Who is the Leper Messiah?
A leper and a Messiah?
Who is this and what is the meaning?
Lepers were the plague-ridden cast-offs of the ancient world, those who were not allowed into society. If they were on the outskirts of any town or anywhere near people, the people would yell loudly at those poor unfortunates, “Unclean, Unclean!”
How can this awful sickness be in any way combined with the Messiah?
In the Leper Messiah, I delve deep into a world where the old testament comes alive.
Jesus was once called the Leper Messiah because he healed ten lepers but only one thanked him, but we are placed one thousand years before his birth in Kind Davids’ time!
Who was the Leper Messiah back then?
In the Chapter, The Leper Bridge, we see Nitzevet, Davids’ mother instructing David to have no fear of these poor souls.
Excerpt from the Leper Messiah:
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“Are you for Egypt?” Nitzevet asked the leader.
She brought David in front of her and put her hands on his shoulders.
The leper took a step back.
“Please let us pass.” He bowed his head as he stood on the swaying rope bridge that swayed in the mountain breeze. “I beg you.”
The nine other lepers stood on the mountain pass waiting silently. They pulled their camel-haired robes around them against the cold mountain air.
“You have nothing to fear from us, and we do not fear you,” Nitzevet said.
The leper took his hood away from his face, which was eaten away: his nose and ears were ragged bits of flesh, and then he motioned to the others with a bloody stump of a hand.
These wretched souls are not the Leper Messiah.
The Leper Messiah is not for the faint of heart, but rather for inquisitive minds who want to know what King Davids’ world was like.
In the pages of The Leper Messiah, the old testament comes to life in vivid color, and examines the mysteries of that long-forgotten world!
Robert