I took a yardstick and put it on my driveway, and it laid perfectly flat! See, no curve, 100% proven!
It would appear so......
What part of the Bible are you considering?
Ezekiel 7 and Revelation 7:1 show that trouble is about to come upon the land of Israel. Revelation 7 begins a new vision. It is not a continuation of the story that ended with the 6th seal.
Israel will be judged by God, via selling her to another nation-to punish/correct her with things that come in measure. He will save His full wrath plagues to punish the other nations later.
God will recompense His people according to their ways. But later, He will repent of some of the judgment that was to come, and bring mercy on her.
Do you think the land of Israel is shaped like a square?
flat?
Ezekiel 7 - upon the four corners of the land
It tells how the worst of the heathen will be sent against her to destroy.
Hi vin
Good points. There is another scriptural possibility what the "4 corners" could be symbolizing.
This does show the 4 corners of the land is symbolizing Israel, including Judea and Jerusalem:
Ezekiel 7:
1 And a Word of Yahweh is coming to me to say of, `And thou, Son of 'adam! thus says 'Adonay Yahweh to ground of Yisra'el:
2 An End! comes, the End on four corners of the land.
3 Now the End upon thee, and I send My anger in thee, and I judge thee as ways of thee, and I give on thee all abominations of thee.
Herod's Temple in 1st century Jerusalem was the center of worship for the 1st century Jews, as that is the place they had to come to celebrate the Passover every year and to bring sacrifices. It was essentially the headquarters for the Levitical High Priests.
Both the Temple and Sanctuary inside Jerusalem
had 4 corners.
Pictures shown here:
pictures of 1st century Herod's Temple - Google Search
In the NT, the Devil is shown placing Jesus on a pinnacle/wing of
the Temple in Jerusalem.
"BEHOLD! YOUR HOUSE IS LEFT TO YE DESOLATE/A WILDERNESS!"
Matthew 4:
1 Then Jesus was led up into the wilderness by the Spirit to be tempted by the Devil.
5 Then the Devil takes Him to the holy City and sets Him upon the pinnacle of the Temple
8 Again the Devil takes Him to a mountain exceedingly high and shows to Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.
Luke 4:
5 And having led Him up, the Devil showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
9 And he led Him to Jerusalem and set Him upon the pinnacle of the Temple, and said to Him,....
In Matthew 23, Jesus tell the corrupt murderous Jewish rulers their
house is going to be left desolate, which I assume is the Temple/Sanctuary:
Matthew 23
37 - “O
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather<1996> your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
38 Behold!
your House is being left
desolate/a wilderness<2048>
In the following verses, Jesus is shown departing the Temple and giving His Jerusalem/Temple discourse concerning the future destruction of those "4 corner" buildings:
Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke's Temple/Jerusalem Discourses harmonized
Matthew 24:1
1 And Jesus coming out, departed from
the Temple.
And His Disciples approached Him to show to Him
the buildings of the Temple.
Mark 13:
1 And He going forth out of
the Temple, one of His Disciples is saying to Him “Teacher! behold! what manner of stones and what manner of buildings”
Luke 21:
5 and of some saying concerning
the Temple, that to goodly stones and votive-offerings<334> it has been adorned<2885>
The rest is history...........
The Destruction of Jerusalem - George Peter Holford, 1805AD
The Destruction Of JERUSALEM
An Absolute and Irresistible PROOF OF THE DIVINE ORIGIN OF
CHRISTIANITY:
The day on which Titus encompassed
Jerusalem, was the feast of the
Passover....
The city was at this time crowded with Jewish strangers, and foreigners from all parts, so that the whole nation may be considered as
having been shut up in one prison, preparatory to the execution of the
Divine vengeance
Matthew 23:33
"
Serpents!
brood of vipers!
how? ye may be fleeing from the judging of the
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The Temple now presented little more than a heap of
ruins ;
For five days after the destruction of the Temple,
the priests who had escaped, sat, pining with hunger, on the top of one of its broken walls; at length, they came down, and humbly asked the pardon of Titus, which, however, he refused to grant them, saying, that, "as the Temple, for the sake of which he would have spared them, was destroyed, it was but fit that its priests should parish also:" -whereupon he commanded that they should be put to death.
Ezekiel 22:
17 And there is a word of Yahweh unto me, saying, ‘Son of adam! 18 The House of Israel hath been to Me for dross, All of them [are] brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, In the midst of a furnace — dross hath silver been,
19 Therefore, thus said Adonay Yahweh: Because of your all becoming dross, Therefore, behold! I am gathering you unto the midst of Jerusalem, 20 A gathering of silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, Unto the midst of a furnace — to blow on it fire, to melt it, So do I gather in Mine anger and in My fury, And I have let rest, and have melted you.
Before their final demolition, however, Titus took, a. survey of the city and its fortifications ; and, while contemplating their impregnable strength, could not help ascribing his success to the peculiar interposition of the
ALMIGHTY HIMSELF.
"
Had not God himself (exclaimed he) aided out operations, and driven the Jews from their fortresses, it would have been absolutely impossible to have taken them ;
for what could men, and the force of engines, have done against such towers as these ?"
After this he commanded that the city should be commanded razed to its foundations, excepting only the three lofty towers Hippocos, Phasael, and Mariamne, which he suffered to remain as evidences of its strength, and as trophies of his victory.
There was left standing, also, a small part of the western wall; as a rampart for a garrison, to keep the surrounding country in subjection. Titus now gave orders that those Jews only who resisted should be slain ;
Matthew 24:
2 And Jesus said to them, “ are ye not seeing all these?
Amen I am saying to ye,
not no may be being left here stone upon stone, which not shall be being thrown-down.”
Mark 13:1
2 And Jesus answering said to him, “thou are beholding these, the great buildings.
Not no may be being left here stone upon stone which not no may be being thrown-down
Luke 21:6
“These which ye are beholding.
Shall be coming days in which not shall be being left stone upon stone here which not shall be being thrown-down
Luke 19:44
“and level you, and your children within you, to the ground;
and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”
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