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Today 6/23/21:
We read Acts 7:1-21 and finish reading Esther (9, 10)
Those in Israel had become the betrayers and murderers -- they had received the law by the direction of angels and did not keep it. They murdered Jesus,
Through Stephen's sermons, martyrdom and Jesus' word*, it became abundantly clear that the old traditions and beliefs of Judaism could not coincide with Christianity.
* Matthew 9:17
Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
Of course the scribes and the Pharisees were enraged and began to gnash their teeth -- an act Jesus associated with the description of Hell.
