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Introduction

ans who analyze these developments also
think that the world is searching for a Messiah
and that this pursuit will deliver substantial results. For in-
stance, Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln, the
British researchers who have received worldwide attention
with their book Holy Blood, Holy Grail (Dell: 1983), wrote another
book, The Messianic Legacy (Dell: 1989), in which they examined
Prophet Jesus (pbuh) and this expectation. In their book, they
make the following comment:
Different as our modern world may be from the world of two
thousand years ago, it is astonishing how much our own epoch
has in common with what Jesus and his contemporaries regarded
as the Last Times. We may, today, be technologically more adept
and endowed with considerably more knowledge. But, regret-
tably, we do not appear to be any wiser, any more intelligent…
We are once again living through an acute crisis of meaning, an
uncertainty about our direction and our goals. The various sys-
tems, programmes and ideologies which, less than a century ago,
seemed to promise so much have all, to one degree or another,
proved hollow. As in Jesus's time, there is a pervasive awareness
that something is disastrously wrong. Each new terrorist outrage,
each new air crash, each new natural disaster produces a frisson
of panic. The profound and rapid changes in our civilisation, the
dissatisfaction with our systems of government, the increase use
of indiscriminate murder and terrorism as a means of political

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