Thank for interacting with the passage a little bit even. But you did not answer the questions I asked. Questions that deal with the exegesis of the text in question..
If this speaks of the restoration under Zerrubabel, Ezra and Nehemiah... were those the latter days as Hosea says is the time frame? Wow, the "latter days" centuries before Christ was born! Now that takes imagination!
Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.
If this speaks of the restoration under Zerrubabel, Ezra and Nehemiah... how can they seek David their king? He's dead. And if you take this as a figurative reference to Christ as Messiah I will not argue, but I will ask: When at the time of the restoration did the children of Israel seek the Messiah and fear the Lord and His goodness?
I await your exegesis of these two Bible verses.
At Pentecost. Through His Church. "Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel".
The only Israel that counts in the New Testament is "God's Israel", the Church.
If you are unwilling to interpret Old Testament "Israel Prophecies" according to the New Testament revelation that the "Israel of God" is the Christian Church, then you don't care about the New Testament.
Given that the New Testament defines the "Israel of God" as being THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, no other interpretation is permissible whatsoever.
Go on that basis, and I'll debate you. Otherwise... any "interpretation" that you offer, frankly doesn't count.
Best, OP
If this speaks of the restoration under Zerrubabel, Ezra and Nehemiah... were those the latter days as Hosea says is the time frame? Wow, the "latter days" centuries before Christ was born! Now that takes imagination!
Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.
If this speaks of the restoration under Zerrubabel, Ezra and Nehemiah... how can they seek David their king? He's dead. And if you take this as a figurative reference to Christ as Messiah I will not argue, but I will ask: When at the time of the restoration did the children of Israel seek the Messiah and fear the Lord and His goodness?
I await your exegesis of these two Bible verses.
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INDEED! EXCELLENT.
Not only does it take a galactic level; Olympic level drugged out imagination--it takes a derranged loosening of a solid grip on reality and logic, imho.
Where was the Abomination of Desolation followed by mass murder from the Temple court outward with masses of Jews being miraculously hidden in Petra?
They don't seem to mind the sieve like holes in their rationalizations as long as they can find some flimsy delusion to hang their biases on.