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Weeping. Rejection. The Cross. All that sounds more fitting for Holy Week, rather than for some ordinary summer Sunday. And so you might wonder, then, why you’re hearing an account like this now, rather than then, or even, perhaps, nearer the end of the Church year. Well, there’s a reason for it: some portions of the Church year are bound to actual historical time, and this is one of them. The destruction of Jerusalem’s temple, and of Jerusalem itself, in A.D. 70, which Jesus

Let the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 serve as a warning, a wake-up call: that God’s Word should never be treated lightly or with...