Messiah Interviews

Publisher's Summary

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 the 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. The protagonist in the Messiah Interviews faces a real dilemma. On the one hand, he must satisfy his biblical interviewers―the angel Gabriel, Methuselah, Chanoch, Seth, King David, Moses, Jacob, Abraham, and the prophet Isaiah―that he has the knowledge, wisdom, character traits, and leadership skills to be the Messiah. What he realizes, however, during the questioning is that he cannot do this, unless he reveals the absolute truth about his emotions and his shortcomings. As the tale unfolds, the challenges of the interviews goes beyond the protagonist and becomes relevant to the lives of each one of us. The author’s intention is to empower the reader 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 book offers a perspective on topics about God, the soul, good and evil, primal therapy, Bipolar Disorder, biblical history, religion, science, Evolution, Creation, God’s Third Temple, and the future Messianic Age.

About the Author

Jerry Pollock is the author of seventy-five scientific publications. His background includes both a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Pharmacy from the University of Toronto, a Ph.D. in Biophysics from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, and Postdoctoral training in Microbiology at the New York University School of Medicine. Dr. Pollock is currently Professor Emeritus in the Oral Biology and Pathology Department in the School of Dental Medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook on Long Island. Jerry’s first writer of the arts book, Divinely Inspired: Spiritual Awakening of a Soul, was a spiritual memoir originally published in 2003. The second edition of Divinely Inspired will be reissued in Paperback on Jan. 1, 2009. His ‘not so fictional’ novel, Messiah Interviews: Belonging to God, due out also on Jan. 1, 2009, is Jerry’s way of giving back to the Creator. Jerry is married to Marcia, his bashert or destined one. They reside in Florida.