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While Isaiah was prophesying in Judah, a new prophet’s voice was heard in the north, in the land of Israel. Towards the end of his book, the prophet recalled the exodus, when under the leadership of Moses, the Israelites left Egypt for the Promised Land. Hosea described Israel as God’s child, saying:

Hosea 11:1 When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.

In this passage, Hosea reminds the people of an earlier time God delivered His chosen people out of Egypt. His people, Israel, were in bondage and slavery at the hand of Pharaoh, King of Egypt. 

Centuries later, Matthew describes another Egyptian delivery. An angel of the Lord warned Joseph in a dream of the impending annihilation of Jesus. Joseph fled with his young family down to Egypt to escape the destruction ordered by King Herod. Joseph remained with his family in Egypt until the Lord called him out, following Herod’s death.

Matthew 2:14-15 And he rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed to Egypt  and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, “Out of Egypt I called my son.”

Herod had already plotted to murder all the boys in Bethlehem two years of age and under. (This actually likely amounted to about twenty children

Mary and Jesus flee to Egypt. This was not a random location. Egypt had a sizable and thriving Jewish community – Philo says it was one million strong. It was friendly towards Jews, and the closest Jewish community outside Israel.

And so Joseph and his family leave “by night,” most likely to avoid any detection, and they live there until Herod dies and the threat has passed. They would not have had long to wait, since Herod died in 4 B.C.

Out of Egypt

Jesus and his family likely lived among a Jewish community and enjoyed a degree of anonymity and separation from Hellenistic culture. Herod the Great died in March of 4 BC and Jesus’ family returned to Nazareth soon thereafter.

Just as the people of Israel came out of Egypt to the promised land lead by their saviour Moses. God then calls Joseph and Mary from Egypt to the promised land to bring the Saviour of the World out of Egypt.

Egypt represents the old life of sin. God is also calling you out of Egypt to a land of promise.

Perhaps you are in a dark season of your life, as the Egyptians were during the plague, or as when Joseph and Mary fled for their lives to a distant land. But I can promise you this, if you will trust Jesus, which is the mark of being God’s elect, out of darkness God will call you; out of thick Egyptian night he will fetch you, and a new land of promise will be waiting for you to dwell in.

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The New Testament was originally written in Greek. “Jesus” is an English rendering of the Greek name Iēsous, which is the Greek version of the Aramaic name Yeshua, which derived from the ancient Hebrew Yehoshua which is translated in the English Old Testament as “Joshua.”

Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

 Isaiah also prophesied of the Messiah, “He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace” (Isaiah 9:6). 

Very often prophecies in the Bible have an immediate fulfillment and a prophetic fulfilment in another future time.

This prophecy had an initial fulfillment during Isaiah’s day, but it ultimately refers to the birth of Jesus, as we see in the gospel of Matthew.

Matthew 1:23 “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel”

There are many “names” given to Jesus both  in the Old and New Testaments.Immanuel is one of them.

Saying that Jesus would be called “Immanuel” means Jesus is God.

The phrase "God is with us" describes the nature of Jesus. He is God who has become a human. "God is with us" would not so much describe the exact nature of Jesus, but rather that God has been gracious to His people by sending His Messiah.

The angel is speaking Hebrew and in Hebrew the name is ישוע or יהושע which means God shall save, but are transliterated as Joshua or Jehoshua. But the story is recorded in Greek which gets transliterated to Ιησούς or Ιησούν depending on the case, which is transliterated into English as Jesus.

What does Jesus mean in Greek? God with thee. This is prefigured when Joshua is told, in Joshua 1:5, I will be with thee.

Some people have the argument that Jesus should have been called literally Immanuel but this is not how prophecy works.

'Emmanuel' means God is among us.

'Jesus' is the Greek for son of God.

Also the Greek word for God is “Zeus.” and 'Ies Zeus' became 'Ye-sus' became 'Jesus.’

The English word 'Jesus' is simply an evolved form of what name He was referred to by all those years ago.

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Old Covenant Scriptures speak of the coming Messiah who would be God’s anointed One to deliver Israel and all mankind.

