If you want to see the end of the conflict that is happening now in Israel, look no further than First Samuel, the end of chapter one (sections 28-31) and the beginning of chapter two (section 1).
Nostradamus is more specific to the future, which (from then) generally surrounds now; but his Prophecy isn't laid out in a Children's Church format, like Biblical Prophecy is: equally hidden in seemingly stories of ancient history.
Both Books of Samuel (1 and 2) and The Prophecies of Nostradamus were written in ancient times (antiques are over 100 years old). All come from the same Divine source [Yahweh]. Prophecies are written by Prophets ... whoever wrote them or orated them for someone else to write.
Samuel was dead before the end of 1 Samuel 25, so he didn't write the two books named after him. They are named after him because he was a Prophet -Judge. Samuel was sent by Yahweh to save the Israelites from themselves. Dead Samuel did not write Prophecy that tells this 'Bible Story' about what Israelites lead themselves to do, when they do not follow a Prophet-Judge. Because the Divine cannot be so narrowminded as to waste a Prophet by having him write Bible Stories that have no bearing on the future, everything written in every book of the Holy Bible (Old & New Testaments) is Prophecy about today (which is always now and always will be now).
Nostradamus, as one of Yahweh's Prophets, wrote the same, in the sense that if one holds a nail on top of a board and then swings a hammer real hard in a downward motion, striking the thumb more than the nail, then the thumb will hurt like HELL, every time one does that.
Prophecy is always dependent on doing something wrongly that should have been done right. The specificity of The Prophecies, which cannot yet be understood, is details Yahweh had him write about the END TIMES. Like that 'name' implies, there won't be a future left for taking a warning about doing things wrongly, so one can do things right.
Therein lies the difference between Samuel's Prophecy and Nostradamus' Prophecy. Samuel tells how not to bring about the END TIMES, only to let two thousand years of Jesus walking the earth (disguised as Prophets [a.k.a. Saints]), preaching the truth of Scripture (not the Children's Church versions) be wasted. Nostradamus tells the specific details of how bad it hurts, when something warned against has been done very wrong.
The crux of that biscuit [a Zappaism] is the events going on in Israel-Gaza-Palestine-Lebanon-Iran-Egypt-Jordan-Saudi Arabia (etc., etc.) today is a lesson long explained (supposedly 2,023 years), but not taught since the Roman Catholic Church began killing Prophets and Saints in the fourteenth century (when hating Jews and Moors became a European 'sport').
So, let's tell give this explanation one more time, for old times' sake.
The set up to 1 Samuel is the Book of Judges, where the lesson needs to be seen simply. There are two options for living on earth:
1. Serve Yahweh wholly, by loving Him with ALL your [you as an individual] heart, ALL your [you as an individual] mind, and ALL your [you as an individual] soul.
2. Serve self wholly, by loving self with all you tingly feeling of flesh, all your powers of thought with a big brain, and by bowing down before important people that can promise you the world, being told you [individually] will not lose your soul to eternal damnation.
Every forty years the people on stolen land would begin to choose number two, only to find the locals rising up to make their lives most miserable. Having grandparents who would tell them (paraphrased in English), “Oy veh! When I was your age we used to pray to Yahweh to get us out of such messes as you young folk have made for yourselves” would make them do a Homer Simpson.
Then, believing in Yahweh still, those lamenters would drop down EARNESTLY and cry out to the unseen, “Yahweh please help us. We are so very sorry we acted against your Laws. Show us the way we must repent."
Yahweh, always a good listener to his flock, especially when in danger, would answer those prayers by sending a Judge to save them.
Of course, people being people meant they kept on breeding, and their children grew up to reject everything their forefathers ever told them; so, every forty years it was walk to the edge of sin and see death before their sinful eyes, until a Savior would take them back to choosing option one as the way to live on earth.
Then, the wayward people got tired of praying to Yahweh for Salvation. They got tired of honoring Yahweh as His people; and, by that time the Judge named Samuel had been sent to save them, but not too long afterwards the lazy (call them at this point) Jews went to him and demanded, “Give us a king to be like other nations!”
At that point, Samuel – being a true prophet, meaning he could hear Yahweh speaking to his soul [not his ears] – told Yahweh what the people [the elder spokesmen for the rest] demanded. Yahweh knew their demands, so He told Samuel, “I Am their King.”
