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

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THE JOURNEY OF JOSEPH AND MART TO<br />

BETHLEHEM.<br />

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has, by aniversal consent, been <strong>the</strong> mightiest<br />

Factor in onr world's CHAP, history: alike<br />

politically, socially, intellectually, <strong>and</strong> morally. K<br />

VI He be not <strong>the</strong> <strong>Messiah</strong>, He has at least thus far<br />

done <strong>the</strong> <strong>Messiah</strong>'s '"^ ""^ work. If He be not <strong>the</strong><br />

<strong>Messiah</strong>, <strong>the</strong>re has at least been none o<strong>the</strong>r, before<br />

or after Him. If He be not <strong>the</strong> <strong>Messiah</strong>, <strong>the</strong> world<br />

has not, <strong>and</strong> never can have, a <strong>Messiah</strong>.<br />

To Bethlehem as <strong>the</strong> birthplace <strong>of</strong> <strong>Messiah</strong>, not<br />

only Old Testament prediction,* but <strong>the</strong> testimony<br />

<strong>of</strong> Rabbinic teaching, unhesi- •MicaiiT.. tatingly<br />

pointed. Yet nothing could be imagined more<br />

directly contrary to Jewish thoughts <strong>and</strong> feelings—<br />

<strong>and</strong> hence nothing less likely to suggest itself to<br />

Jewish invention'—than <strong>the</strong> circumstances which,<br />

according to <strong>the</strong> Gk)spel-narrative, brought about.<br />

<strong>the</strong> birth <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Messiah</strong> in Bethlehem. A counting

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