Chapter 16 Title Eleven-1

Title Eleven 393-389 (693) 535-422 Seeing the blindness and pathos of human beings, looking up at the silence of the whole universe, human beings are abandoned to themselves without any light, as if they are lost in a corner of the universe, and they don't know who put him here, he is What he came to, what he will become after death, he can not have any knowledge; then I fell into terror, like a man who wakes up in his sleep and is carried to a deserted and terrible island. In the end, I didn't know where I was, and there was no way to leave.For this reason, I am surprised that people do not sink to despair in such a miserable situation.

I saw people of a similar nature all around me, and I asked them if they knew more than I did, and they told me no; and therefore these poor lost souls looked around and saw some happy The goal is to commit to it and indulge in it.For my part, I couldn't revel in it; and considering how many more indications there were of something else than what I saw, I wondered if this God hadn't stayed at all Certain marks of his own. I see that there are many contrary religions, from which it follows that all but one are false.Each seeks to convince by its own authority and threatens the unbelievers.Therefore, I do not believe in such religions.Everyone can say these words, everyone can call themselves a prophet.Yet I see prophecy being fulfilled in Christianity in a way that no religion can.

522-617 (694) 500-533 And what crowns all this is the foretelling, so that we can never say that it was only chance that made it happen. No one who has only one more week to live will find it cheap to believe that it wasn't an accident...   A week and a hundred years would be the same thing if emotions could not manipulate us at all. 524(d)-634(695)579-542 Prophecy - Great Pan is dead. 524(c)-356(696)458-458 Susceperunt verbum cum omni aviditate, scru tantes Scriptur-as, si itase haberent. [They hungrily searched the Tao, delved into the Holy Book, to see if it was so. ] "Acts of the Apostles" Chapter 17, Section 11: "Search the Bible every day to see whether the Word is true or not."

524(e)-589(697)515-459 Proditalege． ——Impleta cerne. —Implenda [To read that which has been declared. —Look at what has been realized. —To gather what is to be realized. 〕collige. 523-660 (698) 779-460 We can understand prophecy only when we see things coming; and thus the evidences of seclusion, reflection, silence, etc., are proved only to those who know them and believe them. Joseph was so inwardly in a purely outward law. Outward repentance prepares inner repentance, just as humiliation prepares humility.So these…. 525—596 (699) 485—470 The synagogue precedes the church; the Jew precedes the Christian.The prophets foretold the Christians; St. John foretold Jesus Christ.

545-606 (700) 534-468 It is indeed fascinating to observe the history of Herod and the history of Caesar through the eyes of faith. 503, 544-594 (701) 502-478 The zeal of the Jews for their laws and their temple (Josephus, with Philo the Jew, Ad Calum).What nation has ever had such enthusiasm?They must have this passion. Jesus Christ foretells the time and state of the world: the Lord without legs and the Fourth Kingdom.How happy we are to see this light in this gloom! How fascinating it is to watch with the eyes of faith that Darius and Cyrus, Alexander, the Romans, Pompey, and Herod all unconsciously acted for the glory of the Gospel!

501-574 (702) 495-472 The zeal of the Jewish people for their laws, and chiefly after there were no more prophets. 502-571 (703) 159-477, 606 While the prophets were upholding the law, the people were indifferent; but since there are no more prophets, zeal has followed. 504-654 (704) 911-473 The devil disturbed the zeal of the Jews before Jesus Christ, who would be their Redeemer;—but not afterwards. The Jewish nation was mocked by the heathen; the Christian nation was persecuted. 524-447 (705) 906-474 Proof—prophecy and its fulfillment; everything that came before Jesus Christ, and everything that came after Jesus Christ.

526-626 (706) 383-475 The greatest proof of Jesus Christ is prophecy.It is here, too, that God prepares most; for the events that fulfill the prophecy are a miracle that lasts from the birth of the Church to its end.Thus God created the prophets during sixteen hundred years; and during the next four hundred years scattered all these prophecies, with all the Jews who propagated them, to all parts of the world.This was the preparation for the birth of Jesus Christ, whose Gospel was to be believed in all the world; therefore it was necessary not only to have prophecies, that he might be believed, but that these prophecies should exist in the whole world, so that Make it available to the world.

