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Imagine if King David of ancient Israel miraculously came back to life today after some 3,000 years and you were given the job of helping him to comprehend the existing situation in his homeland. How would you explain the current state of his beloved Jerusalem, the "City of Peace"?
How would you report that although a song he wrote has survived for millennia, the line in it appealing worshippers to "pray for the peace of Jerusalem" (Psalm 122:6) is yet a prayer unanswered?
How much time would it take to prepare him for what he would see in the religious arena today, a spiritual landscape that would be virtually unrecognizable to him? And even worse, to explain the sad irony that Jerusalem's hopes for peace have been dashed by, more than anything else, these rival religions, all bitterly competing in the name of his God!
But wait a minute. The story of Jerusalem is truly "a tale of two cities," and you could, instead, opt to begin with the good news!
Wouldn't you love to tell him how God fulfilled His promise that from David's lineage would come the Messiah? How that, right here in Jerusalem, Jesus Christ gave His life to save all humanity? And that He has promised to one day return right here to Jerusalem to establish His everlasting Kingdom of peace!
What a poignant opportunity to show David that after his death God gave many prophets magnificent visions of Israel and Jerusalem ultimately uniting all peoples of the earth!
God has always confirmed that He has never taken His eye off the little capital David established-and that, for all the glory it once knew, its greatest days lie still ahead, when it will become the center for the government of God on earth!
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