Interesting how Jesus can be a stone of stumbing for some while the Great Hope and Promise for others.
“
Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
And
he shall be for a sanctuary;
but
for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. And
I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.”
Isaiah 8:13-18
“And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that
the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same veil untaken away in the reading of the old testament;
which
veil is done away in Christ. But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart. Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord,
the veil shall be taken away.”
2 Corinthians 3:13-16 KJV