527-640 (707) 382-476 But these prophecies are not enough; they must be propagated everywhere and preserved at all times.And in order that this harmony is not to be regarded as an accidental effect, it must be prophesied. It is all the more glorious to the Messiah that, besides being preserved by God, they were also observers, and even instruments of his glory. 546-624 (708) 507-480 Prophecy—Time is foretold by the state of the Jewish nation, by the state of the heathen nation, by the state of the temple, by the number of years. 547-627 (709) 923-482 The same thing must be firmly prophesied in so many ways: the four idolatrous or pagan monarchs, the end of Judah's kingship, and the seventy weeks must all come at the same time, and all in the first Before the two temples were destroyed.

528-623 (710) 912-483 Prophecy—If one man alone wrote a book of prophecies about Jesus Christ, foretelling the time and the manner, and the coming of Jesus Christ should coincide with those prophecies; it would have infinite power. But there is something more here, a series of people who have come out consistently unchanged one after the other over the course of four thousand years to predict the same event.There is a whole people proclaiming it, and they have been around for four thousand years to collectively testify to the assurance they have about it, they cannot, because of the threats men make upon them Transformed by persecution; this is what deserves special attention.

529-646 (711) 352 - prophecies concerning specific things - they were strangers in Egypt, having nothing of their own either in that land or elsewhere. [Whether in the dynasty that has existed for so long, or in the supreme council of the seventy judges they call the Sinneidlin - which was created by Moses and continued down to the time of Jesus Christ ——No performance at all.All such things are as far removed from their current state as possible,] When Jacob was dying and blessed his twelve children, he announced to them that they would become owners of a large land; tribe, and all his brethren shall be his subjects, [and even the Messiah who shall be the hope of all nations shall be born of him, and shall in no way abolish the kingship of Judah or the dominion of his descendants and Legislative power until the expected Messiah descends on his house. ] This same Jacob disposes of this future land as if he were master of it, and he gives Joseph one more piece of it than anyone else.He said:

