He came to His own inheritance, but His own people rejected Him. Jesus set this forth most clearly in the parable of the vineyard which was let out to husbandmen, who killed the heir when he came. See Matthew 21.33-44
(There is a parellel here to the 1888 General Conference when God's special message was rejected along with Jesus Himself - by "His own." Nothing can advance till His message is accepted fully.) D. Peters
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