What should be a time of reverence, worship and reflection of God’s delivering power, has become a reason for the Muslim world to attack those wishing simply to pray in the City God put His name on.  In the book of Deuteronomy 16 God gives instruction to the delivered Israelites on His festival commemorating His Passover (sacrifice).  He tells them this:  “You must not sacrifice the Passover in any town the Lord your God gives you, except in the place he will choose as a dwelling for His Name….”  And we all know that God chose Jerusalem to put His name there. (2 Chronicles 6:6) So why am I going over this?

Look at these headlines this morning:

Jews Arrested Trying to Perform Passover Sacrifice on Temple Mount

Has the Temple Mount Become A Hamas ‘City-State’?

They are rioting there again, this time with large stones and molotov cocktails.  They have closed the Temple Mount to Jews again.  And when they do this, Christians can not go either.  

They have closed access on one of Judaism and Christianities Holiest days.  ‘Passover.’  It signifies God’s deliverance of life and freedom for the Jews, and also God’s gift of deliverance and life and freedom for Christians.

Jesus paid the ultimate sacrifice for all who believe.  God loved us so much He gave us His son.  He died to give us eternal life, peace, freedom, and love.  The Jewish people are celebrating their freedom from Egypt, and this is an abomination.  The very people the world wants to portray as ‘peace seeking’, and tolerant are exhibiting anything but.  In fact this is the very thing God saved the Jews from in Egypt and it is the very thing Christ died to prevent.

Christ died to give us freedom, freedom from sin, freedom from oppression, and every time this happens it’s like he’s crucified all over again.  And yet there are even Christians who condone this.   I have never, nor did I ever expect to see such hatred in my life time.  This is beginning to rival the hatred of the last kingdom that raised it’s ugly head in WW2.  It’s rising again.  It’s time for the world to say enough!

Abomination defined:

abom·i·na·tion

 noun \ə-ˌbä-mə-ˈnā-shən\