In Psalms 45 we read a prophetic chant to the Messiah. The psalmist begins the poem with this introduction: "My heart overflows with a good theme: I address my verses to the King" (Psalm 45:1). Then the song reveals a prophetic message.

Psalm 45:6-7 Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever. Your royal scepter is a scepter of equity; you love righteousness and hate wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;

This prophecy about Jesus was repeated and expanded in Hebrews 1. It was decided before the foundations of the earth were laid and before man was ever created. The Godhead knew that the creature they would create would fall and need a redeemer.

Hebrews 1:10-12 And, “In the beginning, Lord, you founded the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands; they will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like clothing;  like a cloak you will roll them up, and like clothing they will be changed. But you are the same, and your years will never end.”

Christ’s throne is not an earthly throne. The kings who foreshadowed Christ may have sat on earthly thrones for a time, but Christ sat down with his Father on God’s throne for eternity —the true throne and kingdom of Heaven, not an earthly shadow of it.

Christ’s Scepter

A scepter is a rod or staff (adorned with gold and jewels) that a king holds to indicate that he is in authority —the shepherd of his people. "Shepherd your people with your scepter" (Micah 7:14).

Jesus is our Kingand he also is the Shepherd, and ourselves are the sheep.

Yeshua HaMashiach – Anointed to Save

Yeshua HaMashiach is Hebrew for “Jesus the Messiah.” Yeshua is a shortened version of the name Yehoshua, which means “Adonai saves.” Mashiach is the Hebrew word for Messiah and means “anointed one.”

Daniel 2:44 And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever

As we can see more than 2,000 years after His resurrection the Kingdom prevailed, and we know from Scripture that will never be destroyed.  The gospel of Luke starts with this prophecy.

Luke 1:33 and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.”

Politicians today rule outside the principles of the Kingdom of God, but they will perish one day and history will forget them, however the kingdom of our Lord will last forever. 

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Samuel 7:12-13   When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

Second Samuel 7 features God’s promise to raise up David’s descendant Solomon as king, with the promise that he would build the Temple (“a house”) in verse 13. Yet the “house” also means the line of Davidic descendants

At the heart of the Old Testament is the expectation that God will send a unique king, associated with the Davidic dynasty, who will bring God’s blessing to the nations of the world. Significantly, he will sacrifice his life to atone for the sins of others.

The path towards the fulfillment of these promises eventually leads to the Davidic dynasty. Through David and his son Solomon, God establishes Jerusalem as his holy city where he dwells among his people. When subsequent Davidic kings fail to trust God fully, various prophets predict that God will raise up a righteous Davidic king whose reign will be characterised by justice, peace and prosperity.

The Messiah prophesied by Isaiah 

The promise of this future righteous king stands in stark contrast to the corrupt Davidic kings who reigned in Isaiah’s day. In a separate oracle, Isaiah announces among other things:

Isaiah 9:7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this

The Messiah identified by Luke

In his “carefully investigated” account to Theophilus, Luke describes how the newly born Jesus was brought by his parents to the temple in Jerusalem. They encountered a “righteous and devout” man called Simeon, to whom the Holy Spirit had revealed that “he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ” (Luke 2:26). Luke then introduces an eighty-four years old prophetess, Anna, who, on seeing Jesus, “began to give thanks to God and to speak of him to all who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem” (Luke 2:38).

Luke 1:32-33 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, 33 and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.”

The Messiah links old and new testaments

Messianic expectations linked to the Davidic dynasty do not exhaust what the Old Testament has to say about Jesus Christ. They are only one strand of a cord of connections between the Old Testament and Jesus, but a very significant core strand.

Romans 1:3 concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh

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The name Jew is really a shortened form of Judah. This name came to be used for the Israelites after their return from the Babylonian Captivity. Although there were representatives of all the tribes in the land at that time, the dominant tribe was Judah, and the land was called Judea. In the New Testament the words Hebrew, Israelite and Jew are synonymous terms to describe the people of Israel. The Apostle Paul applies all three terms to himself at various times.

