Today's Gospel (Matthew 21:33-43) has at least two very obvious applications.
1. The literal meaning: Jews that rejected and Jews that reject Christ thereby reject God and attempt to destroy Him.
N.B. A contemporary example of this in the Next Post (Warning: extremely politically incorrect with references to secondary lewd content!)
2. By analogy: Christians who reject their Christian heritage (doctrinal and moral) also become enemies of God, even if they claim to be Catholic. You cannot love God and Mammon!
Hence the Lord says to the chief priests and the elders of the people:
"The kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that will produce its fruits."
Jew and Christian alike must convert and believe in Jesus Christ and join Him: the Way, the Truth and the Life! It is urgent! It is for everyone! Now! The kingdom of God is within you! (Luke 17:21)
Luke Chapter 17
20 And being asked by the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come? he answered them, and said: The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
21 Neither shall they say: Behold here, or behold there. For lo, the kingdom of God is within you.
22 And he said to his disciples: The days will come, when you shall desire to see one day of the Son of man; and you shall not see it.
23 And they will say to you: See here, and see there. Go ye not after, nor follow them:
24 For as the lightning that lighteneth from under heaven, shineth unto the parts that are under heaven, so shall the Son of man be in his day.
25 But first he must suffer many things, and be rejected by this generation.
26 And as it came to pass in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
27 They did eat and drink, they married wives, and were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark: and the flood came and destroyed them all.
28 Likewise as it came to pass, in the days of Lot: they did eat and drink, they bought and sold, they planted and built.
29 And in the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man shall be revealed.
31 In that hour, he that shall be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away: and he that shall be in the field, in like manner, let him not return back.
32 Remember Lot's wife.
33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life, shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose it, shall preserve it.
34 I say to you: in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together: the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left: two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
36 They answering, say to him: Where, Lord?
37 Who said to them: Wheresoever the body shall be, thither will the eagles also be gathered together.
Cf. Ingratitude
N.B. Jewish converts make the best Catholics: e.g. Bernard Nathanson: Erstwhile anti-Catholic abortion pioneer.
N.B. Jewish converts make the best Catholics: e.g. Bernard Nathanson: Erstwhile anti-Catholic abortion pioneer.
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