Posted on 08/29/2020 3:46:15 PM PDT by pastorbillrandles
Cool.
NIV 1942?
5.56mm
Beware the mistake of the dirt, which is to look at a Bible map and assume whoever occupies that same dirt today is the people group of whom the prophet speaks. It could be, we’ll see, but all other references to people groups are families regardless of geography. defining the word “Arab” would not be germane nor would another commenter’s observation that Islam didn’t exist at the time of Ezekiel.
People know this at some level, and so they allow for consideration of cult heresy including British Israelism, that Brits are the lost tribes of Israel, and similarly, the Mormon doctrine that Native American Indians are the lost tribes of Israel.
The notion also applies to the 144,000 witnesses being 12,000 from each tribe. God knows whom from which. And this notion also applies to the statement so popular among prophecy seminar presenters that “America is not in prophecy.” Well not the dirt maybe, but we came from somebody who is probably mentioned.
My family was a celtic tribe of no importance pushed across europe by stronger better people until we ended up in the Piedmont regions of Appalachia. We supposedly claimed kinship with Paris of Troy. (I have no doubt that is the kind of thing our family would try to claim!)
I enjoyed your article and thanks!
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