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The Coming Age of Grace
What will it take to rid the world of violence, prejudice and hatred? What will the inhabitants of the world have to agree on to create a climate of peace and cooperation?
by Howard Davis
Before dawn, I viewed the Temple Mount spread out below me,
with the Dome of the Rock silently shrouded in the shadow of the hill behind me. Countless times I had seen pictures of this famous scene. Now for the first time (in August 2000) I stood overlooking Jerusalem on the Mount of Olives.
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| Jerusalem, considered holy by three faiths, has long been the focus of bitterness and bloodshed. The Bible, however, predicts a far different future. |
Accompanied by a rabbi friend, I set up my television camera to capture the drama of the first morning light on this amazing place, which is increasingly geopolitical ground zero of the planet.
City of peace, city of war
Two thousand years ago Jesus Christ looked down from the Mount of Olives and prophesied what would happen to the city and its fabulous temple within a generation (Matthew 24; Mark 13, Luke 21). Just as He foretold, it was wiped out less than 40 years later. Now 70,000 Jewish headstones tile the Mount of Olives’west hillside facing the Temple Mount, those buried there awaiting the resurrection to the time of God’s judgment.
| Although Jerusalem is surrounded by violence, it is there that the greatest prophets of peace proclaimed their messages. It is also where the greatest voice for peace was violently stilled. |
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