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

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Uie Ten Tribes haye no part in <strong>the</strong> era to come,<br />

because it is written, *' <strong>The</strong> Loid drave <strong>the</strong>m out <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong>ir l<strong>and</strong> in anger, <strong>and</strong> in wrath, <strong>and</strong> in great<br />

indignation, <strong>and</strong> cast <strong>the</strong>m into ano<strong>the</strong>r l<strong>and</strong>.** "<br />

<strong>The</strong> Lord drave <strong>the</strong>m from <strong>the</strong>ir l<strong>and</strong>"—in <strong>the</strong><br />

present era—**<strong>and</strong> cast <strong>the</strong>m into ano<strong>the</strong>r l<strong>and</strong>**<br />

—in <strong>the</strong> era to come.* In curious agreement with<br />

this, Pseudo-Baruch writes to <strong>the</strong> nine <strong>and</strong> a half<br />

tribes to 'prepare <strong>the</strong>ir hearts to that which <strong>the</strong>y<br />

had formerly believed,* lest <strong>the</strong>y should suffer ' in<br />

both eras {ab ^firoaue sacuhy being led captive in<br />

<strong>the</strong><br />

one, <strong>and</strong> tormented in <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r (Apoc. Bar. Ixzzui.<br />

8).<br />

* Thus, for example, <strong>the</strong> assertion that <strong>the</strong>re had<br />

been individuals who fulfiUed <strong>the</strong> comm<strong>and</strong>ments<br />

<strong>of</strong> Qod, Vis. i. ch. iii. 36; <strong>the</strong> domain <strong>of</strong> reason, iv.<br />

22; v. 9; general Messianic blessings to <strong>the</strong> world<br />

at large, Vit, i. ch. iv. 27, 28; <strong>the</strong> idea <strong>of</strong> a law<br />

within <strong>the</strong>ir minds, like that <strong>of</strong> which St. Paul<br />

speaks in <strong>the</strong> case <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> hea<strong>the</strong>n, Vis. iii. ch.vi.

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