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To: Boogieman
"most of the Old Testament is a lament about Jews' stubbornness and continual backsliding against the laws of God. It is replete with prophecies detailing all of the sorrows that would befall them unless they turned to the Lord, which they did not do, and so those sorrows are upon them."

Really? When? Why would God punish those to come while helping Israel prosper now?

Tel Aviv is the most vibrant city in the Med. You should go there and tour the sorrows lol.

No don't bother answering just shove your head back up youknowwhere and go to sleep and you wake up back in the Religion forum next January 20...

66 posted on 02/09/2016 4:57:46 PM PST by StAnDeliver (Own it.)
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To: StAnDeliver

“Really? When? Why would God punish those to come while helping Israel prosper now?”

Hoo boy! Do you know that when the prophecies about Israel were originally given to the Jews, there were plenty of people saying much the same thing? There were always scoffers who looked around and said “hey, life is peachy now, why should we believe this crackpot who is saying God told us bad things are coming?”

Yet, all of their human reasoning and fallible judgements about the state of the world didn’t delay God’s will from taking place exactly as it was prophesied to happen. The Jews still suffered the first exile, the second exile, multiple destructions of the temple, and finally the diaspora. Now, those events were all prophesied but they were not the final events prophesied concerning Israel. There are still tragedies left which haven’t unfolded yet which are predicted by the same prophets who foretold all those other events in great detail.

A wise person might consider those facts and conclude: “perhaps we should listen to the prophets this time since they have a pretty good track record so far...”.


78 posted on 02/09/2016 6:30:18 PM PST by Boogieman
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