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[Illustration: THE CRUCIFIXION OF CHRIST
"In the midst of the week He shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation
to cease." Dan. 9:27.]
[Illustration: THE RENT VEIL
"The veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom."
Mark 15:38.]
The Messiah was to "confirm the covenant with many for one week,"
filling out the seventy weeks allotted in God's merciful patience
especially to the people of the Jews. Three and a half years of Christ's
personal ministry on earth had been devoted to the chosen people. Now,
after His ascension, He was still, in the persons of His disciples, to
press the gospel of the new covenant especially upon the Jewish
people--"to the Jew first," and "beginning at Jerusalem."
[Illustration: PETER PREACHING IN THE HOUSE OF CORNELIUS
"They that were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the word."
Acts 8:4.]
This last seven-year period, beginning in A.D. 27, ended in
A.D. 34. By that time the opposition of the Jews was becoming
exceedingly bitter. As a people they were rejecting again the divine
invitation extended by the risen Christ through His witnesses.
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