This is something that you constantly see especially in regards to the Jews, you know
The Bible says that they missed their time of visitation
When God in the flesh came to them and and salvation was born here on this earth. They missed it
They rejected the Lord Jesus Christ. They stumbled at the stumbling stone
Now look at Matthew 21 verse 43 says therefore say I unto you verse 43
the kingdom of God shall be taken from you speaking to the Pharisees which were adherence to Judaism and
Given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof and
Whosoever shall fall in this stone shall be broken but upon whomsoever it shall fall
It will grind him to powder and when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables
They perceived that he spake of them now go with me if we went to 2nd Chronicles 34
2nd Chronicles chapter 34 I
Read this verse and I was thinking myself. Why does it say that you'll grind them to powder?
I mean, maybe he's just illustrating the fact that he's just gonna demolish them which obviously he is and he has
But what does it say to powder? Like why does it say that he's just gonna grind them to powder?
Well, I believe it's because if you read in the Old Testament specifically in 2nd Kings and 2nd Chronicles, you know
you'll read about the bad kings, but you also read about good kings righteous kings and
Often the first thing that righteous kings would do when they would come into power. What would they do?
They would begin to reform the land
Right, they would start coming break the houses of the sodomites, you know, they would take down the groves
There was they would smash all the idols. I mean they clean house is what they would do
Now here's an example of this in 2nd Chronicles 34 in verse number 5 speaking of Josiah
Which was a very good godly King
verse number 5 says and he burnt the bones of the priests upon the altars and cleansed Judah in Jerusalem and
So did he in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon even in unto Naphtali
with their Maddox roundabout and when he had broken down the
Altars and the groves and had been the graves
Images into powder and cut down all the idols throughout all the land Israel. He returned to Jerusalem
So what would the righteous King do when he would come and clean house? He's demolishing everything. He's destroying everything
What is it? He's grinding it even to powder. I mean
To kill something and to smash something. It's like, okay, it's done man. But when you're grinding it to powder, I
Mean you're making sure that thing will never come to life
I think could never be put back together
and
so it makes sense in Matthew when we read that he says the kingdom of God should be taken from me given to another nation bringing
Forth the fruit stirrup and he tells him and elsewhere. No leaves. No fruit shall grow on here. They're on forever more
What is he doing? He's grinding it to powder
Why because just as the righteous Kings and second Kings and second Chronicles clean house
The King of Kings and the Lord of Lords will clean house as well. He's gonna grind it to powder
He's gonna make make sure Judaism never comes back. Right? It's like you're done
Like the chaff as the Bible says the ungodly are taken away like the chaff
So it's not like he's just breaking it down and then you could just build it back up. No, no
No, you can't build that back up ever again
You know, obviously we have people today that are trying to bring back the Hebrew roots move in it's not gonna work
It's already powder
It's not gonna work, but I thought that was interesting
You know the Bible says whosoever shall he shall fall upon he will grind it to powder just like the Kings did in the Old Testament