...would be restored to the land of their inheritance if they believed in Christ?
(2 Nephi 10:7)
They are occupying it NOW w/o believing in Christ.
2007-07-02 18:03:12 · 14 answers · asked by Me 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That is a good one. God made some prophecies about Israel and Joseph Smith had no way of knowing how God was going to fulfill them in 1948 when he was writing the Book of Mormon in the late 1820's.
2007-07-03 02:00:46 · answer #1 · answered by Buzz s 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Couldn't it have been that God was talking about being able to come back the the land of their inheritance, without having to have gone through the Holocaust? Or maybe earlier than they were able to? Or maybe He meant being able to come back for a time, then eventually being run off/taken off/dispersed off of the land of their inheritance at a different time. So that when they did return without belief in Christ, it was under different world circumstances. Who's to say that had the Jews believed in Christ, that the whole world wouldn't be different. Perhaps there wouldn't have been a Holocaust. Perhaps the Israeli/Palistenian/Arab controversy wouldn't be, or wouldn't be as strained as it is. Who's to say. Only God knows. Just because something DID happen one way, which seems to refute what was prophesied, doesn't mean that's the way it could have happened if someone would have made a different or better choice. Hindsight's 20/20. It's easy to say that this or that prophesy didn't happen, which means that the person who prophesied it, isn't a prophet when you're looking at it from one side. We can't see what might have been. We don't know what God knows. We only know what has already been, and even with that we get it wrong a lot of the time.
2007-07-03 08:02:27 · answer #2 · answered by Tonya in TX - Duck 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't say that just the jews would be restored. It says "they".
Also, not all Jews or people of Jewish linage live anywhere near Jerusalem. How is that possible? Well, they have migrated, or followed a promise of better things elsewhere.
Do we know where all the tribes of Israel are right now? No. Some are still scattered. The gathering of them hasn't been finished. Until it does happen, all the people of that linage can't be restored to their rightful place. Just think about all the linage's of Jewish decent. I'm sure you can find someone in your lineage that had something to do with that area. Or if not, then someone you know.
Does it ever give a time frame as to when this will happen, or the year it will happen? No. There is a reason for that. Everyone learns at a different pace. Not everyone will be able to understand, or want to believe the gospel. That's just human nature.
Pretty much, the only way to prove this one wrong is to do lineage for EVERYONE that was in Jerusalem at this time. Is that possible? Nope!! But have fun trying!!
*EDIT*
Forgot to add that when they are referring to Jerusalem here, they are referring to all the land that was governed by Jerusalem, so everything surrounding Jerusalem was coincidered part of that area. It's sort of like we have sates here, but yet we are all part of the USA. Or that I live in X state, but in X city. Same thing here. Jerusalem at the time was huge!!!! It encompassed most of what we consider the middle east today.
2007-07-03 09:44:27 · answer #3 · answered by odd duck 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe it is talking about all Israel and not just the Jews because after vs 7 it talks about the gathering of Israel from the Island of the seas and a land of liberty.
So not just Jews
2007-07-03 09:33:59 · answer #4 · answered by Dionysus 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Which comes first the chicken or the egg? As part of the Restoration, the nation of Israel was re-established. When the government there allows full religious freedom, conversions will take place.
2007-07-03 03:52:35 · answer #5 · answered by Isolde 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Jews are NOT occupying their Land. They have never had Any land. What they have done is taken the land of the Palestinians, which is the land of the Canaanites!
They lost their land through Apostasy. Their land they had was GOSHEN, but Moses convinced them to leave there.
The scales tipped in their favor, because as they were re-establishing their faith, The Canaanites were loosing and taking theirs for granted.
But the scales will tip back again.
ORDO ab CHAO
2007-07-02 18:08:46 · answer #6 · answered by jehu_messenjah 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
AHHHH...but they don't occupy the land of their inheritance in its entirety. Isreal was much more land area than what it is today. Isreal is almost the entire area of the world that we refer to as the "Middle East" today.
2007-07-02 19:20:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The history of the world is not over yet, and that prophecy has not been 100% fulfilled yet. Have a happy day.
2007-07-03 19:28:23 · answer #8 · answered by Cookie777 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who is to say that they fully possess it (there are still disputes over that land) and that they are all there. It is hard to tell exactly when a prophesy is fulfilled. There are stillmanyJews all over the world.
2007-07-02 18:07:40 · answer #9 · answered by moonman 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
There's a lot of Jews in New York. Is that where' you're talking about?
2007-07-02 18:06:28 · answer #10 · answered by Cheese and Rice 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