a reply to:
ElGoobero
Well, the first year of existence was 3761 BCE, nevermind the contradictory evidence reality offers, according to totally legit chronology, it was
then. Jewish Eschatology was a post exilic, post Persian, post Christian addition to Judaism.
Before Christ, Jews only sorta had an afterlife and messianic age. Sheol, the all-encompassing afterlife, and Isaiah for the Messianic age.
Christianity prompted Judaism to flesh it out for themselves.
2-4 - They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation will not lift sword against nation and they will no
longer study warfare.
It took the post-Jesus Talmud, Midrash, and Zohar (200-1200 CE). Zohar being the most recent.
By their account the Messianic age begins Exactly in 2240 CE. According to Zohar, the world wakes up in 5600 (1840), and the end times get going in
1940 (5700). Apparently right around 1939-1940, a great redemption for the chosen people would begin.
Got a lot of end times left. The end times leading to the Messianic age takes 300 years in Jewish Eschatology. The Christians actually had the more
complete and compact End-times story first.
But since the focus is on Israel now, the Temple is built and the Messianic Age begins in 217 years.
And then everyone's all non-violent, as a momument/friendship park to The Galactic Federation replaces all absolute religious idols, now consigned to
flames, as empathy reigns without them... okay, that's my sci-fi Inflection. But you never know exactly how the Messianic age achieves non-violence,
or what the message of the Messiah will be.
edit on 16-10-2023 by Degradation33 because: (no reason given)