Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 214
? instance Isaiah says: "The Lord God which gathered the outcast of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him. ”(Isaiah 56:8) 207 Here the Prophet Isaiah foretells of a time when Lord God would again gather the lost sheep of Israel and will send a prophet around whom they will all gather. The prophecy of Isaiah here relates to the Messiah, for, there has been none besides him, to claim that he had come to gather the lost sheep of Israel. These lost sheep are the ten tribes of Israel which the then Iraq State destroyed in a campaign in Nebuchadnezzar's period. A deplorable feature of this invasion was that the Jews were divided amongst themselves at the time and engaged in internecine hostilities. The Jews had then two States— one was called Israel and the other was known as Jew, the former held Jerusalem and the latter had a separate centre. When the Iraq State launched an attack on the Jewish State to destroy it, one section of the Jews joined it out of hostility to the other group. The result was that due to the mutual animosities of Jews, the Iraqi State overran the territory and destroyed all the holy places of the Jews; even the synagogue of Jerusalem which was built by Solomon (peace be on him) was desecrated through pig slaughter in its precincts, and many other