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" When the hour of the Divine draws near,

the Mighty Mother shall take birth in Time,

and God be born into the human clay

in forms made ready by your human lives.

Then shall the Truth Supreme be given to men. "

 

Robert E. Wilkinson, The Avatar, www.hindunet.org

 

" Most religions contain teachings that anticipate a time, beyond the

present era of suffering and injustice, when human history will be

consummated by a decisive act of God. Evil will be destroyed and

goodness will triumph.

 

Typically, the course of events includes three phases: a time of

tribulation and confusion when evil and suffering grow more and more

rampant; the Last Judgment when God intervenes decisively to destroy

all evil; and the coming of a new age of bliss, often called the

Kingdom of Heaven. Furthermore, this decisive transformation is

often said to require a great leader, a Messiah, who will wield

divine authority to destroy evil, establish the saints, and found a

new age of unlimited happiness.

 

Teachings about eschatology are found in most religions, though they

are most characteristic of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic

scriptures. Judaism anticipates the coming of the Messiah who will

inaugurate an age of peace and justice on earth. Christianity

teaches broadly that Christ, the Messiah, has already come to offer

salvation, and he will come again to judge the world; In Islam the

Last Judgment is a cardinal doctrine. While it is sometimes

understood as a spiritual judgment of the individual soul after

death, many passages in the Qur'an clearly describe it as a world-

transforming event to occur at the end of time, when the earth will

be destroyed and all people will see their just reward as they are

sorted into groups bound either for Paradise or hell.

 

Hinduism, Buddhism, and Zoroastrianism contain teachings that the

world is going through a cosmic cycle in which morals and religion

have gradually decayed and have reached a state of dire corruption

in this present age, identified as the Kali Yuga or Age of

Degeneration of the Dharma. This Kali age will give way to a

renovation of faith as the cycle turns and the earth enters a new

golden age, the Krita age. Some texts predict that this cosmic

change will be initiated by the advent of the new Avatar (Hinduism),

the Maitreya Buddha, or the Saoshyant (Zoroastrianism.)

 

Millenarian beliefs are a minor part of the teaching of most

religions . . . Christianity itself began as a messianic sect of

Judaism; Muhammad preached Islam, believing that the Last Judgment

was imminent; and the Baha'i Faith began as a messianic movement

within Islam, to cite three examples. Millenarian movements among

the oppressed indigenous peoples of Africa and the Americas have

been significant forces which have fostered self-respect and

encouraged economic and political independence. Considering the

unprecedented pace of social change in the nineteenth and twentieth

centuries and the unparalleled social dislocations and cultural

challenges which have resulted from the world wars, liberation

movements, industrialization and technological change, the atomic

bomb, the environmental crisis, and the shrinking Global Village, it

is not surprising that a large number of new religions and new sects

of old religions have arisen which believe that the present is the

time of tribulations preceding the appearance of the Messiah, and

that their leader is either a forerunner of or is himself the long-

awaited Avatar or Messiah who will destroy the evil world-system,

establish true religion, and inaugurate a new age. "

 

World Scripture, International Religious Foundation,

Paragon House Publishing, 1995, p. 773-74.

 

 

 

" Almost clandestinely, the Roman Catholic Church has in recent

weeks taken another step toward reducing Christian animosity toward

Judaism - animosity stemming from the theological dispute between

the two religions.

 

In a 210-page document published in book form in Rome, the Church

states that there is no contradiction between the Jews' anticipation

of the Messiah's arrival and the Christians' belief that the Messiah

has already arrived, because Christians believe that the Messiah

will return at the End of Days.

 

It is significant that the Vatican's new document does not

unequivocally or explicitly state that the Messiah destined to

return will be Jesus Christ but instead says that the Messiah " will

bear the signs of that same Jesus who arrived in the past. " The

document even adds that the Jews' anticipation of the Messiah's

arrival can significantly encourage Christians' belief in the

Messiah's return. The new document was written by the Pontifical

Biblical Commission, established by Pope John Paul II in 1997. The

commission was headed by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the

Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith and its other members were

20 Bible experts, each of whom received papal authorization to serve

on the committee. "

 

Eliahu Salpeter, Waiting for the Messiah

 

 

 

" THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN

 

The hope for the advent of the millennium, an ideal world, a world

without evil, a world in which God's sovereignty is fully manifest,

is present to some degree in every world religion. However, this

hope is most strongly expressed in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

(and the new religions which show their influence), where it is not

only a hope but the firm promise of God. Sometimes the term Kingdom

of Heaven denotes a spiritual ideal, a state of bliss beyond death

but that sense of the term does not do justice to the most

thoroughgoing eschatological visions. We are concerned in this

chapter with the hope of an ideal future that is to be realized in

this world. Furthermore, calling this ideal the Kingdom of Heaven is

not meant to connote that its political system should be a monarchy;

rather, it is God who will reign on earth through the hearts of

godly people. "

 

World Scripture, International Religious Foundation

 

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