Christ's Sacrifice is His greatest Glory, for it is that work for which His redeemed ones will praise Him for all eternity!
That means that Christ's Sacrifice for sinners is also Israel's greatest Glory, though Israel knows it not.
The Gospel of Christ is the fulfillment of God's promise to Abraham that in his seed, that is Christ, all the nations of the earth would be blessed.
Old Simeon knew this quite well when he held the Lord Jesus in his arms and gave thanks for seeing the "light unto the Gentiles, and the Glory of thy people Israel!"
How amazing then that Israel should reject it's chief Glory, the Lord Jesus and His Sacrifice! But Isaiah foretold in several passages that Israel would reject Him, and that the Gentiles would receive Him!
Paul warned the Jews of the dangers of that rejection, and Christ wept over Jerusalem because of it.
Paul explains the rejection: that Israel always goes about establishing its own righteousness by the keeping of the law, and will not submit itself to the Righteousness which from God by faith in the Lord Jesus.
Thus Israel thought it's glory was the law of Moses. Yet God repeatedly rebuked Israel for disobedience and rebellion. Israel's chosen "glory" was trumped up and based upon foolish pride and self-righteousness.
No other people were blessed more than Israel - and yet it rebelled against God to the end. Israel proves that common grace cannot overcome the corruption of the fall.
Only a new covenant, executed by the blood of Jesus, could bring in righteousness and forgiveness.
By Israel's rebellion against Christ, He was offered up as God's Lamb for sinners. Now all the Glory is Christ's alone!
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
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