Does Luke 19:41-44 Support the Well-Meant Offer?
Herman Hanko examines Luke 19:41-44 to refute the claim that Christ's weeping over Jerusalem demonstrates a well-meant gospel offer to all people, including the reprobate. Through careful exegesis comparing this passage with Matthew 23:37, Hanko argues that Jesus's sorrow concerned the judgment of the city's unbelieving religious leaders, not a frustrated desire to save those whom God had ordained to reprobation.
Prof. Herman Hanko And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another;...