The Rejection of the Messiah – he is the Son of the vineyard owner and the Stone the builders rejected.
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, “Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: ‘Whoever believes will not be in haste (shaken, disappointed).’” Isa 28:18
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Comment:
This prophecy, recorded in Psalm 118:22 and Isaiah 28:18, is quoted by Jesus in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and Peter quotes it twice: Matthew 21:42, Mark 12:10, Luke 20:17, Acts 4:11, and 1 Peter 2:7. It is the idea that God’s means of salvation turns the religious idea of salvation on its head (not only the Jewish notion, but all religions), that people are saved by their good works. No! No man will be justified by his works. Salvation is by faith, through grace, accomplished through the sacrifice of the Son. It forever changes the understanding of how God relates to man from fear to love, as Paul says in Rom 8:31-39:
31What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can bei against us? 32He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.j35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36As it is written,
“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.