Sitting here at top of the final stair case that goes down to the Kotel. In this place Jerusalem, near the Kotel(not the STONE), I believed that the truth should be found in the mouths of those that are here day after day. Yet, what is heard contains partial truths at best. Is it so hard to speak the truth, to strangers, to each other? Either the truth is not known or it is just not wanted.
An example: Today I listened to a tour guide telling Chinese visitors (I listen to many of the stories, most I do not interrupt), today this speaker stated that the Dome of the Rock was built several hundred years ago. I stated that the is was first opened 691 A.D. His reply So, . . . . I’m teaching here. He did not ask how I know this, he had his teaching and that was it. (The issue is three hundred, four hundred maybe six hundred years is several, but more than Thirteen Hundred Years is not several. Would not even Muslims want to know this? ) The numbers are important when looking at prophecy, specifically Daniel 12.
I don’t understand why one would not want to know the truth. After all, they have the same books I do. Don’t they read them. Don’t they want to know. We have failed since the 1940’s to teach our child that which matters most to them and to us.
Which part of this did we do? Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God, the LORD is one. And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart; and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates.
Okay, I won’t wait for an answer. Here is what we have done. By the time of Bar or Bat Mitzvah (12 or 13), the Bar or Bat can quote these lines. In thirty years I have found very few that understand what this means or cares to. The teachers of the Children of Israel are total failures, and not by their own understandings are they failures. They, the teachers have a job to do and they teach what they have been taught, the approved information. And those teachers taught by teachers, and the have been by their teachers, and so on, and so on. For about 2350 years, and I suspect it was taking place long before that.
Because we cannot condone that we have been wrong in our treatment of the Writings of Moses, the other prophets and THE ALMIGHTY, we are unable to learn from our own history. Compare our history to what THE ALMIGHTY spoke about, and the prophets wrote down, we have been punished over and over for doing that which are heart desires and what we have been taught that conflicts with what HE SAID TO DO.
I hear many teachers/leaders imply that the prophecies are done or no longer apply, Israel has become a nation and it is fruitful and growing.
The last prophecies have not come to be YET. What do you mean the LAST?
Isaiah 10:8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.
9 For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that refuse to hear the teaching of the LORD;
10 That say to the seers: ‘See not,’ and to the prophets: ‘Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy delusions;
11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.’
Isaiah 45:21 Declare ye, and bring them near, yea, let them take counsel together: Who hath announced this from ancient time, and declared it of old? Have not I the LORD? And there is no God else beside Me, a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside Me.
22 Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is none else.
23 By Myself have I sworn, the word is gone forth from My mouth in righteousness, and shall not come back, that unto Me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
Where are you in relation to verse 23?
Isaiah 46:8 Remember this, and stand fast; bring it to mind, O ye transgressors.
9 Remember the former things of old: that I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like Me;
10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done; saying: ‘My counsel shall stand, and all My pleasure will I do’;
11 Calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of My counsel from a far country; yea, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass, I have purposed, I will also do it.
Some other evidence with regards to this: “What do you mean the LAST?”
http://ask-james.com/wordpress1/?p=222 The Last Day
http://ask-james.com/wordpress1/?p=545 The Last Day Part 2
http://ask-james.com/wordpress1/?p=379 Punished by Our Iniquities
While I include links to the English/Hebrew Text to allow you to see where a thing comes from, if you have the mind, I suggest that you read the chapter the text comes from. This gives you context that a verse or two does not. I find that the more I have read in the Tanakh and Torah(Writings of Moses) the greater the understanding of the text, events, reasons and what is happening now in the world. Please read, it is the only way you will have your our opinion.
Yaakov
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