yet to come. It will begin with the
"lifting of the veil" from the eyes of Israel. When that is to begin
we know not, and it is neither safe nor wise to venture any guess. But
that it will come in due time is as sure as that all the other
predictions of Old and New Testament have had their commencement and
their close. It will be a great day, for, as the Apostle Paul says,
"if the casting away of them [Israel] is the reconciling of the world,
what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?" (Rom.
11:15). That will be a day of vast ingathering into the kingdom of
God, and then Jesus shall see of the travail of his soul and be
satisfied.

#110. Then Comes the End.#--Jew and Gentile will then be one, and the
final triumph of the Redeemer will be ushered in. Then the ransomed
and redeemed of the Lord shall unite in singing praises to him who has
loved them and bought them, and has brought them home to glory. (There
are differences of opinion as to the last two periods in this New
Testament story. Let the student go to the law and the testimony, as
referred to above, and decide for himself whether the writer is upheld
in his laying out of these two great periods.)

Test Questions

How long an interval of silence is there between the Old and the New
Testament times?

Give the prelude to the New Testament Period.

In what does the first period consist?

How long does the first period last?

Give the title of the second period.

How long did this period continue?

What is the third period called?

Into what two divisions may this period be divided?

What was the significance of the admission of the Gentiles to the
church?

Give the fourth period.

Name the fifth period.

What Scripture is there in support of these two periods?

Lesson 2

The Life of Jesus--Thirty Years of Preparation

New Testament Division--Second Period

#The Life of Jesus# may be considered under five subdivisions:
Silence, Obscurity, Popularity, Opposition, The Passion Week.

#Thirty Years of Silence.#--The Bible narrative tells but
little of these early years; but one public utterance of
Jesus is referred to until he was thirty years of age.

#NOTE.--The harmony of the four Gospels used in the following
chapters is not intended to be memorized. It is placed here
in order to familiarize the pupil with its use, and to afford
a ready means to locate the events in the Life o