Luke
23:28-31 (ESV) But turning to them Jesus said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, do
not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. 29 For behold, the days are coming when they
will say, 'Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts
that 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 when the wood is green, what will happen
when it is dry?"
NOTE: Matching the
phraseology of verse 31 "Mountains … fall on us and hide us," places
this event in the first half of the tribulation (Rev 6:16). It is the
sixth of the seven seal judgments. A lot of people have died in the war, famine,
pestilence, and earthquake that precedes the sixth seal. Jesus says that the
trees were green 'now' but soon would be dry. Literally it could mean that the
trees at that time will be ready to burn as well. Metaphorically, it could mean
things are not yet near as bad as they soon would be. We have no idea how bad
things will really get. We can't imagine pain so great that we want to die. A
coming judgment is near at hand--yes, that has been said for almost 2000
years--but, God's word will be accomplished. It may be in the next 20 years, it
may be sooner. What are we doing to warn people of the coming wrath? Are we
bold with our testimony or do we shrink back? Lord, help me not to shrink back.
Give me courage.
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