Pause it here for a moment and gather around all you serious minds who really want to know the truth. Listen carefully to this:
The name of Yahweh is not actually that. He told Moses, when Moses asked a burning bush with a voice he heard, “Who shall I say sent me?” Yahweh replied, “Tell them I Am that I Am.” ["’eh·yeh ’ă·šer ’eh·yeh" ... also translatable as "I Become Who I Become]
That means your king is whoever you bow to, as demanded by the elders of other nations. If you only bow down and serve Yahweh, then “You Are that He Is.”
This is the meaning of the name “Israel.” That name says, “He Who Retains El.”
“El” is not Yahweh, but His Son, who (at Samuel’s time) is and always is the soul of Adam. The same soul can also be called “Jesus,” which is a name that says “Yahweh Saves.” Yahweh Saves by sending His Son’s soul as “I Am that I Am" or "I Become Who Is My Son Reborn In Flesh." Moses had received the soul of Yahweh’s Son, so Moses became in the same name, “I Am that I Am,” as Adam-Jesus then in his body AND soul, the soul that then went by the worldly name Moses.
By the time Jacob came around, his soul was so wrapped up in sins he was responsible for (theft of a birthright, lying an old blind man about being hairy, stealing Haran’s daughter and running away, yada yada yada) that he had a “Come to Jesus Meeting.” His soul fought with his flesh over who was going to be the Lord over both. At the end of the “Night of the Living Dead,” the soul of Jacob had won the battle, with Jacob’s hip forever a reminder to him: Do not do what the flesh says do. Then the soul of Jacob said, “By the way, your soul is now one Who Retains El … your new Lord that Saves, sent by Yahweh.”
When the name “Israel” becomes a name for flesh and blood, for dirt and water on earth, it always says, “Oy veh! My back!” only to hear the echo saying back, “Oy veh! My hip!”
When the name “Israel” says each individual soul in a body of flesh goes truly by that name, then he or she is “Who Retains El,” as one soul “Saved by Yahweh.”
When the name "Israel" is a meaningless word, given to dirt and water on earth, with the people living around and on that dirt and water are collectively calling themselves "Israelis," then nobody is hearing a voice from a burning bush or fighting all night long with one's soul for salvation.
Today's Israel is like a Frankenstein's monster version of the Israel the Assyrians overthrew and cast the runaways to the four corners of the earth. Land lost.
Call it a messy divorce, because the people (led by tribal elders that reflect today's political leaders of 'other nations') cheated on Yahweh. They chose masturbation and sleeping with whores over Spiritual intercourse that individually impregnated their souls with the soul of Yahweh's Son. Only one reborn as the Son can have the strength to live righteously and show others how that is done.
Today's Israel is like a bad Sly Stallone (at age 80) Rocky sequel. It is not real and it is not good.
Okay, campfire breaktime is over; so, let’s get back to the aspect of 1 Samuel prophesying what is in the news today.
Yahweh let the elders and the people of their tribes have what they wanted. He even let them pick out the biggest, strongest, meanest (let’s call them the same thing again) Jew they knew, tell Samuel which one to pour oil on his head, and then a guy named Saul became the King of Israel. Ole King Saul is the big, bad, mean Jew that David found quivering in a corner, because he knew all the elders would eventually tell him, "Oy veh Saul! Go out and fight Goliath and show him we got a god better than his."
At that time the name “Israel” was meaningless. It was as holy as “Egypt,” or any other nation with a worldly name for land and the flesh and blood standing on that land. Saul used Samuel to tell him what Yahweh wanted; but … Saul did what he wanted … as the King over dirt and people.
Bad move by Saul.
Jumping to the end of his story, Saul was cornered by some Philistines that were a little angry. Saul – not being one Who Retained El – could not talk to Yahweh himself; and, by then Samuel had died. So, Saul dressed up like a woman and went out of town looking for a woman who conjured up spirits of the dead. She was also a psychic, because she knew this crazy dude dressed like a woman was ole King Saul. She began to fear he would have her killed for speaking to the dead; but Saul said, “No! I want to speak to the dead too! Get Samuel up here for me.”
Samuel’s soul asked Saul what he wanted. Saul said, “Tell me what I can do to save myself from the Philistines!” Samuel’s soul said, “Prepare to die; and, do not try praying to the dead ever again. I will not answer you.”
