Re: Future Revalation
...but they are not alone **in this inconsistency of being stupid and wise all at once. The case of all other religions who expect an ultimate Redeemer is no different from theirs. The actors are different of course, the acts are played in different garb, yet the drama remains the same. A Christ should have come to the aid of the Jewish people and did come but it was not the same Christ they were awaiting, so they failed to recognize him. They expected him to appear with a crown over his head seated on a royal throne. He would be a warrior Messiah, they believed, who would successfully lead the armies of the Israelites against the despotic rule of the Roman Empire. Two thousand years have passed since their rejection of Jesus (as) as Messiah, yet no Messiah of their expectation has come. History has changed the political geography of the world and the prophecy of the coming of the Christ has lost all revelance. There is no Judea or Palestine under the yoke of a Roman Empire from which the Jewish are to liberated. In fact, the Roman Empire which once ruled half of the world has completely disappeared from the map of the world. We still hear of **deliverance, but it is a deliverance from the Jews, not the Jews. Although there was nothing wrong in their belief that Christ would be born like any other human child to a human mother, yet they attached some supernatural preconditions to his birth which could not have been realized. Their belief about the bodily descent of Elijah (as) before the advent of the Messiah, is just the case in point which effectively blocked the passage of the Messiahthey awaited. So the Jewish position, vis-à-vis the advent of a Messiah, in reality turn out to be a denial of his advent altogether.
to be continued...