The Messiah Condition

The Messiah Condition
Author: Robin D. Ader
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2009-12-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1846942586

During the time of Christ, a document that could change the course of human history is written, encoded and secreted away and for good reason. For 1900 years it passes through the hands of philosophers, poets, Inquisitors and Rabbis and finds itself in the possession of a 10 year old boy. Zack Connely learns of the document, revealed in thesis notes of a graduate student mysteriously killed in a freak car accident decades earlier. Zack is led to Jerusalem where, in a secret vault, he sees the heavily encrypted "Treatise". With the aid of his MIT educated girlfriend and her cousin, Zack is compelled to attempt to decode it. They are not the only ones; two Mossad agents join in their quest while their comrades try to dissuade them in the harshest ways. The adventure takes the group into the realm of spiritual messages and the occult where Judaism, Christianity, Kaballah and Quantum physics interact, and answers to age-old questions are ultimately encountered.

Expectations about God and Messiah

Expectations about God and Messiah
Author: Patrick Prill
Publisher: Yeshua Publishing
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2003
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780974208602

Written for both a Jewish and Christian audience, it seeks to present the case that Jesus is the Messiah in a non aggressive, Jewish-friendly way. It also seeks to address many of the fundamental questions that Jews have about the Messiah and about the claims that Jesus's followers make.

The Making of the Messiah

The Making of the Messiah
Author: Robert Sheaffer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1991
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Looking at the evolution of Christian writings and doctrines exactly as skeptics investigate contemporary accounts of UFO abductions or psychic wonders, Sheaffer shows how early Christian writers altered historical facts to make the new religion "sell" to potential converts. What emerges is a scheme of deliberate distortion and deceit that could grace a mystery novel, leaving in its wake a trail of highly suspicious and incriminating evidence.

Jesus the Messiah

Jesus the Messiah
Author: Robert H. Stein
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2009-08-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830875832

In this accessible introduction to Jesus Christ, Robert Stein draws together the results of a career of research and writing on Jesus and the Gospels. Now in paperback, this classic textbook is clearly written, ably argued, and geared to the needs of students, giving probing minds a sure grounding in the life and ministry of Jesus.

Jerusalem, 1000–1400

Jerusalem, 1000–1400
Author: Barbara Drake Boehm
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2016-09-14
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1588395987

Medieval Jerusalem was a vibrant international center, home to multiple cultures, faiths, and languages. Harmonious and dissonant voices from many lands, including Persians, Turks, Greeks, Syrians, Armenians, Georgians, Copts, Ethiopians, Indians, and Europeans, passed in the narrow streets of a city not much larger than midtown Manhattan. Patrons, artists, pilgrims, poets, and scholars from Christian, Jewish, and Islamic traditions focused their attention on the Holy City, endowing and enriching its sacred buildings, creating luxury goods for its residents, and praising its merits. This artistic fertility was particularly in evidence between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries, notwithstanding often devastating circumstances—from the earthquake of 1033 to the fierce battles of the Crusades. So strong a magnet was Jerusalem that it drew out the creative imagination of even those separated from it by great distance, from as far north as Scandinavia to as far east as present-day China. This publication is the first to define these four centuries as a singularly creative moment in a singularly complex city. Through absorbing essays and incisive discussions of nearly 200 works of art, Jerusalem, 1000–1400: Every People Under Heaven explores not only the meaning of the city to its many faiths and its importance as a destination for tourists and pilgrims but also the aesthetic strands that enhanced and enlivened the medieval city that served as the crossroads of the known world.

The Messiah Formerly Known as Jesus

The Messiah Formerly Known as Jesus
Author: Tom Breen
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2008
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1602580197

Acclaimed "Internet Theologian" Tom Breen has written a satirical, tongue-in-cheek exploration of pop Christianity. Whether pondering why there are so many Christian rock bands but so few good Christian rock songs or providing helpful tips on writing hip translations of the Bible (hint: lose the boring parts and constantly mention celebrities), Breen offers whip-smart, non-stop fun, along with a side-splitting send-up of our contemporary obsessions.

