“Jesus Christ is the Messiah!” the rabbi concluded. “There can be no other option. I had come to this answer but was afraid to act on it, and I was almost too late. Jesus came to rapture his church, to take them with him to heaven as he said he would. I was not among them, because I wavered. But I have since received him as my Savior. He is coming back in seven years! Be ready!”
Well color me surprised. I thought for sure this subplot existed just to give us a Jew's-lost-their-way lesson, and to strengthen Carpathia's stranglehold on power. That's one of the fun things of broken plot structures: they tend to be hard to predict.
