Jesus speaks: ‘Peace is hidden from your eyes’
“The momentum of hatred on both sides is so strong that the peacemakers are drowned out.
"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 is 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?
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 says 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.
At a certain point, there reportedly had been 1,200 Israelis and 12,000 Palestinians killed, a ratio of one is to ten. An eye for an eye has become ten eyes for an eye. The violence has spilled onto the streets of many major cities across America, Europe, the Middle East, and Russia. Peace is "hidden from our eyes." Next will be a hundred eyes for ten eyes. Warmakers are carving out the destiny of Mankind.
The IDF massacred thousands of Palestinian civilians in the 15 years before the Hamas invasion of Israel. Indeed, the brutality of Hamas is vengeance for the accumulated massacres of 15 years. And what is Netanyahu's answer — genocide, more blood?
Many Israelis are blaming Netanyahu for what they believe will happen soon: a total war against all Arabs and Persians combined, which may kill half of the present Israeli population. Their view is based on the Bible.
According to Bible expert 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).