Those who are not aware of
the Divine Destiny
and who are not correctly
attuned with it -
cannot understand what is going on -
and they may have wild speculations about it.
To humanly understand the Divine Destiny
one must believe in the Bible
and this at several deepening levels.
Those who do not believe in the the Bible
or who accept it at one of the lesser levels -
of understanding -
can still understand what other levels believe.
The Bible is very ancient -
and great numbers of brilliant scholars
have analyzed it -
but others still feel that it is simply
a collection of ancient myths -
not based in reality.
For those persons -
who do not believe in the Bible
the events in Israel are
simply based upon geopolitical factors
and the usual deficiencies in human nature
so as to not be able to get along together,
plus perhaps superstitious beliefs
not based upon reality.
From this point on -
I shall explain the story of
The Divine Destiny -
for any who wish to hear it.
The story begins with Abraham -
who God had selected to be
the Father of Religions -
and a blessing to ALL Nations.
The Bible contains the history
of the descendants of Abraham's wife -
Sarah, but all His other wives
received similar promises
and have religious cultural histories
separate from The Bible
and the Judaic / Christian / Muslim thread.
One of Abraham's and Sarah's descendants,
Moses, when bringing the children of Israel
back from captivity in Egypt -
(from one of their many punishments)
was shown (but not permitted to enter)
the Promised Land that was to become Israel.
Moses sent in spies to determine the nature
of the present occupants
that would have to be eliminated -
so the current need to mitigate
if not eliminate the Palestinians
is nothing new to Jewish history.
The present most benign
and tempered approach
is called the Sinai Solution -
a diversion I will not make here.
Among the descendants of Moses
who had conquered The Promised Land -
there was one considered to be the wisest.
This was King Solomon who designed
The FIRST TEMPLE -
and who purchased the land for it -
as well as materials to build it.
It was Solomon's son David -
who actually built Solomon's Temple
and who established the Throne of David
upon it.
It all came to naught
because the Jews displeased God
and He sent Nebuchadnezzar to punish them.
Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Solomon's temple -
but later God directed Ezra & Nehemiah
to rebuild it.
The prophecy in the Book of Daniel says that
70 weeks (not direct calendar weeks)
from the going forth of the order
to rebuild the Temple
the Messiah would come.
There were numbers of Jews
who understood the time table -
of the Daniel Prophecy
and because Jesus was present
at the time of fulfillment of the weeks -
some came and asked Jesus if He were the Messiah.
He simply told them to read and understand
the Book of Daniel -
where these prophecies were recorded.
It was on that basis that some recognized Jesus -
but
while many Jews were aware of the prophecies -
they mostly rejected Jesus as the Messiah
because He did not fulfill their aspirations
of sitting upon the Throne of David
and establishing the Jews over everyone else.
For centuries since, as in the above video -
Jews of all stripes have pointed out that
the Messiah is to gather them together -
but the opposite happened in the time of Jesus.
At the time of Jesus the Jews were together in Israel -
but under the persecution of the Romans
who eventually destroyed them at Masada
where the Jewish leaders all committed suicide -
and then the Romans removed Israel from the map -
(as the Muslims threaten to do so today)
and renamed it Palestine (a Roman word).
There were many other Jewish "proofs" -
such as Jesus was a Nazarene while their traditions said
"No good would come out of Nazareth" -
and that only those accursed die on a tree -
while He was crucified -
are given by rabbis
to young Jews to this day -
that they may "know" that Jesus was not the Messiah.
Jesus responded at that time that whereas
Isaiah had said that the Messiah would gather the Jews
as a mother hen gathers her chicks beneath her wing -
that He would have gathered them -
but that they would not gather.
Moreover, He assured them that
the Second Temple which had been rebuilt
in accordance with the 70 week prophecy
and from which He had driven the money changers -
would not be left with one stone on top of another.
The New Testament records
the Revelation of Jesus Christ
in The Book of Revelation -
wherein He addresses the Seven Churches -
(local churches used as archetypes
of the Seven Religions of the World).
His Message was so important
that ALL Religions and Cultures
were addressed in it.
These were not just past religions -
but what were then also future religions -
and a large portion of
The Book of Revelation
is devoted to the Muslim Religion -
which recognizes Jesus Christ -
the role of Mary -
and the Judaic / Christian relationship to Islam
through the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
Just as the Jews did not recognize Jesus -
the Christians did not recognize Muhammad
or Those that came after Him
because each religion felt itself to be the last,
(and only).
Each of the religions after Jesus -
saw the prophecies regarding Jerusalem
and the Temple as applying to themselves.
Each of these religions see themselves
as the proper custodian of the Holy site -
and have the aspiration of building the Third Temple.
Some Muslims may see the present Mosque
as the fulfillment of that aspiration
and this is partly why temple mount in Jerusalem
is considered the second most holy site in Islam,
although the term Jerusalem never appears in the Koran.
