Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
If you were God, what would you do to heal the wounds in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict? You may say, "I'm glad it's not my responsibility!" but something Jesus said may indicate that He wants His people to share this burden with Him.
He speaks to His last-days church in Revelation 3 and says, "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with Me in My throne, even as I also overcame ..." (vs. 21). It's easy to think of this great honor as bestowed only after "the great controversy" is finally ended. But this may be a superficial understanding.
It's before Jesus comes the second time in the clouds of heaven that "His bride hath made herself ready" for the "marriage of the Lamb." It's before He returns that they "grow up into Him," "unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ" (Eph. 4:15, 13). It's before His return that "the harvest of the earth [becomes] ripe" (Rev. 14:15). The Bible speaks of a time when "the saints shall judge the world" (1 Cor. 6:2-4), which may not be only during the millennium. Apparently, the Bible picture suggests that "the saints" are not merely passengers on the Good Ship Zion; they are the crew. The Captain invites Laodicea onto the upper deck with Himself.
Jesus has invited you to "sit with [Him] on [His] throne"; what would you do to bring genuine peace to end this terrible conflict? Celestial military hardware to drive either one or the other side into the sea wouldn't solve any problem.
Someone Special was once an inhabitant of that land; His earthly citizenship was there. At that time, He says He had "not where to lay His head" (Matt. 8:20). When He died, He was penniless. His executioners even stripped Him of His clothes. He was in fact a Citizen of heaven who had "emptied Himself" of all the prerogatives of that Citizenship. He cast in His lot with humanity--for eternity. Even today, He identifies with the poor and downtrodden of earth.
What the Bible says makes us squirm uncomfortably. Jesus CAN do something; but He needs the cooperation of His people. Yes, and their understanding, too. He longs for their close fellowship. Let us pray.
--Robert J. Wieland
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: April 19, 2002.
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