Flee The Darkness by Grant R. Jeffrey

Author:Grant R. Jeffrey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2012-08-01T04:00:00+00:00

Daniel gritted his teeth. Now that his Millennium Project was close to uniting the world, the last thing he needed was resistance from a religious faction. “But other than a similarity in the names, what makes you think Adrian Romulus is connected in any way to these ancient writings?” If Adrian fell under suspicion solely because he had inherited an unfortunate surname. . . .

“There are more definite connections.” Rabbi Witzun folded his hands in a pose of tranquillity. “First, there is his work on behalf of the Jews in regard to the Temple.”

“That would seem to indicate that he was your messiah, not a false messiah.”

Something that looked like a smile twitched among the tangles of Witzun’s beard. “A false messiah must have the appearance of a true messiah, or he would never develop a following.” The rabbi spoke patiently, as if he were explaining things to a small, stubborn child. “Second, the calendar itself seems to suggest that Adrian Romulus is this false messiah.”

“The calendar?” Daniel moved his hand to his chin. “Excuse my ignorance, rabbi, but you’ll have to explain.”

“The ninth of Av, to be precise.” Witzun’s eyes shone moist, and his voice grew suddenly husky. “Several ancient rabbis speak of the ‘spirit of Hadrian’ rising in the last days to attack Israel until the Messiah—true Messiah—defeats him. The Roman emperor Hadrian, as I’m sure you’ll recall from your history lessons, destroyed over one and a half million Jews on the ninth day of Av, A.D. 135.”

Daniel searched his memories and found a recollection of Hadrian’s Wall in Scotland, but nothing more. The fact that the man was an anti-Semite had not been mentioned in Daniel’s school.

“I fail to see the connection.”

A tremor touched the rabbi’s firm mouth. “For some reason known only to the Master of the universe, the ninth of Av has often elicited the wrath of men imbued with an evil spirit. On that date in 587 B.C., by the Gregorian calendar, the Babylonians burned King Solomon’s temple; on that day in A.D. 70, the Romans burned the second temple. In 1290, the Jews were driven from England on the ninth of Av; on the same date in 1492, Spain expelled her Jewish population.”

The rabbi’s overwhelming anguish was palpable; Daniel could almost feel the laboring, grieving presence of millions of murdered Jews.

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