An Amicable Controversy with a Jewish Rabbi, on the Messiah's Coming

An Amicable Controversy with a Jewish Rabbi, on the Messiah's Coming
Author: J. R. Park
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2013-10-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1627935789

"The testimony of Jesus in the spirit of prophecy." Few, perhaps, of those who read the Scriptures are fully aware of the extent to which the language of them abounds in metaphor; yet is this knowledge indispensable to the right understanding of both the Old and the New Testament, and especially the prophetic parts of these books. If Christ be the Messiah, his kingdom is a spiritual one, and what relates to it must be spiritually understood. We marvel at the blindness which prevents the Jews from perceiving in prophecy the numerous intimations of a spiritual Messiah, all of which appear to us to have been distinctly fulfilled in the person of Christ; and yet that very blindness to their spirituality is what prevents ourselves from understanding other prophecies relating to the same subject. The happy state which the world may attain to, under the universal prevalence of true religion, it is more easy to imagine, than to describe; for a volume would hardly suffice to enumerate all the blessings it is calculated to afford. The cessation of foreign war, with all the miseries attending it; the end of all tyranny and oppression at home; of injustice and misrule, are the most distinctly announced, and their benefit perhaps the most obvious. But their influence on society is limited in comparison with the wide diffusion of happiness that would ensue from the improvement in private life, and the amelioration of individual character.

The Search for Messiah

The Search for Messiah
Author: Chuck Smith
Publisher: Word for Today
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1996-05-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780936728506

Examine Powerful New Evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls as well as the beliefs of the ancient Rabbis and discover the identity of the true Messiah!obiography of hope for the city, love for God and a faith that stays the course. Inspiring story of God's goodness in a world of urban violence.

The Messiah's Inventions

The Messiah's Inventions
Author: Gordon Ziegler
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2013-11-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493148567

Noah’s ark was an invention of God (elohiym—the plural (three) form of one God—God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit). God the Son later became the incarnate Jesus of Nazareth, the Messiah, the Anointed One, the very Christ. The original Son of God was undoubtedly the divine agent that communed with Noah, inspiring him with the great invention of God to preserve life through the perils of a world-wide Deluge. Noah was the master builder and preacher of righteousness. God could have translated the people and animals to heaven or some other world before that horrific water holocaust of the entire earth, and relocated them back to earth when the Flood was over. But God chose not to do this. God chose a cooperative effort of God and man at great cost to preserve life on earth during that fearful water holocaust. But the ark, as well designed and built as it was, was in itself not sufficient to preserve life. It required the mighty power of God and the heavenly angels to guide and preserve the ark and its inhabitants during that fearful ordeal. “For this they [last day scoffers—evolutionists] willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.” 2 Peter 3:5-7 and context (KJV). In the imminent future we face the fearful peril of one third of the population of the earth being incinerated in a nuclear holocaust (Revelation 9:14-21); also the peril of the corona of the sun going out in darkness, like what happened briefly July 19-23, 2013 (Google dark sun), and the earth’s population freezing to death, or the sun continuing its nova sequence, scorching the earth with great heat, and then going out in darkness. What we desperately need now are new inventions of God, the cooperation of God, men, and angels to preserve life in fire, make the sun unnecessary, flood the entire earth with light and clean energy (Revelation 21:23). God has already inspired one man, said of Lucifer himself to be the Everlasting Father incarnate, the Messiah, the Anointed One, the very Christ, with designs of God of inventions to preserve and restore earth to Edenic condition in this doom of fire. The inventions are already roughly designed and the master builder found and educated. All that is needed now are believing people donating money for these costly heavenly inventions. God will not do this all by Himself. He will work with us as we give our all, be it little or much. This book will tell all about the inventions of God for now, to preserve life through fire and to make the sun unnecessary. What is most needed now is belief in God’s Messiahs. So in this book there will not only be science and technology, but theology, history, and prophetic evidences in favor of Messiah A and Messiah B—Jesus of Nazareth and Gordon L. Ziegler of Lacey, Washington U.S.A. Any and all may now make tax deductable donations to Benevolent Enterprises to actualize the divine inventions to preserve life from a holocaust of fire, restore the earth and its people, and make the sun unnecessary with heavenly light and heat.