Jewish Forethoughts And AfterThoughts

 

 

<clip>Looking back at almost six-thousand-years of history and then looking at the headlines of each day, many people wonder where Mankind is heading.

But let's not wonder. Instead, rely on a great and solid tradition that views history as a process of correction that culminates in a great Messianic Era.

So the Jewish people know where we are all going. However, it is not very obvious how we are all going to get there. What needs to be corrected? As each day passes, are we getting closer or are we getting further from the goal? What were the Jewish people chosen for? Why all the suffering?    Certainly, these answers are hidden in our holy scriptures. Our great writings provide some glimpses of the future. But the detail that is needed to make sense of it all is frankly beyond our reach. <clip>

 

 <clip>In leafing through the folios of the scriptures we note several attempts to get Mankind in its entirety closer toward perfection. Instead, they come to close to total annihilation by water and they are later dispersed. And so, as history nears its first third, a founder is selected for a future nation that will assume the responsibility and the costs of facilitating history towards its end, thereby reducing risk for the rest of mankind. Everyone else can either join them, ignore them, help them, or try to frustrate G-D's will by opposing or distracting them.

Some four-hundred years later, this people receives a transmission of G-D's will through one man. For the next thirty-three centuries their job will be to preserve this transmission, to always refer to it as a basis for their conduct, to never abuse this trust by trying to redefine it.

This people can rapidly bring the world and themselves to perfection by exerting great effort to insure that each and every member will meet G-D's will in every detail of this transmission, thereby demonstrating the significance of meeting G-D's will. If they fail then they will pay a long and heavy price for their shortcomings, thereby demonstrating the significance of not meeting G-D's will. In the latter event, G-D will manage history so that the price will be finite and it will be paid up in time for the party.<clip>

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These last days are truly exciting!  How awesome to think about the Chosen Jewish remnant realizing that their Holy One, the IAM, the great God of Israel loved them SO MUCH that 2,000 years ago, He came and offered Himself as the sacrificial Lamb to purchase their redemption!  We serve a merciful and AWESOME God!

Kay