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Thu, 2-Apr-09 14:20:37
ASIDE: At one time, I actually believed that the apostle John (Yonah) is alive today. I assumed that G-d had arranged for him to look much younger than his age.
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It didn't take me long to find, eh, just a couple, references to "the Day of the L-rd", a.k.a. "Judgment Day," in TaNaKh.
The most important, or best-known, appear to me to be these:
Amos 5:18-20 Isaiah 63:2 Isaiah 66:14-16 Isaiah 66:22-24
Joel 3:14 Micah 4:1-7 Zephaniah 1:7-18 Zephaniah 3:8-20
The Isaiah 63 is the source for the "grapes of wrath" reference.
A few more:
Amos chapters 8-9 Ezekiel 7:19 Ezekiel 13:5 Ezekiel 30:1-10 Habak 3:16 Haggai 2:20-23 Hosea 5:9 Isaiah 2:12 Isaiah 2:18 Isaiah 3:18 Isaiah 5:26 Isaiah 9:13 Isaiah 10:1 Isaiah 10:15 Isaiah 11:10-11 Isaiah 12:1 Isaiah 13:6
Isaiah 13:11 Isaiah 17:4 Isaiah 17:7 Isaiah 17:9 Isaiah 19:16 Isaiah 19:18 Isaiah 19:23-24 Isaiah 22:5, 8, 12, 15 Isaiah 24:21 Isaiah 25:6 Isaiah 26:1 Isaiah 27:1, 12 Isaiah 28:1 Isaiah 30:23 Isaiah 31:6 Isaiah 34:8 Isaiah 61:1
Jeremiah 4:9 Jeremiah 7:30 Jeremiah 9:25 Jeremiah 16:14 Jeremiah 18:13 Jeremiah 23:5, 7 Jeremiah 25:33 Jeremiah 30:4, 8 Jeremiah 33:14 Jeremiah 46:7 Jeremiah 48:37 Jeremiah 50:21 Job 20:20 Job 21:30 Job 24:1 Joel 1:15 Joel 2:1-3
Joel 2:11 Joel 2:31 Malachi 3:2 Malachi 3:17 Malachi 4:1 Malachi 4:3 Malachi 4:5 Micah 5:10-15 Micah 7:7-13 Obadiah 8 Obadiah 15 Obadiah 16 Zechariah 9:16 Zechariah 2:11 Zechariah 3:9 Zechariah 8:23 Zechariah chapters 12-14
The "Day of the L-rd" is to have these features: o rewards for righteous and humble Jews; o punishment of all who have troubled Israel, including - enemy gentile nations - the insolent, apostate and idolator, regardless of ethnicity; - those who have oppressed the needy, again regardless of ethnicity.
Unfamiliar as I am with what the Sages have said on this topic, based on what I have learned on this board pertinent the Messianic Age, this "Day of the L-rd" is not likely to be any fun for my co-religionists or me.
As to the Parable of the Pounds (Luke 19:11-27), these points:
(1) A historical Jsus never told this parable. That person never had any notion of "going away and coming back." The church, on the other hand, having expected him imminently to re-appear in glory, became increasingly anxious, as time went on, over this "delayed parousia." That gave rise to parables such as this, and of the delayed bridegroom, and so on.
(2) The speaker in the parable is never identified as Jsus.
(3) I am unaware of any Chrstian ever using this text to warrant abuse of anyone. Other texts, yes. Not this one.
(4) The Lukan version, in contrast to the Matthean, is modeled on actual historical events.
But the citizens of his country hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, "We do not want this man to rule over us."
The last will of Herod the Great designated that his son Archelaus should inherit Judea, his son Antipas should inherit Galilee, and his son Philip inherit the Decapolis. By the time Herod died, Archelaus' character was sufficiently well known that, when he traveled to Rome for the ratification of the will, a delegation of 50 prominent Judeans followed, who petitioned Caesar to put that will aside. He didn't. Amid reports of the turmoil that prevailed in Archelaus' subsequent short reign, I have not been able to find out what became of them. One assumes, however, they paid with their lives.
Bottom line: Will Messiah treat his foes any differently?
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