This Section highlights the confusion and conflict that emanates from the three Abrahamic religions that dominate so much of the world stage today.

Most of the Briefs here center on Islam because most terror attacks in the world today are traceable to Islamic terror. A French think tank, Fondepol, has tallied 66,872 Islamist terrorist attacks that altogether killed at least 250,000 people between 1979 and 2024. The uptick in their statistics (see chart) forms a historical global tipping point for violence in our time.

Lost in today’s chaotic discourse about the saga of Palestinian destiny is the historical fact that Israel formally offered Palestinians a state of their own five times, in 1936, 1947, 1967, 2000 and 2008. Each offer was rejected by Arab leaders who chose instead to pursue their goal of totally annihilating Israel. Why? 

The following Messiah Briefs answer this question and explore the perfect storm of terror, deception and media warfare that engulfs the world like a whirlwind. Embedded in this melee is a seemingly endless cycle of “redemptive violence” as described in Brief #16, below.

#13. Abraham’s Strong-Willed Children – What differentiates Judaism, Christianity and Islam?

#14. The Jihad Spirit of Islam – How Islam divides the world

#15. Tale of Two Sons, Two Destinies – Isaac, Ishmael and the Saga of the Middle East

#16. The Spiritual Legacy of the Messiah Wars – Overcoming the myth of redemptive violence

How Christianity is being reformed now to contend with these issues forms the topic of the next section, The Mystery of Messiah.