So there are all these negative things prophesied within the Abrahamic texts; yet is it possible that The Messiah could just fix everything between us instead, and build world peace or do we have to have ultimate destruction of everything, before anyone will listen, as the books seem to imply?
Now understand some of the Messianic prophecies of literally no death, needs a new operating system install first; yet could we start on some of the easier things first?
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Jehovah, the God who had the Bible written, is the most forgiving person in existence, but His forgiving does not go on forever. Remember, in the Hebrew Scriptures, how God made a Covenant with the Jewish nation, but they kept turning away from Him, so He allowed them to be conquered and punished, over and over again. The Jews were actually under a Theocratic Government for much of their history, but God realized they were not going to return to Him so He allowed Babylon, with Nebuchadnezzar the King, to destroy Jerusalem and the Great Temple that Solomon built. From that time on they were symbolically brought down and the Gentiles were put over the Jews. This would be until the Messiah would come. Daniel prophesied exactly when the Messiah would appear, Daniel 9:24-27. The Jews in the first century understood Daniel's prophecy, and they were looking for the Messiah, when he came, but they first thought that John the Baptist was the Messiah, Luke 3:15,16.
The Jews, as a whole, would not accept Jesus as the Christ, even had Jesus murdered. Because they turned away from God, God removed His blessing from the Jews, and then His Chosen People became the Christians. Because the whole Jewish system was so corrupt God allowed the Romans to destroy Jerusalem and the whole Jewish system. The Jews were not allowed to even enter Jerusalem for many years.
Starting in the year 1914, we have been in the last days of this wicked system. That was the year that Daniel's prophecy about the seven times, would end and again the Kingdom of God would again be raised above the Gentiles, Daniel 4:10-17. Jesus, as the King of God's Kingdom, is ruling in heaven now, and will soon come to Judge the entire earth, Psalms 110:1-4, Revelation 6:2, Matthew 25:31-46, Revelation 1911-21, Acts 17:30,31.
This generation that Jesus was speaking about at Matthew 24:34-39, has become so very bad that it has been Adjudicated, Coming Judgement cannot be stopped by anyone, even Jesus. Today, even people who claim to be Christians, are the very worse people on earth. God hates Hypocracy, so anyone who wants to survive the destruction of this system of things, has a very short time to repent and find God, and obey Jesus, or they will be destroyed, gone forever, Acts 17:26,27, 2Thessalonians 1:6-10, Romans 3:5,6, 2Peter 3:3-9, Revelation 20:14,15.