"When He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it, saying, “If you had known on this day, even you, the conditions for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes. For the days will come upon you when your enemies will put up a barricade against you, and surround you and hem you in on every side, and they will level you to the ground, and throw down your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing! See! Your house is left to you desolate; and assuredly, I say to you, you shall not see Me until the time comes when you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ” (Luke 19:41-44,13:34,35)
Jesus is still the way. Within the scope of that way we are commanded to love our enemies. That does not mean we hand them the pearls of our kindness beyond measure as some of our finest would have us believe, ,
“To see things from God’s perspective turns everyone into a loved one.
And we hurt to see them on their paths of pain.”
Our Lord did not so instruct. The
“conditions for peace” in the above was a remark for refusing to recognize Messiah and the resulting loss of footing. Today, we are still refusing His conditions and reaping the same ancient blindness.
The commands continue, , "
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good."