Chapter Four/Jesus Comes With Encouragement - "Coming With the Clouds" -Conclusion

 Jesus will be 'seen' also by "those who pierced him." Who might these be? When Jesus was executed in 33 C.E., the Roman soldiers pierced him literally. The guilt of that murder was shared by the Jews, for Peter told some of these at Pentecost: "God made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you impaled." (Acts 2:5-11,36; Compare Zechariah 12:10; John 19:37.) Those Romans and Jews have now been dead for close to 2,000 years. So those who 'pierce him' today must represent nations and people that display the same hateful attitude was show when Jesus was impaled.  Jesus is no longer here on earth. But when opposers passively consent to such treatment, it is as just as though such opposers were 'piercing Jesus himself. - MATTHEW 25:33, 41-46.

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