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of His system. In His passing, He had apparently left none to car ry on His work, for He had died alone, rejected by most and for saken by all. They were confident that never again would they be troubled by the proposition of being delivered from sin by follow ing Christ’s ways. Even if they were prepared to admit that this was beautiful and idealistic, it was far too impractical to work, so there was no place for it in the earthly order of things. But this was not all the Jews had to say at the cross. They gave Christ a personal demonstration of what they had expect ed Him to do to the Romans. In their bitter disappointment, feel ings of betrayal, and lust for revenge, they wreaked vengeance on Him for His refusal to come under their control and fulfill their plans to crush the Romans. The cross on Calvary said much more than they intended, al though they did not see the additional light shining from that “tree of torture” any more than they understood the true impli cations of what they were doing. They were acting out the en raged passions of their evil natures, for the most part uncon scious of what they were declaring and certainly oblivious to what God was saying. Calvary is the ultimate revelation of the lengths to which hu man plan making will take people, especially when they set out to build God’s kingdom for Him using those procedures. Every religionist solemnly asserts that the only course for any believ er to follow is the will of God. However, in practical terms, this usually means that the church will determine how God’s work is to be carried forward and then appoint themselves executors of the plan. As this is all done for the Lord and in His name, the church members are confident they are doing God’s will, when in fact they are carrying out their own. There is nothing to com pare with the frustrated rage of this class when they discover that God will neither recognize nor accept their works. The dis play of infuriated passion at Calvary is the demonstration, for all those who see it, of the reaction to be expected from religion ists when this unwelcome rejection is brought home to them. Jewish Fallout