Genesis 49:10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples

This prophecy says that The Messiah would be the coming one to whom the scepter belongs. This is part of Jacob’s prophetic blessings on his sons; The promise of the “scepter” and “ruler’s staff” indicates that Judah would exercise rulership. This was fulfilled in King David and his descendants, ultimately being fulfilled in the rule of the Messiah. In the New Testament

Hebrews 7:14 For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, and in connection with that tribe Moses said nothing about priests

Hebrews 7:14 explicitly traces Yeshua’s descent from Judah, while Revelation 5:5 calls Yeshua “the Lion of the tribe of Judah.”

The ruler from Judah will receive the “obedience of the peoples” – that is, nations that are not Jewish.

The genealogy

Christians view this is a prophecy that Jesus will establish an everlasting kingdom in the future. Jesus was born about 2000 years after Jacob died, and his ancestry is traced back to Judah in Luke 3:23-34 and in Matthew 1:1-16.

Luke 3:33 the son of Amminadab, the son of Admin, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah

A question raised is: Why do we need two genealogies, especially since Yeshua (Jesus) was not the real son of Joseph? A popular and common answer is: Matthew’s Gospel gives the royal line, whereas Luke’s Gospel gives the real line.

The southern Kingdom of Judah, with its capital in Jerusalem was the birthplace of the Messiah.

 In Matthew 1:1 he is called the Son of David and the Son of Abraham. In Luke 3:38 he is called the Son of Adam and the Son of God. As the Son of David, it means that Jesus is king. As the Son of Abraham, it means that Jesus is a Jew. As the Son of Adam, it means that Jesus is a man.

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Genesis 17:19 God said, “No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac.[a] I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him

Who was Isaac

The Messiah was to be a descendant of Isaac. Isaac was the son of Abraham and Sarah. Sarah had not bore any children until a very old age. God appeared to Abraham and told him she would birth a child when Sarah was about 90 years old.

Abraham was 99 years old and had a son, Ishmael, through Hagar, the Egyptian slave. But God’s covenant promise would not be through Ishmael, but through the child, Sarah would bore. Isaac would be in the line of blessings God promised Abraham he would fulfill.

Abraham had two sons, Isaac and Ishmael. God promised Isaac that the Messiah would be through his family line.

Genesis 21:12 But God said to Abraham, Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your offspring be named.

The prophecy fulfilled

The gospel writer Luke in the New Testament details for us the baptism and genealogy of Jesus. 

Luke 3:34 the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Naho

Luke works the genealogy in reverse order, Matthew uses a chronological list. In this gospel Luke starts with Jesus and works it all the way back to Adam, the first man. We find Isaac in the genealogy record of Jesus.

This way Luke shows us how Jesus is related to the whole human race. Luke also traces the bloodline of Joseph to David.

The bloodline of Jesus' family

Jesus fulfilled a number of prophecies that have to do with the Messiah's genealogy, or family line. God narrowed down the family line of the Messiah in such a way that eliminated most people who have ever been born.

John 5:39 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me

Jesus told the religious leaders to search the Scriptures and discover where they spoke about Him. The coming Messiah was to be born in one particular family.

This is one of the details of the Messiah's family line that was fulfilled by Jesus

The coming of the Messiah was predicted in the Old Testament. Jesus fulfilled these prophecies and, in doing so, has the right to claim to be the promised Messiah.

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God raised up His servant Jesus the Messiah (described in Isaiah 53) to fulfill the promises God made to the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. This fulfillment comes through Jesus, through whom Israel and the nations receive the blessing of atonement for sins.

First, God would make a great people from Abraham. The second promise was of the land itself. The third promise was that through Abraham and his descendants, all the nations of the world would be blessed.

Genesis 12:3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

God promised Abraham that his ligneage would bring blessing to the whole earth. This was a promise also of protection against curses.

Genesis 22:18 and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice

Abraham's obedience is the origin of the blessing promised to "his offspring" this can be interpreted as Israel but also as an indication that the Messiah would be his offspring.

The New Testament description

Matthew 1:1 The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham

The first book of the New Testatment starts with the description of Jesus Christ's genealogy and it goes as back as Abraham. 

Romans 9:5 To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.

Paul didn't mention Abraham but uses the word "Patriarch" wish by association includes Abraham.

