Does the Talmud itself suggest the Messiah should have come 1800+ years ago? Dr. Michael Brown walks through Avodah Zarah 9a and its 6,000-year tradition, with 2,000 years of chaos, 2,000 years of Torah, and 2,000 years of Messiah, then works out the chronology from Abraham. You’ll see why the Talmud blames the delay on “our many sins,” and why he proposes instead that the Messiah came right on schedule and we didn’t recognize him.