Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem

Psalm 122:6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May those who love you be secure.

By Nick Bibile

The recent horrible attack by Hamas against the Isralites shows that we are living in a fractured, broken, fallen world.  Jerusalem has been attacked over 50 times.

The meaning  of Jerusalem is the city of peace, the foundation of peace or the city of God. There will never be peace in a fallen world, until the Lord returns.  We need to pray for the peace of Jerusalem until Christ comes.

Matthew 23:36 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! 38 See, your house is left to you desolate.

God sent prophets to Israel, but they chose to listen to the false prophets and killed the true prophets of God. The false prophets were pleasing to the flesh, not the true prophets.  God sent judgment as Jerusalem and the temple of God was destroyed by Titus the Roman emperor in 70 A.D

During the second world war Nazi Germany committed mass murder on an unprecedented scale. The Nazis and their allies and collaborators killed six million Jewish people.

In 1947 U.N made a plan for Israel to become a nation and 1948 Israel became a nation, at that time 90% of the Jews lived in Europe and they returned to their homeland,

There’s a day that when Jesus returns the new Jerusalem will come down from heaven to earth, prepared for the true believers.

Revelation 21:2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Jerusalem today is not the holy city but the true holy city will come down from heaven for the holy people not for the unholy people. We receive our holiness by surrendering our lives to Jesus and his holiness transferred to us. That’s the only way we become holy and then we love and obey Christ.