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white banner, and many were slain; yet the white banner was held
high, and individuals were raised up to rally around it.
The Jews who first started the rage of the heathen against Jesus,
were not to escape. In the judgment hall the infuriated Jews cried,
as Pilate hesitated to condemn Jesus, His blood be on us and on our
children. The race of the Jews experienced the fulfillment of this
terrible curse which they called down upon their own heads. Heathen
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and those called Christians were alike their foes. Those professed
Christians, in their zeal for the cross of Christ, because the Jews had
crucified Jesus, thought that the more suffering they could bring upon
them, the better could they please God; and many of those unbelieving
Jews were killed, while others were driven from place to place, and
were punished in almost every manner.
The blood of Christ, and of the disciples, whom they had put to
death, was upon them, and in terrible judgments were they visited. The
curse of God followed them, and they were a by-word and a derision
to the heathen and to Christians. They were shunned, degraded and
detested, as though the brand of Cain was upon them. Yet I saw that
God marvelously preserved this people, and had scattered them over
the world, that they might be looked upon as especially visited by a
curse from God. I saw that God has forsaken the Jews as a nation;
yet there was a portion of them who would be enabled to tear away
the veil from their hearts. Some will yet see that prophecy has been
fulfilled concerning them, and they will receive Jesus as the Saviour of
the world, and see the great sin of their nation in rejecting Jesus, and
crucifying him. Individuals among the Jews will be converted; but as
a nation they are forever forsaken of God.
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