"I'll give you a piece more than I gave your brothers".When he blessed the two sons Joseph brought before him, Ephraim and Manasseh, Manasseh the firstborn on his right, and Ephraim the youngest on his left: he folded his arms and stretched out his right hand placed on the head of Ephraim, and put his left hand on the head of Manasseh, and he blessed them in this way. To Joseph's expression of his preference for the younger son, he answered him with admirable firmness: "I know it well, my child, I know it well; but Ephraim is greater than Manasseh."Afterwards this was so true in fact that their single line was almost as multiplied as the whole of the two lines which constituted a whole kingdom, that they were commonly called alone by the name Ephraim. This same Joseph, at his deathbed, exhorted his descendants to take his bones with them when they set out on that land; they did not arrive there until two hundred years later. Moses wrote all these things so long before they came; and before they entered that land, Moses himself divided it among each family, as if he were master of it. [He concludes by declaring that God will create out of their nation and their race a prophet, of whom he himself is but a symbol, and who expressly foretells to them of the land into which they will enter after his death.] All that would happen to them in the world, the victory that God would bestow upon them, their ingratitude to God, their punishment for it, and their other adventures. ] He gave them judges who would make this division; he prescribed to them the whole form of the political system they were to observe here, the cities of refuge they were to establish here, and . . . 530-659 (712) 501-483 Prophecy is mixed with specific things and things about the Messiah, so that the Messiah's prophecy will not be without proof, and the specific prophecy will not be without results. 531-644, 664 (713) 11-484 The captives of the Jews who will never return——Chapter 11, Verse 11 of "Jesus": "I will bring disaster on Judah, from which they will never escape." Symbol——Chapter 5 of "Isaiah": "God has a vineyard, and he expects grapes to grow in it; but it only bears wild grapes. Therefore I will waste it and destroy it; only thorns will grow on the ground, I will forbid the sky to [rain]. The Lord's vineyard is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah are his beloved shoots.I expected them to do justice and instead they only caused injustice. " Chapter 8 of "Israel": "Honor the Lord with fear and trembling; you should only fear him, and he will be your sanctuary, but he will be a slander and a stumbling block to the two houses of Israel. He is to Jerusalem His people will be a snare and destruction; many of them will be stumbled on that stone, will fall, will be crushed, and will be caught in a snare and be consumed. Cover my words and do for my disciples Seal my law." "Therefore I will wait patiently for the One who covered Himself and hid Himself in the house of Jacob." Chapter 29 of Israel: "O people of Israel, you shall be bewildered and amazed; you shall stumble and fall and be drunk, but not drunk with wine, you shall stumble, but not drunk with drunkenness. ; for God has created in you a spirit of slumber: he will cover your eyes, and he will blind your seer princes and prophets." (Daniel, chapter twelfth: "The wicked will not Understand it, and only a well-bred man can understand it." The last chapter of Hosea, after speaking of many earthly blessings, says: "Where is the wise man? He will understand these things"; etc. ) "And all these prophets and seers are to you like a sealed book, and if we give it to a learned man who can read it, he will answer: I It cannot be read because it is sealed; and when we give it to people who cannot read, they will reply: I don't know these words. "The Lord said to me: For this nation honors me with their lips, and their hearts are far from me, (this is its cause and cause, for if they worshiped God with their hearts, they would understand the prophecy,) they only Serve me in an earthly way: It is for this reason that, besides all the rest, I will do to this people another marvelous work, a great and terrible miracle; that is, to make the wisdom of the wise disappear, and their reason be destroyed [ blinded]. " prophecy.Proof of divinity——Chapter 41 of "I": "If you are gods, please come and announce to us the things in the future, and we will listen to your words with all our hearts. Please teach us what has happened since the opening up. things, prophesy to us of things that will come." "By this we know you are gods. Bless or curse, if you can. Let us see, and reason together. But you are nothing, you are nothing but abominations; etc. Etc. Who among you (according to contemporary writers) can teach us what has been done since the beginning and origin? So that we can say to him: You are just. No one can teach us these , and no one can predict the future." "I" Chapter 42: "I am the Lord, and I will not give my glory to others. I am the one who foretold the things that have come, and I am the one who foretells the things that are to come.Let all the earth sing a new hymn to God. "Bring here a people that have eyes that do not see, and ears that do not see. Let all the nations gather together. Who among them—and their gods—can teach you the past and things to come? Let them give a