"Where is the smoke of those sacrifices offered as antypical offerings until Messiah Cometh?"

"Not all the blood of beast

On Jewish alters slain

Could give the guilty conscience peace

Or wash away the stain

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But Christ, the Heavenly Lamb,

Takes all our sins away.

A sacrifice of nobler name

And richer blood than they."

Copied (Hymn)

Why look: (O Israel?)

Into the sky where there is no gleam of dawn

Into the night where there is no hope of light

Into the desert where the Lily of the valley

And the rose of Sharon blossom not.

(B. H. Corroll arranged as poem, Hoyte Nelson)

Why wait: (O Israel?)

When the genealogical records, so minutely keep for thousands of years that the Messiah might be so recognized, are now lost in the passing of time. Not so when Jesus walked the Jericho Road.

Why hope: (O Israel?)

That He is the coming Messiah, since Judah, long since, ceased to exist as a sovereign nation. "The scepter shall not depart from Judah, not the ruler’s staff from between his feet till Shiloh come." (Gen. 29:10; 2 Kings 23: 27; Matthew 8: 11,12)