Even though Netanyahu is Jewish, he knows using (and in this case abusing) the Christian bible is a good way to keep support going among US evangelicals and the new Speaker of the House.

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    I was having a weird one today so I read through the book of Amos. It’s shockingly similar to the current situation.

    Amos prophesied that Gaza would be destroyed, even genocided, as a reaction to crimes that included kidnapping entire communities. But that’s just an intro to a prophecy that Israel would be violently and mercilessly destroyed in response to a long list of their own crimes.

    I’m not saying that Amos predicted the current situation, just that it’s sad how little we’ve improved in 2500 years.

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      1 year ago

      Prophecies require explicit parameters. Anything else is ad-hoc and you can fit nearly anything to be a prophecy after the fact.