Matthew 9:34

Matthew 9:34: “But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.”

This, right here, was the unforgivable sin. It could only be committed by one generation, and they committed it.

Think about it. Today we believe in Jesus even though we have never seen Him. We trust the accounts in the Bible which tell us of things that we have never seen. We live by faith, believing. But this generation was quite different. They saw Jesus. They touched Him. They had dinner with Him. They watched Him demonstrate astonishing, divine power – changing the weather with a simple command, forgiving sins, healing people, raising the dead, and then doing something that only the Messiah could do: casting a demon out of someone who could not talk. Not only did He fulfill all of the Old Testament prophecies about Him, but He even did what their traditions said He could do. He claimed to be the Messiah, He lived it, and He was sinless.

Yet His own people refused to believe. Not only did they not believe, but they went even further and claimed that His powers were demonic and He was possessed. It was a breathtaking lie: to look Jesus Christ in the eye, as He stood there in front of them in person, and tell Him that not only was He an imposter, but He was demonic as well.

That was the end. That was unforgivable. From that moment on the Lord stopped teaching the multitudes and only taught His disciples. He would tell the masses parables, but He did that so they would not understand what He had to tell them (Matthew 13:10-12). Their fate was sealed: the Romans would enslave them, kill more than a million of them, destroy the Temple and Jerusalem, and they would then be scattered all over the world for nearly two thousand years. Instead of inheriting the Millennial Kingdom they would inherit slavery and two millennia of being hated by all the nations. They lost everything, including their lives. Plus, Jesus made it clear that He would not return until they accepted Him.

If the Jews had accepted Jesus as their Messiah, He would still have died – but the past two thousand years of history would have been completely different. Jesus offered them the Kingdom, and they refused it – so it was delayed for a very long time. It will still come, but not until the Jews repent. But that is a topic for another time.