Herod, when he realized that the scholars had tricked him, flew into a rage. He commanded the murder of every little boy two years old and under who lived in Bethlehem and its surrounding hills. (He determined that age from information he’d gotten from the scholars.) That’s when Jeremiah’s sermon was fulfilled:
A sound was heard in Ramah,
weeping and much lament.
Rachel weeping for her children,
Rachel refusing all solace,
Her children gone,
dead and buried.
Matthew 2:16 - 18
God knew. God knew. Foretold hundreds of years before.
How
do we reconcile the Good News with the bad?
Only simple answers
cut it.
God is good.
(He sent us a Saviour.)
Sin is bad.
(Our tendency, without God's help, is to sin.)
So we wait, in the sin-filled meantime, for His Kingdom To Come
in all eternity.
So we wait, in the power of His Spirit in us, for His Kingdom To Come,
to break into our lives in His power,
in the here and now.
Comments, articles, books, libraries
are written about this truth.
Me, I can only
keep it simple.
God is good!
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