ANTICHRIST (12) | DENYING THE CORNERSTONE

1. Denying The Cornerstone

a) Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God, and it is on this rock that the church is to be built.

i) “If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.” (Luke 19:42-44)

b) The fall of the harlot of that day was imminent when Jesus spoke these words on the Mount of Olives. If only they had known the things that made for peace, they could have been saved; but it was hidden from them. Because of their unbelief of the Word, they stumbled at the stumbling stone who was Jesus. God had given Him to them as the cornerstone in the building, which is His Church. Not the physical building, but the spiritual building of those who believe in Him as “the Christ, the Son of the Living God” (Matthew 16:15-18). But those who should have been the builders of this Church rejected Him.