THE HOPE OF ISRAEL - The Preterist Archive

100 The Hope of Israel: What Is It?
where our A. V. renders it,
saved."
"Look unto Me and be ye
Most assuredly therefore the fulfilment of this prophecy
takes place in this "day" of the gospel, and began
from the day of Pentecost. For then Peter, standing
up with the eleven, set forth before a great concourse
of Jews, Christ crucified and risen; to whom also he
addressed these memorable words: "Therefore let all
the house of Israel know assuredly that God hath made
that same Jesus ivhom ye have crucified" (compare the
words, "whom they have 'pierced") "both Lord and
Christ" (Ac. 2':36). Thereupon some three thousand
did look repentantly and believingly unto Him whom
they had pierced.
Moreover they also mourned for Him, as the prophecy
foretold. For it is recorded that "they were pricked
in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of
the apostles, men and brethren, what shall we do?"
That was indeed "a great mourning in Jerusalem";
for it resulted in the conversion of "about three thousand
souls."
It should be observed further that, according to the
prophecy, every family was to mourn apart, and their
wives apart. Which signifies that "repentance unto
life" and the "godly sorrow" that leads to it, were
to be a personal and individual, and not a national
affair, as the Jewish rabbis taught (and as some Christian
teachers wrongly teach today) .
Then as to the passage (quoted above) beginning,
"And His feet shall stand in that day upon the mount
of Olives," I would first point out that what goes before
is evidently a prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem
by the Romans, when the city was "taken," and