Jerusalem in the news - Now and in the Future

(Preached in Bangor FPC)

The Christian is blessed with a wonderful knowledge of the future, both that which is related to this earth and its affairs and that which is related to eternity.

The devil desires to confound, corrupt and distort both aspects of God's truth. He is the author of the many "alternative gospels" offered unto men today. He is also the author of the confusion that surrounds prophecy.

Such is the confusion that he has sown that many believers, including ministers, believe that it is a futile and foolish thing to study what the Bible has to say about prophecy. What folly!!

I believe the answer to this is that the devil would seek to hide the dreadful doom that he and all who heed his lies will inevitably suffer. Something of that fact is seen in Revelation 12:12. " . . . the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time."

I wish to engage in a little prophetic study this evening. Jerusalem holds in a special place within Scripture. "Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King," Psalm 48:2.

This Jerusalem is very much in the news today but will be even more so in the not to distant future.