The Blessing of God

When God made the promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself, saying, 

Hebrews 6:13–15Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.” And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

Our God guides our steps and goes ahead of us, when He walks with us through hard times and brings us to good and pleasant places. 

God blesses us with His constant presence. Whatever trials you face, nothing can separate you from His love. Whatever twists in the road, nothing can interfere with His sovereign power and goodness. Whatever missteps you take, He can redeem. Whatever hurts you experience, He can heal your soul and revive your spirit. 

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Some say that The Old Testament contains over 400 prophecies about the coming Messiah. Others place the number at around 300. This number may be correct but I will teach you about the most relevant ones on this series of my evening devotional.

Jesus Christ perfectly fulfilled these prophetic writings and the odds of that happening are just incredible. 

Mathematics & Astronomy Professor Peter W. Stoner chances of just 8 prophecies has made the statement that the (like these) coming true by sheer chance is 1 in 10 to 17 (100,000,000,000,000,000).  That would be equivalent to covering the whole state of Texas with silver dollars two feet deep and then expecting a blindfolded man to walk across the state and on the very first try find the ONE coin you marked (roughly equivalent to the Province of Ontario being 1.5 feet deep and Quebec about 1 foot deep).

Today we see a very specific prophecy about the virgin birth of the Messiah.

The prophecy of Isaiah

Around 700 years before Jesus was born, a man named Isaiah told King Ahaz that a time was coming when a virgin would have a child named Immanuel.

Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel

Isaiah promised that God would give a sign — the miraculous birth of the Messiah to a virgin. The Messiah is called here “Immanuel” which means “God with us.”

Some 7 centuries later, Joseph and Mary, who were from the city of Nazareth, were engaged to be married. Mary, still a virgin, was “found to be with child from the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 1:18). An angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and told him that his wife-to-be would deliver the Christ child.

Jesus was born to a virgin 

Matthew 1:22-23 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet:

“Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel”

The name of Jesus in Hebrew is Yeshua, which means “he will save us.” Jesus is Immanuel, God with us, the promised Messiah who has the authority and power to save us from our sins.

Nothing is impossible to God

First, for those who say a virgin birth is physically and scientifically impossible, Luke remarks that “nothing will be impossible with God.”

Luke 1:26-31 26  the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, 27 to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin's name was Mary. 28 And he came to her and said, “Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you!” 29 But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and tried to discern what sort of greeting this might be. 30 And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. 31 And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus.

The virgin birth of Jesus is an example of God’s gracious work on our behalf. God took the initiative—Mary was not looking to become pregnant—it was all God’s idea. Joseph had no role in the conception—his body was not involved—so the power had to come from God. In a similar way, our salvation is based solely on God’s initiative and God’s power—we did not seek God, but He sought us; and we did nothing to earn our salvation, but we rely on God’s power.

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Some say that The Old Testament contains over 400 prophecies about the coming Messiah. Others place the number at around 300. This number may be correct but I will teach you about the most relevant ones on this series of my evening devotional.

Jesus Christ perfectly fulfilled these prophetic writings and the odds of that happening are just incredible. 

Mathematics & Astronomy Professor Peter W. Stoner chances of just 8 prophecies has made the statement that the (like these) coming true by sheer chance is 1 in 10 to 17 (100,000,000,000,000,000).  That would be equivalent to covering the whole state of Texas with silver dollars two feet deep and then expecting a blindfolded man to walk across the state and on the very first try find the ONE coin you marked (roughly equivalent to the Province of Ontario being 1.5 feet deep and Quebec about 1 foot deep).

Today we see a very specific prophecy about the birthplace of the Messiah.

Bethlehem Ephrathah

Micah 5:2 But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.

In the New Testament the gospels start with the fulfilment of this prophecy. In Micah 5:2, we see prophecy revealed that Bethlehem would be the birthplace of the Messiah, the ruler of Israel. This prophecy was written about 700 years before the birth of Jesus

Luke 2:4-6 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, 5 to be registered with Mary, his betrothed,[a] who was with child. 6 And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth.

