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

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hair^lad <strong>and</strong> lea<strong>the</strong>rn-girt preacher, <strong>and</strong> look over<br />

<strong>the</strong> ruins at <strong>the</strong> scene around. We are st<strong>and</strong>ing on a<br />

height not less than 3,800 feet above <strong>the</strong> Dead Sea.<br />

In a stnught line it seems not more than four or five<br />

miles; <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> road down to it leads, as it were, by<br />

a series <strong>of</strong> ledges <strong>and</strong> steps. We can see <strong>the</strong> whole<br />

extent <strong>of</strong> this Sea <strong>of</strong> Judgment, <strong>and</strong> its western<br />

shores from north to south. We can almost imagine<br />

<strong>the</strong> Baptist, as he st<strong>and</strong>s •urveyiuif this noble<br />

prospect. Far to <strong>the</strong> south stretohea <strong>the</strong> ragged<br />

wilderneis <strong>of</strong> Judaa, bounded by th lIxIb <strong>of</strong><br />

Hebron. Here neatlee OHAP. Bethlehem, <strong>the</strong>re is<br />

Jerus^m. Or, taming ano<strong>the</strong>r way, <strong>and</strong> lookr<br />

XKVIU ing into <strong>the</strong> deep deft <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Jordan valley:<br />

this oaais <strong>of</strong> beauty ie " * ^ Jericho; beyond it, like<br />

a silver thread, Jordan wind« through a burnt<br />

desolate^looMng country, till it is loot to view in<br />

<strong>the</strong> haze which lies upon <strong>the</strong> edge <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> horizon.<br />

As <strong>the</strong> eye <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Baptist travelled over it, he could<br />

follow all <strong>the</strong> scenes <strong>of</strong> his life <strong>and</strong> labours, from<br />

<strong>the</strong> home <strong>of</strong> his cUldhood in <strong>the</strong> hill-oountry <strong>of</strong><br />

JudsBa, to those many years <strong>of</strong> solitude <strong>and</strong>

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