60 The Fundamentals known mode of death. Cruel Rome invented that horrible form of death. The cry of the forsaken One is predicted in the very words which came from the lips of our Savipur out of the darkness which enshrouded the cross. So are also predicted the words of mockery by those who looked on ; the piercing of His hands and feet; the parting of the garments and the casting of the lots. In the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah, the purpose of His death is so blessedly predicted. He was to die the substitute of sinners. There we find also His burial and His resurrection predicted. All this was recorded 700 years before our Lord was born. In the Psalms we find the prophecy that the rejected One would occupy a place at the right hand of God (Psalm 110:1). He was to leave the earth. David’s Son and David’s Lord was to have a place in the highest glory, even at the right hand of God, to wait there till His enemies are made His footstool. I t is indeed a won derful chain of prophecies concerning Christ. We could give a very few of these predictions. How they all were long ago literally fulfilled in the coming, in the life, in the death, in the resurrection and ascension of our adorable Lord, all true believers know. THE JEWISH PEOPLE When Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, asked the court chaplain for an argument that the Bible is an inspired book, he answered, “Your Majesty, the Jews.” I t was well said. To the Jews were committed the oracles of God. (Rom. 3 :2 .) These oracles of God, the Holy Scriptures, the Law and the Prophets, are filled with a large number of predictions relating to their own history. Their unbelief, the rejection of the Messiah, the results of that rejection, their dispersion into the comers of the earth, so that they would be scattered among all the nations, the persecutions and sorrows they were to suffer, the curses which were to come upon them, their miracu lous preservation as a nation, their future great tribulation and
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