| Belief in Coming Messah |
| The Rapture, Tribulation, Revelations Apocalips and Resurrection and Time for the Rescue |
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Millenarianism applies to the expectation of the return of a divine figure, such as Christ, the Twelfth Imam, Maitreya Buddha, or the Hindu Avatar Kalki, who will restore and revitalize the righteous. Melanesian movements, such as the Ghost dance religion and the Cargo cults are revitalization movements that hope to restore a way of life threatened by corrupting forces. Mellenum is a period of thousand years. In Christianity, the period of a thousand years during which Satan will be bound and Christ will reign on earth (Ref. 5 page 441).
The Quran says God regulates the affair from the heaven to the earth; then shall it ascend to him in a day the measure of which is a thousand years of what you count (Quran, XXX 11, 5).
Then of swear by the angels who bring down the revelations, to clear or to warn, most surely what you are threatened with must come to pass, so when the stars are made to loose their light and when the heaven is rent asunder, and when the mountains are carried away as dust, and when the apostles are gathered at their appointed time to what day is the doom fixed? To the day of decision, and what will make you comprehend what the day of decision is? Woe on that day to the rejecters. Did we not destroy the former generation and ... (Quran LXXVII: 1-16).
When the sun is covered and the stars darken, and when the mountains are set on fire, and when souls are united... and the night when it departs and the morning when it brightens, most surely it is the word of an honored messenger. The processor of strength, having an honorable place with the Lord of the dominations and a truth he saw himself on the clear horizon nor on the unseen is he a clear concealer ... for him among you who pleases to go straight, and you do not please except that God pleases, the God of the World (LXXXI: 1-29).
Jesus says in the Bible that would be then end of the time. Jesus says: For those will be days of such horror as have never been since the beginning of God's creation, nor will ever be again and unless the Lord shortens that time of calamity, not a soul in all the earth will survive, but for the sake of his chosen ones he will limit those days and then if anyone tells you and this is the Messiah, or that one is, don't pay any attention, for there will be many false Messiah and false prophets who will do wonder miracles that would deceive, if possible even God's own children, take care I have warned you. (Mark 13: 1423).
After the tribulation ends then the sun will grow dim and the moon will not shine and the stars will fall the heaven will convulse. (Mark 13:24-25).
Then all mankind will see me, the Messiah, coming in the clouds with great power and glory, and I will send out the angels to gather together my chosen ones from all over the world - from the farther bounds of earth and heaven (Mark 13:25-27), keep a sharp look out; for you don't know when I will come, at evening, at midnight... Don't let me find you sleeping, watch for my return this is my message to you and everyone else (Mark 13-35-37).
And behold I am coming quickly, blessed is he who leads the words of the Prophecy of this book, I testify to everyone who hears the words of the Prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them God shall add to him the plagues which re written in this book. And if anyone takes away from the words of the book of This Prophecy God shall take away his part from the tree of life add from the holy City, which are written in this book. He who testifies to these things says yes I am coming quickly, Amen. Comes, Lord Jesus. (Revelation 22:7,18,19,20).
Apocalyptic is a view of the end time in which good triumphs over evil in a final cataclysmic battle and a New Haven and New Earth is established (Ref. 5, page 487). The views especially were prominent among the pre Islamic religions in Iran including Zoroastrianism. In this religion the teaching of the Prophet Zoroaster, which he claimed to have received from God (Ahura-Mazda) by divine Inspiration are contained in 1209 sacred books called the Avdesta. In another pre Islamic religion of Iran Manichaism man was considered the creature of the demons of darkness and must be shown the way to salvation by the recitation of a redeeming deity, who imparts to man the necessary knowledge (Ref. 6 page 589).
The Jewish nation and Shiit Moslem who did not recognize Jesus as the Messiah have been waiting for the appearance of their own Messiah, (The anointed one). According to their messianic belief they have the hope that God will send a deliverer an anointed one who liberate the faithful and establish an age of peace and righteousness (Ref 5, P 491). |
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