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

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ladder by which <strong>the</strong> Angel would take <strong>the</strong> pnest<br />

upwards. Nor was even this followed by an<br />

immediate disclosure <strong>of</strong> what, in such a place, <strong>and</strong><br />

firom such a messenger, must have carried to a<br />

believing heart <strong>the</strong> thrill <strong>of</strong> almost unspeakable<br />

emotion. Ba<strong>the</strong>r was Zacharias led upwards, step<br />

by step. <strong>The</strong> Child was to be great before <strong>the</strong> Lord;<br />

not only an ordinary, but a life-Nazarite,* as<br />

Samsoti <strong>and</strong> Samuel <strong>of</strong> old had been. Like <strong>the</strong>m, he<br />

was not to consecrate himself, but from <strong>the</strong><br />

inception <strong>of</strong> life wholly to belong to God, for His<br />

work. And, greater than ei<strong>the</strong>r <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se<br />

representatives <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> symbolical import <strong>of</strong><br />

Nazarism, he would combine <strong>the</strong> tw<strong>of</strong>old meaning<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir mission —outward <strong>and</strong> inward might in<br />

God, only in a higher <strong>and</strong> more spiritual sense. For<br />

this life-work he would be filled with <strong>the</strong> Holy<br />

Ghost, from <strong>the</strong> moment life woke within him.<br />

<strong>The</strong>n, as ano<strong>the</strong>r Samson, would he, in <strong>the</strong> strength<br />

<strong>of</strong> God, lift <strong>the</strong> axe to each tree to be felled, <strong>and</strong>,<br />

like ano<strong>the</strong>r Samuel, turn many <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> children <strong>of</strong><br />

Israel to <strong>the</strong> Lord <strong>the</strong>ir God. Nay, combining <strong>the</strong>se<br />

two missions, as did Elijah on Mount Carmel, he

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