[topcat54]

The topic remains an intriguingly credible bit of prophetic speculation.

The operative word in all this is speculation, a key feature of futurist dispensationalism. But it lacks biblical credibility. God managed to inflict the horrible plagues against ancient Egypt without the need for humanly conceived technology like neutron bombs. So why the need to look under every technology rock for “solutions” to these ancient prophecies?

With enough imagination you can invent just about any scenario you wish for alleged end-times events.

[mbeeber]

Your reply reminds me of the opinion of a Baptist Hebrew Christian missionary that I knew once. He fought me tooth and nail on this very same subject. The difference between my opinion and his was quite distinct. He refused to consider anything but the dogmatic teaching he received in bible school, where I was open to explore the possibility of nuclear war being prophesied in Zechariah.

That was why I mentioned Samuel Morse and the invention of the telegraph. His first public message on the telegraph was “What hath God wrought!”. We understood that God had inspired him to invent a tool that would be the foundation of the electronic communications revolution. He recognized that his invention was indeed a fulfillment of Gods will.
So it may also be with the neutron bomb!

I surmise that you are not a dispensationalist. The only reason why dispensationalism makes more sense than other escatologies is that it is mostly in agreement with the same prophetic mindset of the Hebrew prophets and Jesus. I must admit that not everything dispensational is correct. But dispensational eschatology and it's hope for a redeemed Jewish people promotes a genuine love for modern Israel and the Jewish people, where other escatologies appear to lack such a love. We are what we eat! If we eat bitter fruit we become bitter ourselves.

But back to the main topic of Zechariah and neutron bomb. I believe the possibility of the Zech 14 plague being a neutron bomb is a credible speculation. Credible means that the description of the plague fits the characteristics of a neutron bomb, nothing more, nothing less.

[Quix]

With enough imagination you can invent just about any scenario you wish for alleged end-times events.

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That’s one skill/habit I’m quite comfortable rating you quite high on.

The UNBiblical fantasies flowing out of the fingers never cease to amaze me.

[Lord_Calvinus]

Funny how prophecy fanatics are always trying to figure out what is coming and what God is up to at the moment instead of spending their time on what they should be doing now, you know, what the Lord has told them to do while he is away.