Okay. After that, the Philistines killed the sons of Saul, with Saul trying to commit suicide, but not doing it right; so, a camel riding Arabian came upon him and Saul begged him to end Saul’s life, so the Philistines would not disgrace him with torture and dismemberment, put on public display for all to see.
David would hear the news of Saul’s death by the guy who did as Saul begged him. David had the man executed for having killed a king – against the laws Saul had written. Then, David sang a song that said, “Oh how the mighty have fallen; and, perished the weapons of war.” [2 Samuel 1:27]
The story of Saul is the story of the nation called “Israel” today, because it is nothing more than sinful souls in dirty bodies of flesh who walk behind a ruler they bow down to (call it a Prime Minister, rather than a King), with nary a one in the bunch being able to say truthfully, “I am Who Retains El” (the Spiritual truth of the name "Israel"). If they said that truthfully, then they would be saying, “I am not a Jew, because I am a true Christian … a Saint in the name of the Son of Yahweh … Saved. So, there is no place on earth that is not where I exist, Promised that my soul is Israel, in the flesh made from the dust, dirt, and clay of the Land."
Now, I hear the screen door slapping, so I know people are leaving; but for any of you still wanting to learn more truth, listen to this:
· Marriage is a sacred union. ["Israel" is a soul's 'married name'.]
· The Father gives away His daughter in marriage. [The land of Canaan is the bride given by Yahweh.]
· The place on the earth that is Egypt was where the DNA of Jacob was stored. [Jacob's 'nut sack.']
· The story of Moses leading the children of Jacob, who were taught by Jacob and Joseph to be true souls Who Retained El, is metaphor for Yahweh the Father giving a womb in which that DNA could be inseminated. [Everything in the Holy Bible speaks spiritually, although it reads like good stories to teach children in Sunday School. So the Israelites were the seeds of Yahweh placed in the womb of Mommy Earth.]
· The entrance into Canaan was the deposit of spiritual DNA. [Spiritual orgasm.]
· The entire history of that land is then the time DNA took to be formed as a fetus, to the point it could not stay AND from which left it could never return. [Like all that is formed in a womb, it can only be done by the Hand of Yahweh. Your mommy did not think you into being.]
· The Jews turned away from Yahweh, choosing to always be like other nations – ordinary, without any EL at all. [All teenagers rebel against their parents; so, the Jews were the Prodigal Son. They are still out wasting their inheritance, having not come to the dawning they need to get back to the Father, if they want to be Saved.]
· When Jesus told Nicodemus, “You must be born again from above,” the brain of Nicodemus could only think in terms of physical birth, not spiritual rebirth. [The metaphor for "above" is spiritual, which means one filthy dirty soul needs another - higher soul - come wash it clean AND make sure the host soul stays out of sin forevermore.]
· Nicodemus and all his Jewish Mammon worshipers were hanging around the Temple of Solomon, rebuilt and renamed as Herod’s Temple (Not Yahweh’s Temple), as if crawling back into that womb made them reborn as Yahweh’s favorite people on earth. [Herod the Great was like a Zionist - in Jew by name only - so he put a lot of time and money into making Jerusalem a gem for future tourists to come see. Today's Israel IS the Third Temple; but, it is just an empty shell, not a house of Yahweh. Yahweh only marries souls; and, buildings and nations have no souls.]
· The number of Jews in Palestine in the year 1900 was about 300. They all lived on the coast, in Tel Aviv, which was a segregated community, next to the Muslim city of Jaffa. The people of two religions got along then. [Because neither was stealing from the other.]
· Then Zionists came up with a plan to make someone give Jews Jerusalem. [The foresight of demonically possessed souls.]
· Then the Ottoman Empire collapsed. [No longer able to run fiefdoms to the south.]
· Then the League of Nations was an intellectual plan to make everybody kumbaya together, which is pretending mixing oil and water equally won’t have the two separate. [This was before oil was discovered under Arabian sand.]
· Then Great Britain was told to prepare Palestine to be self-governing … to be led by a king, like other nations. [An aged empire slowly exposing itself as incapable of putting up a real fight.]
· Then the Nazis and Fascists came along, hating Jews, getting the Muslims to say, “Attaboy!” [The Brits tried playing with Hitler, as long as he only took the worthless nations nobody wanted to steal.]
