The prophecies on Israel actually happening, yet no religion speaks of this.....

by EndofMysteries 12 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  tornapart

  I've just finished reading 'the Fall of Jerusalem' by Josephus and all the things Jesus foretold happened. Josephus was an eyewitness to it all (even though he was not a christian). The points you make are very interesting but I'm sure I have read similar ideas to these before.
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  Qcmbr

  So a few of a few tribes of Israel (the rest are almost certainly gone as political entities) return to Israel, an artificial state set up by powerful christian and Jewish forces in world politics who know this is a prophecy. Sounds like it's just self-fulfilling. Why did it take 2000 odd years to even partially fulfill? When are the rest of the tribes coming back?

  Did you know that many starving people turn to cannibalism? What would have been more impressive is if god had said ' in 70AD a handful of people from Israel will get caught in a Roman siege but they won't resort to desperate measures (like cannibalism) because I'll feed them twinkies from the sky for a week and then I'll make good my promise to actually return.'

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism

  • In colonial Jamestown, colonists resorted to cannibalism during a period known as the Starving Time, from 1609–1610. After food supplies were diminished, some colonists began to dig up corpses for food. During this time period, one man was tortured until he confessed to having killed, salted, and eaten his pregnant wife before he was burned alive as punishment. [39] [40]
  • The accounts of the sinking of the Luxborough Galley in 1727 reported cannibalism amongst the survivors during their two weeks on a small boat in the mid-Atlantic.
  • The Essex was sunk by a sperm whale in the Pacific Ocean in 1820. The survivors of Captain Pollard's boat spent 90 days in a small whaling boat before being rescued. All the members who died during the 90 days were eaten. When the boat was found there were two members remaining; they were found sucking on the marrow of a human bone. The tale of the Essex inspired Herman Melville to write his novel Moby-Dick.
  • In 1822 Alexander Pearce, an Irish convict, led an escape from Macquarie Harbour Penal Settlement in Tasmania. Pearce was captured near Hobart and confessed that he and the other escapees had successively killed and cannibalised members of their group over a period of weeks, he being the last survivor.
  • In the US, the group of settlers known as the Donner Party resorted to cannibalism while snowbound in the mountains for the winter of 1846–47.
  • The last survivors of Sir John Franklin's 1848 expedition were found to have resorted to cannibalism in their final push across King William Island, Canada towards the Back River. [41]
  • There are many claims that cannibalism was widespread during the famine of Ukraine in the 1930s, during the Siege of Leningrad in World War II, [42] [43] and during the Chinese Civil War and the Great Chinese Famine (1958–1961), following the Great Leap Forward in the People's Republic of China. [44] [45]
  • There were also rumors of several cannibalism outbreaks during World War II in the Nazi concentration camps where the prisoners were malnourished. [46]
  • Cannibalism was also practiced by Japanese troops as recently as World War II in the Pacific theater. [47]
  • A more recent example is of leaked stories from North Korean refugees of cannibalism practiced during and after a famine that occurred sometime between 1995 and 1997. [48]
  • Lowell Thomas records the cannibalization of some of the surviving crew members of the ship Dumaru after it exploded and sank in the western Pacific Ocean during the First World War in his book, The Wreck of the Dumaru (1930). Another case of shipwrecked survivors forced to engage in cannibalism was that of the Medusa, a French vessel which in 1816 ran aground on the Banc d'Arguin (English: The Bank of Arguin) in the Atlantic Ocean off Africa's northwestern coast about sixty miles distant from shore.
  • In 1972, the survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, consisting of the rugby team from Stella Maris College in Montevideo and some of their family members, resorted to necro-cannibalism while trapped at the crash site. They had been stranded since 13 October 1972 and rescue operations at the crash site did not begin until 22 December 1972. The story of the survivors was chronicled in Piers Paul Read's 1974 book, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, in a 1993 film adaptation of the book, called simply Alive, and in a 2008 documentary: Stranded: I’ve Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains.
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  robB

  God keeps his promises. If someone hijacks the promises made to Israel in the latter prophets, they are fooling themselves. God makes conditional promises and uncondtional promises. When God makes an unconditional promise, it will happen despite the disobedience of the audience. That's the point of grace. Sola Gratia! Read Romans, in it you will see Paul takes about the restoration of Isreal.