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Review by Mar Watercolor -- Roadmap to the End of Days
[Following is a volunteer review of "Roadmap to the End of Days" by Daniel Friedmann.]
4 out of 4 stars
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Roadmap to the End of Days by Daniel Friedmann, the third of Inspired Studies. The main objective of this book is to bring a “clear biblical timeline”. Friedmann perfectly organizes the whole information through tables, appendix, references, parallel notes and an index sorted in many departments.
The reader finds ten chapters. The first one is a very good introduction to the doubts he wants to clear up and to the concept of the book. He compares the human history to a “glass maze with a beginning and end” and how you could observe a pattern from a “stand above” view. He explains how for most religions the beginning would be “creation story” and the end, the “End of Days” or Messianic Era (Seventh Millenium). For the Abrahamic, this process is linear (transformation and redemption). The non-Abrahamic religions, otherwise, believe in cyclical events. This is the main point of the book, so he tries to show how the “maze” has one exit, but many ways to get there. And it all depends on the human soul. Friedmann uses many biblical references to picture this idea. “By piecing all the pieces together, one can generate an exact biblical timeline that seamlessly merges into the general modern historical timeline and places all events.”
Chapter two illustrates the “Cosmic Purpose of Creation”. He starts relating the set of moral imperatives according to Judaism “The Noahide Laws” and makes a link with commandments observed nowadays. This part focuses on how the righteousness of a soul can lead you to the exit of the maze or not. “So why is it so hard to get to the destination? What keeps getting in the way?”
At this point we find Amalek. He introduces this nation “whose purpose in to maintain the separation between the Divine and this world.” and he keeps on comparing this entity along the book as a character who always gets in the way of finding the truth and harmony. The author swims deeply in this subject, referencing Moses, Joseph and Jacob.
Chapters three, four and five are dedicated to the “Time Preceding the End of Days” and gives a bit of hope about positives in this era. Also, he underlines some of the main prophecies about the End: the Battle of Gog and Magog (which will come with the reader along the book); the Redemption of Israel; The recognition of God by all nations and the Resurrection of the dead. Then he brings in a bit of context about the Messiahs. The author presents the Sefirot's (channels of divine energy) and explains how “time and history proceed in patterns of seven.” The reader can find extensive references in Appendix B. He draws the relation between the Six Days of Creation and the six millennia. Friedmann also looks back in history analyzing three critical periods as “opportunities for conclusion of the Divine Plan” (2833-4000 considering that about 3700 Romans took control of the area). Afterward, he parallelizes those facts with actual events (birth of a leader, coronation, battles, building of a Temple, New revelation and death of a leader).
Chapter six is about our recent history, “Preparing for the End of Days”. For example, he shows how “the beginning of the conflict between Jacob and Esau in 2171 coincides with the Turko-Italian war of 5671 (1911 CE), the key event that led to the start of World War I three years later. The main conflict between Jacob and Esau ended in 2205, which coincides with the end of World War II in 5705 (1945 CE)” The character of Amalek is reflexed on the actions of Nazi Germany. He summarizes the events in Jacob's and Joseph's time and the birth of Israel (1498 CE). Which includes the story of Abraham, Sarah and Ishmael “Ishmael is recognized as an important prophet, a Patriarch of Islam, and the ancestor of several prominent Arab tribes.” As we can find in the book of Ezekiel, God attends Gog to show how, through the War of Gog and Magog, the world will see God's future plans.
The three last chapters are focused on showing how we control the arrival of a Messiah, appealing to our behavior or “submission to God”. Friedmann takes back again the idea of “patterns” to calculate somehow the critical period prior the final days (Messiah ben David is born, the Third Temple is built, Inner Torah is revealed, the Resurrection of the Dead) and the arrival of the Seventh Millenium, clarified with a timeline of Adam's Sin “The end is enwedged in the beginning, and the beginning, in the end.” The author sketches the Hebrew Letters (which “the five finals” correspond to the five critical periods or ends of time). Finally, we arrive at “Will there be life and time beyond the Seventh Millenium?”. In order to work on that idea, he quickly reviews our origins, as in 2017 we've spent 5777 years in this world. At the end of the book, the author summarizes the key ideas from the last two books and exposes some final thoughts about where are we going from this point on.
