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

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time to come, as we have to learn it to all ages, till<br />

<strong>the</strong> ^ Age-' or CHAP. ^ .^Eon-completion.'' Most<br />

needful, yet most mysterious also, is this XXTTT<br />

o<strong>the</strong>r lesson, as <strong>the</strong> experience <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Church has<br />

shown, since almost ^"" ' every period <strong>of</strong> her<br />

history has witnessed, not only <strong>the</strong> recurrence <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> proposal to make <strong>the</strong> wheat unmixed, while<br />

growing, by ga<strong>the</strong>ring out <strong>the</strong> tares, but actual<br />

attempts towards it. All such have proved<br />

fiedlures, because <strong>the</strong> field is <strong>the</strong> wide ' world,'<br />

not a narrow sect; because <strong>the</strong> tares have been<br />

sown into <strong>the</strong> midst <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> wheat, <strong>and</strong> by <strong>the</strong><br />

enemy; <strong>and</strong> because, if such ga<strong>the</strong>ring were to take<br />

place, <strong>the</strong> roots <strong>and</strong> blades <strong>of</strong> tares <strong>and</strong> wheat<br />

would be found so intertwined, that harm would<br />

come to <strong>the</strong> wheat. But why try to ga<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong> tares<br />

toge<strong>the</strong>r, unless from undisceming zeal ? Or what<br />

have we, who are only <strong>the</strong> owner's servants, to do<br />

with it, since we are not bidden <strong>of</strong> Him ? <strong>The</strong> ' -<br />

^Eon-completion ' will witness <strong>the</strong> harvest, when<br />

<strong>the</strong> separation <strong>of</strong> tares <strong>and</strong> wheat may not only be<br />

accomplished with safety, but shall become<br />

necessary. For <strong>the</strong> wheat must be garnered in <strong>the</strong>

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