Woe to You, Chorazin!

I was reading in Matthew this morning and I came across one of those passages that you've read a hundred times before, but then something great gets in.

The scripture I want to talk about is as follows-

Matthew 11:20-24 NASB
The Unrepenting Cities
20Then He began to denounce the cities in which most of His miracles were done, because they did not repent.
21"Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles had occurred in Tyre and Sidon which occurred in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
22"Nevertheless I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you.
23"And you, Capernaum, will not be exalted to heaven, will you? You will descend to Hades; for if the miracles had occurred in Sodom which occurred in you, it would have remained to this day. 24"Nevertheless I say to you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for you."


The city of Sidon was a hotbed of Phoenician idolatry(Isa 23; Ez 28) and materialism.
Tyre was at one time, an important coastal port. Ezekial foretold that continuous invasions would make it a place where only fishermen dry their nets. And we all know what happened to Sodom.

Jesus is chastising Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum because they have had the blessing of His presence, His teaching, and His miracles and yet they do not repent. These other cities didn't have that benefit and yet will be better off than those who have heard but not listened.
Revelation 13:9 says, "He who has an ear, let him hear.

Here we are in this great nation today, striking the name and title of Jesus our Christ from public prayer. People were outraged when the Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert referred to the politically correct "Capitol Holiday Tree" as the Capitol Christmas Tree. There are too many examples of this type of behavior for a nation where 91% of the citizens proclaim a belief in God.

So much is said about a God of love, but we tippy toe around about a God of wrath.

Let's hear and fear Him