This book is a detailed study about history timeline based on the sacred scriptures. Friedmann uses plenty of data, examples, texts and comparations to illustrate to the reader his thesis. He accurately describes every part so you don't get lost in his explanations, although this genre belongs to a very specific niche and public. The reader must be interested in this kind of extensive studies to enjoy the book. I did enjoy it because the sources the author shares are very interesting and the way he introduces every single new idea, very clarifying. It's dense and you need to read it three times to absorb all the content.
You can perfectly observe the love the author feels for what he's explaining. “In the World to Come that will exist after the resurrection, every soul will finally reach its full potential. After the reversal of Adam’s transgression, man’s soul will finally accomplish the purpose for which it was created. Each soul will assume full control, purifying the physical body to the maximum extent possible.”
He focuses on the points he wants to show, he doesn't get lost on additional information or millions of bibliographical resources and eventually he winks at the reader “Consider the experience of a butterfly, which starts as a caterpillar, a rather ugly, wormlike creature, crawling on a branch. The caterpillar undergoes a metamorphosis and eventually a beautiful butterfly bursts forth and flies gracefully into the air.” Friedmann constantly compares the Abrahamic to the non-Abrahamic religions and draws the origins of them. On the other hand, he doesn't flood the text with biblical quotes, just the adequate ones to make the reader follow his line. He expresses in a very simple way, making the reading pleasurable.
This book is one of those I would have loved to have in my hands so I could underline, write down and add all kind of bookmarks and additional data. A book to enjoy and work on. There are no pronounced grammatical errors. I honestly give the book 4 out of 4 stars.
I sincerely recommend this book to all readers interested in religious investigation or sacred scriptures. Congratulations to the author.
******
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Roadmap to the End of Days by Daniel Friedmann, the third of Inspired Studies. The main objective of this book is to bring a “clear biblical timeline”. Friedmann perfectly organizes the whole information through tables, appendix, references, parallel notes and an index sorted in many departments.
The reader finds ten chapters. The first one is a very good introduction to the doubts he wants to clear up and to the concept of the book. He compares the human history to a “glass maze with a beginning and end” and how you could observe a pattern from a “stand above” view. He explains how for most religions the beginning would be “creation story” and the end, the “End of Days” or Messianic Era (Seventh Millenium). For the Abrahamic, this process is linear (transformation and redemption). The non-Abrahamic religions, otherwise, believe in cyclical events. This is the main point of the book, so he tries to show how the “maze” has one exit, but many ways to get there. And it all depends on the human soul. Friedmann uses many biblical references to picture this idea. “By piecing all the pieces together, one can generate an exact biblical timeline that seamlessly merges into the general modern historical timeline and places all events.”
Chapter two illustrates the “Cosmic Purpose of Creation”. He starts relating the set of moral imperatives according to Judaism “The Noahide Laws” and makes a link with commandments observed nowadays. This part focuses on how the righteousness of a soul can lead you to the exit of the maze or not. “So why is it so hard to get to the destination? What keeps getting in the way?”
At this point we find Amalek. He introduces this nation “whose purpose in to maintain the separation between the Divine and this world.” and he keeps on comparing this entity along the book as a character who always gets in the way of finding the truth and harmony. The author swims deeply in this subject, referencing Moses, Joseph and Jacob.