· Then Jews were found in concentration camps and someone said, “Give them back the land God promised to always be theirs. [By then illegal immigration had half the population of Palestine be Jewish, with Great Britain then like Joe Biden is now ... not trying to stop illegal immigration at America's borders.]
· Then the Palestinians said, “But this is our land. We have been here forever.” [Unlike the Jews, who were thrown out by the Assyrians, then the Babylonians, then the Romans, then the Ottomans ... basically every empire that came along. The Jews ran to Europe and they would eventually be kicked out of there; so, Jews are like the tennis ball of the world. Back and forth. The Palestinians are like the Philistines, who were never kicked out of Gaza. The Philistines destroyed the false shepherd named King Saul, his mighty sons, the people of dirt and water called Israel, and mutilated the corpses and hung them on poles for all the world to see. It is what a Philistine does, in order to get even. A Philistine is a reflection of what all souls that reject Yahweh turn out to be.]
The point of 1 Samuel is realizing Yahweh never promised a worldly domain, beyond breathing a soul (a former sinner soul, reincarnated) into a body of worldly flesh. That is your kingdom; and, your soul is its king.
The outcome of the unfolding news is clearly sung by David, in 2 Samuel 1. He sang:
“Oh how the mighty have fallen.”
And those Philistines never have had a way of treating corpses with respect.
Being led by a king, like other nations, means “live by the sword, die by the sword.”
The news today has a whole lotta sword rattling, raising, and lopping.
All over land, not over souls.
If the point was having a worldly domain to call one’s own, Yahweh would have just swooped down in front of Pharoah and said “Die mortal!” and Pharoah would have died, just like his first born son died. Then Yahweh would have turned to the sons and daughters of Jacob and said, “Welcome to the land you can call home.”
That would have saved forty years of wandering … learning how to belly ache with the worst of mankind … “I want to go back to where I had stew with meat. Wah wah wah.”
If Moses wasn’t one Who Retained El, if he were more like a Philistine, he would have massacred all of them in the wilderness and nobody would have been left alive to call that the worst killing of Jews since … [Fill in the blank].
Yahweh did not choose a people to be special. He expects all souls to choose Him in divine union.
Those souls that choose Him are the each His Son reborn ... not resurrected to go around saying, "I am special. God gave me land to own forever." Each soul that chooses Yahweh and is reborn as His Son's soul in flesh (purified and Saintly, in the name of Jesus) as one who will go into the world as a minister to the truth of the Word.
Tell me where it says Jesus led an army of Jews to defeat the Romans ... or anyone else.
Tell me how today's Israelis [not true Israelites] are preaching the truth of the Word to Palestinians.
David went to the Philistines and preached the truth of the Word in Gath. They believed because he was a true Israelite. Two hundred Philistines willingly died as enemies to all true Israelites, being circumcised, so David took their foreskins back to Saul (he only asked for 100). The Philistines honored David when he fled the wrath of Saul. They gave him Ziklag and wives. Tell me how any of that is happening today.
This is not about saving land or flesh and blood.
“Oh how the mighty have fallen” is a broken record of history, from having been played so often.
Today’s news is about souls … your soul … being saved … or being lost.
Update: Recently, I saw someone spreading a post that explained two thousand years of history, where each historical period summed up: "there was no Palestinian State." Let me expand on the biased ignorance of such a post.
First, when Jacob sent his sons (the ones who lied about Joseph being killed by wild animals) to Egypt, looking for food during an extended drought and famine, the history says for four hundred fifty years there were no descendants of Jacob in the land they left behind (whatever "State" that was then). In between the lines, written in invisible ink, the same Genesis history can be summed up saying, "Those descendants of Esau remained and suffered through the drought and famine."
Second, when the Jews committed suicide (mass or mass murders with one suicide) on Masada, they soon left the region, when the Romans were overthrown by the Arabian Muslims (descendants of Ishmael) overthrew the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Christians). The Jews still hanging out in the area (with the Second Temple long destroyed and not rebuilt) were forced out by those Muslims. All the while, the descendants of Esau remained where they had been (whatever 'State' that was then).
