Why?
He is closer to the truth than those who claim other things about the end times.
As I said. God used the Egyptian, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, Rome, and YES most likely even Hitler and Stalin to punish His 1st chosen people, why is it so strange to think He will not do so again if they continue to reject Him, and now their Messiah?
Yeah—that Great Old Punisher in the sky.
My God is a God of love and mercy, and does not will his beloved sons and daughters to suffer.
Because it sounds like a wish or a threat. Rightly or wrongly, that's the way it comes across.