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BF>I read the Jewish prophets regularly, not often read straight through
in Synagogues but in parts. I believe that what they have to say is
relevant for the world today, including the Christian and Islamic
worlds. They speak to humanity, and are rightly claimed by the forces
of social justice as their own. Not included in the Bible, but relied
on by large numbers of Jewish people, are the predictions of the
Lubavitcher Rebbe, said to have predicted the fall of the Soviet Union
and other events. People ignore these teachers at their peril.
However, definitely excluded from any Jewish canon are four people
who I believe may qualify as Jewish prophets in some sense. I believe
that they are controversial, but may be beneficial to an understanding
of the world.
They are:
1)Jesus of Nazareth
2)John the Revelator
3)Nostradomus
4)Karl Marx.
I am not sure if Nostradomus was Jewish, but it is said that he
was. Marx may not have been Jewish because of his matrilineal heritage,
but has been claimed to have been, and I will assume that he was until
it is demonstrated otherwise. For all practical intent and purpose, I
will say that these four are Jewish teachers seem to have been excluded
from the canon for ideological reasons.
Jesus, claimed to be the Messiah by his followers, predicted the
fall of the Temple, if events were as written in the Gospels. He also
made comments on divorce and social injustice that must be taken in to
account. He challenged conservative male Jewish forces on some very
valid points. I do not accept the claim that he was the Messiah,
however whether he was or was not it is more important to honor God that
man. He said as much himself. Trinitarian Christians should take heed
of his own words on the subject of God and man.
John the Revelator seems to have predicted many things in the world
today. Much corresponds to what is written in the Book of Daniel.
However, he also predicted the rise of a latter-day Babylon the Great,
an imperialistic nation that essentially rules over the kingdoms of the
earth, something the non-apocraphyl books of the Hebrew Bible do not
seem to mention directly. Much of what he wrote about seems to have
come to pass in the rising to power of an economic system ruling over
the kingdoms of the planet. I step back from saying that the United
States fulfills this prophecy geographically. I would pray it were
otherwise. However, I cannot dismiss it.
Nostradomus seems to have a good accuracy rating. Even the 1999
prophecy may have come true in the form of the JFK, Jr. crash. I do not
dismiss this possibility, but it is a hard one, and much like seeing
patterns in the bark of a tree. So much has been claimed about
Nostradomus that I cannot really say one way or the other. I am
skeptical about New Age prophets but Ican say that a very few seem
incredibly accurate. Nostradomus seems to have been incredibly
accurate.
Karl Marx is a much maligned name because it is associated with the
atheistical tyrannies of the former Soviet Union and modern China.
Erich Fromm and T.B. Bottmore unearthed a more complex thinker by
searching the archives. He was heavily influenced by the Enlightenment
and its views on religion, and was no more guilty than other thinkers of
his time of not believing in God. He had an understanding of the needs
of labor and the need to overcome the alienation found in modern
capitalist society, one that might have been partly under Divine
Inspiration. I do not discount it, even as I do not believe in his
theories and accept capitalism as necessary.
Marx understood that monopoly capitalism has a tendency to divide
between the owners and the proletariat, the politically free workers who
man the factories of the owners with only their labor to sell. The most
advanced capitalistic systems, those in which democracy affords the
worker political power, are still alienated societies. The least
advanced systems, those mired in feudalism, are societies in need of a
bourgeois led revolution supported by the workers to "win the battle of
democracy". Eventually, the workers themselves would overcome
alienation by taking direct control themselves. A brief majoritarian
dictatorship would extend democracy to all avenues of society, and then
abolish the State itself as unnecessary under communism. Some took it
further than Marx and said that the family and religion would also be
abolished, however Marx tended to consider these anarchists as infantile
and immature. Engels was less discerning. Marx failed to predict
tyrannical Leninism, a bourgeois system, supported as it was by western
bankers, and should not necessarily be blamed for it.
Marx predictions have come true less in feudal societies, where
Communism rose to power, but more in the global capitalism of today.
Stalinist and feudal regimes have been swept aside by advanced liberal
capitalism under the rubric of a "New World Order". However, this "New
World Order" is resembling the old imperialism more and more, as Marx
predicted. Marx was correct about some things. We have workers and
owners, our democracy functioning more for the owners. We cannot even
get national healthcare, and save the family farmer!
If we had a society for the workers, it would probably be a world
government and be geographically ruled by India and China, as opposed to
the current New World Order, the Lion with Eagles Wings (Daniel Ch. 7),
ruled by England and the United States. Marx had less respect for India
and China than for England and the United States, seeing them as
advanced bourgeois democracies having taken great strides in
overthrowing fedualism, but this would probably be the result of a true
implementation of his theories, however just or unjust. China and India
have the greatest population, and would certainly rule a "global
democracy", demanding re-distribution of the wealth whether earned in
the free market or earned by monopolistic practices. It would be
uncomfortable to say the least, though no more painful than the
discomfort experienced by the billions in poverty today, to be fair.
Marx was an atheist, but I wonder about whether some of what he
said was under Divine Inspiration. In all four cases listed, I wonder
whether God spoke through them, to a degree if not totally.
Conservative Rabbis might suggest that they were under the "Evil
Inclination", in other words, Satan's power. Conspiracists have that
Marx himself was "New World Order". He was not a believer. However,
when enough of what somebody has said comes true it does give me pause
for thought.
MHO, open to correction,
Bates
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