Lesson 1808

(Lesson 1808)(09-29-16) Luke 23:25-31

"And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will. And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus. And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him. But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?"

Today's lesson relates that, as the Roman soldiers led Jesus to His eventual crucifixion, Jesus told His followers to save their mourning for future generations. He also warned those who followed that a time would come when God would avenge His children by destroying all things as we know them and rewarding His own with a blissful eternity in heaven.~