FineLinen said:
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The Lord Jesus Christ declares in no uncertain terms He will helko all mankind unto Himself. He also cares for every common bird that falls. And yes, He loves all the children of the world, every last one of the little rascals are precious in His sight, even the 500+ ones who have died in the last minute under age 5 worldwide who have not been baptized.
“Vines notes that
helko usually signifies an act of relative gentleness, as opposed to
suro which means “drag.” [
Expository Dictionary , “Drag”].
This distinction may be important when the word is used to describe the divine drawing of men to Christ (
John 6:44;
12:32).
Both the Song of Solomon 1:4 and
Jeremiah 31:3 use this term to describe the inner compulsion or drawing of love. Thus the crucified Saviour draws the attention of all and the faith of some.” [
The Complete Biblical Library Greek - English Dictionary ]
Hello F L.
Yes, Songs is a beautiful book of our great King and Savior......
Did you notice the phrase "Daughters of Jerusalem" is used in only 1 verse of the entire NT?
Luke 23,
before the divine destruction of 70AD Jerusalem as shown in the 70AD Olivet Discourse and Revelation
[of course you won't hear many fundie angelicals mention that]
Strong's Concordance with Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
"
daughters of jerusalem" occurs 15 times in 14 verses in the NKJV.
Sng 1:4 [Luke 23:27-30]
Draw me away! The
Daughters of Jerusalem
We will run after you.
The Shulamite
The king has brought me into his chambers.
The Daughters of Jerusalem
We will be glad and rejoice in you.
We will remember your love more than wine.
The Shulamite
Rightly do they love you.
Luke 23:
27
Followed yet to Him a vast multitude of the people and of women were. And grieve<ekoptonto <2875> and wailed<eqrhnoun <2354> over Him.
28 Being-turned yet toward them,
Jesus said: "
Daughters of-Jerusalem no be-lamenting/klaiete <2799> upon Me, moreover for yourselves be-lamenting, and upon the children of ye.
29 That behold! Are coming Days in which
they shall be declaring 'happy are the barren-ones. and the wombs which not generate, and breasts which not suckle.
30 Then they shall be beginning to be saying to the Mountains: 'Be falling on us'!, and to the Hills 'Cover us'!
31 That if in this, the moist/ugrw <5200> wood/xulw <3586>, they are doing, in the dry/xhrw <3584> what may-be-becoming?
[Isaiah 4:4/Reve 18:19]
Luke 21:
22 That days of vengeance<1557> these are, of the to be fulfilled<4130> all the having been written
23 “But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!
For there will be great distress in the land and wrath upon this people.
Luke 23:30 "..Mountains fall on us, hills cover us.."
Revelation 6:
16
They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!
17For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who can stand?”
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The siege of 70AD Jerusalem was indeed horrifying, but it fulfilled a plethora of OT and NT prophecies, proving to the 1st century Jews [and us today], that Jesus was indeed King and Savior......
Visual Timeline of the Roman-Jewish War
"..probably the greatest single slaughter in ancient history."
ROMAN SIEGE AND SACK OF JERUSALEM
The Destruction of Jerusalem - George Peter Holford, 1805AD
Proof that Matthew 24 was fully fulfilled in 70 AD!
Also see: Rapture refuted
History records few events more generally interesting than the destruction of Jerusalem, and the subversion of the Jewish state, by the arms of the Romans. --
Their intimate connexion with the dissolution of the Levitical economy, and the establishment of Christianity in the world ; the striking verification which they afford of so many of the prophecies, both of the Old and New Testament, and the powerful arguments of the divine authority of the Scriptures which are derived
Meanwhile the horrors of famine grew still more melancholy and afflictive.
The Jews, for of food were at length compelled to eat their belts, their sandals, the skins of their shields, dried grass, and even the ordure of oxen.
In the depth or this horrible extremity,
a Jewess of noble family urged by the intolerable cravings of hunger,
slew her infant child, and prepared it for a meal; and had actually eaten one half thereof, when the soldiers, allured by tile smell of food, threatened her with instant death if she refused to discover it. 'Intimidated by this menace, she immediately produced the remains of her son, which petrified them with horror.
At the recital of this melancholy and affecting occurrence, the whole city stood aghast, and
poured forth their congratulations on those whom death had hurried away from such heartrending scenes.
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Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke's Temple/Jerusalem Discourses harmonized- Poll Thread
Matthew 24:19
Woe yet to those pregnant, and to those giving suck in those the days
Mark 13:17
Woe yet to those pregnant, and to those giving suck in those the days
Luke 21:23
Woe yet to those pregnant, and to those giving suck in those the days
for there shall be great distress on the land and wrath on this people;
Revelation 9:6
And in those days men shall be seeking the death, and not no shall be finding it;
and shall be desiring/yearning<1937> to be dying, and the death is fleeing from them.
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