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

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things, while around <strong>the</strong>m were suffering,<br />

perishing men, stretching<br />

< lame h<strong>and</strong>s' into emptiness, <strong>and</strong> wailing out <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

mistaken hopes<br />

into <strong>the</strong> eternal silence.<br />

YHiile <strong>the</strong>y were discussing <strong>the</strong> niceties <strong>of</strong> what<br />

constituted labour on a Sabbath, such as what<br />

infringed its sacred rest or what constituted a<br />

burden, multitudes <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m who laboured <strong>and</strong> were<br />

heavy laden were left to perish in <strong>the</strong>ir ignorance.<br />

That wsa <strong>the</strong> Sabbath, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> Gk)d <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Sabbath<br />

<strong>of</strong> Pharisaism; this <strong>the</strong> rest, <strong>the</strong> enlightenment, <strong>the</strong><br />

hope for <strong>the</strong>m who laboured <strong>and</strong> were heavy<br />

laden, <strong>and</strong> who longed <strong>and</strong> knew not where to find<br />

<strong>the</strong> true SahbaMsmos ! Nay, if <strong>the</strong> Christ had not<br />

been <strong>the</strong> very opposite <strong>of</strong> all that Pharisaism<br />

sought, He would not have been <strong>the</strong> Orient Sun <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> Eternal Sabbath. But <strong>the</strong> Grod YHio ever<br />

worked in love. Whose rest was to give rest.<br />

Whose Sabbath to remove burdens, was His

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