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• The Old Testament records the preparation for the coming of the Messiah. The Gospels record the coming of the Messiah, Jesus Christ our Lord. The book of Acts records the propagation of the gospel (the good news) concerning Jesus Christ. The Epistles (letters) explain the gospel and its implications for our lives. The book of Revelation anticipates and describes the second coming of Jesus Christ and the establishment of His eternal kingdom. From beginning to end, the Bible glorifies Jesus Christ and centers on Him. Its Christ-centeredness is one of its wonderful features.

  Josh McDowell

  Jesus, Book, Preparation

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• My good friends, we are all waiting. We are waiting, if not for the Messiah, as such, we are waiting for the messianic moment. And the messianic moment is what each and every one of us tries to build, meaning a certain area of humanity that links us to all those who are human and, therefore, desperately trying to fight despair as humanly as possible and - I hope - with some measure of success.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspirational, Graduation, Fighting

  "Learning and Respect". Elie Wiesel's commencement speech at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, June 15, 1997.

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• Signal smokes, war drums, feathered bonnets against the western sky. New messiahs, young leaders are ready to hurl the finest light cavalry in the world against Fort Stark. In the Kiowa village, the beat of drums echoes in the pulsebeat of the young braves. Fighters under a common banner, old quarrels forgotten, Comanche rides with Arapaho, Apache with Cheyenne. All chant of war. War to drive the white man forever from the red man's hunting ground.

  Frank Nugent

  War, Native American, Men

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• I would say that if you don't believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ and Messiah, and that he rose again from the dead and by his sacrifice our sins are forgiven, you're really not in any meaningful sense a Christian.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Christian, Meaningful, Jesus

  Christopher Hitchens (2017). “Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.80, Melville House

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• What Jesus did was not a mere example of something else, not a mere manifestation of some larger truth; it was itself the climactic event and fact of cosmic history. From then on everything is differentthe End came forward into the present in Jesus the Messiah

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Events, Example

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• Literally, the Bible is a gigantic myth, a narrative extending over the whole of time from creation to apocalypse, unified by a body of recurring imagery that "freezes" into a single metaphor cluster, the metaphors all being identified with the body of the Messiah, the man who is all men, the totality logoi who is one Logos, the grain of sand that is the world.

  Northrop Frye

  Men, World, Body

  "The Great Code: The Bible and Literature". Book by Northrop Frye, 1981.

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• When you say, 'I am a Christian,' you are saying, 'I am mashiach,' in the Hebrew. I am a little messiah walking on earth, in other words. That is a shocking revelation. ...May I say it like this? You are a little god on earth running around

  Benny Hinn

  Christian, Running, Earth

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• I think the Messianic concept, which is the Jewish offering to mankind, is a great victory. What does it mean? It means that history has a sense, a meaning, a direction; it goes somewhere, and necessarily in a good direction--the Messiah.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mean, Thinking, Offering

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.92, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• So they crucified their Messiah? Well can I believe it. That He was a Son of the Living Spirit would be naught to them, if indeed He was so.... They would care little for any God if he came not with pomp and power.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Believe, Son, Would Be

  H. Rider Haggard (2011). “She: A History of Adventure”, p.149, Modern Library

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• Elvis was God-given, there's no other explanation. A Messiah comes around
  every few thousand years, and Elvis was it this time.

  Little Richard

  Years, Given, Thousand

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• When we begin to understand the magnitude of [the Messiah's] sacrifice and service to us individually and collectively, we then cannot consider anything else to be of more importance or to approach His significance in our lives. "For most of us, this understanding does not come all at once and likely will not be fully complete during our mortal sojourn. We do know, however, that as we learn line upon line, our appreciation for the Savior's contributions will increase and our knowledge and assurance of their truthfulness will grow.

  Cecil O. Samuelson

  Appreciation, Sacrifice, Understanding

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• My psychiatrist says I have a messiah complex. But I forgave him.

  Jim Carrey

  Life, Death, Insanity

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• These self-anointed intellectuals are people who think that those who believe in God and Jesus Christ, those who 'cling to their guns and their religion,' are a lower form of animal life, while they, themselves, have no problem whatever accepting Obama as a messiah and, in the past, deifying the likes of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Let's face it, when you kneel in a church, you're accepting that there is something greater and wiser than yourself in the universe. When, on the other hand, you kneel to a left-wing politician, you're merely emulating Monica Lewinsky.

  Burt Prelutsky

  Jesus, Believe, Gun

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• The materials in I Enoch range in date from 200 B.C.E. to 50 C.E. I Enoch contributes much to intertestamental views of angels, heaven, judgment, resurrection, and the Messiah. This book has left its stamp upon many of the NT writers, especially the author of Revelation.

  Craig A. Evans

  Book, Angel, Views

  Craig A. Evans (2005). “Ancient Texts for New Testament Studies: A Guide to the Background Literature”, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Daniel was in the greatest credit amongst the Jews, till the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian . And to reject his prophecies, is to reject the Christian religion. For this religion is founded upon his prophecy concerning the Messiah .

  Isaac Newton

  Christian, Hadrian, Credit

  Sir Isaac Newton (2016). “Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John”, p.17, Library of Alexandria

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• For Jews, the Messiah has never come; for Christians, He has come but once; for modern man, He appears and disappears with increasing rapidity. The saviors of modern man, the "scientists" who promise salvation through the "discoveries" of ethology and sociology, psychology and psychiatry, and all the other bogus religions, issue forth periodically, as if selected by some Messiah-of-the-Month Club.

  Thomas Szasz

  Christian, Men, Issues

  "The Second Sin (Science and Scientism)". Book by Thomas Szasz, 1973.

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• For every second of time was the strait gate through which the Messiah might enter.

  Walter Benjamin

  Might, Gates, Every Second

  Walter Benjamin (2015). “Illuminations”, p.200, Random House

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• Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.

  John Ortberg

  Humans, Complexes, Human Beings

  John Ortberg (2009). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.123, Zondervan

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• Courbet comes in 1849 with the intention of overthrowing past art and constructing it anew. While he speaks only of realism, of which he proclaims himself the messiah, his pictures show pre-eminently those qualities which are learned in the museums.

  Jules Breton

  Art, Past, Museums

  Jules Breton (1892). “The Life of an Artist: An Autobiography”

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• A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable.

  Sigmund Freud

  Girl, Home, Age

  SIGMUND FREUD “THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION”

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• One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the Messiah, patience and deep appreciation of human individuality.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Appreciation, Expression, Joy

  Isaac Bashevis Singer's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 8, 1978.

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• No authentic Messiah would inspire a religion that ended up calling upon the Jews to reject the manifest meaning of Sinai. It is really that simple.

  David Klinghoffer

  Simple, Inspire, Calling

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• Jesus not only understood Himself to be the promised Messiah, He also says and does things throughout the Gospels that make it clear He understood Himself to be God incarnate.

  Keith Mathison

  Jesus, Doe, Clear

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• The Messiah comes not only as the redeemer, he comes as the subduer of Antichrist. Only that historian will have the gift of fanning the spark of hope in the past who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins. And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious.

  Walter Benjamin

  Winning, Past, Enemy

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.265, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Any religion whose messiah’s name isn’t recognized by Microsoft Word can’t be that much of a threat.

  Stephen Colbert

  Microsoft Word, Names, Threat

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