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To: ExiledInTaiwan
Therefore the Holy One, blessed be He, will bring three punishments upon them answering to the three sins which they cultivate,5 as it is said, Therefore shall Zion for your sake be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.6 And the Holy One, blessed be He, will not cause His Divine presence to rest upon Israel until the wicked judges and officers cease out of Israel, for it is said, And I will turn my hand upon thee, and thoroughly purge away thy dross, and will take away all thy tin. And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning, etc.7

I understand that you're trying to propagandize that the current judges of Israel are corrupted because the don't offer their throats to be slit by "palestinians."

Of course, you're reading it wrong. The three punishmenst referred to came as a result of the Roman siege of Jerusalem in 66 to 70 A.D., and the restoration came in 1948.

The best case that can be made for faulting the current judges of Israel is that they even deal with the so-called "palestinians" at all. Tosee this, simply go back to before the crossing of the Jordan by Joshua and the Israelites:

Check out Exodus 23:20-33, when God is giving instructions for the conquest of the Promised Land... Expecially verses 31 to 33.

Exodus 23:

31.
"And I will set your bounds from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines (no relation to the so-called "palestinians," by the way), and from the desert to the River. For I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.

32.
"You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

33.
"They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you."

Well, starting with the Gibeonites in Joshua 9 and all the way through the Oslo accords, any time Israel has traded any of the Promised Land for "peace," sooner or later they've been betrayed and attacked from that land by those they made "peace" with.

And so it will be until the end.


76 posted on 11/16/2001 1:16:55 PM PST by Sabertooth
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To: ExiledInTaiwan; Sabertooth; Alouette
If you really want to understand the origins of the conflict, the best book, bar none (besides the Bible), is Joan Peters', From Time Immemorial.

Amazon.com has actually published the entire book for free reading online HERE

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78 posted on 11/16/2001 1:17:06 PM PST by ppaul
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