Luke 23:27-31

Trouble in a fallen world.

Be Holy as I am holy….perfection for man will never happen here on earth . However our faith is shown in our obedience to Jesus' command to love God above all and our neighbors as ourselves.

We will be held accountable for the sins we commit while calling on His name. We need to read the Word of God in our homes it is the sword of the Spirit. Our  personal relationship with Holy Spirit will direct us and keep us until we are safely delivered from this world into our heavenly home.

Ephesians 6:14  Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

Christ alone…our only hope!

Luke 23:27-31

27 And a great multitude of the people followed Him, and women who also mourned and lamented Him. 28 But Jesus, turning to them, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. 29 For indeed the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, wombs that never bore, and breasts which never nursed!’ 30 Then they will begin ‘to say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!” ’ 31 For if they do these things in the green wood, what will be done in the dry?”

Jesus is telling the women that they will utter a similar cry when Jerusalem is punished for rejecting Him. Jesus’ statement in this verse probably contrasts His own fate with the coming judgment against Jerusalem. The women are weeping now, at the death of an innocent man, but their sorrow will be much greater when great anguish will come upon Judaea and its inhabitants. Faithlife Bible.

While such mourning for the dead was required by custom in the ancient world, Jesus’ reply seems to take the people’s mourning as sincere. Though He was dying, Jesus pointed out that their weeping should be for Jerusalem and its inhabitants, since judgment was going to fall on the city. Jerusalem here represents the entire nation of Israel. In the days of judgment, the children, who were usually thought of as cursed, would be better off than those with family because the terror of that time would be so great. Fear of the judgment would be so great that people would prefer to die rather than suffer what was coming. People who face God’s judgment desire the relief of death rather than to endure His wrath.

The idea here seems to be “If this is what is done to a live tree, what will happen to the dead one?” In other words, “If Jesus, the living tree, has not been spared, how much more will dead wood not be spared.” This is Jesus’ final lament over the nation of Israel. NKJ Bible.

Jeremiah 25:29  For behold, I begin to bring calamity on the city which is called by My name, and should you be utterly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished, for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth,” says the LORD of hosts.’

Ezekiel 21:3  and say to the land of Israel, ‘Thus says the LORD: “Behold, I am against you, and I will draw My sword out of its sheath and cut off both righteous and wicked from you.