Preface to the Antiquities of the Jews
"I mean, unless they be taught first of all, that God is the Father and
Lord of all things, and sees all things, and that thence he bestows a happy
life upon those that follow him; but plunges such as do not walk in the
paths of virtue into inevitable miseries.."
About the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD (Josephus was an eye-witness,
and preached against the sins)
"and here I cannot but speak my mind, and what the concern I am under
dictates to me, and it is this: -- I suppose that had the Romans made any
longer delay in coming against these villians, the city would either have
been swallowed up by the ground opening under them, or been overflowed by
water, or also been destroyed by such thunder as the country of Sodom
perished by, for it had brought forth a generation of men much more
atheistical than were those that suffered such punishments; for by their
madnes it was that all the people came to be destroyed."
Flavius Josephus
If All Humanity would follow Josephus's 25 Messianic Principles,
maybe
All Humanity would be living in the Messianic Age.
Lloyd Kraus
Josephus's 25 Messianic Principles have been compiled
from the writings of Flavius Josephus, 1st Century Priest
The first commandment teaches us, That there is but one God, and that we ought to worrship him only; the second commands us not to make the image of any living creature to worship it; the third, That we must not swear by God is a false matter; the fourth, That we must keep the seventh day, by resting from all sorts of work; the fifth, That we must honor our parents; the sixth, That we mst abstain from murder; the seventh, That we must not commit adultery; the eigth, That we must not be guilty of theft; the ninth, That we must not bear false witness; the tenth, That we must not admit of the desire of anything that is any other's.
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