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

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those solemn processions in which it was carried<br />

up to Jerusalem. As autumn seared <strong>the</strong> leaves, <strong>the</strong><br />

Feast <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> New Tear spoke <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> casting up <strong>of</strong><br />

man's accounts in <strong>the</strong> great Book <strong>of</strong> Judgment, <strong>and</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> fixing <strong>of</strong> destiny for good or for evil. <strong>The</strong>n<br />

followed <strong>the</strong> Fast <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Day <strong>of</strong> Atonement, with its<br />

tremendous solemnities, <strong>the</strong> memory <strong>of</strong> which<br />

could never fade from mind or imagination; <strong>and</strong>,<br />

last <strong>of</strong> all, in <strong>the</strong> week <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Feast <strong>of</strong> Tabernacles,<br />

<strong>the</strong>re were <strong>the</strong> strange leafy booths in which <strong>the</strong>y<br />

lived <strong>and</strong> joyed, keeping <strong>the</strong>ir harvestthanksgiving,<br />

<strong>and</strong> praying <strong>and</strong> longing for <strong>the</strong> better<br />

harvest <strong>of</strong> a renewed world.<br />

But it was not only through sight <strong>and</strong> hearing that,<br />

from its very inception, life in Israel became<br />

religious. <strong>The</strong>re was also &om <strong>the</strong> first positive<br />

teaching, <strong>of</strong> which <strong>the</strong> commencement would<br />

necessarily devolve on <strong>the</strong> mo<strong>the</strong>r. It needed not<br />

<strong>the</strong> extravagant laudations, nor <strong>the</strong> promises held<br />

out by <strong>the</strong> Rabbis, to incite Jewish women to this<br />

duty. If <strong>the</strong>y were true to <strong>the</strong>ir descent, it would<br />

come almost naturally to <strong>the</strong>m. Scripture set before

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