Taking Stock of Law Three - Chapter 11

  The Laws of Kings and Their Wars

     from Maimonides' Code - The Book of Judges

• The King Messiah is a human being.


• The laws of nature remain intact during the Era of the Messiah.


• Eighteen hundred years ago, a man fulfilled the initial achievements of a presumptive Messiah. With his death, it was obvious that he would not revive the entire set of the statutes and laws of the Torah.


• We may neither add to the statutes and laws of the Torah nor subtract from them since the Torah is everlasting.


• Daughter religions added and took away things from the Torah. They falsely claimed that the Torah was only a preparation for new revelations.


• Consequently, their prophets or redeemers are impostors.

World history has mileposts. In this ruling, Maimonides teaches us that the Torah attests to a milepost of restoration when all its laws will be observed again as they had been during the reigns of King David and his son King Solomon. This restoration is the farthest milepost that we can imagine.

Restoration includes rebuilding the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.

In Law 4 we will learn that a flesh and blood human being will lead the world into this state of restoration. One of King David's descendants will be recognized for his wisdom and leadership. It is he who lead peaceful and national independence in the Land of Israel because of his wisdom.

will be peaceful - by pacifying neighboring nations.

free from outside interference - by rebuffing outside political and economic interference.

embedded in Scripture - Also see the Thirteen Principles of Faith.