John the Divine was writing long after Christianity had pivoted to admitting Gentiles, so I doubt this. There had been a faction fight between those who considered Christianity to be for Jews only (most prominently, James and others in Jerusalem) and those who wanted to make it more inclusive (primarily Paul and his allies). The non-exclusive faction won out.
One of those paths he read I think he interpreted as Trump taking over Israel.
If it can also be assumed that those are the broken holy people from previous interpretations, that would make sense. So the Jews are broken and Trump takes over Israel?
I guess it’s all conjecture though. Some of those interpretations seem like a stretch. I would have related Covid to the plague angel, and taken the bitter water prediction as them literally changing the ocean water pH through abuse of the earth, climate change acceleration, war, and pollution, etc.
John the Divine was writing long after Christianity had pivoted to admitting Gentiles, so I doubt this. There had been a faction fight between those who considered Christianity to be for Jews only (most prominently, James and others in Jerusalem) and those who wanted to make it more inclusive (primarily Paul and his allies). The non-exclusive faction won out.
One of those paths he read I think he interpreted as Trump taking over Israel. If it can also be assumed that those are the broken holy people from previous interpretations, that would make sense. So the Jews are broken and Trump takes over Israel?
I guess it’s all conjecture though. Some of those interpretations seem like a stretch. I would have related Covid to the plague angel, and taken the bitter water prediction as them literally changing the ocean water pH through abuse of the earth, climate change acceleration, war, and pollution, etc.