Christ said that (Apostate) Israel would be JUDGED in his generation for shedding all the righteous blood
By Tuese Ahkiong
Jesus said to the Jews standing right in front of Him (1st century) that THEY would be responsible for all the righteous blood shed on earth which would come upon them. This is what Jesus says in Revelation. Paul supports this judgment upon the unbelieving Jews 1st Century.
Matthew 23, 1 & 2 Thessalonians and Revelation all have the following elements-
The unbelieving Jews:
Killed the prophets.
Killed Jesus
Killed the apostles and prophets
had their measure of sin filled
1st century unbelieving Jews were responsible
God's wrath would fall in the first century "this generation," "wrath has come on them," Jesus would "come quickly" to exercise judgment.
Matthew 23:29-36 “Woe to YOU, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For YOU build the tombs ofthe prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous, 30 saying, ‘If we had lived in the daysof our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood ofthe prophets.’ 31 Thus YOU witness against YOUrselves that YOU are sons of those who murdered the prophets.
32 Fill up, then, the measure of YOUr fathers.
33 YOU serpents, YOU brood of vipers, how are YOU to escape being sentenced to hell?34 Therefore I send YOU prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom YOU will kill and crucify, and some YOU will flog in YOUr synagogues andpersecute from town to town, 35 so that on YOUmay come all the righteous bloodshed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah theson of Barachiah, whom YOUmurdered between the sanctuary and the altar. 36 Truly, I say to YOU, all these things will come upon THIS GENERATION.
37 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!
1 Thessalonians 2:14-16 For YOU,brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are inJudea. For YOU suffered the same things from YOUr own countrymen as they did from the Jews, 15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind 16 by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them at last!
2 Thessalonians 1:4
so that WE OURselves do glory in YOU in the assemblies of God, for YOUR endurance and faith in all YOUR persecutions and tribulations that ye bear; 5a token of the righteous judgment of God, for YOUR being counted worthy of the reign of God, for which also ye suffer, 6since [it is] a righteous thing with God to give back to those troubling YOU -- trouble, 7and to YOU who are troubled --rest with us in the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with messengers of his power, 8in flaming fire, giving vengeance to those not knowingGod, and to those not obeying the good news of OUR Lord JesusChrist; 9who shall suffer justice -- destruction age-during -- from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his strength, 10when He may come to be glorified in his saints, and to be wondered at in all those believing --because OUR testimony was believed among YOU -- in that day;
***WERE THE THESSALONNIANS AFFLICTED? DID PAUL NOT WRITE TO THEM THAT GOD WOULD GIVE THEM RELIEF WHEN JESUS WOULD BE REVEALED FROM HEAVEN…? IS PAUL A FALSE PROPHET OR DID JESUS AFFLICT THE THESSALONNIAN PERSECUTORS AND GIVE THE SAINTS RELIEF?
Notice how the passages below all point to unbelieving Israel in the 1st century as the culprits. These passages also fulfill what Christ said in Matthew 23 above. A BIG THEME THROUGHOUT SCRIPTURE IS GOD AVENGING HIS SAINTS, THE MARTYRS. JUDGMENT DAY CAME IN 70AD.
Revelation 16:6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and YOU have given them blood to drink. It is what they deserve!”
Revelation 11:8 and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically is calledSodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified.
Revelation 18:20-24 Rejoice over her, O heaven, and YOU saints and apostles and prophets,for God has given judgment for YOU against her!” 21 Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying,“So will Babylon the great city be thrown down with violence, and will be found no more;22 and the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters,will be heard in YOU no more,and a craftsman of any craft will be found in YOU no more,and the sound of the mill will be heard in YOU no more, 23 and the light of a lamp will shine in YOU no more,and the voice of bridegroom and bride will be heard in YOU no more,for YOUr merchants were the great ones of the earth,and all nations were deceived by YOUr sorcery. 24 And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints,and of all who have been slain on earth.”
Revelation 6:9-11 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne. 10 They cried out with a loud voice, “OSovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before YOU will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” 11 Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.
Revelation 17:2-6 with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk.” 3 And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns.4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. 5 And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations.” 6 And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.
When I saw her, I marveled greatly.
Revelation 11:8 and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified.
***Where was Christ crucified? Jerusalem.
JESUS WOULD COME SOON TO THE 1ST CENTURY COVENANT PEOPLE AND BRING SALVATION FOR HIS SAINTS AND JUDGMENT FOR THE AINTS.
Revelation 22:7 “And behold, I am coming soon. Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”
Revelation 22:12 “Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay each one for what he has done.
Revelation 22:20 He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!