Word: messiah
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Dershowitz delivered the last remembrance followed by the Boston Cecilia performance of the Amen chorus from Handel’s Messiah...
...visiting the mount was sufficient to ignite the current Palestinian uprising. The Temple Mount is the location of al-Aqsa Mosque, one of the holiest sites in Islam, and is also the very place where Christians and Jews believe a new temple must one day be rebuilt before the Messiah can come. An Australian Evangelical once set fire to the mosque to clear the way, and to this day security remains exceptionally tight for fear that those who take Scripture literally might not just believe in what the prophets promised, but might also try to help it along...
...between their content and the horrors Jews faced at the time. In 586 B.C., after a brutal siege, the kingdom of Babylon conquered Israel and forced its elite into exile. The prophets defiantly proclaimed the opposite: the establishment over all nations of a Jewish kingdom under a divinely anointed Messiah, set at the end of days. It was so resonant to a nearly annihilated people that it became a central part of their tradition. The high-water mark of Jewish apocalypticism is in the Book of Daniel, which contributed a kind of timetable for the End and a vivid symbolic...
...move into End Times theology, the interests of the two groups split apart. According to prophecy, the Jews must be in control of Israel for Jesus to return. But in the last battle, two-thirds of the Jews perish, and the rest either accept Jesus as the true Messiah or they must be damned, literally. "In my view, any theology that continues to deny the validity of Judaism and to fantasize about looking forward to the conversion or destruction of the Jews is one that should arouse a great deal of caution among Jews," argues Gershom Gorenberg, a leading Jewish...
...time, that was true of Ogami, too. When Inoue, the Philippine bank's erstwhile president, met him in Manila in 1998, Ogami came across as a boyishly enthusiastic entrepreneur who laughed about the persona he played. "He didn't believe the stuff about being a messiah or anything," says Inoue. "It was all just a marketing ploy...