Because Jesus’ first years were spent in Nazareth, it was assumed by some that he was born there as well. In John 1:46, Nathanael said about Jesus to Philip, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” We know also that “The Messiah would be called a Nazarene.”

Herod felt threatened 

Concerned that his rule would be threatened by this “king of the Jews,” Herod convened a committee of those “in the know” and asked them about the Messiah’s birthplace. They gave a unanimous answer: Bethlehem, in Judea, and in proof they cited the prophet Micah. 

The location, Bethlehem, was an open secret, having been predicted by the prophet Micah, a contemporary of Isaiah. But Micah offered further details that should’ve given Herod pause. The Messiah had existed since before ancient times and would be king and shepherd to his people, ruling the whole earth in the name and majesty of God.

When Matthew wrote his Gospel, he was bringing incredible news. He quoted prophecies from the Hebrew Scriptures to make his point that our long-awaited Messiah had come and His name was Jesus

Matthew 2:1 Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem.

Matthew alters “Bethlehem Ephrathah” to “Bethlehem, in the land of Judah” – which is the same place, and specifies which of the two Bethlehems was meant – in order to underscore that it was Judah and not some other place, the very land of the tribe of Judah, from whom the Messiah was expected to come.

How beautiful to see this prophecy from 700 years’ prior being fulfilled in Christ!

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Some say that The Old Testament contains over 400 prophecies about the coming Messiah. Others place the number at around 300. This number may be correct but I will teach you about the most relevant ones on this series of my evening devotional.

Jesus Christ perfectly fulfilled these prophetic writings and the odds of that happening are just incredible. 

Mathematics & Astronomy Professor Peter W. Stoner chances of just 8 prophecies has made the statement that the (like these) coming true by sheer chance is 1 in 10 to 17 (100,000,000,000,000,000).  That would be equivalent to covering the whole state of Texas with silver dollars two feet deep and then expecting a blindfolded man to walk across the state and on the very first try find the ONE coin you marked (roughly equivalent to the Province of Ontario being 1.5 feet deep and Quebec about 1 foot deep).

The first prophecy in this series is that the Messiah would be born of a woman. This odd is one that self-eliminates since everyone is born of a woman but we will start with a foundation.

The Old Testament prophecy

Genesis 3:15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head,  and you shall bruise his heel.”

After the fall of mankind by Adam and Eve's sin God established new rules, a new environment and what would happen between the guilty parts of this act of disobedience.

The language is mysterious and is illustrated by an image of a man stepping on a serpent crushing its head and at the same time receiving a bite on his heel.

From the moment this proclamation was made, the clock was set waiting for the one who would crush the devil’s head to appear.

The offspring

The question among Old Testament scholars is, "Who is the offspring?". Today we have a large group of people that consider Jesus Christ to be the one mentioned by God in this prophecy but there is also a large group of people that do not agree with this.

Matthew 1:20 But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.

The miraculous birth of Jesus caused him to be God's offspring of the woman since Joseph is "son of David" but Jesus is the "son of God".

The fulness of time fulfilled

Galatians 4:4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,

This means that when God has planned it, things happen when they are supposed to and nothing ever catches God by surprise.

 In the Old Testament there were many prophecies that pointed to the coming of the Messiah. The one thing that was evident however is that no one knew when that exact moment would come. 

Crushing the head of the serpent

The Greek word rendered as “crush” in Genesis 3:15 is (syntribô; Strong's #4937) in verse 20 means “to break the power of, deprive of strength, debilitate.” It can also be translated as “crush” or “bruise”.

God says plainly that Satan would be put down; the woman's Seed—The Messiah—would “bruise his head.” The Hebrew word for “bruise,” qâmal, means “to slay, kill.” When a person's head is “bruised” in this way—given a killing blow—he dies, while the same blow on the heel causes pain and damage, but not death. God's curse on the serpent signals what the ultimate end of Satan will be.

Revelation 12:7-9 shows someone who is called "the dragon" as “the ancient serpent, who is also called the Devil and Satan. The woman in Revelation 12 is fighting the serpent. On this prophetic scripture Jesus and Mary are on the same “team” for “crushing the head of the Serpent.

This is the first prophecy in this series that we will learn about the Messiah.

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