The nation of Israel, as God's Elect, looked forward to the coming of the Messiah as the most significant event in its existence and the acme of the Jewish people's hopes. Yet when Christ came in fulfilment of that dream, He was not recognized by His people, and consequently rejected. How could that be? The church had so corrupted the Written Word that it could not see any affinity between the Written and Living Word. The worship experience of the church was so far from the ideal given by the Father that Jesus declared it "in vain," because tradition replaced truth. "Christianity Today" calls...