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Provide a historical context for [event/phenomenon], tracing its origins, evolution, and impact over time. Highlight key figures and pivotal moments that shaped its development.

Please explain the following passage in simple words. I am having difficulty understanding the idea of Messianic time. "Historicism contents itself with establishing a causal connection between various moments in history. But no fact that is a cause is for that very reason historical. It became historical posthumously, as it were, though events that may be separated from it by thousands of years. A historian who takes this as his point of departure stops telling the sequence of events like the beads of a rosary. Instead, he grasps the constellation which his own era has formed witha definite earlier one. Thus he establishes a conception of the present as the 'time of the now' which is shot through with chips of Messianic time."