The Message of the Bible

 

The message of the Bible.

Permit me, please to skip explaining phenomena as superhuman. The human being is involved in every phenomenon that takes place in the world but not in things that happen beyond the earth. 

Labeling a thing as supernatural is a way of escaping the explanation of causes and results. 

The thing that requires explanation is God’s action, according to the Bible, of allocating the Jewish Nation as the fulcrum  of human history. 

Our task is to deal with this unique, puzzling situation.

Some, like the Jews, naturally accept this state of affairs gladly. Others reject it and try to fight against it. 

Both groups aim at peace. The struggle between the two results in conflict.

Those who reject the situation sometimes succeed, and the Jews virtually disappeared from the face of history. 

But to their surprise wars continued because some other group has taken the place of the Jews as the pivot. It must be removed as the Jews were removed. 

Those who accept the Jews as the pivot have also succeeded at various times in history. Then the nations return to the task of dislodging the Jews. 

My conclusion is that as long as the nations have one pivotal nation to persecute they live peacefully, all be it that their countries lie in ruins. 

Peace, achieved in this way, is not a time of glorious prosperity and happiness, but a time of ruination, suffering and sadness.

Peace , achieved by all the nations accepting one nation as the fulcrum  is a time of happiness. 

All the nations need to renounce their demand to be the pivot, the fulcrum of the world and resign themselves to the fact of one nation being the world’s fulcrum.

This is the high point of the Bible: Deuteronomy 7:6 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

The reason for this choice is stated by the prophets.

Micah 4:1-4 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it. For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.