The failure of Jesus

Jesus was a failure by these standards and so was Paul. Before the cross he condemned Jerusalem for rejecting her King. His prophecy of Jerusalem’s destruction was fulfilled in AD 70. The temple, the city and its walls were transformed into a pile of rubble. Its people dead or enslaved.

The only cities in the New Testament transformed by the gospel were transformed into riots and division.

Paul stood before Nero in chains with nothing but the gospel. Rome was not transformed

The book of Acts is the story of the spread of God’s Word from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth. Everywhere the evidence of God’s transforming power are multiplying disciples and churches to the glory of God.

The heavens and the earth with be transformed one day—on the other side of God’s judgment. Until then we have a job to do.