Evening star., 1924-05-12
Large Crowd Hears Evangel-
list Bernstein Prove From
Scriptures That Jesus Full
filled the Prophecies.
Will Speak ON
Human Redemption
Tonight

nightly lectures at the Capital Memorial
Chapel-the newly dedicated church
5th and F streets northwet. He spoke
on the subject: ''Was Jesus Christ an
Impostor?" and gave positive proof
that Christ substantiated every claim
He set forth in His behalf as the prom.
ised Messiah.
Holding up the Bible, Mr.. Bernstein
filled which are written in the Law of
Moses, the prophets and in the Psalms
concerning the Messiah, and compiled
the various Messianic prophecies and
their fulfilment. He showed that Adam
and Eve, earth's first people, and their
direct offspring, all understood that a
WOMAN, a virgin, was TO bear a son who
was to be the sinners substitute, and
that i'm their sacri6cial offerings from
the earliest times the worshiper was
familiar with the fact that without the
shedding Of blood there was to be no
remission of sins.
"In Genesis, 3:l5, was the first
prophecy concerning the coming of the
Messiah, when God told the serpent, i'm
mediately after Adam and Eve had
sinned, that He would put enmity be.
tween thee and the woman and be-
tween thy seed and her seed; ii shall
bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise
his heel
an the offering of sacrifices the wor-
shipper confessed that the wages of sin
| is death, that he had mcrited death by
his sin, but that, in the providence Of
God, an innocent substitute had been
provided to die for his transgression.
This round of service, with other simi.
lar services, was repeated day after day
throughout the year in the first apart.
ment of the tabernacle until the clos
ing day of the year was reached-the
tenth day of the seventh month.
ITO this agree the words of the
| Prophet Isaiah, in his book, chapter
| So, where it is stated the Messiah was
to be: ~ 'Smitten of Cod (2)
Wounded for our transgressions,' CD
Bruised for our iniquities,' that the
/ (4 Lord laid on him the iniquity of
US ALL that he was 80 Brought as a
Lamb to the slaughter. and that he
/ 90 Made his grave with the wicked
This Redeemer PROMISED, this Son
to be born. this Prince of Peace to
come, was through the lineage of Abra-
ham, Genesis, 12:1-3; Judah, Genesis,
| 1910; David. Isaiah, 9:7.
Even the birthplace of the Messiah
was pointed out by the prophet, as
shown in reading Micah, 5:2: But
thou, Bethlehem, Ephratah, though
thou be little among the thousands of
Judah, yet out Of thee shall He come
forth
'Marshaling the facts in the predic.
ton O "A seed Genesis, 3:l5; (2) "A
child Isaiah, 9:6; (3) son coming
into the world through "a woman,
Isaiah, 7:l4; (4) "A virgin mother
Isaiah, 7:l4; go Who in lineage
should come through Abraham, Judah
and David Genesis, 13:15; Genesis
1910; Psalm, 132:10, IL; Co And
born in Bethlehem and shedding his
blood, the innocent for the guilty,
Micah, So; Isaiah, 63:l, all find
fulfllment in Jesus Christ.
But still more convincing was Mr.
Bernstein's review of the time prophecy
of Daniel chapter 9, by which the exac,
time of the appearance of the Messiah
is established. He said:
THE seventy weeks in the prediction
equal 400 days, and these days, repre-.
senting 400 literal years (see Numbers,
| l4:34), was given to the Jews to finish
their history as Gods nation. The
date suggested in the prophecy as the
beginning of this period is at the time
when the commandment went forth to
restore and rebuild jerusalem then
lying in Babylonian ruins, which, &C.
cording to the account in Ezra, 7:11-26.
was 457 B. C. Margin.
From this date, 457 B. C.-sixty-nine
weeks, or 4S3 years Daniel 9:27) was
to reach to the Messiah, the Amounted
One. These 483 years from 457 B. c.
argued MIR. Bernstein, take us to A D.
81, when Jesus Christ was anointed with
the Holy Ghost (Acts, l0:38), at His
baptism MARX, l:9-l1, Luke, 3:2l, 22)
and entered upon His public ministry.
The Daniel prophecy, chapter 9, verse
27, also states the Messiah would cause
sacrifices and oblations to cease.
In explaining that Jesus Christ did
put an end to sacrifices, Mr.. Bernstein
used his Mosaic tabernacle model
which is a model of gold, and the
largest of its kind now in existence
being one-eighth the size of the one
constructed by Moses in the Arabian
wilderness. 1t covers the entire plat
form of the church, and its beauty was
enhanced by the background painting
Il feet by 30 feet, showing Mount Sinai
and Israel encamped.
As Mr.. Bernstein opened the sane
tuary to explain the point-"Why Sac
rifices Have Ceased"-he pointed oul
the inner veil, which, in the Jewish
temple at Jerusalem, was rent in twain
when Jesus Christ on Calvary dropped
His head and died. With rendine
noise the inner veil of the temple was
torn from top to bottom by an unseen
hand, throwing open to the gaze OF
the multitude a place once filled with
the presence of God. The priest was
about to slay the victim, but the knife
dropped from his nerveless hand and
the lamb escaped. Type had met anti
type in the death of Gods Son. The
Son of God had come according to His
word, "Lo, l come Tin the volume Of
the book it is written of Me) to do Thy
will, o Cod" @By His own blood" HI
entereth tin once into the holy place
having obtained eternal redemption
for u.s. Hebrews, 1871; 9:l2.
~Thus the Son of God was clothed
with humanity and died for the sins Of
humanity"
MIR. Bernstein's arguments left ne
loophole for infdelity or sophistry
and proved a master stroke agains
twentieth century modernism.
| The subject of Evangelist Bern
stems second lecture tonight is "Ole
Testament Symbolism Explained-ths
Absorbing Theme of Human Redemp
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