So, I see. You don't really have a verse to give me. Just some numerology, as was expected.
Hi
ezrider,
Yeah, the same numerology that shows how, from the angel's prophetic words given to Daniel take us to the very day that Jesus was set to be crucified. Yes, that numerology that God's prophecies depend on quite a lot.
But if your faith was truly founded in Christ, then I think you would not be trying to justify the actions of a rogue state
I'm not trying to justify anything. I'm just telling you what the Scriptures say about the matter of the Jewish people. That, per God's own words, they are His people and that per His own words, He is still mindful of them still today. And as I explained, while they, like you and I, struggle with keeping the law, turning away from sin, they did the work for which God had raised them up to do. They were not acting rogue when they killed Jesus. It was the ultimate work that God had destined for them to do from the beginning.
God had it written in His Scriptures hundreds of years before the event, exactly how Jesus would be betrayed and die. He would be betrayed for 30 pieces of silver. That 30 pieces of silver was to come from the 'Potter's house'. That's God. He's the Potter. David wrote a psalm describing the agony and events surrounding Jesus as he hung on that cross. Friend, everything the Jews did with Jesus, the Jews were supposed to do with Jesus. If they hadn't accomplished the death of the perfect Lamb, then you or I could never take part in God's plan of salvation. So yes, I have a special affection for the Jewish people because I know that they did do what God asked of them to do, as far as setting up His plan of salvation.
I probably know more of the scripture than you do, or the references I make to them wouldn't be so lost upon you, I'm guessing the basket of figs is something unfamiliar to you.
But look, as you claim, you know the Scriptures better than I do. Which is why I'm so surprised that you don't understand the overall plan that God has laid out for us that He has been working throughout the times of the old covenant. The raising up of the Jewish nation to record His words. What we hold today to be the true words of God given to His people as He worked with and through them to build up a nation of people from one man. To walk with them and teach them and love them, despite their rebellion to His law, that we all struggle with.
But God had a plan already considered and set in motion. A plan for which He caused many of His prophets to write prophecy after prophecy, that His Holy Spirit guarded throughout the working out of the God's plan with His people. God raised up a people to write His Scrptures...they did! God raised up a people through whose hands upon the earth, He would complete the plan of His Son, the servant, paying the ultimate price for sin. And God wasn't going to leave the most valuable person to Him to die at the hands of Gentiles. That wasn't the plan.
You were led to the Bible and convinced that everything in it is true
Yes, I do believe that the Scriptures, delivered to us through God's people, is the truth concerning God and all that He has done that we might have eternal life. All that He has done that we even have this life. Yes, the Scriptures come from God and are, therefore, absolutely and completely true. That's what Paul declared when he asked rhetorically, "What value is there in being a Jew? Much in every way,
BUT CHEIF AMONG THEM is that they were entrusted with the very oracles of God.
without the modern state of Israel, your faith would be shaken, as it is now because the foundation of you faith derives from the modern State of Israel, not a true faith in Christ.
Look friend, I understand that you've got it all figured out, but no, you're wrong about my faith being shaken without the modern state of Israel. All I'm saying here is that this particular issue was foretold in the Scriptures and yes, I find confidence in that, that God's word is true. But my faith is in Jesus and his sacrifice for my sin, that God brought about through the hands of His people.
God bless,
Ted