• The Great Controversy...

    From Enoch@e546439@rppkn.com to alt.bbs.general on Tue May 8 22:13:56 2012
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    "From the crest of Olivet, Jesus looked upon Jerusalem. Fair and
    peaceful was the scene spread out before Him. It was the season of the Passover, and from all lands the children of Jacob had gathered there to celebrate the great national festival. In the midst of gardens and
    vineyards, and green slopes studded with pilgrims’ tents, rose the
    terraced hills, the stately palaces, and massive bulwarks of Israel’s
    capital. The daughter of Zion seemed in her pride to say, "I sit a
    queen, and shall see no sorrow;" as lovely then, and deeming herself as
    secure in Heaven’s favor, as when, ages before, the royal minstrel sang, "Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion,"
    "the city of the great King." Psalm 48:2. In full view were the
    magnificent buildings of the temple. The rays of the setting sun lighted
    up the snowy whiteness of its marble walls, and gleamed from golden gate
    and tower and pinnacle. "The perfection of beauty" it stood, the pride
    of the Jewish nation. What child of Israel could gaze upon the scene
    without a thrill of joy and admiration! But far other thoughts occupied
    the mind of Jesus. "When He was come near, He beheld the city, and wept
    over it." Luke 19:41. Amid the universal rejoicing of the triumphal
    entry, while palm branches waved, while glad hosannas awoke the echoes
    of the hills, and thousands of voices declared Him king, the world’s
    Redeemer was overwhelmed with a sudden and mysterious sorrow. He, the
    Son of God, the Promised One of Israel, whose power had conquered death,
    and called its captives from the grave, was in tears, not of ordinary
    grief, but of intense, irrepressible agony."

    ...The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan
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