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

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make clear.* As for * <strong>the</strong> sign,' <strong>the</strong>n <strong>and</strong> ever again<br />

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Bought by an * evil <strong>and</strong> adulterous generation '—<br />

evil in <strong>the</strong>ir thoughts , ^ ^^^^ <strong>and</strong> ways, <strong>and</strong><br />

adulteious to <strong>the</strong> God <strong>of</strong> Israel—He had <strong>the</strong>n, as<br />

^li^*). afterwards,* only one * sign * to give : *<br />

Destroy this Temple, <strong>and</strong> in ^^ " three days I will<br />

raise it up.' Thus He met <strong>the</strong>ir challenge for a zu<br />

eft-40 sign by <strong>the</strong> challenge <strong>of</strong> a sign: Crucify Him,<br />

<strong>and</strong> He would rise again; let <strong>the</strong>m suppress <strong>the</strong><br />

Christ, He would triumph.' A sign this which <strong>the</strong>y<br />

understood not, but misunderstood, <strong>and</strong> by making<br />

it <strong>the</strong> ground <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir false charge in His final trial,<br />

<strong>the</strong>mselves unwittingly fulfilled.<br />

And yet to all time this is <strong>the</strong> sign, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> only<br />

sign, which <strong>the</strong> Christ has given, which He still<br />

gives to every * evil <strong>and</strong> adulterous generation,' to<br />

all sin-lovers <strong>and</strong> Grod-forsakers. <strong>The</strong>y will<br />

destroy, 80 far as <strong>the</strong>ir power reaches, <strong>the</strong> Christ,<br />

crucify Him, give His words <strong>the</strong> lie, suppress,<br />

sweep away Christianity—<strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>y shall Qot

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