reply to post by CasiusIgnoranze
I actually know the answer to this question. To put it simply a problem developed before Jesus Christ could become the messiah the Jews were
expecting. And because of this problem it appears that a kluge had to be applied. A patch. A 2000 year detour developed and it appears the
Christianity is the patch. So here's the problem. Put as simply as possible.
Matthew 17
10 And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?
11 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.
12 But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son
of man suffer of them.
13 Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.
So why was the death of John the Baptist a bad thing? Because he had a job to do. Left undone at the point of his murder. Here's the prophecy.
Malachi 4 KJV
5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a
curse.
The death of John the Baptist triggered a curse according to Jesus Christ. Why? Unfinished business.
Malachi 3
1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the
messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:
3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer
unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
When Jesus Christ drove the moneychangers from the temple Elijah the prophet was supposed to have been there. The job of messiah is a 3 man job.
So then the problem is to figure out the details of the curse. So after some work I managed to put the pieces together. So to start with you need to
read up on Leviticus 26.
What that chapter of Leviticus contains is the details of the covenant made between the nation of Israel and their God. The benefits of following the
laws of Moses contained in Leviticus and Deuteronomy. And the punishments when you don't meet your obligations under the compact.
And the other part of the curse is in the book of Hosea. Put simply Hosea is all about a long term curse that was supposed to happen to Israel and
Judah. Ending in the latter days. And after reading through Hosea I realized I had the length of the curse. And it's a long one. Here's the verses
in question.
Hosea 6
1 Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
Which makes no sense until you consider this verse.
2nd Peter 3
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Those days are thousand year periods of time. The curse in Hosea is 2000 years long. Followed by a thousand year "day of Jezreel". Another name for
the thousand year reign of the saints of Revelation.
And as Paul Harvey used to say. Now you know the rest of the story.