Church Leaders will be held accountable for their actions. Knowledge is the key to understanding the Scriptures and God will not let His people perish from the lack of sound teaching inside His Church. We must guard against history repeating itself!
Abel is pictured as the first prophet to be killed, going back to the foundation of the world. Zechariah is probably the man described in 2 Chronicles 24:20–25. He would be the last prophet slain in the Old Testament.
If one considers the Hebrew order of the books. A reasonable case can be made that the prophet to whom Jesus referred was actually Zechariah the minor prophet, who preached during the days of Ezra (Ezra 5:1), some 400 years after Zechariah, son of Jehoiada. Zechariah, the minor prophet, actually is called “the son of Berechiah (spelled Barachias in the Septuagint—EL), the son of Iddo” (Zechariah 1:1; cf. Ezra 5:1; 6:14). Although the Old Testament writers did not record his death, Jesus would have known how he died, and it also could have been known by Jewish tradition.
Jesus charged the lawyers with doing the opposite of what they claimed their calling to be. Rather than bringing people nearer to God, they had removed the possibility of their entering into that knowledge, and had prevented others from understanding as well.
The wisdom of God refers to God’s knowledge of the people. The prophets and apostles who would be persecuted and killed were the disciples and the prophets of the early church. Those who would come in the current generation with the message of God would suffer the same fate as the prophets of old.
Luke 11:49-52
49 Therefore the wisdom of God also said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute,’ 50 that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation, 51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah who perished between the altar and the temple. Yes, I say to you, it shall be required of this generation.
52 “Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in you hindered.”
3 “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.
Matthew 23:13
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