Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-07-14

This wall or partition was broken /
down, not to force the Jew out but to |
let the Gentle come in. The apostle
took up the Jew where the law left him |
and graduated him or put on him the
hnishing touch and left him in the |
Church. The Gentle needed more tnan
the formal graduation. He had not |
learned the A b c as yet and had yet
the entire course before him or had it |
all to learn, but some one objects and
asks do we not read that there is no
difference between the Jew and the
Gentle and refer us to Romans 8: 22 |
Even the righteousness of God which is
by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and
upon all them that believe; for there
is no difference" True but Paul in
the same Chapter declares that the
Jew had the advantage and that is
what we are trying to prove and the
ground of what we claim. The Jew
was no better by nature than a Cen
tile, both are sinners. The difference is
in the circumstance of the two. The
Jew had been more favored he was in
the church and now what shall we do,
shall we put him out to get to bring
him in again or shall an arrangement
be made to keep him in? The latter
was done. We have seen that the old
Church was not done away, and now
what of the transition stage. In Daniel
y: 24-27 we find this scripture, seventy
weeks are determined upon thy people
to finish the transgression and to make
an end OF sins and to make reconcilia-
tlon for iniquity and to bring in ever
lasting righteousness and to seal up the
vision and the prophecy and to anoint
the most holy, (this is 400 years for God
commanded Israel to compute time by
weeks of years see Leviticus 25: 81 now
these seventy weeks or 400 years were
divided into three periods (see verse
25) know therefore and understand that
from the going forth of the command
ment to restore and to build Jerusalem
unto the Messiah the prince shall be
seven weeks and three score and two
weeks. The street shall be built again
and the wall even in troublous times.
And he (the Messiah) shall confirm the
covenant with many for one week and
in the midst of the week he shall cause
the sacrifice and the obation to cease.
1st division of the time seven weeks or
40 years from the commandment to re-
build Jerusalem to the setting of the
Jewish state see the account of it in the
books of Ezra and Nehemia. End divi-
sion three score and two weeks or 434
\ years which brings us up to the open
ing of Jesus's ministry when he began
for one week or seven years in the
midst or middle of which he was to
cause the sacrifice and the oblation to
cease and it was at Jesus's death of ar
ter 3% years or the middle of the week
of years that the temple service was in
terrupted by the Tending of the veil.
Concerning this same matter Paul says
in Romans Is: Now | say that Jesus
Christ was a minister of the circum-
cision for the truth of God to confirm
the promises made unto the Fathers Is
not this what Daniel said he should do?
Daniel said it would require seven
years for the work. Jesus engaged in
personally for 3R years and then was
crucitied and left this special work of
confirming the covenant in the hands OF
the Jews and the Apostles to complete
in 3h years more. So then the special
work of Christ and the Apostles begin
ming at the baptism Of Christ and con
tinuing until 31s years after Pentecost
was the work of confirming the cove
nant with many Tor the Jews) and the
instruction given to the Jews in that
period must be distinguished from gos-
= pei of the circumcision which is for the
Gentiles. We must not mistake this
conformation of the covenant with the
Jews for Gods method of saving Gen
tiles, it must be remembered that the
Apostles gave their attention exclusive
ly to the Jews for a long time after
= Pentecost. The idea was to save the
= Church all those who were already IN
plished as far as possible then they
turned their attention to the Gentiles
The Acts of the Apostles on an average
d the history of one year to each Chapter
this we learn from the account oI
Paul's two visits to Jerusalem after hi:
conversion as he gives the account o.
himself 1st and I'd Chapter, his SECOND
visit fourteen years after the first ant
that was the time he visited Church
Councils at Jerusalem which is main
tanned in the 18th Chapter so then thai
Church councils occurred at least Il
years after PauPs conversion Therefore
say that each chapter of Acts records
on an averape the history of more thar