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would be revealed as Lord of heaven and earth. In the sight of the
whole universe, the rejected stone would become the head of the
corner.
And on “whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder.” The
people who rejected Christ would soon see their city and nation
destroyed and their glory scattered as the dust before the wind. And
what was it that destroyed the Jews? The Rock that would have been
their security, if they had built on it. It was the goodness of God
despised, mercy slighted. The people set themselves in opposition to
God, and everything that would have been their salvation was turned
to their destruction.
The destruction of Jerusalem was involved in the Jews’ crucifix-
ion of Christ. The blood shed on Calvary was the weight that sank
them to ruin.
It will be like that in the great final day, when judgment will fall
on those who reject God’s grace. Christ, their Rock of offense, will
then appear like an avenging mountain. The glory of His face, which
is life to the righteous, will be a consuming fire to the wicked. Be-
cause of love rejected, grace despised, the sinner will be destroyed.
The profaned temple, the disobedient son, the false vinedressers,
and the contemptuous builders have their counterpart in the experi-
ence of every sinner. Unless the sinner repents, the doom that they
foreshadowed will be his.
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