whole2th wrote:
Because Zionists lie and deceive ... mislead and project their own failings.
A friend writes: Although smugly jubilant in their self-righteousness and control of the media and other weak national governments, many Israelis, especially the government, do not understand the reality of their spiritual situation, and hence, the outcome of their actions. There are three spiritual problems.
Firstly, they neither know nor respect their God, the Creator of the universe and sustainer of life, and whose children they claim to be.
Secondly, they never read what their God says about them in their own scriptures, which thirdly, means that they cannot see the judgment that is coming.
Some 2700 years ago, the prophet Isaiah wrote a stinging rebuke of their behaviour, which resonates strongly today. (See Isaiah, chapter 59). The whole chapter is too long to copy, but the following three verses give an idea of God’s criticisms.
“But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear.
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity: your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.
None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity”. (Isa. 59:2-4)
Their own God is a God of justice and not fooled by their psychopathic behaviour. They would be well advised to read their own history and scriptures, as it will tell those who take notice of what is coming.
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If a friend actually wrote that, she didn't do you any favors.
That is a non-contextual, gross misinterpretation of Isaiah 59.
Just what one would expect from an atheist/pagan Jew hating fool.
First of all, Isaiah was not speaking to or about Zionists or Zionism, there was no such thing for another 2500 years.
In fact, a political movement called Zionism appears nowhere in Bible prophesies, neither in the Old or New Testaments.
Isaiah, himself a Jew, did not diagnose the Jews as a psychopathic race or religion, he was speaking to their apostasy, their turning away from God, which occurred on a number of occasions throughout their long history.
Jeremiah, "the Weeping Prophet" is another of God's messenger's, a prophet to the southern kingdom of Judah in the Old Testament, right before Judah ultimately fell to Babylon and was led away into captivity. God sent Jeremiah to a crumbling nation to warn of their impending demise wrought by their apostasy – a warning they didn’t heed.
The great Prophet Daniel was among those taken captive to Babylon where he and his three companions took a courageous stand against the taint of idolatry.
Isaiah 59 is a potent reminder that while our sins may separate us from God, divine intervention and salvation are always within our reach. The promise of the Redeemer and the covenant offers a beacon of hope and reassurance of God's relentless pursuit of a relationship with us, despite our faults.
The idea the Jews
"never read what their God says about them in their own scriptures" is another absurd lie.
At synagogues all over the world, then and now, the rabbis read from the scrolls of Moses (The Torah), from the major prophets, so they and their congregations were well aware what "God says about them", and the judgement that would come if they disobeyed and the reward for obedience.