The New 6-6-6

666--One Jew's Interpretation

By Gerald A.Honigman,  MichNews.com,  hat tip Michael

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     Over the decades, I've heard several different interpretations of my Christian friends' New Testament's 'mark of the beast,' usually associated with the number 666.

 Listening to various news commentators lately, I couldn't help but think of yet another twist to this.

 Fox News is usually the television station most balanced when it comes to dealings with Israel and the Middle East. So, if the Jews can't get a fair hearing on this channel, they're in real trouble.

 Regarding the world's current energy crisis (and America's in particular), the subject of continuously increasing oil prices repeatedly is being discussed in the same breath as Iran's non-stop nuclear ambitions.

 Whether the particular program is the business news or Bill O'Reilly, the audience hears one variation or another of the following…

 Israel better not dare to attack Iran's nuclear facilities because, if it does, Americans will be pointing the finger at it for six dollar a gallon gasoline.

 6…6…6

 Now, let's see…

 It took six million dead Jews--1/3 of all in existence at the time--to serve as a down payment for at least part of the world's fleeting sympathy for the rebirth of the Jewish State.

 Of Israel's roughly seven million people today, about six million are Jews.

 And, while Ahmadinejad and the Iranian mullahs openly call for Israel's obliteration, Israel's best friends in the media warn that it must be willing to take a nuclear first hit so that gasoline won't hit six dollars.

 Now, I don't want to see the price of gasoline go that high either, but understand that an Israel--over thirty of which fit into President Bush's home state of Texas--that takes a nuclear first strike virtually ceases to exist.

 What would America--3,000 miles wide, with two huge oceans buffering it, and a population over three hundred million--do with an enemy which promises to end its existence, and one already supporting deadly proxies as a step in that direction? America, or anyone else for that matter…

 I seem to remember another story from my Christian friends' New Testament…one about Jesus being sold out for thirty shekels of silver.

  But, along with this, I have to also share a Jewish interpretation of a famous quote that Christians like to use from the Jews' own Hebrew Bible, aka the 'Old Testament.'

 For us, you see, Israel--the Jewish People itself--is the Suffering Servant of G_d.

 So, just how high does the price of gasoline have to go before that fleeting support for the Jew of the Nations indeed vanishes completely?

 Let's see, just how many shekels does it take to equal six dollars these days?

Copyright by Gerald A. Honigman (honigman6@msn.com)

 

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Comments

[Sillie Lizzie]

Sir,

With all due respect, the Jewish people could not possibly be the "suffering servant" in Isaiah 53, for various reasons.

1) The prophet Isaiah spoke in the singular, of a PERSON (a man) not in the plural, of a people.

verse 53:3 "HE was despised and rejected by men, a MAN of sorrows, and familiar with suffering".

Furthermore, the suffering servant DIED. He did not survive his ordeal, as did the Jewish people.

verse 53:7 "HE was led like a lamb to the slaughter"

verse 53:9 "assigned a GRAVE with the wicked, and with the rich in his DEATH"

verse 12 "he poured out his life unto death"...

If the people of Israel were that servant, they would ALL BE DEAD. Israel would no long exist.

Then there is the issue of atonement for sin:

verse 53:12 "For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors."

Sacrificial lambs were killed on the altars of the Jerusalem temple for ten centuries as an atonement for sin. Isaiah's sufferring servant is pictured as doing the same.

Did the Jewish victims of the holocaust die for the atonement of German Nazis? I think not!!!

Besides, the Jewish people could not be sacrificial sin bearers because they are not "unblemished", (i.e. SINLESS) which is the only sacrifice permitted under Mosaic Law.

Note that the verse also refers to the role of the suffering servent as an intercessor. Does the Jewish State today intercede with God? They are mostly SECULAR! Not only that, how could a "Levitical priesthood" possibly do WITHOUT A TEMPLE, AND WITHOUT SACRIFICES? Especially when an Islamic mosque sits on the only site where God would even accept such a sacrifice IF it were offered.

Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, died, rose again and ascended into heaven and now intercedes for His people as our High Priest.

He is the only one MAN who fit Isaiah's description because He is Immanuel which means "God With Us" (Isaiah 7:14).

I truly pray that the Lord would lift the veil from your eyes.

Praying for the peace of Jerusalem,
Lizzie

[Skunkfeathers]

Wahl...I reckon Israel will do what Israel thinks it has to do, regarding Iranian nukes, when/if it decides it's time, the cost of a gallon of gas aside.

If the US would get on with using it's own resources that liberals don't want us to use, and it's own ingrained ingenuity in creating and harvesting existing and other sources, we could thumb our nose at Middle East volatility and Middle East oil, and let Israel properly defend itself.

[Roy Lofquist]

Very fortunately for Israel, and for all of us, we have a president who will not abandon anyone to Iran or any of the ME crazies. Rest easy about the future. I have been watching American elections since 1948. Obama will never be president.

[PALADIN]

I DOUBT ISRAEL WILL ATTACK THE HEATHENS IN IRAN. FIRST OF ALL THE LEADER THEY HAVE NOW IS"NT UP TO THE TASK, AND YOU CAN BET THAT MORON IN THE WHITE HOUSE IS TELLING THEM THAT THE U.S.A. DOES"nt WANT 6 A GALLON GASOLINE.SOON THE IRAINIANS WILL HAVE THE BOMB IF THEY DON"T ALREADY. THE TIME TO DO SOMETHING WAS 2 OR 3 YRS AGO. THAT WILL BE THE BUSH LEGACY, A NUCLEAR IRAN.