The Just One: An Historical View of the Secret Community of Messiah

Angebote / Angebote:

The messianic message, for all its uplifting beauty and rich promises of salvation, still harks back to the ancient themes of sacrifice and propitious atonement, embedded in the traditions of all sacrificial rites and their blood rituals. As powerful as they are in their visual imagery, they project a view of God in a most primitive form and leave the suffering servant a victim of his fate. The message of God's love and blessing to all creation is overwhelmed by a sacrificial death that casts its long shadow over all mankind and continues to threaten punishment for the suffering servant's death-rather than joy and hope for his life. In order for us to find the true message of Jesus, we have to glean from scripture the true message of salvation, which is not death as a propitiation or appeasement to the "mercy seat" of God, but renewed life as the ultimate Gift of God's mercy and love. For Salvation's Sake A quiet walk across the meadow where the poppies stir: unknown graves, lying in their sacred chambers, undisturbed by time. What hallowing still to be done there! Does anyone know their names-those that perished? What burnt offerings are these? No sacrifice to the gods. The sacred remnants of a past unspoken. Wake the living and tell the tale-of the firestorm that rained down on the innocent. The frail tethering that held an ancient people-what made them so? Why did they keep their spiritual solitude and walk their separate path. A quietude of angst kept them to their holy task-while ill at rest.