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1-8) where he was given charge to rebuild Jerusalem.  On Palm Sunday, April 2nd, 32 A.D., Christ offered Himself as Messiah to Israel, and was rejected.  This is why Jesus wept;  If thou hadst known, even thou, the time of thy visitation.  For Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey as Zechariah had prophesied (Zech. 9, v. 9)  "Behold thy King cometh unto thee, lowly and riding upon an ass."  Jesus arrived at  precisely the appointed time.  This is why Jesus said, (in John 8. v. 24) "If ye believe not that I am He ye shall die in your sins."  Christ knew, as He looked down the centuries, the holocaust that Israel's rejection of Him would bring  upon them.  When Jesus stood before the judgment seat, Pilate asked the crowds whether he should release unto them Christ, or Barrabas, a murderer.  Their overwhelming cry was: "Give us Barrabas!."  So God gave them a murderer instead of a Savior; for this was the desire of their hearts.  Jewish history ever since has been bathed in blood.  You see, the Messiah, according to the Prophet Daniel, had to come and be Cut off (killed) in only 483 years: otherwise the  Book of Daniel could not be considered a true prophetic book.  And if it is not true, it should have been torn out of every Bible as false.  Thank God Christ  came in the only allowable time as prescribed in the scripture.  Now Jesus warned (in Luke 21, v. 29) that after the fig tree blossoms, (the symbol of israel's return as a nation) and puts forth her tender leaves; (the Six Days War recapture of Jerusalem) that the darkest days in all of human history would rapidly  unfold.  Jeremiah the Prophet (Jer. 30, v. 7) declared, "Alas, for that day is great, so that none is like it:  It is even the time of Jacob's trouble;  But he shall be saved out of it."  Zechariah (12, v. 10) states, "And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of Grace and supplications:  And they shall look upon Me whom they have pierced and they shall mourn for Him as one mourneth for His only son."  Later, in (chap. 13, v. 6) Zechariah continues:  "And one shall say unto Him;  What are these wounds in thy hands? Then He shall answer;  Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends."  Those who remain at Christ's return will be shocked -- weeping and wailing, when they realize their Messiah has the wounds of Crucifixion still upon His body. Christ's revelation of Himself to the surviving remnant of Israel is mar