This Revelation is the immediate issue of Israel's great apostasy.
Sin evokes His pardoning mercy. This insignificant speck in Creation
has been the scene of the wonder of the Incarnation, not because its
magnitude was great, but because its need was desperate. Men, because
they are sinners, have been subjects of an experience more precious
than the 'angels which excel in strength' and hearken 'to the voice of
His word' have known or can know. The wilder the storm of human evil
roars and rages, the deeper and louder is the voice that peals across
the storm. So for us all Christ is the full and final revelation of
God's grace. The last, because the perfect embodiment of it; the sole,
because the sufficient manifestation of it. 'See that ye refuse not Him
that speaketh.'