And for me, I think I'm going to read some more things Jesus said in his day. My heart goes out to all the families, men, women and children who're suffering because of this.
There is of course God's truth in the 4 gospels which concern the life on earth of the Lord Jesus. But much of what the Lord Jesus said was directly for the Jews living under the Law of Moses. The era of the Law ended after the Lord Jesus fulfilled that law. He offered Himself as the Messiah to Israel, but they rejected Him as a nation. Then He began a new work, called The Church, which is the sum total of everyone who trusts Christ as Savior -- The Church is not any organization or denomination, certainly not the pope's organization. The scripture written specifically to our age starts in Acts 2, after the end of the 4 gospels. The Lord gave Israel laws, but wrote letters to the Church. Those letters are in the New Testament.
What I am trying to tell you is that the most relevant scripture for our age is not the "sayings of Jesus to the Jews" in the gospels, but the epistles, the letters to Churches (& Acts).
In all the discussion, we ought not be heartless for the great suffering indeed. But there are forces beyond the human in the return of Israel to the land YHWH gave to Israel so long ago. The return was prophesied. The great opposition to Israel only makes sense as satanic.
What would be the big deal if the moslems moved about 5-50 miles away to Jordan & Egypt? They don't have to have tiny Israel, except for supernatural evil forces at work.
