Kingdom Come

We find all the requisites of a godly society included with the establishment of YHVH’s prototypical nation of Israel under Moses:

• political law and order for safety from danger within and without,
• A national language unifying the mixed multitude that joined the Hebrew exodus from Egypt and steadily amalgamated into Israel, 
• a moral code in an interdependent web of society 
• detailed functions of government leaders
• requirements for citizenship in God’s holy nation.

We can understand this by comparison to the American founders’ Constitution of the United States describing how the government is structured and operates.

• There are three branches of government with their powers: Legislative (Congress), Executive (President,) and Judicial (Federal court system).
• A system of checks and balances prevents any one of these separate powers from becoming dominant.

The following is quoted from a Humanist perspective:

The Code of Hammurabi is a contemporaneous example [to the Mosaic law] of the constituting (verb) of one nation under god providing liberty and justice to all citizens through the rule of law publicly available therefore, therefore able to be appealed to for justice, in a written Constitution (noun). The laws are written in the same “if…then” format as the law of Moses, providing punishments for breaking the laws. It also declares, like the law of Moses, to have been given directly to the human ruler by the god.

With this background in mind, we will find the exact same purpose of the law and even many of the same laws and principles, giving rise to claims that Moses never met God on Mount Sinai but simply plagiarized the earlier Code of Hammurabi.

If we grant that all humanity shares the same needs for security and social order we won’t jump to false conclusions about the source of the Mosaic code.

We can also see the same essential similarities between the later American Constitution and the earlier Israelite, but I don’t think anyone accuses the writers of that document of plagiarizing the Bible. 

Legislative Branch

• If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
  • Then I will give you rain in due season, peace in the land, multiply you, establish my covenant with you [not a later generation, including] set my tabernacle dwelling place [as God in the flesh, Revelation 21:3] among you
• if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; And if ye shall despise my statutes…
  • then ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
• If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
  • Then will I remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen,

Judicial Branch

“Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses.” (Exodus 18:25-26)

“If there arise…matters of controversy within thy gates: then…thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment…and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee.” (Deuteronomy 17:8-12)

Executive Branch

• “Thou shalt…set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren…
  • thou mayest not set a stranger over thee…
  • he shall not multiply horses [excessive military expenditures] to himself,
  • Neither shall he multiply wives to himself [alliances with foreign powers] that his heart turn not away:
  • neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold [burdensome taxation]…
• he shall write him a copy of this law in a book…he shall read therein all the days of his life…That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren [true representative government]” (Deuteronomy 17:15-20)

“Behold, the eyes of the LORD God are upon the sinful kingdom” (Amos 7)

The Top 10 Global Risks for 2024 (written in 2023) put at the very top two positions 1) Trump’s election will test American democracy to a degree the nation hasn’t experienced since the Civil War and undermining U.S. credibility internationally, and the likelihood of the US and Iran being drawn directly into war throughout the Middle East. 

YHVH does not change with the times, so history is a cycle of recurrence providing awareness of the next step in the sequence of events for those who recognize the signs of the times.

From Amos 1-2: “Because they have…”

• the people of Syria: threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron…the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir.
  • in 2024 Syria ended a brutal 13 year civil war during which hundreds of thousands of Syrians were killed and nearly fourteen million people—more than half the prewar population—were displaced, leaving a deeply impoverished and weakened state split into segments controlled by various armed groups with varying affiliations with Iran, Israel, Turkey, Russia, and the United States seeking total control of a reunited Syria.
• the remnant of the Philistines: because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom…I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza…and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish.
  • Between 7 October 2023 and 22 October 2025, at least 68,234 Palestinians have been reportedly killed in the Gaza Strip and 170,373 have been injured, with deliberately imposed famine, blockade of medical supplies, and destruction of medical facilities. The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory concluded that the highest echelons of government in Israel are responsible for the commission of genocide in Gaza through acts that meet the criteria set forth in the Genocide Convention. Is this fulfilling “the remnant of the Philistines shall perish? NO! The Palestinians are Semitic Arabs, while recent genetic studies, confirm the Philistine’s European origins from the Aegean world into Canaan. The Philistines met a definitive end in 604 BC when they were vanquished by King Nebuchadnezzar II.
• Southern Lebanon: because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom / Jordan, and remembered not the brotherly covenant…I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus / Lebanon, which shall devour the palaces thereof.
  • Between October 2023 and the November 27, 2024, ceasefire, Israeli strikes killed more than 3,961 people in Lebanon. More than 1.2 million people were displaced by the time of the November ceasefire, thousands of buildings and houses were destroyed, and entire border villages were reduced to rubble. At least 562,000 people crossed the border from Lebanon into Syria after the escalation of hostiles in September 2024.
• Edom: because he did pursue his brother with the sword [ran him down, didn’t allow surrender]…I will send a fire upon Edom which shall devour the palaces…because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border: I will kindle a fire [in Ammon / modern Jordan] and it shall devour the palaces…And their king shall go into captivity.
  • Modern Jordan is ethnically Palestinian, and while the government is embedded with the U.S, the citizens are devastated by the tragedies in Gaza and the West Bank, originally part of Jordan.
• Judah: because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments…I will send a fire upon Judah / modern Israel, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem…because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes… I will not turn away the punishment thereof from Israel.

The 20th Century Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel was approved by members of the Jewish community of Palestine and the international Zionist movement promoting Israel as a modern European style secular state without religious control.

The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was passed on 29 November 1947; this envisaged the creation of separate Jewish and Arab states, which failed when the Jewish community in Palestine issued the Israeli Declaration of Independence resulting in the 1947–1949 Palestine war. This ended with victory for a Jewish state and no state for Palestinian Arabs, instead with the Jordanian annexation of the Palestinian-assigned West Bank of the Jordan River and the Egyptian All-Palestine Protectorate in the Gaza Strip.

Tel Aviv is a modern city similar to a coastal city in the United States like Miami, and is considered one of the top party cities in the world. It is typical to find bars and night clubs open until dawn, even on Shabbat.

We can’t seriously expect that Israel is going to be exempt from judgment?

Iran’s 12-day retaliatory campaign against Israel in April 2026 has inflicted severe destruction on Tel Aviv and other cities, with 9,115 damage cases registered from missile strikes, including 4,609 in Tel Aviv alone, including 6,586 buildings, 1,485 vehicles and 1,044 pieces of various equipment. Beit Shemesh and Beersheba recorded 3,664 damage reports, with additional cases in Jerusalem (181), Acre (494) and Tiberias (167). Israel’s Health Ministry reported 2,557 injuries since February 28, both civilians and military personnel, reflecting strikes that have targeted naval and intelligence facilities. Tel Aviv’s shops completely shuttered and social life at a standstill, with residents directing anger at the Netanyahu government.