Through this brief study, you now have come to know, that act by Israel: "THE ABOMINATION [of shedding the innocent blood of Jesus] [is] THAT [of why God] MAKETH DESOLATE", and is now long past, of which shall NEVER be repeated again for THAT REASON, or any other reason. Dan. 12:11.
A few questions concerning: “innocent blood”
Acts 22:19-20 And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on You: [20] And
when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him.
I do get what you have shared concerning those things did against Jesus Christ. But my question is what of when Jesus Christ asked Saul “Saul Saul why do you persecute Me”. To me that is Jesus Christ including what is did against Him, with what is done against all of those who trust in Him as being “His body” “washed in His blood and made clean”. “If you do it to the least of these, you have done it as unto Me.” Acts 22:8 And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutes.
with “the shedding of innocent blood”…
I think of the warning “their feet are swift to shed blood”
Is it “.tongues used in deceit” “full of cursing” “full of bitterness” “destruction and misery in their ways” “not knowing the way of peace” “no fear of God” which makes desolate? What “vessel” or what “House” do these things “make desolate?” Romans 3:10-18
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: [11] There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. [12] They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. [13] Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: [14] Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: [15] Their feet are swift to shed blood: [16] Destruction and misery are in their ways: [17] And the way of peace have they not known: [18] There is no fear of God before their eyes.
If I had to say what makes desolate it is:
Romans 5:18-20 Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. [19] For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous. [20]
Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,
Romans 7:7-13 What shall we say then?
Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. [8]
But sin, taking occasion by the commandment,
wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. [9] For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. [10] And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. (Desolation)[11]
For sin, taking occasion by the commandment,
deceived me, and by it slew me. [12] Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. [13] Was then that which is good made death (desolation)unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death(desolation) in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding (desolate) sinful.
Romans 7:24-25 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this (desolation) death? [25] I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God (abounding); but with the flesh the law of sin(abased).
—whether abounding or abased ..I have learned how to be both. Philippians 4:12-13 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. [13] I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
1 Corinthians 15:55-58 O (desolation)death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory(of thievery)? 56]
The sting of (desolation) death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. [57] But thanks be to God, which giveth (unto) us the victory (over desolation) through (and by the Fruit of) our Lord Jesus Christ. [58] Therefore, my beloved brethren, be you stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch
as you know that your labour is not(desolate) in vain in the Lord.
What is what makes desolate?
If not that which hinders the Fruit of Christ from growth to maturity! Thanks be to God who gives the increase of the Fruit of the Spirit of God …that the Harvest of the Fruitfulness of Christ abounds unto the Glory of God and overcomes the dry desolation of “no fruit unto God.”
