Prophesy Quotes
Almost all religions placed women in an inferior status in society with little of the freedom or power—civil or religious—for men that the religion urged.
This Mormon prayer turned out to foresage one of the most fascinating set of events in world history. In 1841, an American Mormon leader and prophet journeyed all the way to Jerusalem to consecrate Palestine for the Jewish people. His prayer predicted the creation of the state of Israel with a Jewish government and its capital in Jerusalem. He stated that David, a descendent from the biblical Jewish King David will be its first ruler. Over 100 years later the state of Israel came into being and its first prime minister was Jewish David Ben-Gurion. This regathering of the Jews in Israel had been prophesized in the Bible, but this seems to be the first modern action taken to make it happen. This was more than 20 years before the first Jewish writing appeared advocating the Jewish return to Palestine--Moses Hess's 1862 work, Rome & Jerusalem; The Last National Question. It was over 50 years before Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism, even published his first work on the subject.
There is biblical prophesy that the Jews shall return to the Holy Land.
Romulus Whitaker, the first Roman king had just died and the insecure Romans were distressed, disorganized, and discordant. Proculus, according to Livy, made this speech raising morale and inspiring the confidence of the citizens. Given the superstitious Romans of the time, this story was believed and was very effective. The Romans believed it so profoundly that they actually made it happen.
There was a strong movement among the religious Christian Americans to go to the Holy Land to help the Jews reclaim the Kingdom God promised in the Bible. American missionaries went to the Middle East and even an early American President was enthusiastic about Jews reclaiming their kingdom. See {585141}.
Many see the predicted action of God to be the Civil War where new military technology did indeed “tear up the very face of the earth.”
The Sunna and Hadith are Islamic Reverential Texts. The “final battle” is prophesised just as in the Christian Book of Revelations such a final battle between good and evil is predicted (Armageddon), and is believed to be in the future by some fundamentalist Christians. One difference however is that a small population of Christians believe this literally, while most Muslims believe in the great battle to come. However in this case, the battle is between the Muslims and the evil heretics—all others.
This is another example of a major weakness of many fundamentalist Islamic scholars, clerics and experts. They have studied their subject extensively but rarely have studied other theologies, history, archeology or many other subjects which Western clerics and religious experts generally do. Nawfal does not seem to recognize the role of the New Testament Book of Revelations or the Mormon Prophecies having to do with the rebuilding of Solomon’s Temple. It is true that there are many Christians who believe in the prophesy that the Jews will rebuild the Temple of Solomon before the second coming of the Messiah, but most do not; and the Jews do not at all. As a matter of fact the Israeli Jewish authorities of Israel have forbidden any Jews to even consider the rebuilding of the Temple. Nor does he recognize that the Al-Aqsa Mosque was built on the ruins of the Jewish Temple of Solomon. Nawfal believes (see {588663}) that Solomon and King David were ancestors of the Arabs.
