President Trump has repeated several times when referring to this peace deal: paraphrase: the biggest thing since 3,000 years or at least 500. So what happened about 3,000 years ago?
Answer:
United Kingdom of Israel: The traditional date for King David becoming king is 1006 BC, marking the start of a "golden age" for the kingdom under his rule and his successor, Solomon.
Things that make you go hmmmm.
What happened about 500 years ago? Several things, including Protestant Reformation and the discovery of America by Columbus. What just happened? Trump signed an EO bringing back Columbus Day as the holiday and ditching indigenous people day at the federal level.
Things that make you go hmmmm.
There is some thought that under the new covenant, Christians are the chosen people. That is a wrench in the gears for some.
the way I understand it, Galatians 3 lays out how those in Christ are heirs to Abraham's blessing. Christ's death initiated the NEW covenant, but there was overlap.
At 70AD when the temple was destroyed during the siege of Jerusalem, the OLD covenant was ended. There is a book that talks about all kinds of crazy stuff that happened during that time, and some of the end times prophecies were fulfilled then, such as the mark of the beast and so on. I guess I'm a covenant theology guy.
Bottom line, there is no old covenant any more, it's all about Jesus, and I don't think there will be a specific anti-Christ person unless the Israelis make one themselves in order to take stuff over more than they already have.
There is Pretarism, and there is a theory that the 1000 year reign already happened, and other stuff too I suppose, based on how history is written by the victor so we can't be totally sure history is legit.
Thank you for sharing that info. On a related topic: there were quite a few people that thought that we might be in the end times. I think this is one of God’s course corrections.
Exactly! Even biologically. Consider this. There were undoubtedly a few Jews that doubled down on their mistake of crucifying their own Messiah over & over again but those were probably like the Hilary Clintons & George Soros' of their day. Many were of course touched by Christ & couldn't care less what the Jewish authorities said. Others maybe weren't lucky enough to have but, if so, it was probably because they were probably too busy with their lives & so they certainly didn't have the time to be in that crowd before Pilate either.
That crowd was probably just the temple authorities & their bootlickers. Over time more people would have gotten to hear the stories of Christ & been moved by them than those moved by the story the temple leaders would have spread about their description of Christ, right? What's more interesting, prophecies fulfilled & sins forgiven or the fact that the temple had someone executed for something or another? The story of Christ spread from person to person has a lot more 'click value' (to use todays terms) than whatever story the authorizes tried to sell. I mean just think of today with Trump. The more the official narrative attacks him to more people like him. Not to compare the two, of course, but there is something similar there.
So I would bet that between 30AD-70AD most Jews would have heard both stories. Some would have believed & others maybe weren't so sure but they would have heard. Then when Jerusalem was sieged in 70AD just as Christ predicted what do you think those that heard but didn't know what to believe would have thought?
I think most of those ancient Jews became Christians & as such they probably chose mates also in the Christian community & their decedents grew up in the Christian community & in enough generations would not even know they had a Jewish ancestor that was in contact with people who had met Christ. Where did those 1st Christians who were previously Jews go? They went all over the world, I would bet some would have had children with the natives & etc etc.
Do you get the point? By today, those Jews who became the 1st Christians are most likely an ancestor of two of many Christians all over the world of all nationalities.