Again, it doesn't matter how much time has passed. The time element is unknown. That there will be time between Israel coming back to the land in unbelief, and when they are placed in a right relationship with God is what is important.
You would never derive that from a natural reading of Ezekiel. That's been my whole point this entire time.
That there is at least 7 years is assured as the Tribulation will last 7 years.
Your belief in a 7 year Tribulation comes from your interpretation of a completely different prophesy, completely different book, different author, different time period, and different language. And the passages in Revelation you derive then from have nothing to do with Israel being a secular democracy for nearly a century before they establish Torah over their society again.
This has nothing to do with the price of tea in China. It has everything to do with Israel being brought back into the land in unbelief and a time period existing before they are brought back into a relationship with God. I already explained to you that at lest 7 years must occur between those events.
You stated your opinion, you didnt really 'explain.' Nothing in Ezekiel or Daniel about any of that.
It has everything to do with what you asked. Time is involved for Israel, who is in unbelief and in the land, to accept the anti-christ, to enjoy a peace of 3 and 1/2 years, to rebuild the temple, then to experience the treachery of the anti-christ, etc. etc. before she as a nation turns back to God.
But Ezekiel says they won't live in the land till they're cleansed? Again, you're trying to fit history into prophecy, when it should work the other way if the prophecies are accurate.
Was Israel in Jesus day a 'Torah based society'?
Essentially, yep. Complicated by Roman rule, though.
Does this 'Torah based society of yours include Jesus as the Christ?
I didn't write the Torah. It's not "mine." The Torah was written and implemented in ancient Israel hundreds of years before there was a guy named Jesus. Ezekiel and Daniel knew nothing about him, as he didnt exist yet.
Well, neither does (Ezekiel) or (Daniel) say anything about a so called "Torah based Society". Yet you keep repeating it. What now?
You didnt answer my question that would have helped answer your question here. What were the "statutes and ordinances of the Lord," to a Jew 2,500 years ago?
Being brought into a right relationship with God is what it is all about. That is the whole point of God bringing Israel back.
Yes, and how are Jews brought into a right relationship to God, according to their Scriptures? By following the Torah.
I am showing you how His prophets predicted it. You just refuse to believe it. Why? Because you don't believe any of it anyway. Either way.
No, I'm sorry, you simply aren't. You're declaring things, and I keep bringing you back to what the texts actually do and don't say.
Again, no one is saying 'decades would pass'. Just because decades have passed is immaterial.
If you think it's immaterial, you've missed the entire point of my participation in the thread.
Did you read (Eze. 22:17-22)? No, you didn't. There is nothing there of God gathering and cleansing Israel at the same time. God gathers her and then brings her through judgement because she is not cleansed. Note (22:24) "Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation."
The verses, for the kids at home:
"The word of the Lord came to me: Mortal, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them, silver, bronze, tin, iron, and lead. In the smelter they have become dross. Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have all become dross, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. As one gathers silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into a smelter, to blow the fire upon them in order to melt them; so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will put you in and melt you. I will gather you and blow upon you with the fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted within it. As silver is melted in a smelter, so you shall be melted in it; and you shall know that I the Lord have poured out my wrath upon you."
The Bible often uses the metaphor of God's judgment as a "refining fire" which is painful but ultimately purifying. See, for example, Malachi 3 or Zechariah 13.
In other words, time is involved when once Israel is brought back into the land and when she is brought back into a right relationship with God. She was brought back in 1948. She is in the land in unbelief. She still must go through the last 7 years of Daniels 70th week.
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She's kinda in the land. Half in, half out. And has been there 72 years. When no prophecy says that such a length of time will pass, they all speak of it as one process. Which is why you can't point to anyone 100 years ago who interpreted the prophecies you are to predict what has actually happened.