Looking for Jesus according to Luke

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- My answer (3)

- If we look at Revelation chapter 7, guess what? We are told about the 12 tribes of Israel!

- What is that? Hebrew or Jewish?

- Do you remember what Yah.weh said in Genesis about a man and a woman?

- No divorce!

- Now Hebrews could repudiate their wives and marry different women!

- Yah.weh tolerated it!

- He tolerated many things and at the same time he warned Hebrews!

- Where did it lead? To destruction again and again!

- For Yah.weh there was only one people, the descendants of Abraham!

- Hebrews wanted a human king instead of Yah.weh!

- They wanted to do like other nations!

- They rejected Yah.weh!

- In fact, they rejected him all the time!

- They never were his people!

- He tolerated them because of His friend Abraham and because he had made the promise to Abraham to bless all the nations through him!

 

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- My answer (4)

- I can also speak about the New Jerusalem to remember what the book of Revelation is!

- Thus I must copy a text I wrote about Revelation Chapter 21:

• Revelation chapter 21: we are told about the New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven out of God!
• It has nothing to do with the Jerusalem on earth!
• it shines with the glory of God!
• Its radiance was like a most precious jewel, like a jasper, as clear as crystal!
• The dimensions of this celestial Jerusalem are equal in length and width and height!
• Hence, 12,000 stadia = @ 1,500 miles. “A city this size would occupy the entire Mediterranean world from Jerusalem to Spain” (Phillips, 644). You may recall that the Holy of Holies inside the tabernacle was a perfect cube as well (1 Kings 6:20).
• The city's wall is 144 cubits thick, which is about 216 feet or almost 66 meters. Generally, a wall is constructed to provide security and/or privacy. But most walls are only a foot (30 cm) or less thick. The massive size of these walls not only implies strength, it suggests the enormous scale of the rest of the city.
• The wall was made of jasper, and the city itself of pure gold, as pure as glass. 19The foundations of the city walls were adorned with every kind of precious stone:

The first foundation was jasper,

the second sapphire,

the third chalcedony,

the fourth emerald,

20the fifth sardonyx,

the sixth carnelian,

the seventh chrysolite,

the eighth beryl,

the ninth topaz,

the tenth chrysoprase,

the eleventh jacinth,

and the twelfth amethyst.

21And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, with each gate consisting of a single pearl. The main street of the city was pure gold, as clear as glass.

• 22But I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its lamp. 24By its light the nations will walk, and into it the kings of the earth will bring their glory.f 25Its gates will never be shut at the end of the day, because there will be no night there.
• How is it possible to misunderstand?
• It is impossible!

 

[JLG]

- My answer (5)

- Maybe we have to look at the History of Israel (according to Biblical times)!

https://embassies.gov.il/UnGeneva/AboutIsrael/history/Pages/History-Israel-Timeline.aspx

- 17th century BCE

Abraham, Isaac, Jacob - patriarchs of the Jewish people and bearers of a belief in one God - settle in the Land of Israel.

Famine forces Israelites to migrate to Egypt.

- 13th century BCE

Exodus from Egypt: Moses leads Israelites from Egypt, followed by 40 years of wandering in the desert.

Torah, including the Ten Commandments, received at Mount Sinai.

- 13th-12th centuries BCE Israelites settle in the Land of Israel

- 1020 BCE Jewish monarchy established; Saul, first king. (Here we get an official timeline, they say Jewish monarchy but they were Hebrews at this time!)

- 1000 BCE Jerusalem made capital of David's kingdom. ( so Hebrew or Jewish?)

- 960 BCE Israel crushed by Assyrians; 10 tribes exiled (ten lost tribes)

- 930 BCE Divided kingdom: Judah and Israel!

- 586 BCE Judah conquered by Babilonia; Jerusalem and First temple destroyed; most Jews exiled.

- Conclusion:

- I am not a Hebrew, I am not A Jew!

- If you look at Hebrew history, you can see that it represents many centuries (17th century BCE- 960 BCE)!

- If you look at Jewish history, you can see that it is only from 930 BCE to 586 BCE!

- Do you see the difference?

 

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- My answer (6)

- Now let’s have a look at the Bible timeline!

https://biblehub.com/timeline/old.htm

- 2091 BCE God Sends Abram to Egypt (Genesis)

- 1800 BCE Jacob's Family Stays in Egypt (Exodus)

- 1446 BCE The Exodus Begins (Exodus). Then the Hebrews stay in the desert (Leviticus, Numbers)

- 1407 BCE Conquest of Midian (Numbers) - Moses' Summary of Israel's History (Deuteronomy)

- Then in the book of Joshua, Joshua leads the conquest of the land of Canaan (Joshua)

- 1375 BCE time of judges (Judges)

- 1140 BCE Naomi, Ruth and Boaz (Ruth)

- 1070 BCE Battle of Shiloh (Samuel)

- 1003 BCE Genealogies of the Israelites - Saul's Overthrow and Defeat - David Reigns over All Israel (Chronicles)

- 950 BCE The Proverbs of Solomon (Proverbs) Solomon's Song of Songs

- 913 BCE Civil War against Jeroboam (2 Chronicles 13)

- 853 BCE Israel and Judah against Syria (Kings)

- 1 Kings deals with Solomon, the revolt of the ten tribes and the kings of Judah and Israel!

- 2 Kings deals with kings of Judah and Israel!

- 1 Chronicles deals with David!

- 2 Chronicles deals with Solomon and kings of Judah!

- Ezra deals with the reconstruction of the temple of Jerusalem!

- Nehemiah deals with the reconstruction of the walls of Jerusalem!

- Isaiah is about Israel’s rebellion!

- Jeremiah deals about Yah.weh’s judgment on Israel!

- Ezekiel deals Yah.weh’s judgment on Jerusalem!

- Daniel deals with the reconstruction and the destruction of Jerusalem!

- Hosea deals with Israel!

- Joel deals with Yah.weh’s judgment on Judah!

- Amos deals with Yah.weh’s judgment on different peoples including Judah and Israel!

- Obadiah deals with Yah.weh’s judgment on Edom!

- Jonah deals with Yah.weh’s judgment on Niniveh!

- Micah deals with Yah.weh’s judgment on Israel and Judah!

- Nahum deals with Yah.weh’s judgment on Assyria!

- Zephaniah deals with Yah.weh’s judgment on Judah and Jerusalem!

- Haggai deals with the reconstruction of Yah.weh’s temple!

- Zechariah deals with Yah.weh’s kingdom to come!

- Malachi deals with Yah.weh’s word to Israel!

- Are we reading the same Bible?

- The message seems to be clear but not for everybody!