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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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BOOK Moses <strong>and</strong> Aaron ? Gk>d wonld have<br />

delivered Israel oat <strong>of</strong> Egypt, in <strong>and</strong> given <strong>the</strong>m <strong>the</strong><br />

Law, had <strong>the</strong>re been no such persons. Similaily<br />

** ' ' was it in regard to Solomon, to Es<strong>the</strong>r, to<br />

NebuchadnezsBar, <strong>and</strong> o<strong>the</strong>rs. Nay, it was because<br />

man was predestined to die that <strong>the</strong> serpent came<br />

to seduce our first parents. And as regarded <strong>the</strong><br />

history <strong>of</strong> each individual: all that concerned his<br />

mental <strong>and</strong> physical capacity, or that would betide<br />

him, was prearranged. His name, place, position,<br />

circumstances, <strong>the</strong> very name <strong>of</strong> her whom he was<br />

to wed, were proclaimed in heaven, just as <strong>the</strong><br />

hour <strong>of</strong> his death was foreordered. <strong>The</strong>re might be<br />

seven years <strong>of</strong> pestilence in <strong>the</strong> l<strong>and</strong>,<br />

>8Mib. na <strong>and</strong> yet no one died before his time.*<br />

Even if a man inflicted a cut<br />

kGhiiu.7» on his finger, he might be sure that this<br />

also had been preordered.^ Nay, ^ wheresoever a<br />

man was destined to die, thi<strong>the</strong>r would his feet<br />

carry him.' ^ We can well underst<strong>and</strong> how <strong>the</strong>

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