Books of Joshua & Judges foreshadowing todays corruption of Zionism

[u/melefofon]

Im sure Im not the first to see this foreshadowing of the last 100 years of palestinian/israeli history and the Books of Joshua followed by Judges. I looked around on Google and on this sub and didnt find anything so Im putting this idea out there for you...

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The early Zionists drew parallels between themselves and the book of joshua and likely took inspiration from the genocide of the canaanites at the hands of the israelites. At the beginning of Joshua the israelites are coming out of the dessert after escaping egypt (Foreshadowing the holocaust). God wanted to get rid of all of the canaanites because of how morally corrupt they were so he helped the israelites defeat them. God promised this land to the Israelites in this books and then after getting rid of all of the canaanites they split up the land amongst each tribe (Foreshadowing the war of 1948).

In the Book of Judges we are told all of these stories about how the israelites overtime became more and more corrupt and unethical. There are stories of tribe vs tribe annihilating eachother, gang rape and some really gory scenes. One of the main lessons to be learned from the book of judges is a warning of the corruption of the judges who were essentially the politicians. I see the Book of Judges as a foreshadowing of 1948 -> Present.

What does Judges tell us about how this war in palestine will end?

The story of Samson (aka: IDF) commits "an act of terror" with gods help and martyrs himself taking thousands of philistines with him to their death.

[u/korach1921]

The Bible is not a book of predictions or premonitions of the future. This is a very recent way of reading the Bible which has it's origins in Christian theological efforts to divorce the Old Testament from it's original historical context and claim it's a cohesive narrative centered around the coming of Jesus. The books of Nevi'im do not "foreshadow" modern day historical events because the authors did not know these events would transpire, they were writing either about contemporaneous events or events that had happened hundreds of years before they wrote them down, many of which are fictionalized or reinterpreted through a revisionist theological lens

[u/melefofon → u/korach1921]

I wasn't suggesting that it was a prediction or anything...just that the stories line up to present day.

Zionist quote from Joshua as proof of their belief...they should read beyond to see what happens from hubris.