Babylon is heartless. As whoredom takes away the heart, and as wine takes away the heart.
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart. Hosea 4:11
Babylon is just like Ephraim.
Consider the sin of Ephraim:
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid. Hosea 13:12
Consider the...
That is not an answer, that is a question. I was trying to follow your line of thought.
Ok. You showed me a verse that has the LORD which talks about an Olive tree. That one?
I'm not sure if you (or anyone) understood what I was saying earlier about word/symbol positioning and alignment. Like...
Only through Christian preconceived notions, Judah can be understood to be an individual. It is called Replacement Theology. No one is or ever was without sin, even Jesus himself whom you take as a paragon of righteousness. He broke the Golden Rule 15 times only in the text of Mat. 23:13-33. The...
Judah was, and can be understood to represent, an individual as well as a people.
When I read the Tanach I find evidence that the Lord is angry at both Israel and Judah (the people). In 1 Kings 14:16 it says, 'And he (the Lord) shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin...
What, then, is the beast and what is his image? What is the mark? These things are subject to interpretation, of course, but IMO the beast is the kingdoms of men; history's superpowers culminating with the Anglo / American or U.K. and U.S.A. Their image is the United Nations. The mark is the...