testimony to justify themselves; or let them hear me, and admit that this is the truth. "You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and you are my chosen servants, so that you may know me and you may believe that it is me. "I prophesied, I saved, I alone wrought these miracles before your eyes; ye are witnesses of my divinity, says the Lord. "I, for love of you, crushed the might of the Babylonians; I sanctified you, I created you. "It is I who have enabled you to cross rivers, seas, and waves, and it is I who submerged and destroyed forever the mighty foes who stood against you. "But do not remember these old favors, nor look to the past. "Behold, I am preparing new things, they will appear, and you will know them; I will make the desert a fertile place to live. "I created this people for myself, I established them to glorify me, and so on. "Yet for my own sake I will blot out your sins, I will forget your sins; for it is for yourselves that you should remember your ingratitude, that you may see if you have anything to justify yourself. You Your ancestors sinned, and your masters were all rebels. "I" Chapter 44: "I am the first and the last, says the Lord; whoever is equal to me, let him declare the order of things since I created the first people, let He declares that I made the first peoples, let him proclaim those things that are to come. Fear not; have I not made you understand all these things? You are my witnesses." Cyrus' Prophecy—— "I", Chapter 45, Section 4: "Because I have chosen Jacob, I will call you by your name." "Yi", Chapter 45, Section 21: "Let us discuss together. Who has made these things comprehensible since the beginning?Who has predicted these things since then?Isn't it me who is the Lord?" Chapter 46 of "I": "Remember the first centuries, and know that there is nothing like me. When I spoke of the origin of the world, I announced from the beginning the last things to come. I His edict shall stand, and all my will shall be done." "I" Chapter 42: "The former things came just as they were foretold; behold, now I will foretell new things and announce them to you before they come." "I" Chapter 48, verse 3: "I have foretold the former things, and I have fulfilled them; and they have come in the way I have spoken, because I know that you are obstinate, Your spirits are rebellious, your minds are arrogant; that is why I declare things before they happen, so that you cannot say that they are the work of your gods, the result of their orders." "You see what has been foretold come, and don't you tell it? Now I will announce to you something new, which I keep in my power, because you have not seen it; only now I have prepared them, not long; I have concealed them from you, lest you should claim that you have foreseen them". "Because you have no knowledge of it, no one has spoken of it to you, and your ears have never heard it; because I know you, and I know that you are turbulent, and from the first moment of your birth I have Your name has been added to you." The Condemnation of the Jews and the Conversion of the Gentiles - Chapter 65 of Isaiah: "Those who have never asked me, seek me now. Those who have never sought me, now find me; and I say: here I am, here I am, before the people that have not called my name ". "I stretch out my hand all day long to that unbelieving people who follow their desires in a bad way, a people who continually irritate me with all the crimes they commit in my presence, who sacrifice to idols, etc. Wait". "These people will be gone on the day of my wrath, etc". "I will collect the sins of your ancestors and repay you according to your deeds." "Thus says the Lord: For the love of my servants I will not destroy all Israel, but I will preserve some of them, just as a seed is preserved from the grape, and they say: Do not pluck it, for it a blessing and [the fruit of hope]." "Therefore I will take the seed out of Jacob and Judah, that I may have my mountain, which my chosen ones and my servants have inherited, and my field, which is fertile and rich and enviable; but I will destroy all the rest for you have forgotten your God in order to serve other gods. I have called to you and you have not answered; I have spoken and you have not listened; and you have chosen what I have forbidden.” "It is for this reason that the Lord has spoken these words: Behold, my servants will be filled, and you will be hungry; my servants will rejoice, but you will be ashamed; my servants will sing their hearts overflowing sing joyous carols, while you cry and cry in your spiritual anguish." "Ye shall leave your names an abomination to my elect. The Lord shall destroy you, and call his servants by another name; whoever among them shall be blessed on earth shall be blessed in God, etc., for The sorrows of the past have been forgotten." "For behold, I create a new heaven and a new earth, and the things of the past shall be remembered no more, nor shall they come to mind." "Yet you shall rejoice forever in the new things I have created, for the Jerusalem I have created is nothing but joy, and its people are joy." "And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, among my people, and the wailing and weeping will not be heard." "Before they asked, I answered; as soon as they spoke, I listened. Wolves and sheep will feed together, lions and oxen will eat the same pasture; snakes will eat