The prophetic dates in the Bible
are very clear for those who wish to see them
although one must remember that
from the Jews point of view
there is no prophecy in the Old Testament
about Jesus.
For the Christians and Muslims those prophecies
not only existed but clearly
foretold the time of His Return
and that afterwards there would be
a great disaster called Armageddon
the final battle of which
"no man knoweth the hour".
The same singular prophecy
to which Jesus referred in Daniel
as evidence of His Mission
also foretold His Return in 1844.
This date is called the Great Expectation
and also the The Great Disappointment
when once again the fulfillment was not as
the expectants
(this time the Christians and Muslims)
expected.
Nevertheless, MARVELOUS things occurred.
It was the watershed of history.
The world looked one way before -
technologically, politically, socially and so forth -
and entirely different afterwards.
For centuries and millennium -
it had looked one way -
with horses and horse delivered messages -
the change in that year
being the invention of
the first electronic device
and all the marvels we have
less than 200 years later
from satellites and Internet.
Central to our theme and subject
of what is occurring today -
is that in 1844 Turkey
of the Ottoman Empire
issued the Edict of Toleration,
for the first time allowing Jews
to return legally to Palestine.
In 1917, during WW1,
the British issued the Balfour Declaration
in effect re-establishing Israel
by making Palestine a homeland
for the Jewish people.
All was not simple.
Jews were still rejected throughout the world -
and although Hitler tried to ship loads
to Britain, the US and Canada -
that met little success.
It is a horrific story to study -
and most everyone knows what happened
in the holocaust.
But the struggle persisted -
and subsequent to WW2 (in 1948)
Israel was re-established -
with the US being the first country
to recognize it.
Extreme Orthodox Jews still do not recognize Israel.
Which is logically consistent with their
belief that the Messiah
has not come in the first place
to gather them together as a mother hen
would gather her chicks.
This bothers not most Jews -
because most Jews
are not what they call religious.
In fact many are atheists -
and proudly proclaim themselves so.
Christians and Muslims can sympathize
with the Ultra-orthodox Jews -
because they are in agreement
that Christ has not returned during
that climatic event called Armageddon -
when in the Muslim view Christ shall return
along with Muhammad and all the earth
will become Muslim.
The Muslims feel so strongly about this -
that they would join the Ultra-orthodox Jews
in destroying Israel -
and many feel that a world wide Jihad
must be brought on to accomplish this
and they are doing everything within their power
to hasten it.
So it all surrounds Jerusalem -
and in the eyes of some -
the issue of the Temple there.
Others see the current problems
as revolving around oil,
the Syrian pipeline,
struggle for geopolitical control
of the Middle East
and similar issues.
These are but external coincidental issues
that surround and confound the affairs there
as it struggles forward to its Divine Destiny.
There will be no unity of agreement
as to what has occurred
as to what is occurring or
as to what will occur.
The Great Last Battle of Armageddon -
and The Great Catastrophe
will bring about a world call
for World Unification in Jerusalem
with the realization that it cannot
be given to the Jews, Christians, Muslims
or any other group -
because the former would continue the conflict.
Many of those same entities will call
the unifying power (a reformed UN or whatever)
the anti-Christ, because it does not satisfy
their desires,
or their dogmatic explanation of the Scriptures.
In any case, these are the affairs
that face us at the moment.
The US (under the leadership of President Trump)
has established its Embassy in Jerusalem -
and the other powers that be in the area
such as Turkey, Iran, say that the embassy
and Israel
must not be permitted to stand.
The Purpose of it All
Many question the purpose of it all.
They ask if God sides with one nation
against another.
The answer is yes.
Ask the Jews -
how they made out against
Nebuchadnezzar, Hitler and many others.
But to what purpose?
The purpose is to improve humanity.
Many people have a child like self-centered
view of reality.
They see one planet -
one nation -
one religion -
even one political party -
as being the ONLY right one.
As an individual grows -
their horizon expands -
and they realize the universe
is more than really big.
Higher understanding reveals
that what we perceive is an illusion
of the underlying reality.
One, who progresses, will progress eternally.
They will come to understand that
the worlds of God are infinite.
They have as little understanding
about the next life -
as they had in the womb about this life.
Because the worlds of God are Infinite -
beyond our understanding of space and time
there will be throughout eternity
ever more to comprehend.
We live in an amazing time of history -
when especially dramatic events are occurring.
How fortunate we are to witness them
and to have the opportunity
to comprehend them.
Some of the events are of great significance
and the limited arguments between
religions
political parties
academic pundits
are of no eternal significance.
Ark Two
Especially blessed times here.
Especially blessed weather -
as I sit here with door open.
Marvelous help -
(but not near enough)
at Ark Two.
Unity and Love,
Bruce
DawnSayer@webpal.org
