You only hold to that idea, so as to have a 'rapture' of the church and for 'Israel' to face God's wrath. Very pretentious and totally in error.
You're obviously in error. Even someone as erroneous in his teachings as Irvin Baxter knows the Israelites will endure God's wrath during the 2nd half of the tribulation.
It means as we are clearly told in Romans 9:6-8 anyone who truly believes in God and has accepted the atoning sacrifice of Jesus. A high proportion of those people now are actual descendants of Jacob, from the ten Northern tribes; Western Christian people.
They are all descendants and have nothing to do with western christian people, nor Romans:6-8.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israelites
Jerusalem nuked? What rubbish! Purely your speculation that I assume you obtain from Zechariah 14:12 Note it says the Lord will strike them with a plague..... There are other means than nuclear that we know could cause those results described. What really refutes the idea of any nuke weapon being used anywhere in the Holy Land, is radiation pollution making the Land uninhabitable; impossible!
Well, now it's obvious. You only think it's rubbish because this prophecy is something new to you that you haven't much knowledge of. It's the same as when you first heard the word rapture and when someone explained it to you that someday dead people will come to life to meet Jesus in the air with those alive. Your reaction was "what rubbish!" And I listed Zechariah 14:12 because it doesn't go over many people's head as they can figure it out themselves from the description.
You should do some research on the effects of a nuclear bomb before using words like "impossible" or on anything else before calling things "rubbish!" It just shows one's ignorance.
Dear Cecil:
If nuclear fallout takes thousands of years to dissipate, how did the Japanese return to Hiroshima and Nagasaki three months after the nuclear bombs exploded? Doesn't the area stay radioactive and uninhabitable for thousands of years?
— Dawna Boehmer, via the Internet
Not necessarily, obviously. As nuclear explosions go, the blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were pretty clean. In fact, in the weeks following the bombings, American authorities trying to keep a lid on the deteriorating PR situation portrayed A-bomb damage as being just like that from conventional weapons, except that there was more of it. Those already dying of "atomic sickness" knew better. Only gradually did the world realize that, even if you can safely walk through the ruins of a bombed city soon afterward, the effects of a nuclear attack continue to show up for years.
Read more here:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns...did-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-recover-so-quickly
During WW2, the U.S. dropped not one, but two nuclear bombs on cities within Japan. These bombs, despite being relatively weak when compared to modern nuclear weapons, did considerable damage to the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. It inspired one reader to ask, “Is Nagasaki and Hiroshima still radioactive?”
The short answer to this question is “no”, Nagasaki and Hiroshima are not radioactive. The long answer requires a bit of an explanation which we’ve provided below.
Read more here:
http://zidbits.com/2013/11/is-nagasaki-and-hiroshima-still-radioactive/
"Today, the background radiation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki is the same as the average amount of natural radiation present anywhere on Earth. It is not enough to affect human health."
Part of the answer is that these bombs exploded high up in the air and all the radioactive material blew or rained away... somewhere. I guess.
Read more here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/patrick-takahashi/why-worry-about-fukushima_b_847250.html
Now watch these two videos.
Feel the trembling from the shockwave of the blast a few seconds after detonation? That's the trembling in Jeremiah 30:5. It's also a sound of fear and not of peace. The trembling is not from an earthquake either because not everyone's faces would not turn pale white from a quake, Jeremiah 30:6
20 million degrees fahrenheit. Everything within a certain radius instantly vaporized, everything else left afterwards is on fire. Combine this with winds up to 600 mph from the shockwave.
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Once again, here the AoD. For there will be great tribulation, not since creation nor will there ever be again. Keras, what was the worst casualty of war in the history of mankind? The atomic bomb that dropped on Hiroshima. What do you think will top this event? God will bring all Israel's enemies upon Jerusalem and drop a nuclear bomb on them. Zechariah 14:12
Jesus even said no flesh would be saved in verse 22. What weapon of warfare can destroy all of mankind today?
Matthew 24:15-22 NKJV
15 “Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place”(whoever reads, let him understand), 16 “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17 Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house. 18 And let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes. 19 But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! 20 And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath. 21 For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened.
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Keras, do you understand what difference between the days of Noah vs the days of Lot? Do you know what the fire and brimstone from heaven figuratively means and why Jesus used this to describe the abomination of desolation?
Luke 17:28-29 NKJV
28 Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 29 but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.
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Now do you think you can understand these scriptures without me having to go through a lengthy explanation?
Isaiah 33:10-14 NLT
10 But the Lord says: “Now I will stand up.
Now I will show my power and might.
11 You Assyrians produce nothing but dry grass and stubble.
Your own breath will turn to fire and consume you.
12 Your people will be burned up completely,
like thornbushes cut down and tossed in a fire.
13 Listen to what I have done, you nations far away!
And you that are near, acknowledge my might!”
14 The sinners in Jerusalem shake with fear.
Terror seizes the godless.
“Who can live with this devouring fire?” they cry.
“Who can survive this all-consuming fire?”
Isaiah 34:1-4 NKJV
1 Come near, you nations, to hear;
And heed, you people!
Let the earth hear, and all that is in it,
The world and all things that come forth from it.
2 For the indignation of the Lord is against all nations,
And His fury against all their armies;
He has utterly destroyed them,
He has given them over to the slaughter.
3 Also their slain shall be thrown out;
Their stench shall rise from their corpses,
And the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
4 All the host of heaven shall be dissolved,
And the heavens shall be rolled up like a scroll;
All their host shall fall down
As the leaf falls from the vine,
And as fruit falling from a fig tree.
Isaiah 29:1-8 GNT
1 God's altar, Jerusalem itself, is doomed! The city where David camped is doomed! Let another year or two come and go, with its feasts and festivals, 2 and then God will bring disaster on the city that is called “God's altar.” There will be weeping and wailing, and the whole city will be like an altar covered with blood. 3 God will attack the city, surround it, and besiege it. 4 Jerusalem will be like a ghost struggling to speak from under the ground, a muffled voice coming from the dust.
5 Jerusalem, all the foreigners who attack you will be blown away like dust, and their terrifying armies will fly away like straw. Suddenly and unexpectedly 6 the Lord Almighty will rescue you with violent thunderstorms and earthquakes. He will send windstorms and raging fire; 7 then all the armies of the nations attacking the city of God's altar, all their weapons and equipment—everything—will vanish like a dream, like something imagined in the night. 8 All the nations that assemble to attack Jerusalem will be like a starving person who dreams he is eating and wakes up hungry, or like someone dying of thirst who dreams he is drinking and wakes with a dry throat.
Keras,
Do you understand what Isaiah 29:5 means? Those 600 mph winds from the explosion of the nuclear bomb. Everything will be blown away.
Do you understand what verse 7 means? Everything vaporized from the 20 million degree heat. It means they all vanished.
I have more scriptures as evidence but will stop here. If you want more proof: Isaiah 9:8-19, Nahum 1:1-8, Zeph 1:2-4, 12, 15, 18.
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