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

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through <strong>the</strong> ranks : * This One is truly <strong>the</strong> Prophet,<br />

<strong>the</strong> Coming One!' So, <strong>the</strong>n, <strong>the</strong>y had no longer to<br />

wait, nor to look for ano<strong>the</strong>r! And this ^ Phyphet'<br />

was Israel's long-expected <strong>Messiah</strong>. What this<br />

would imply to <strong>the</strong> people, in <strong>the</strong> intensity <strong>and</strong><br />

longing <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> great hope which, for centuries, nay,<br />

far beyond <strong>the</strong> time <strong>of</strong> Ezra, had swayed <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

hearts, it is impossible fully to conceive. Here,<br />

<strong>the</strong>n, was <strong>the</strong> Great Reality at last before <strong>the</strong>m. He,<br />

on Whose teaching <strong>the</strong>y had hung entranced, was *<br />

<strong>the</strong> Prophet,' nay, more, * <strong>the</strong> Coming One:' He<br />

Who was coming all those many centuries, <strong>and</strong> yet<br />

had not come tDl now. <strong>The</strong>n, also, was He more<br />

than a Prophet—^a King: Israel's King, <strong>the</strong> King <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> world. An irresistible impulse seized <strong>the</strong><br />

people. <strong>The</strong>y would proclaim Him King, <strong>the</strong>n <strong>and</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong>re; <strong>and</strong> as <strong>the</strong>y knew, probably from previous<br />

utterances, perhaps when similar movements had<br />

to be checked, that He would resist, <strong>the</strong>y would<br />

constrain Him to declare Himself, or at least to be<br />

proclaimed by <strong>the</strong>m. Can we wonder at this; or that<br />

thoughts <strong>of</strong> a Messianic worldly kingdom should<br />

have filled, moved, <strong>and</strong> influenced to discipleship

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