It deals with the fulfilment of Messianic promise from Adam to Christ.

Vedder distrusts the messianic promises some rockers make, promises of community and shared ideals.

He goes beyond the now standard argument that the earlier conflict was an act of raw conquest justified by the messianic promise of Manifest Destiny.

We can not do so as they consider Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah who has fulfilled the Messianic promises.

Primarily because of its messianic promise, the Book of Malachi is frequently referred to in the Christian New Testament.

His earlier history, involving descent from King David's line, to which was attached the Messianic promise, was one of weakness, vulnerability and humiliation, that is, it was according to the flesh.

Finally, Yavan appears in the Messianic promise of Zechariah 9.13: "I have raised up thy sons of Zion, against thy sons of Greece."