The Purveyors of Prophecy
So many see what's going on in the Middle East as prophecy being fulfilled. They are almost giddy at the thought. They can't even entertain the possibility that they are wrong. The slaughter happening there doesn't seem to register with them. It's pretty sad, really. They have taken Biblical prophecy written to people of another time and extrapolated it to this time. Many of them have been steeped in this kind of thinking their entire lives, never having even looked at other possibilities. Not once did they think they, and their teachers, might be wrong. Revelation was not written to us. Nor was Daniel, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, or any of the other prophets. They were written to the people of their time, in their context. We can learn from them, we can strive to avoid the traps and snares those people fell into, but they were not written TO us. They were passed on to us as a warning, a lesson. We are not doing well at learning the lesson. Neither have the Jews learned. They ...