My enemy’s enemy is my friend.  No matter if two people or two nations are enemies…if those same two people or nations have a common enemy…they become friends.  And so it happened in the last week, the last hours of Jesus’ life.  Herod and Pilate became friends.  They had a common adversary…the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem.  The religious authorities had tried to manipulate Pilate and Herod.  (And they succeeded!)  In the case of Jesus, these religious authorities had their way.

  But did they really?  No!  God’s plan and purpose was for Jesus to go to the altar of the cross as the blood sacrifice – the Lamb of God.  Jesus suffered and died on that cross for Herod, Pilate, the chief priests, the scribes, Jews and Gentiles, for you and me!

(NASB) Luke 23:12 “Now Herod and Pilate became friends with one another that very day; for before they had been enemies with each other.”

My enemy’s enemy is my friend.  Nations at enmity with each other forge tenuous friendships when they have a common enemy. 

  What can we know will happen in the ‘last days’?  All nations will be at enmity with Israel.  How will the living God of the Bible view this enmity?  In reality, the nations will be against the living God.  Uh-oh.

(NASB) Psalm 2:1-3 “WHY ARE the nations in an uproar
And the peoples devising a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth take their stand
And the rulers take counsel together
Against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying,
3 Let us tear their fetters apart and cast away their cords from us!” 

  This Psalm continues with how God will respond… by scoffing at those nations and speaking in His anger and fury: “…I have installed My King on Zion, My holy hill.”  (Psalm 2:4-6 NIV)

  The most important act you and I can do?   Forge our friendship with the eternal God, the coming King Jesus.
  How to do this?  Ask the sacrificial Lamb of God to save us…to redeem us…by repenting of our sins and accepting the gift of Jesus’ sacrifice that saves us from our sins.

  Ask the Lord Jesus to ‘grow us up’ as the beloved children of God. 

  Pay homage to the Son…for He is worthy to be worshiped, loved and reverenced.

(NASB) Psalm 2:12 “Do homage to the Son, that He not become angry, and you perish in the way,
For His wrath may soon be kindled.
How blessed are all who take refuge in Him!”