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

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into Qerasa—into <strong>the</strong> country round about, to tell<br />

what had happened.<br />

It is morning, <strong>and</strong> a new moming-sacrifioe <strong>and</strong><br />

moming-PSalm are about to be <strong>of</strong>fered. He that had<br />

erst been <strong>the</strong> possession <strong>of</strong> foul <strong>and</strong> evil spirits—a<br />

very legion <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m—<strong>and</strong> deprived <strong>of</strong> his human<br />

individuality, is now * sitting at <strong>the</strong> feet <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong>,'<br />

learning <strong>of</strong> Him,<br />

* clo<strong>the</strong>d <strong>and</strong> in his right mind.' He has been<br />

brought to God, restored to self, to reason, <strong>and</strong> to<br />

human society—<strong>and</strong> all this by <strong>Jesus</strong>, at Whose<br />

Feet he is gratefully, humbly sitting, ^ a disciple.*<br />

Is He not <strong>the</strong>n <strong>the</strong> Very Son <strong>of</strong> God ? Viewing this<br />

miracle as an historical fact, viewing it as a<br />

Parabolic Miracle, viewing it also as symbolic <strong>of</strong><br />

what has happened in all ages—is He not <strong>the</strong> Son<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Most High God ? And is <strong>the</strong>re not now, on<br />

His part, in <strong>the</strong> morning-light <strong>the</strong> same calmness<br />

<strong>and</strong> majesty <strong>of</strong> conscious Almighty Power as on<br />

<strong>the</strong> evening before, when He rebuked <strong>the</strong> storm <strong>and</strong><br />

calmed <strong>the</strong> sea?

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