments foretold against the city would be fulfilled.
Jerusalem was doomed because its people rejected Christ, yet if they had received Him the city could have stood and become a source of peace to the nations. The coming judgment followed the people's rejection of truth and disregard of God's warnings, and because the warning was not heeded the destruction came upon the city as foretold. The warning was fulfilled about forty years later, when the Roman army destroyed and burned the city. Christians who obeyed Christ's instruction to flee escaped, and none of them perished in the city's fall.
During the siege and destruction many perished, including people killed in the temple while offering sacrifices. During the destruction crucifixion was revived and multitudes of Jews died on crosses, so that the doom they had pronounced upon Christ came upon them. These calamities were warnings to a guilty nation that unless the people repented and found refuge in Christ they too would perish, and a brief time of probation remained for them to recognize what would bring them peace. When starvation and other suffering came upon the city, the Jews remembered Christ's warning and understood it, and their suffering followed their neglect to let their God-given light shine to the world.
When referring to the destruction of Jerusalem, the prophetic words reached beyond that event to the final conflagration when the Lord shall rise out of His place to punish the world for iniquity. The entire discourse was given not for the disciples only but for those who should live in the last scenes of this earth's history, and the chapter represents events to come whose signs show that the Lord's day is near, with threatened judgments being permitted to take effect as the end approaches.