“As Jesus drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, ‘If only you knew today what makes for peace. But now it is hidden from your eyes.’” Luke 19:41
Was Jesus referring prophetically to the ongoing Israeli Palestinian conflict? Jesus was so sad because he was trying to say that peace was an inch away from our noses but we cannot see it, we refuse to see it, we cannot comprehend it. Is it perhaps beyond our comprehension because our hearts are so immersed in war and vengeance that there is no space for peace?
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By Bernie V. Lopez, eastwindreplyctr@gmail.com
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A Filipino Archbishop speaks anonymously, “Conflicts everywhere are proxy wars. The fate of the world is decided in board rooms. Carnage will not end as long as the devil holds sway. Today’s gospel passage is so relevant. Peace is not possible as long as the world refuses to accept the Prince of Peace (princeps is Latin for source, principle, origin). ‘If this day you only knew what makes for peace ….. You did not recognize the time of your visitation.’”
The Archbishop is saying that peace is possible only through the Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ.
Almost everyone on both sides of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is talking of war as a form of retribution. The momentum of hatred on both sides is so strong that the peacemakers are drowned out.
According to Filipino Bible scholar Steve Legasto, “Biblical scholars say that Jews more than ever will be killed towards the latter part of the ‘seven-year Great Tribulation…. a day of darkness and gloom’” (Zephaniah 1:15–16). “Those will be days of distress unequaled from the beginning”. (Mark 13:19–20).
Let us look up to Jesus for answers to global peace, not to governments or generals who are blind to peace.
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