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Ever since the Creation of Adam and Eve, man has grappled with knowing whether life exists after death. Because humans achieve the possible, while God accomplishes the impossible, only the Creator knows our fate and destiny at the End of Days. Scientist Jerry Pollock weaves his Messiah Interviews story of an imperfect life on Earth with an imaginative account of being interviewed in Heaven to be the Messiah. The writing becomes a testament to Divine morality, and to finding truth and sincerity in one's heart. As readers embark on a journey of knowledge and understanding, they'll join Jerry on an exploration of the implications of biblical history on our modern world. Through a series of unexplainable events, Jerry empowers readers to decide if an additional personal spiritual effort is worth making in this life, in order to possibly gain entrance to an uncertain futuristic Garden of Eden, the Messianic Age. In a process of the dreamlike interviews with biblical personalities―the angel Gabriel, Methuselah, Chanoch, Seth, King David, Moses, Jacob, Abraham and the prophet Isaiah―Jerry is forced to bear his soul and his own hidden demons.As human beings, we are all flawed. That's how the Creator made us. During the course of reading the book, readers have the opportunity to ponder the improvement of their own imperfections, in order to meet the requirements set out in the Messiah Interviews for admission into a future blissful life at the End of Days. The book is God-centered and discusses, briefly or at length, various topics, including The Ten Commandments, Creation, Evolution, Good and Evil, Primal Therapy, Bipolar Disorder, Resurrection, Aging, Twelve Tribes of Israel, MonotheisticReligions, Third Temple, Messiah, and the Messianic Age.
Life may have a destiny for us all. Dr. Jerry Pollock's destiny seems to have changed from being a research scientist of forty years to becoming a spiritual writer of the arts. Jerry's first book, Divinely Inspired: Spiritual Awakening of a Soul, was a memoir published in 2003 with a second edition due out in January 2009. His second book is a fiction novel, Messiah Interviews, and has been written as a way to give back to God. Messiah Interviews will also be published in 2009. Dr. Pollock was born Jewish in 1941 in Toronto. He didn't know what it meant to be spiritual until God entered and changed his life at the age of 57. He is now 67. Despite onset adult Bipolar Disorder and growing up neurotic in an unloving and non-nurturing home environment, Jerry succeeded in academics. He has a Masters degree in Pharmacy, a Ph.D. in Biophysics from Israel, and further training in Microbiology. He is the author of seventy-five scientific publications, and is Professor Emeritus at Stony Brook University on Long Island. For most of his life, Jerry was trapped in his neurotic brain. After twenty-five years of primal therapy, he has brought all of his unconscious repressed feelings to consciousness. He has finally emerged from the devastation of the womb and childhood. With the help of Divine miracles, he has kicked out the manic depression that entered his body at age 50. For the past ten years, he has embarked on a path to gain spiritual wisdom and share it with others. He is married to Marcia, his bashert or destined one. They reside in Florida.
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January 27, 2009:
Is it possible, through a meditative state, to go back to the Third Temple, as described in the Hebrew Bible?s Book of Ezekiel? Is it possible to meet and speak to Archangel Michael? And is it possible to interview to become the Messiah? The answer is yes in Dr. Jerry Pollock?s new and far-reaching novel, Messiah Interviews.
Here is the author?s search for truth, knowledge and understanding through dream-like interviews with the angel Gabriel, Methuselah, Chanoch, Seth, King David, Moses, Abraham and even the prophet Isaiah. And here is the laying- bare of one man?s lifetime of fears, self-doubt and certainly self-recriminations.
?There are no coincidences for people who possess qualities of faith and righteousness. Nor can there be random chance happenings for those whom G-d has chosen for special treatment, and, perhaps a special purpose.? writes author, scientist and seeker Jerry Pollock. Thus the reader is challenged to ask, Could it be me? Do I qualify? Do I qualify as a good person in God`s Eyes to be a part of the Messianic Age? ?Our Creator seems to choose individuals with troubled pasts---that?s how G-d created human beings, and that?s the main reason the human race has survived.?
Jerry J. Pollock, Ph.D. has spent his life giving back. His journey to understanding is shared with you, the reader of Messiah Interviews. It is this reviewer?s opinion that if you are a seeker with time to read only one book, that book must be Messiah Interviews!
Richard Fuller
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January 25, 2009:
The will of God is mightier than any force on earth. There are no coincidences for people who possess qualities of faith and righteousness. No chance happenings for those whom God has chosen.
In Messiah Interviews: Belonging to God Jerry J. Pollock, Ph.D. shares his spiritual insights and struggles with us through his dreamlike interviews with biblical personalities such as; the angel Gabriel, King David, Moses, Jacob, and Abraham - to be admitted into the Messianic Age Jerry must pass these interviews with at least a score of seventy-seven percent. So fly on the wings of angels, heavenward with Jerry, to the unknowable domain of the Creator through the pages of Messiah Interviews.
A well-written, insightful book that will get you to stop and meditate on the things of God. Someone who has suffered horrifically has the potential through their suffering to look inside and understand human nature. These are the deep thinkers and the ones most likely to see beyond the ?surface? of situations and uncover the hidden truths of things. This job as earth's Messiah, the King of Israel, would give closeness to the creator God - unimagined and unparalleled.