Messiah Wept: Jerusalem Did Not Know the Time. Will the Church? - Couverture rigide

Reddy, Dr. John C

Couverture rigide

ISBN 13 : 9798997501327

Editeur : My Daily Devotion Press, 2026

Synopsis

Jesus the Messiah wept twice.

Once before the tomb of a friend. Once over a city.

The first is remembered. The second is barely noticed, and it is the one that should unsettle us. Standing above Jerusalem, days from the cross, the Messiah wept over a people who lacked nothing. They had the Law and the Prophets. They had a timetable given to Daniel that pointed to that very generation. They studied the text daily and guarded it with their lives.

And still they did not know the time.

That is the indictment, and it is narrower and more searching than we expect. Not unbelief. Not neglect of Scripture. They held the Scriptures in their hands and missed what the Scriptures had plainly foretold.

Which leaves the Church in a far more serious position than Jerusalem ever stood in. We hold everything they held, and more: the Gospels, the letters of the apostles, and a final book that carries the story to its end. If men who possessed less were held accountable for failing to discern the time, what shall be said of a people who possess more and have stopped watching?

Messiah Wept was written to answer that question, and it answers it in an unexpected way. This is not a catalogue of predictions. It is a book about how to read. Its central concern is method: letting Scripture interpret Scripture, testing every claim against the text that produced it, and refusing to spiritualize a promise merely because its plain sense proves inconvenient.

Learn to read this way, and the questions that have long divided readers begin to answer themselves:

• How do you know when a number in prophecy is literal and when it is a symbol?
• Why did Jesus stop reading Isaiah mid-sentence in Nazareth, and what fell into the gap?
• Why does the Church, addressed by name in the opening of Revelation, vanish from the earth for the chapters that follow?
• What did God swear to Abraham that He has never once taken back?

The position is stated plainly: literal interpretation, a pretribulational rapture, a premillennial kingdom. Every claim is argued from the text alone. No speculation. No date-setting. No headlines mistaken for fulfillment.

And nothing is assumed of the reader. Every technical term is explained where it first appears. Every Greek and Hebrew word is defined. Scripture is quoted in full from the New King James Version, so no one is left guessing at a verse they half-remember.

Appendices provide a prophetic timeline, a glossary of key Hebrew and Greek terms, the foundational passages every believer should know, answers to the most common objections, and a pastor's guide to teaching prophecy without fear.

The Messiah wept once over a people who did not know the time.

He is coming again.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

About the AuthorDR. JOHN C. REDDY WAS BORN IN INDIA into a Hindu family and, at the age of ten, was invited to a Christian gathering. He assumed at first what he had always been taught: that all religions are the same. But as he read the Bible for himself, attended services and Sunday school, and committed Scripture to memory, he found the two sets of claims impossible to reconcile. Jesus had said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Fa-ther except through Me." (John 14:6, NKJV) Hinduism held that every path leads to the same place. The contradiction would not leave him alone. He studied and he prayed, and in time God opened his eyes to see that he was a sinner in need of a Savior, One who had died in his place. He gave his life to Jesus Christ.He later moved to the United States for his work. Trained first as an engineer, with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and a Master of Business Administration, he remains an IT professional by trade. In the church he grew steadily more active and began teaching Bible classes; wanting to know God's Word systematically rather than piecemeal, he went on to earn the Master of Arts in Theological Studies and the Doctor of Ministry at Liberty Universi-ty. He preaches wherever the opportunity is given, usually spending his vacation to do it, and God has used him in Australia, the United Kingdom, India and elsewhere, as well as in churches across the United States. He serves as an elder in his local church in Florida, writes at MyDailyDevotion.org, and teaches on his YouTube chan-nel, @DrJohnReddy.John has been married to his dear wife, Sujatha, for twenty-six years. They have two sons, Joel and Joven. His desire, in the pulpit and on the page, is a simple one: to learn the Word of God, and to make Him known.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: My Daily Devotion Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798997501327
• Reliure: Tapa dura
• Nombre de pages: 314
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