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Will current generations live to see Armageddon?
Are there really sinister forces at work, encouraging its imminent arrival? If so, who exactly are they?
In his latest investigative book Michael Baigent takes us to the assembly hall of the UN, the boardrooms of major businesses and powerful lobbying groups, the cabinet meetings of world leaders, the ranches of cattle breeders, the churches of the faithful, and the narrow winding streets of modern Jerusalem, revealing to us the many diverse, public, and clandestine figures behind a perilous messianic agenda.
By unveiling truly bizarre alliances, revisiting centuries-old ghostly events still haunting the birthplaces of religion, unraveling complex threads of history to discern the difference between myth and prophecy, and providing a thorough explication of the religious texts underlying all of this madness in the context of the times in which they were written, Baigent presents a very different view of the past, present, and future than that perpetuated by many loose interpretations of scripture.
What are faith force multipliers? Which members of the U.S. military top brass have fought to employ them? Which world leader belongs to a secret messianic society called the Hojjatieh? What is the Chalcedon Foundation? And what is the correlation between its tenets, those of sharia law, and the fulfillment of end-time prophecies?
The answers to these questions and others will intrigue, mystify, and enrage you, whether you're a person of faith or a staunch secularist. But the author's goal is not simply to shock the reader—it is to help diffuse the time bomb that has been set by the hard-liners of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In the end, Baigent asks these questions to deliver an urgent message: that spiritual yearning is actually a deep and personal issue of awareness, one that can bring hope and tolerance to the world, rather than the self-superiority and control that are born of fear and conflict.
Acknowledgments vii
Timeline xi
Preface xvii
1 Taking the Temple 1
2 The Red Heifer 15
3 Destroying the Mosques 29
4 Armageddon 39
5 John of Patmos 59
6 Revelation 77
7 The Day of the Beast 93
8 Carried Away by the Rapture 115
9 Fighting for God 131
10 Planet Rushdoony 153
11 The Caliphate 181
12 Jerusalem 209
13 Welcome to the Gods 221
Notes 241
Bibliography 259
Index 265
Diana01
Posted November 15, 2009
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Michael Baigent documents the scary side of all three abramhamic fundamentalist religions and shows how they are feeding on each other. He totally debunks their irrational apocalyptic agendas. This is important to all thinking people since these groups have a lot of politcal power and are intentionally leading the rest of us toward world war based on their irrational and uneducated thinking. Baigent has done the world a great favor and I hope that everyone reads this book so that we can all be part of helping these crazy people wake up before they help to blow us up.
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Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.I know there are those who want the world to end soon. There are those who want the rapture to come now. There are those who are willing to kill themselves and others for God.
How do we stop them. How do we protect each other from the madness?
Is the true rapture and the end when the madness leaves our world?
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Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.The one thing religious extremists have in common is their belief that they alone are the keepers of the "True Faith" and it is their God given duty to bring about their version of the end times (of course, the rest of us are generously given the option of converting or facing God's wrath by their blood soaked hands). All this brings me to a highly engaging and eye opening book by Michael Baigent entitled, "Racing Toward Armageddon: The Three Great Religions And The Plot To End The World" (you may remember Mr. Baigent as the co-author of the hugely popular "Holy Blood Holy Grail" and "The Messianic Legacy"). Mr. Baigent gives us an excellent historical overview the three main religions and their claim on Jerusalem. He then leads us through their Byzantine world to induce the coming of the Messiah, but which Messiah? Is it the Messiah Ben David or the Twelfth Iman? Or is it the Second Coming of Jesus? Finally, Mr. Baigent details the objectives of each and finally, what we can do. An excellent book for those seeking to understand not just the Middle Eastern politics, but American politics as well.
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Will current generations live to see Armageddon?
Are there really sinister forces at work, encouraging its imminent arrival? If so, who exactly are they?
In his latest investigative book Michael Baigent takes us to the assembly hall of the UN, the boardrooms of major businesses and powerful lobbying groups, the cabinet meetings of world leaders, the ranches of cattle breeders, the churches of the faithful, and the narrow winding streets of ...