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prophet who had been mentioned in the Torah (Deut. 18:18) under the title "That Prophet”. Jesus was, therefore, charged with preparing the minds of the children of Israel for the acceptance of "That Prophet" who was to bring the last, perfect, enduring universal law; the prophet whose coming was to be the coming of God. . History shows that just as the lost tribes believed in Jesus and accepted him, in the same way, almost all of them, who were settled in those lands, believed in the Holy Prophet of Islam, and in the idiom of the Torah, they received at his hands the baptism of the Holy Ghost and fire. Thus Jesus succeeded in the achievement of this purpose of his advent also. . God Almighty has so ordained, that those prophets who are commissioned for a particular purpose, do not suffer death till they have achieved that purpose, or have made provision for its achievement in due course. For instance, John the Baptist was the fore-runner of Jesus. When Jesus was baptised by John with water, the purpose of John's advent was fulfilled, and he did not thereafter survive for long. In the case of Jesus, no great or significant event was manifested before the event of the crucifixion. He had not yet even established contact with the lost sheep towards whom he had been sent, nor had he yet entered upon impressing, upon the minds of the children of Israel, the importance of the advent and the stature of "That Prophet", whose advent had been prophesied by Moses and the other prophets of. Israel. The event of the crucifixion occurred in the third year of the ministry of Jesus, and Jesus had passed this brief period in comparative obscurity, and in silent teaching and propagation. . The Jews of Palestine paid little attention to him and to what he said. If he was a true Messenger of God, which he undoubtedly was, he was not to die upon the cross. He had had no opportunity of carrying his message to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, nor had he yet made any provision for safeguarding the future generations of those tribes against the misfortune of rejecting "That Prophet” on his advent, nor had he yet impressed upon the minds of the children of Israel the high status of "That Prophet", which had been set forth by Moses and other Prophets under Divine direction. . In the Holy Quran the advent of our Holy Prophet, on whom be the peace and blessings of Allah, has been described as the coming of God Himself (17:82), whereby Satan, with all his hosts, 30