Chapters three, four and five are dedicated to the “Time Preceding the End of Days” and gives a bit of hope about positives in this era. Also, he underlines some of the main prophecies about the End: the Battle of Gog and Magog (which will come with the reader along the book); the Redemption of Israel; The recognition of God by all nations and the Resurrection of the dead. Then he brings in a bit of context about the Messiahs. The author presents the Sefirot's (channels of divine energy) and explains how “time and history proceed in patterns of seven.” The reader can find extensive references in Appendix B. He draws the relation between the Six Days of Creation and the six millennia. Friedmann also looks back in history analyzing three critical periods as “opportunities for conclusion of the Divine Plan” (2833-4000 considering that about 3700 Romans took control of the area). Afterward, he parallelizes those facts with actual events (birth of a leader, coronation, battles, building of a Temple, New revelation and death of a leader).
Chapter six is about our recent history, “Preparing for the End of Days”. For example, he shows how “the beginning of the conflict between Jacob and Esau in 2171 coincides with the Turko-Italian war of 5671 (1911 CE), the key event that led to the start of World War I three years later. The main conflict between Jacob and Esau ended in 2205, which coincides with the end of World War II in 5705 (1945 CE)” The character of Amalek is reflexed on the actions of Nazi Germany. He summarizes the events in Jacob's and Joseph's time and the birth of Israel (1498 CE). Which includes the story of Abraham, Sarah and Ishmael “Ishmael is recognized as an important prophet, a Patriarch of Islam, and the ancestor of several prominent Arab tribes.” As we can find in the book of Ezekiel, God attends Gog to show how, through the War of Gog and Magog, the world will see God's future plans.
The three last chapters are focused on showing how we control the arrival of a Messiah, appealing to our behavior or “submission to God”. Friedmann takes back again the idea of “patterns” to calculate somehow the critical period prior the final days (Messiah ben David is born, the Third Temple is built, Inner Torah is revealed, the Resurrection of the Dead) and the arrival of the Seventh Millenium, clarified with a timeline of Adam's Sin “The end is enwedged in the beginning, and the beginning, in the end.” The author sketches the Hebrew Letters (which “the five finals” correspond to the five critical periods or ends of time). Finally, we arrive at “Will there be life and time beyond the Seventh Millenium?”. In order to work on that idea, he quickly reviews our origins, as in 2017 we've spent 5777 years in this world. At the end of the book, the author summarizes the key ideas from the last two books and exposes some final thoughts about where are we going from this point on.
This book is a detailed study about history timeline based on the sacred scriptures. Friedmann uses plenty of data, examples, texts and comparations to illustrate to the reader his thesis. He accurately describes every part so you don't get lost in his explanations, although this genre belongs to a very specific niche and public. The reader must be interested in this kind of extensive studies to enjoy the book. I did enjoy it because the sources the author shares are very interesting and the way he introduces every single new idea, very clarifying. It's dense and you need to read it three times to absorb all the content.
You can perfectly observe the love the author feels for what he's explaining. “In the World to Come that will exist after the resurrection, every soul will finally reach its full potential. After the reversal of Adam’s transgression, man’s soul will finally accomplish the purpose for which it was created. Each soul will assume full control, purifying the physical body to the maximum extent possible.”
He focuses on the points he wants to show, he doesn't get lost on additional information or millions of bibliographical resources and eventually he winks at the reader “Consider the experience of a butterfly, which starts as a caterpillar, a rather ugly, wormlike creature, crawling on a branch. The caterpillar undergoes a metamorphosis and eventually a beautiful butterfly bursts forth and flies gracefully into the air.” Friedmann constantly compares the Abrahamic to the non-Abrahamic religions and draws the origins of them. On the other hand, he doesn't flood the text with biblical quotes, just the adequate ones to make the reader follow his line. He expresses in a very simple way, making the reading pleasurable.
This book is one of those I would have loved to have in my hands so I could underline, write down and add all kind of bookmarks and additional data. A book to enjoy and work on. There are no pronounced grammatical errors. I honestly give the book 4 out of 4 stars.
I sincerely recommend this book to all readers interested in religious investigation or sacred scriptures. Congratulations to the author.
******
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