Clues to Why the Next Temple is on the Horizon Old Testament and New Testament

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Dec 9, 2020 at 19:50

Now there is clarification; these things you are mentioning are the same issues that were irreconcilable when attempting decades go to make some sense of the Catholic treatises that were being taught when in my pre-redeemed state; and made no sense. Maybe not being directly Catholic (though from Catholic lineage) had something to do with it; but the truth was later revealed in subsequent English studies of the Tyndale and earlier versions and translations of scripture, including the Latin Vulgate, treatises of which were somewhat misleading since the target audience were more religious than true believers.
Actually, my understanding of the Jewish influences come from a more virulent interpretation of why (a question many Orthodox Jewish congregants ask of HaShem all the time) have they been the target of so much hatred in a world that seems hell-bent on their destruction, even to this day. Their own Scriptures answer that, something that many of the Gentile persuasion cannot answer: why? Because being Jewish is not something that Gentiles are familiar with; having a God that brought them out of Egypt, across the Red Sea, judging them unfaithful after Sinai and condemning them in their unfaithfulness to 40 years in the desert before showing them the land promised to Abraham for their inheritance.
Jeremiah, if fully understood, explains all of this, much to the chagrin of the so-called Christian community, that for centuries committed acts of anti-Semitism, eclipsed only by the Muslims, who, by appropriating the Scriptures already written in languages of various Gentile populations (Aramaic/Syriac) and misrepresenting them with bad Arabic translations (long before English), invaded and corrupted the Gospel for hundreds of years, thereby misrepresenting the issues of why the diaspora have been on the run since the destruction of the second Temple. Conclusion in the short form: converting true Jewish persons to Christianity is antithetical to Scripture, whether Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, English or otherwise. Even as the 95 theses were being nailed to the door, forced conversions were sinfully anti-Semitic in their practices and the worst form of spiritual injustices to be perpetrated in any population, being the worst for being Jewish. It's one of the reasons Cristoforo Colombo sailed the ocean blue, to escape anti-Semitism.
Zechariah tells of how things will work out for the Jewish nation and those Gentile nations that sought and are seeking their destruction:
Zechariah 12: 8-9) On that day the LORD will protect the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them on that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the angel of the LORD, going before them. 9) And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
Zechariah 12:10)"And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.

That's not a conversion, that's a fulfillment.

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