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Date Posted: 10:36:41 02/18/06 Sat
Author: The Messiah
Subject: C20H25N3O + C11H15NO2
In reply to: Longinus 's message, "Board" on 04:56:18 02/17/06 Fri

The textual requirements concerning the messiah and what he will do.

The Sanhedrin will be re-established (Isaiah 1:26)

Once he is King, leaders of other nations will look to him for guidance. (Isaiah 2:4)

The whole world will worship the One God of Israel (Isaiah 2:17)

He will be descended from King David (Isaiah 11:1) via King Solomon (1 Chron. 22:8-10)

The Moshiach will be a man of this world, an observant Jew with “fear of God” (Isaiah 11:2)

Evil and tyranny will not be able to stand before his leadership (Isaiah 11:4)

Knowledge of God will fill the world (Isaiah 11:9)

He will include and attract all cultures and nations (Isaiah 11:10)

Jews will have returned to their homeland (Isaiah 11:12)

He will swallow up death forever (Isaiah 25:8)

There will be no more hunger or illness, and death will cease (Isaiah 25:8)

All of the dead will rise again (Isaiah 26:19)

The Jewish people will experience eternal joy and gladness (Isaiah 51:11)

He will be a messenger of peace (Isaiah 52:7)

Nations will end up recognizing the wrongs they did Israel (Isaiah 52:13-53:5)

For My House shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations (Isaiah 56:3-7)

The peoples of the world will turn to the Jews for spiritual guidance (Zechariah 8:23)

The ruined cities of Israel will be restored (Ezekiel 16:55)

Weapons of war will be destroyed (Ezekiel 39:9)

The Temple will be rebuilt (Ezekiel 40) resuming many of the suspended mitzvos

He will then perfect the entire world to serve God together, as it is written (Zephaniah 3:9)

Jews will know the Torah without Study (Jeremiah 31:33)

He will give you all the desires of your heart (Psalms 37:4)

He will take the barren land and make it abundant and fruitful (Isaiah 51:3, Amos 9:13-15, Ezekiel 36:29-30, Isaiah 11:6-9)

BOOK OF DANEL

In the fiery furnace, Hananiah (Shadrach), Mishael (Meshach), and Azariah (Abednego), defy King Nebuchadnezzar's order to bow down and worship a golden idol, a cult image of Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuchadnezzar, in a rage, orders the boys thrown into a furnace, but they are miraculously unharmed by the flames and survive the experience unscathed. Nebuchadnezzar sees them walking around in the furnace along with an unnamed fourth figure. After the three youths emerge, Nebuchadnezzar orders everyone to worship their God instead of the golden idol.

The writing on the wall (or sometimes 'handwriting on the wall') is an expression that suggests a portent of doom or misfortune. It originates in the Biblical book of Daniel - where supernatural writing fortells the demise of the Babylonian Empire, but it has come to have a wide usage in language and literature.

According to Daniel 5:1-31, during a drunken feast, King Belshazzar of Babylon takes sacred golden and silver vessels, which had been removed from the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem by his predecessor Nebuchadnezzar. Using these holy items, the King and his court praise 'the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone'. Immediately, the disembodied fingers of a human hand appear and write on the wall of the royal palace, and writes MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN (or "upharsin" in the older English transliteration). Despite various inducements, none of the royal magicians or advisors could read the text. While these words are Aramaic the actual writing system it was written in remains unknown. (It is assumed the writing itself was in Aramaic, but it is possible the words were written in a different, otherwise unintelligible script which Daniel was able to interpret). Finally the King sends for Daniel, an exiled Jew, taken himself from Jerusalem, who had served in high office under Nebuchadnezzar.

Rejecting offers of reward, Daniel warns the King of the folly of his arrogant blasphemy before reading the text (vs 25-28).

And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, and PARSIN. This is the interpretation of the matter: MENE, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; TEKEL, you have been weighed on the scales and found wanting; PARSIN, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians. (NRSV)
That very night, according to the story, King Belshazzar is slain, and Darius the Mede becomes King. (This seems to reflect the historically verifiable defeat of the Babylonian Empire by Persia with Darius actually referring to Cyrus the Persian).

While the Book of Daniel gives the meaning of the words, their origins and original meaning are unclear. Some have contended that the words have no meaning in themseves. However, since the late nineteenth century, a number of scholars have held the theory that the words are weights of coinage. MENE a mena, TEKEL a spelling of shekel, PERES half a mena. (A mena would be about 30 shekels.) Hence, in English it might read - 'a half dollar, a half dollar, a penny, and two bits'. The meaning that Daniel decrypts from these words is based upon etymology, each turning on a pun using the word as a passive verb.

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