Messiah
A Messiah is these four things.
Who is practical, political, militant and violent?
The nation that enslaved the Jews until Moses led God's people out of the region.
What is Egypt?
The group that started the conflict with the Roman Empire which led to the sacking of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple.
Who were the Zealots?
This is what happens to bad people.
What are bad things?
Why was the landlord concerned by the line of insects leaving his building?
He was losing ten ants.
The coming of a Messiah is foretold in this reading.
What happens in Isaiah 9?
The nation that removed the Jews from the Holy Land which is seen as a righteous act of God by Jeremiah.
What is Babylon?
The group that removed themselves from Jerusalem during the conflict and established what is modern day Judaism.
Who were the Pharisees?
Prior to the end of the Babylonian Exile, this was the general conception of life and death.
"A good life is the best thing that can be hoped for and when you die you are dead"
I bought a pair of shoes from a drug dealer. I do not know what he laced them with but
I have been tripping all day.
1000 BCE: First Messiah chosen by god and anointed by Samuel
Who is David?
The nation that allowed the Jews to return home around 538 BCE which led to the creation of the Second Temple. (Hint: The nation is led by a Messiah)
What is Persia?
The group of traditionally upper class individuals that were tasked with maintaining the Temple and faded into obscurity following the sacking of Jerusalem.
Who were the Sadducees?
Following the end of the Babylonian Exile, this was the traditional understanding of the relationship between life and death.
Why does the concept of resurrection (anastasis) matter?
The coin printing machine just randomly stopped working.
It doesn't make any cents.
Half a millennium after first Messiah: Not Jewish but ended the Babylonian Exile
Who is Cyrus Koresh?
The nation that controlled Jerusalem around 168 BCE who were driven out by the Maccabees.
Seleucid Empire
The apocalyptic group that left the Holy Land in protest and settled in the Dead Sea. They wrote a number of eponymous Scrolls.
Who were the Essenes?
The concept of an "Afterlife".
What is a general premise found in contemporary religions that is not found in both First and Second Temple Judaism in regards to death?
Two fish were swimming and ran into a wall. One turns to the other and says...
"Dam"
168 BCE: Messiah who led a revolt against Antiochus Epiphanes and restored the Jews to their homeland.
Who is Judas Maccabee?
The nation that took control of Jerusalem around 63 BCE, and installed its own governors to manage the region after the death of Herod the Great.
What is Rome?
A major difference between the Sadducee and Pharisee interpretations of the TORAH.
Sadducee: No Angels, No Anastasis, No Oral TORAH, Focus on first 5 books of TORAH, Originalist
This is an important instance that not only highlights God's possible omniscience but also creates an in group and an out group. (Exodus)
What is the significance of Exodus 3.7 "I have observed the suffering of my people who are in Egypt"?
RIP boiled water. You will be...
mist.