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

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THB TBACHIB 00MB FBOM GOD AKD THE<br />

TRAnmat FBOM JXRUSJIiBll—<br />

JESUS AND NIOODSMUS.<br />

(St. John iiL 1-21.)<br />

But <strong>the</strong>re were those who beheld, <strong>and</strong> heard BQs<br />

words, <strong>and</strong> did in CHAP, some measure<br />

underst<strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>m. Even before <strong>Jesus</strong> had spoken to<br />

<strong>the</strong> ^ Temples-<strong>of</strong>ficials, His disoiples, as silently<br />

<strong>the</strong>y watched Him, saw an old Scripturo'^saying<br />

kindled into light by <strong>the</strong> halo <strong>of</strong> His glory. It was<br />

that <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> suffering, self-forgetftd, Ood-dedicated<br />

Servant, <strong>of</strong> Jehovah, as His figure stood out against<br />

<strong>the</strong> Old Testament sky, realising in a hostile world<br />

only this, as <strong>the</strong> deepest element <strong>of</strong> His being <strong>and</strong><br />

calling: entire inward <strong>and</strong> outward consecration to<br />

God, a burnt-<strong>of</strong>fering, such as Isaac would have<br />

been. Within <strong>the</strong>ir minds sprang up unbidden, as<br />

when <strong>the</strong> light <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Urim <strong>and</strong> Thummim fell on<br />

<strong>the</strong> letters graven on <strong>the</strong> precious stones <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

High-Priest's breastplate, those words <strong>of</strong> old: ' <strong>The</strong>

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