Third, when the Jews fled the 'Holy Land,' they did not go back to Egypt after it became Muslim. They went to Europe. While there, the English mass murdered Jews by throwing them in the Thames River (no Ark to part those waters); then, the French kings, along with the Church of Rome, decided to kick the Jews out of Europe (along with the Moors), if they did not convert to Roman Catholics. The Inquisitions were when many Jews were tortured and killed by so-called Christians. As God would have it, He led the hearts of the Muslims ruling in Asia Minor to welcome Jews back, because they were good with numbers. When they came back, they asked the local descendants of Esau, "Can I pitch a tent here?" Whatever 'State' that was then, the Jews had been away for quite some time.
Fourth, when the Ottomans became tired of the Jews in and around their Holy City of seven hills, where they built a fancy mosque with a Dome on the Mount (where or near where the Second Temple had been), the Jews got kicked out. Back to Europe they went (talk about a trail of tears?), leaving behind the descendants of Esau, who remained in what then was termed Palestine, although it still wasn't a 'State.'
Fifth, Yahweh is not concerned with anything physical. His concern is with the SPIRITUAL. Each and every human being has a SOUL that is SPIRITUAL, thus what Yahweh is concerned with. This means Yahweh was not giving anything physical to His people, who were the SOULS animating human flesh that promised to give Him the land that was their bodies. In return, Yahweh promised them a land for their SOULS, not their flesh. That 'Promised Land' was not the womb they would enter and then be spat out of, as babies expected to be ministers to Yahweh's WORD, but the Promise of HEAVEN for their eternal SOULS.
Sixth, Yahweh sent quite a few Prophets to both the kings of Israel (the Northern Kingdom) and Judah (the Southern Kingdom), telling both, "Yahweh says to tell you guys you are going the wrong way." Going the wrong way means, "Keep going s you are going and you will finalize the divorce that marries your souls to Yahweh, as His." A divorce means to lose the physical land you love to worship so much. The eternal Promised Land that will never go away is Heaven is still Promised to Souls that marry Yahweh and serve Him in His ministry of the WORD.
Moral of the story is this: The Jews (can't call them Israelites) lost all claims to physical land when they left their lost nations after the Assyrians and Babylonians cast them to the four corners of the earth. When their forefathers demanded a true Prophet (Samuel) make you a king, to be like other nations, being like other nations is where the Jews are now. In that physical world, might always makes right. You live by the sword and cheer all your victories. Unfortunately, when you die by the sword ... and you ain't a SOUL married to Yahweh ... then you have a Promised Hell to pay the back mortgage due on.
The point that must be understood is ALL ATROCITIES are sinful; and, by Man's law, those supposedly created to model Mosaic Law (in Judeo-Christian nations), judgment and justice are deemed (by the the kings of "other nations") legal must be carried out, simply to uphold the law of the land. Beheading babies and killing innocent civilians are acts that are crimes against humanity; and, World History has a LONG record of harsh punishments for caught criminals that have committed heinous crimes. In the genocide of the Albigensian Crusade, when scouts reported to the general preparing to execute Cathars (for the crime of not converting to Roman Catholicism) that the Cathars were mixed with Catholics and they could not be determined apart from one another, the general said, "Kill them all! God will know His own." That seems to be a statement that is horrendous and inexcusable ... until one sees judges allow criminals to go free, blaming their victims for having made them do the crime.
When the Arabian met with David, after having honored Saul's pleas to kill him ... mercifully ... so the Philistines would not disgrace his corpse, his telling David the man who sought his death was dead did not anger David. David ordered the Arabian executed because he broke the law, the one written by Saul, as a king that made his followers be like other nations. It was written into law, so the punishment for killing a king (even if he begged for it) was a crime punishable by death. David was an example of one who upheld the laws of mankind, while living his life according to the truth of the Law handed down by Yahweh to Moses.
There is no David in the Middle East; but there is the law of mankind. It must be upheld. Murderers must be executed.
Still, this going on now is Israel-Gaza-Lebanon-Iran et al is going to be the downfall of mankind. The world cannot survive the 'might makes right,' 'live by the sword' models of judgement and justice. The outcome is echoed in Biblical Prophecy. Saul killed plenty of Philistines over his forty-year reign. Then, without Samuel's guidance and unable to hear Yahweh tell him what to do, be painted himself into a corner and the end came.
One more time: "How the mighty have fallen, And the weapons of war have perished!"