nothing but dust, and there will be no more murder and rape in all my holy mountains. " Chapter 56 of I, Section 3: "This is what the Lord says: Be just and upright, for my salvation is near, and my justice will be revealed." "Blessed are those who do these things and keep My Sabbath and guard their hands from doing any evil." "Let not the heathen who cling to me say: God will separate me from his people. For thus says the Lord: Whoever keeps my sabbaths, and resolves to do my will and keep my covenants, I will Give them a place in the Temple, and I will give them a better name than I have given My children: an eternal name that will never die." "I", Chapter 59, Section 9: "It is because of our crimes that justice is far from us. We look forward to light, but we only encounter darkness; we hope for light, but we Walk in the gloom; we grope for the walls as if we were blind, we stumble at noon as in the night, like dead men in dark places." "We roar like bears, we whine like doves. We look for justice, but it doesn't come; we hope for salvation, but it keeps away from us." "I" Chapter 66, Section 18: "But when I come to gather all the nations and peoples, I will examine their deeds and their thoughts, and they will see my glory." "I will mark them; and those of them who will be saved, I will send them to the countries of Africa, Lydia, Italy, and Greece, to the glory that has never heard of me nor seen me among those people. They will bring your brethren." "Jesus" Chapter Seven.Condemning the Temple: "Go ye to Shiloh, where I established my name in the beginning; go and see what I have done for the sins of my people. Now, says the Lord, because you have done the same crime, so I will do to this temple which calls upon my name and which you trust, and which I myself give to your priests, as I did to Shiloh." (Because I Abandoned it, and built a temple to myself elsewhere.) "I'm going to drive you out of here the same way I drove out your brethren, the sons of Ephraim. (And never to return). So don't you pray for this kind of people." "Jesus" Chapter Seven, Verse 22: "What is the use of offering sacrifice upon sacrifice? When I brought your ancestors out of Egypt, I did not mention sacrifices and burnt offerings to them; I gave them no such commands, but this is the commandment I gave them: Obey and be faithful For my commandments, I will be your God and you will be my people. "(Only after they had sacrificed the bull, did I allow myself to be sacrificed, in order to convert a bad custom into a good one). "Jesus" Chapter VII, Section 4: "Do not trust the lies of those who say to you: These are the temples of the Lord, these are the temples of the Lord, these are the temples of the Lord." 535-648, 649, 650 (714) 103-481 Jews are God's witnesses. "I" Chapter 43, Section 9; Chapter 44, Section 8. Fulfilled prophecy - "List 1", chapter 13, verse 2 - "List 1", chapter 23, verse 16 - "Covenant" chapter 6, verse 26 - " List above", Chapter 16, Section 34——Chapter 23 of "Shen". Malachi, chapter one, verse eleven.The sacrifices of the Jews were condemned, as well as those of the heathen, (even outside Jerusalem) and everywhere. Moses foretold the pagan vocation before his death. Deuteronomy Chapter 32, Verse 21, and the condemnation of the Jews. Moses foretold what would happen to each tribe. Prophecy - "Your name shall be a curse on my chosen ones, and I shall give them another name". "Hardened their hearts", how hard is it?Praise their desires and make them wish for their gratification. 535—652A (715) 497—500 Prophecy - Amos and Zechariah: They betrayed the righteous, and for that reason they could never be called. —Jesus Christ who was betrayed. People will no longer remember Egypt; see "I", Chapter 43, Sections 16, 17, 18, and 19. "Yeri" Chapter 23, verses 6 and 7. Prophecy - The Jews will be scattered everywhere. "I" Chapter 27, Section 6. — new laws. "Jesus" thirty-first chapter thirty-second section. Malachi.Grotius - the second temple of glory.Jesus Christ is coming. "The book of Haggai", chapter two, verses seven, eight, nine, and ten. A call to heathen. Joel, chapter two, verse twenty-eight. The Book of Hosea, chapter two, verse twenty-four. "Shen", Chapter 32, Section 21. "Ma" Chapter 1, Section 11. 535-625 (716) 68-495 The Book of Hosea, Chapter 3--I, Chapter 42, Chapter 48, Chapter 54, Chapter 60, Chapter 61, and finally: "I It was announced in order to let them know that it is me." Yadusi wrote to Alexander. 535-643 (717) 447-496 [Prophecy - the promise that David will always have a successor. The Book of Jeremiah. 〕 535-639 (718) 673-501 Eternal reign of the line of David, 2 Calendar, according to all prophecies and promises.But it has not been realized in the world: "Yeri", chapter 23, verse 20. 535-500 (719) 533-599 We might think that when the prophets foretold that waht would never leave Judah till the king of eternity, they did so to please the people; and their predictions were proved false by Herod.But to show that this was not what they meant, when they knew very well that the earthly kingdoms would be broken, so they said that they would have neither kings nor princes, and so on. The Book of Hosea, chapter three, verse four. 535-631 (720) 459-906 Non habemus regem nisi Caesarem [We have no king but Caesar].Since they had no king but a Gentile and they wanted no other king, Jesus Christ was the Messiah.