#12630 What Made Jews Expect a Messiah? Altar Servers and St. Joseph - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 14 March 2026

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What Made Jews Expect a Messiah?

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Questions Covered:

03:17 – What factors had the Jews expecting the messiah in the 1st century?
07:03 – Where is a good start when reading the Deuterocanonical books? Books Protestant bible doesn’t?
12:29 – Should Isaiah 65:20 be taken literally or symbolically?
19:30 – How do you decide what content to consume when reading or listening to videos?
28:42 – Why do people rip or tear garments so often in the Old Testament?
34:48 – What is the historical tradition behind male altar servers?
46:22 – What does the church know or teach about the life of St. Joseph?
50:51 – Could blasphemy of the Holy Spirit prevent Jeffrey Dahmer Baptism from being valid?

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0:11.5	Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Welcome back, Catholic Answers live, Edgar Lujano sitting in for Sy Kellett today, to great two hours. We've already done one hour with Jimmy Aiken and ask me anything.
0:41.5	And we have a whole other second one. So hang in there. There is one line open. So if you want to ask Jimmy a question, whether it's a weird question, a question about Catholicism, feel free to give us a call 8883187-884.
0:54.5	And since it is Friday, not just two full hours of the show, but you also have the release
0:59.2	of another episode of Mysterious World.
1:01.5	So what came out today, Jimmy?
1:03.7	It was a look at the Book of Revelation.
1:07.9	I've done previous episodes on aspects of the Book of Revelation, like, what is the mark of the beast? And is there a rapture and stuff like that? But this time I was looking at the book as a whole and saying, okay, what's the basic interpretation of the book? How does it relate to history? There are a number of
1:31.2	different schools. There are five major ones, really four major ones, but I also cover a fifth,
1:37.0	that make different claims about how revelation relates to history. The school oforicism says it's basically a roadmap of church
1:47.9	history from beginning to end. Idealism says it's not a roadmap, but it talks about the kinds of
1:54.9	things that are going to happen over and over again in church history. Futurism says it's all
2:00.0	talking about events in our future. Prederism says it's all talking about events in our future.
2:02.7	Pretterism says it's all talking about, or it's primarily talking about events that are in our
2:07.5	past. And then there's a very, very small minority view called Pantilism, which says
2:14.8	all of Revelation, including the end of it, and actually all biblical prophecy, has been
2:21.2	fulfilled. There is no more prophecy to be fulfilled. So I talk about these views. I talk about
2:28.2	how they developed when they became popular, and I then go through the evidence and rank them on a tier list from F at the bottom
2:39.5	through A at the top and then S for the most superior view. And so it's an interesting journey
2:49.4	and I'm pretty convinced I've got the basic correct interpretation, but take a listen and see if you agree.
2:57.1	All right.
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