The Intervention of God in Christ

You find two things associated with the coming of the Lord Jesus. One is the breakdown of the law, or of man under the law - the total breakdown. And that is made very clear by the very presence of the Lord Jesus Himself and explains His whole attitude towards Israel, towards Judaism, when He was here. It is made unmistakably clear to all that man under the law, even in favourable association with God, is a failure. But just at that very point where the thing is so fully and completely demonstrated and revealed, there is also a wonderful preparedness on the part of the rest of the world for Christ.