154. “Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as his divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. God has a way of standing before the nations with justice and it seems I can hear God saying to America ‘you are too arrogant, and if you don't...
Another interesting aspect of this is the exile and the tribulation, see http://www.nakedbiblepodcast.com/naked-bible-101-jesus-the-exile-and-the-tribulation/ where Heiser claims that the exile was not considered to be over nor resolved for two reasons: the messianic kingdom has not arrived ...
Gershom Scholem thought ha had the answer. As he would later write, in all messianic movements and thinkers there is a dangerous impulse to "press for the end," to try to achieve here on earth what has been promised to us only in heaven. Religious history shows that "every attempt to ...
As he would later write, in all messianic movements and thinkers there is a dangerous impulse to "press for the end," to try to achieve here on earth what has been promised to us only in heaven. Religious history shows that "every attempt to realize [this impulse] tears open the abyss...
Gershom Scholem thought ha had the answer. As he would later write, in all messianic movements and thinkers there is a dangerous impulse to "press for the end," to try to achieve here on earth what has been promised to us only in heaven. Religious history shows that "every attempt to ...