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Originally Posted by thaskalos
This may indeed be the understanding of the gullible...but I remain unconvinced. To me it seems that the "human writer" has let his imagination run wild. Like that bit written by Isaiah where God supposedly states that all good things will come to Israel...peace and splendor will shower the Israeli land...and all the world's nations will either bow down to Israel, or they will perish. Wait...let me do a google search on that passage just in case Boxcar later asks me to. Ahh...here it is:
https://web.mit.edu/jywang/www/cef/B...le/ISA+60.html
All good things will come to Israel, and God says he will do this "swiftly"...and yet...Israel hasn't known a day of "peace" ever since.  |
Here is an interpretation...
http://cojs.org/parshat-ki-tavo-isai...yocheved-levy/
by Dr. Bryna Levy...
https://torahinmotion.org/profile/dr-bryna-j-levy
Notice the emphasis on personal responsibility, especially to bring about "Hastening the Redemption".
Israel will return from exile to the promises of Isaiah 60, and indeed the Temple was rebuilt and a recommitment to YHWH occurred throughout the narrative of Ezra, Nehemiah, through the Maccabean Revolt, up until Herod The Great.
From a Christian perspective, the Law of Moses was given so that man would seek the grace to keep it. Man cannot exhibit "agape" love, cannot reconcile himself to God without the grace won by Christ. The Hebrew scriptures are promise, Israel is a type of the new Israel, comprising "Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem" (Heb 12:22).
You may entertain other viewpoints regarding "dispensationalism"...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispensationalism
...but this is largely a johnny-come-lately reinterpretation of historic Christianity.
