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

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<strong>and</strong> by <strong>the</strong> new OHAP. symbolio rite, from which<br />

he derived <strong>the</strong> name <strong>of</strong> * Baptist.' <strong>The</strong> XI gr<strong>and</strong><br />

burden <strong>of</strong> his message was: <strong>the</strong> announcement <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> approach <strong>of</strong> ' <strong>the</strong> Kingdom <strong>of</strong> Heaven/ <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

needed preparation <strong>of</strong> his hearers for that<br />

Kingdom. <strong>The</strong> latter he sought, positively^ by<br />

admonition, <strong>and</strong>, negatively, by warnings, while he<br />

directed all to <strong>the</strong> Coming One, in Whom that<br />

Kingdom would become, so to speak,<br />

individualised. Thus, from <strong>the</strong> first, it was Hhe<br />

good news <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Kingdom,' to which all else in<br />

John's preaching was but subsidiary.<br />

Concerning this * Kingdom <strong>of</strong> Heaven,' which was<br />

<strong>the</strong> great mes^ sage <strong>of</strong> John, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> great work <strong>of</strong><br />

Christ Himself,^ we may here say, that it is <strong>the</strong><br />

whole Old Testament sublimated, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> whole<br />

New Testament realised. <strong>The</strong> idea <strong>of</strong> it did not lie<br />

hidden in <strong>the</strong> Old, to be opened up in <strong>the</strong> New<br />

Testament—as did <strong>the</strong> mystery <strong>of</strong> its realisation.*<br />

But this rule <strong>of</strong> heaven <strong>and</strong> Kingship <strong>of</strong>' Rom. xtL<br />

Jehovah was <strong>the</strong> very substance <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Old<br />

Testament; <strong>the</strong> object 5p>>®'^ <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> calling <strong>and</strong>

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