which He is entitled, delivered
their own King into the hands of the Gentiles to be crucified. What
Gabriel in his great message had communicated to Daniel, that Messiah
should be cut off and receive nothing, happened, and that in the very
time as revealed in the ninth chapter of Daniel. The Son of God died,
rejected by His own nation, He died the sinner's death, He died for the
ungodly, He died so that the flood-gates of Divine love and grace might
be opened; and that a Holy God might be justified in saving believing
sinners, both Jews and Gentiles, and making them the heirs of glory.

Our age then begins with this fact: Christ rejected by His own people,
cast out by the world, finishing on the Cross the work of sin bearing.
With this, and the associated events, our age started in. Let us see
then what we find in the beginning of this age, and then see how the
things we shall mention are affected as this age progresses and comes
finally to its close.

+First+, as to the Lord Jesus Christ. As we have already stated, the
Son of God came to this earth, was rejected by men, put to death on the
cross, and after His burial God raised Him from the dead and gave Him
glory. In due time He left the earth and ascended in His glorified
human body into heaven, where He is seated now at the right hand of the
majesty on high. It is a wonderful fact that in heaven, seated at
God's own right hand, there is a Man. One who was born of the Virgin,
lived on earth a holy life, died the sinner's death on the Cross, was
buried and raised by the power of God. Before this age He was also in
heaven, but not as man. He was ever in the bosom of the Father as the
Only Begotten. Now as the Man Christ Jesus who has conquered He fills
that throne, the Father's throne. He has not His own throne which
belongs to Him, nor will He get this throne, the throne of His father
David, as long as this age lasts. Exalted in the highest place He has
all power, and exercises in behalf of His people, His priesthood and
His advocacy, ministering to the needs of His own on earth.

+Second+, let us see next about the Holy Spirit in His relation to this
age. He came to earth on the day of Pentecost. In the Old Testament
times He visited the earth, but not to abide, as is now the case. He
strove with men from the very beginning, He endued prophets, and
priests and kings, and all who believed the Word of God, of which He is
the Author; but after Christ d