I've ever seen that meme that's got like nine people arranged in a tectobord style and

up the top of the meme, it says something like, here are all the people I want to thank

for doing this thing.

And then it goes through and it says, you, you, you, you, not you, you, you, you, you, and

the joke is like all these people, they did the thing they're supposed to do.

And then this one person, they're like the goat's not greatest of all time, like the goat,

like the scapegoat, like you're the big idiot who got all the stuff wrong.

And I just want to point that out with a meme.

That's kind of what we're getting here at the very, very end of Matthew chapter 23 where

Jesus invokes the language of Daniel chapter nine with that word, desolate saying to the

Pharisees, look, your house is left to you, desolate.

And I look like it's nice.

And you got all these things and everything's great and temple systems running.

It's not you've got a mess here and you're the ones who are causing this abominable desecration

of what's going on, but, and this is where it pivots verse 39, for I tell you, you will

not see me again until you say, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

But you guys fouling up the temple and making this gigantic mess that resulted in the pronouncement

of all these woes and the pronouncement of judgment, even with all of that stupidity, even

with all of that blood lust, even with all of that ugly, what Jesus is saying here in the

very last verse of chapter 23 is, even so, God is still going to redeem.

The redemptive plan is on God's work is on you, in spite of your best efforts, could

not derail it.

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