“Why do the heathen [Gentiles] rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? the kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision.
Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen [Gentiles] for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.”

Herod Antipas, son of …show more content…
The LORD God sent the Messiah into the world, with His pending resurrection, and that He would die once. He knew that He had to go into Jerusalem, because the prophecy could not be fulfilled outside of Jerusalem. Earlier, Jesus proclaimed, "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.” It was a woeful farewell to the beloved holy city Jerusalem. Jerusalem was the place that Christ has affixed as His home, because it was the place that the King of Israel was to keep watch over the favored capital of His chosen people. The LORD loved Israel and even when Moses judged them, He never totally withdrew His love from them. He bore them under His wings and protected them, as an eagle does her chicks. He lamented that even after their long and continuous relationship they rejected the one that the LORD God sent and they were not repentant. He responded to the rejection by saying, “But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.” He was raised an incorruptible body, and conquered death. Death could not hold Him, because He was the Son of God. Jesus wept differently for each event, but with …show more content…
I was living in Stuyvesant Heights in Brooklyn. It is something that you never get over you just come to terms with it. It was in April, 1991, and my cousin Youngs called me from Georgia to tell me that one of our childhood friends had heard that my brother, Melvin has been murdered. It was unbelief for Youngs and he wanted to verify the rumor. I didn’t believe it! Immediately, I went into denial. I had seen him a couple of days ago. I went to visit my cousin Gerald in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Gerald lived in close vicinity to my brother. He gave me the grizzly details. My brother had been murdered in a random act of violence. Still, I didn’t believe it! The incident was in several newspapers, and the New York Times wrote in part as