Friday, April 10, 2020

Islam critiqued prefers Biblical eschatology; bombing love and freedom to the world?

In answer to the video "YHWH, Allah and the Jews"

Biblical eschatology is one where all nations will be forcefully bowing at the Jews' feet. Prior to the messiah's arrival and universal recognition Isa59:19-20, there will be mass slaughter of those that do not believe in the Jewish God. None will be required to "believe" in the Jewish Messiah because his universal rule will be an undeniable fact that will usher an utopian era -that is, for the Jews- where only one truth reigns supreme, that of the Hebrew Bible, after every other belief system is abolished and erased, its people destroyed. This will happen by natural calamity or others means like God's jealous and furious fire of destruction, a process often likened to that of a smith selecting through fire the trash from the precious metal, concretely resulting in "purifying" the people's hearts and lips. Once the cleansing process is over, all will prostrate to the One true God
Zeph3:8-9,Zech14:9-17"And the Lord shall become King over all the earth; on that day shall the Lord be one, and His name one". 
Some modern apologists have attempted to negate that idea of universal forceful conversion using Micah4:5. It is ironic that this same verse is used in rabbinic comentaries to prove the opposite. The context itself speaks of the streaming of nations into Jerusalem to learn Judaism, God's judgement of nations afar, in a time where
"all peoples shall go, each one in the name of his god, but we will go in the name of the Lord, our God, forever and ever".
The non-Jews "going" to their false gods implies "going for destruction" in contrast to the Jews who will go on "forever". This will usher a time not only of religious monopoly but of forcible, physical subjugation of all non-Jewish peoples, made to crawl like abject creatures to the Jews' feet, in fear of Micah7:17"our God", transfering in addition all their riches to their new masters
Isa66:12"like a flooding stream",
or be destroyed
Zech14,Isa45:22"Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God, and there is no other"  
Isa49:23"And kings shall be your nursing fathers and their princesses your wet nurses; they shall prostrate themselves to you with their face on the ground, and they shall lick the dust of your feet, and you shall know that I am the Lord, for those who wait for Me shall not be ashamed" 
Isa60:"..And foreigners shall build your walls, and their kings shall serve you..For the nation and the kingdom that shall not serve you shall perish, and the nations shall be destroyed...And the children of your oppressors shall go to you bent over, and those who despised you shall prostrate themselves at the soles of your feet..". 
The end of the book of Isaiah is repleat with such references of "glad-tidings" to the Jews towards the end of times, the messianic era, a time where
Isa66:23"all flesh shall come to prostrate themselves before Me"
and where the remaining lucky survivors will see all around them
"the corpses of the people who rebelled against Me, for their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorring for all flesh".
This represents, according to Zech13:8-9 roughly 2/3 of the world population, exterminated, with 1/3 remaining for having converted to Judaism. Following their subjugation and destruction, the wicked will be sentenced to gehinnom (see Rashi on Ps6:11).

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