Therefore be ye also ready for in such an hour as ye think...

Therefore be ye also ready for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household to give them meat in due season blessed is that servant, whom his lord when t he cometh shall find so doing. Verily I say unto you, that he shall make him ruler over all his goods.

But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayed his coming: And shall begging to smite his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of And shall cut him as under, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." St.Mathew 24 This is not all but in Bible; there are other references as well where they explain the future existence of the messiah.

Above we have dealt with religious parallelism and the Messianic hope in relation to the Semitic religions all of which have risen in or near the Mediterranean region of the world although they have spread far beyond the borders of the lands of their origin. It is desirable to have a view of the Messianic hope (or millennialism) in non-Semitic religions also. Previous…