Reversal

It’s incredible, and deeply poetic, how history is mirroring itself.

In His first coming, many of the Jews hardened their hearts against anyone who didn’t keep the law as they thought it should be kept.

That blindness kept them from recognizing their own Messiah, and it led to His rejection.

Now, in these last days, the Gentiles are being conditioned in the very same way, hardening their hearts against “the Jew” and “Zion.”

When Christ returns to reign from Jerusalem, many will look through that same lens of hardness and think they are fighting for righteousness, when in reality they are making war against the Lamb.

It’s the prophetic mirror: the first will be last, and the last will be first.

What Israel stumbled over at the beginning, the Gentiles are stumbling over at the end.

And in this, we see both God’s justice and His mercy.

Justice, because He exposes the pride and hardness of every heart.
Mercy, because He uses even our stumbling to accomplish His plan of redemption.