And what you said is factually incorrect.
No, what I said, is factually demonstrated by the materials I provided, and to cut off the remaining context of my reply is not true justice to my response. However, I see, I will not be able to appeal to reason with yourself on this matter, and so will simply leave you to your a prioric agenda, which is your prerogative.
When people claim that '1948' is a fulfillment of prophecy (from scripture), and was the restoration of "Israel", they are extremely vague at best, and determine, for whatever their personal agenda / reasons, their own mental definition of such. For instance, "Israel" was a collection, originally, of the 12 tribes of physical descendants of Jacob / Israel, along with the tribe of Levi (throughout), and it was not merely a political or secular entity, but a
spiritual (even religious) one, under the rulership of JEHOVAH Elohiym (Num. 23:21 KJB), and later through various chosen persons:
Exo 19:6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
People such as David ben-Gurion, are notoriously non-religious (
David Ben-Gurion - Wikipedia ) , and were purely secular in their endeavors (
Secularism in Israel - Wikipedia ). The so-called "state of Israel" had
nothing to do with having JEHOVAH Elohiym as their ruler in matters of state, nor of their religion, since many of them were secularists (non-religious). "The
United Nations General Assembly passed the resolution that called for a Jewish state to be established in Eretz Israel on November 29, 1947." -
Secularism in Israel - Wikipedia
Additionally, there is another problem, in that there are
no 12 tribes (along with Levi) to be seen anywhere.
There is also the problem of the actual lineage of what many call "Jews" today:
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Mizrahic (Oriental, Easterner, though not all are) - Some say Babylonian, others say with a mix of Northern Africa (Morrocan, &c), Arabic, &c. Such as, "... Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Iran, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kurdish areas, the eastern Caucasus, India, Northern and Eastern Sudan and Ethiopia ..." -
Mizrahi Jews
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Ethiopic (Amhara, & Tigray of Ethiopia, Africa) - "... who claim descent from Menilek I, the son of the Queen of Sheba (Makeda) and King Solomon according to Ethiopian tradition." -
Beta Israel | History, Names, Movement, & Facts | Britannica which 'history' is
nonsense, unconfirmed from scripture (OT), as the purpose of the Queen of Sheba's visit to Judaea / Jerusalem was not to have a child with Solomon, and there is no mention of such a union in scripture, but rather that she had come to learn of the Gospel, and went back home (without intimate relations with Solomon) taking the good news with her. (period).
Their backgrounds, languages, rituals, and customs are all differing from one another, and at many times, act antagonistically with one another. They are not a united people in any sense of the word in secular matters, let alone religious ones. Many of the 'jews' are not Torah adherent, but are either Jerusalem (few) or Babylonian (majority) Talmudic Rabbinic, and quite a few of those are Kabbalistic (mystics) in their religious endeavors.
Additional problems are the matters of the land divisions within Jerusalem and surrounding countryside, as most of it belongs to the Vatican and other entities (so-called 'orthodoxy', Palestinians, Arabs, UN (world Heritage sites) &c.) as already demonstrated. There is no 'Temple', and most of the 'jews' there are not looking for one, as their ritualistic practices no longer have any need for it, see Kaparot (
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/989585/jewish/Kaparot.htm ), and other Babylonian Talmudic Rabbinc practices / rituals, which no longer require any High Priest of the lineage of Aaron (or Levi), no longer require Temple services, no longer require the Ark of the Covenant (which is still hidden in Judaea since the time of Jeremiah), and are not even ruled by a 'Sanhedrin', High Pirest or Council of 70 elders:
Jer_3:16 And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.
What I have said cannot be gainsayed, unless one refuses to acknowledge the facts presented in evidence, and at that point, why argue with a strong delusion of the Futurist Jesuit eschatology implanted into the minds of receptive persons who have already rejected these facts?
Francisco Ribera, SJ (1537-1591) - born in Spain, who began writing a lengthy commentary in 1585 on the book of Revelation (Apocalypse) titled In Sacrum Beati Ioannis Apostoli, & Evangelistiae Apocalypsin Commentarij, and published it about the year 1590. He died in 1591 at the age of fifty-four, so he was not able to expand on his work or write any other commentaries on Revelation. In order to remove the Catholic Church from consideration as the antichrist power, Ribera proposed that the first few chapters of the Apocalypse applied to ancient pagan Rome, and the rest he limited to a yet future period of 3 1/2 literal years, immediately prior to the second coming. During that time, the Roman Catholic Church would have fallen away from the pope into apostasy. Then, he proposed, the antichrist, a single individual, would:
[1.] Persecute and blaspheme the saints of God.
[2.] Rebuild the temple in Jerusalem.
[3.] Abolish the Christian religion.
[4.] Deny Jesus Christ.
[5.] Be received by the Jews.
[6.] Pretend to be God.
[7.] Kill the two witnesses of God.
[8.] Conquer the world.
Cardinal Robert Bellarmine (S.J. – Jesuit), one of the best known Jesuit apologists, published a work between 1581 and 1593 entitled Disputationum Roberti Bellarmini De controversiis Christian fidei adversus hujus temporis haereticos, (Polemic Lectures Concerning the Disputed Points of the Christian Belief Against the Heretics of This Time), in which he also denied the day = year principle in prophecy and pushed the reign of antichrist into a future period of 3 1/2 literal years. (See Froom, Prophetic Faith, Vol. 2, pgs. 495 - 502).
Then through:
- Michael Walpole
- Manuel De Lacunza, SJ (1731–1801)
- Edward Irving (1792-1834)
- Margaret McDonald (1830's)
- Samuel Roffey Maitland (1792-1866)
- John Nelson Darby (1800–1882)
- Samuel Prideaux Tregelles (1813-1875)
- Cyrus Ingerson Scofield (1843-1921)
then from there into the
- Dallas Theological Seminary (John Walvoord, Chuck Swindoll, Charles C. Ryrie, Hal Lindsey, J. Vernon McGee, Kenneth N. Taylor, Thomas Ice, Renald Showers),
- Moody Bible Institute of Chicago (Jerry B. Jenkins),
- Western Theological Seminary (Reformed Church in America; Tim LaHaye; Jerry Fallwell),
- and others like Trinity Broadcasting, Jack Van Impe Ministries, Zola Levitt Ministries, John Ankerberg, Perry Stone, Chuck Missler, Dave Hunt, Eric Jon Phelps, etc. (See - The Catholic Origins of Futurism and Preterism )
