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

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^ioodemus uow understood in some pieasu^ whajt<br />

entrance ui(q<br />

•HOW CAN THESE THINGS BE?»<br />

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<strong>the</strong> Kingdom meant; bat its how seemed only<br />

inyolved in greaW mystery. That it was such a<br />

mystery, nnthonght <strong>and</strong> animagined in Jewish<br />

<strong>the</strong>ology, was a terribly sad manifestation <strong>of</strong> what<br />

<strong>the</strong> teaching in Israel was. Yet it had all been told<br />

<strong>the</strong>m, as <strong>of</strong> personal knowledge, by <strong>the</strong> Baptist <strong>and</strong><br />

by Jesns; nay, if <strong>the</strong>y conld only have received it,<br />

by <strong>the</strong> whole Old Testament. He wanted to know<br />

<strong>the</strong> hew <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se things before he believed <strong>the</strong>m.<br />

He believed <strong>the</strong>m not, though <strong>the</strong>y passed on earth,<br />

because he knew not <strong>the</strong>ir how. How <strong>the</strong>n conld he<br />

believe that hoWj <strong>of</strong> which <strong>the</strong> agency was unseen<br />

<strong>and</strong> in heaven ? To that spring <strong>of</strong> being no one<br />

could ascend but He that had come down from<br />

heaven,* <strong>and</strong> Who, to bring to us that spring <strong>of</strong><br />

being, had appeared as ^ <strong>the</strong> Son <strong>of</strong> Man,' <strong>the</strong> Ideal

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