Truth About The Crucifixion — Page 38
Large Jewish settlements had been established in Kashmir, and they were "lost" not only because they had been cut off from their original home, but they were also “lost” in the sense that they had been weaned away from the law of Moses, and many of them had become Buddhists, or idol-worshipping Hindus. One of the two principal purposes of the advent of Jesus was, that he should re-establish these lost sheep of the house of Israel on the true teachings of the law of Moses, and should win back those who had become Buddhists into the fold of Moses and into the obedience of the Mosaic law, and to re-establish those who had become Hindus on the Unity of God, and obedience to Mosaic law. Jesus achieved great success in this mission and all these ten tribes achieved the good fortune of believing in the prophethood of Jesus, and became firmly established on the Unity of God. Jesus was the last prophet in the Mosaic dispensation, and there was to be no other prophet in Israel after him. Prophethood was to be cut off from Israel, and was to be transferred to the House of Ishmael. There was, therefore, the hazard that through their ill-fortune the children of Israel might refuse to accept the 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 30