The Gulf Crisis and New World Order — Page 333
The Gulf Crisis & The New World Order ,t,,. . . ,, ,,,, ,1,. < ,,,�. . . ,, ,�i""'fr---• •. . . . . . 1'�r::, ,, ,. ,, ,,. . ,. . ·<·· �. :. :. �. � �_,i;J. . ;JJ. . J�;;,,,::,. _;. olAd that after this again when God would so wish or it would also mean that it is quite possible that God would so desire that once again He should show mercy upon you - but remember that when mercy is shown to you, you should not forget that if again you repeat your earlier misdeeds and persist in them, then we too will most certainly repeat the punishments which you have already tasted twice before. After this, it appears that no fourth occurrence would come to pass in the world, because then mention is made of bell. After this, the matters p ertaining to this world would come to an end. Then the final decisions would be taken after the Day of Judgement and punishment would be meted out by way of bell. I want to mention briefly how the first two promises were fulfilled. The first promise began to be fulfilled in 721 B. C. when the A�yrians devastated the northern of the two Jewish empires and occupied it. This was the empire which was linked to the city of Samara which was also referred to as Israel. Thus this event began in 721 B. C. The second phase of the campaign to destroy the two Jewish empires began 124 years after it was started by the Assyrians. This time the Babylonians, led by Nebuchadnezzar, attacked the remaining empire o f the Jews which was called Judea, of which Jerusalem was the capital. Thus remember that in accordance with the promise, the first attack to break Israel, that is to say, to break the empire of the Jews in the land of Canaan occurred in 721 B. C. and was started by the Assyrians. The second phase was begun by Nebuchadnezzar in 597 B. C. and was completed in 587 B. C. During both the phases, the Jewish power suffered tremendous blows but during the second phase, it was truly and utterly destroyed and annihilated. Innumerable Jews were made prisoners and taken away by Nebuchadnezzar. The Prophet Ezekiel was amongst them. We learn from the Book of Ezekiel that the punishment which was meted out to the Jews was given them because - to use the divine terminology employed in thls book - the example of the two cities bad become that of two prostitutes who sold themselves and continuously exceeded all limits of shamelessness by eloping with strangers and abandoning friendship with God. A most frightening sketch is presented and then it says that the punishment 333