When the god of the Jews sends the Holy one of Israel to the House of Israel, and the House of Israel decides to reject God’s messiah and prophet, what did people expect?

As for people knowing when the Messiah promised by Moses would come, that’s pretty obvious by how many fakes there were in that time period and by a certain other little fact.

http://biblehub.com/matthew/2-16.htm

Herod was the Ruler of Judea at the time. Herod would have good reason to kill the messiah, promised to the Jews and perceived by the Jewish population as a King. Herod even killed his own son for various reasons.

The Jewish recognized Messiah, was the holy leaders who led them in the rebellion which Varus crushed, then the 70 AD one, then the 100+ AD one. All false prophets, all who thought that God was with them, even as they had already denied the Holy One of Israel in name and spirit.

If the God of the Jews is the unchanging and eternal god of miracles, why did the Jewish warriors not receive the divine favor which was due to their faith and fervor? Because they were already in sin and transgression, unrepented.

It is precisely because the Jews accepted the word of false prophets, and denied God’s given Holy One of Israel, that the Jews were scattered as a result of their transgression against God and merely by coincidence, while resisting the Roman Empire. One which lasted about 2000 years, in fact, an exile imposed upon them, so that they would learn what mistake it was that was made. Now the current modern Israel is no longer warlike, thus they won their wars against Arabs and invaders. Thus the modern day Israel is no longer listening to false prophets, thus they have received technological inspiration and direct benefits, agricultural, military, and economic stability. The desert bloomed green. The modern day Israel is no longer a nation of Zealots, thus their flaw is having too much love for their enemies, rather than having too much hate for their enemies. They are not Christians, but that is a minor flaw, given many Christians (Cult of Nice, Westboro Baptists, Hussein’s pastor, Black revs Jackson/Sharpton, Roman Catholics) in the world have little connection to 1st AD Christendom. Israel’s attempt to save the lives of their enemies, even at the cost of their own settlers and people, is truly a behavior that may be Christ like. Perhaps that counts for more in the eyes of the divine than merely what label people attach to their religion.

When Jesus (or his followers) procliamed him to be the Messiah, that sealed his death warrant.

Jesus did not claim to be King of the Jews. That was, if anything, what Herod and his sons and the Jewish leaders of Jerusalem wanted the Romans to believe, since it would get rid of Jesus. Jesus was someone the Jewish leaders did not want to abdicate authority to. Jesus also, as a potential king of the Jews and their messiah, represented a threat to the secular power of Herod and his inheritors.

The mistake of the Jewish people was in demanding a king, to lead them in a holy war to make Judea free of Roman or foreign presence. Throughout the old Testament, there have been incidences concerning God’s prophet leaders telling the people the consequences of installing a king, consequences which the people understood but ignored. And after all of that, the God of Israel, was going to give them a Messiah to be their King? I think not. Their King is in Heaven or is of the divine godhead, not on earth. Having a secular king as a savior, is what abrogates their loyalty to their Heavenly King.

Where is this supposed King that created the state of Israel? By what dynasty did they come from or create?

For nearly 2000 years, Jewish leaders have attempted to win back their kingdom, but they could not overcome the divine power in those prophecies. Now the time of “kings” is over. Still Emperors and Tyrants around.

They shall beat there swords into plowshares, their spears into pruning hooks.

People have been melting swords into plowshare and other tools for awhile now. In Europe, people have a hard time finding sword designs used by commoners, since commoners didn’t bury swords, they reused the metal for something else.

The problem with following the words of false prophets, is that anyone can create human justifications for a Jewish messiah found in the distant future. What they can’t create, is a justification for the punishment of the Jews and the prophecy that the Holy One of Israel would be rejected by the House of Israel, the same under the Covenant.

Adams is acting more like a victim and subservient serf, than a master of anything. Promoting mass consciousness and agreement may make hypnotic techniques more effective, but NLP doesn’t need that. Nor do the retail, mass media deception modern politician.

If Adams has a basic comprehension of NLP, he should understand that the Left’s mass produced version of it in the Leftist death cult, functions more by hypnosis than NLP. NLP can form a rapport, without a person being susceptible to hypnotic conversation techniques. But when Trum is on the media, he can’t rely on his normal hypnotic capabilities or charisma. Some of that doesn’t leak through cameras or social media.

The ones who do use NLP a lot, are the Alternative Right, which contains a faction once called “Pick up Artists”. There’s an entire history online about that one.

However, it would be a poor argument because self-destructiveness is characteristic of sociopaths.

Hitler had no compunction about allowing Germany to be bombed into rubble.

Which is not to say Trump is Hitler or a sociopath but he is farther along on those scales than I like.

Unless you take the Scott Adams reflexive position that everything Trump does is brilliant and therefore Trump’s attack on the Muslim parents was another great kill shot from the Master Persuader, then Trump wasted precious days and credibility, thus damaging his campaign.

Today Nate Silver has Hillary’s chances of winning at 91.7%.

As far as I’m concerned, the last call to board the lifeboats sounded in March or April. Trump voters ignored those calls and now, barring another 9-11 or similar disaster, a Hillary victory is baked into the cake.

I studied NLP for a number of years myself and am a certified “Master Practitioner” — not that I think that’s a big deal — and I don’t see it. The NLP teachers I’ve worked with were all very conscious and very much in control. They did not let their personal issues intrude. Occasionally they might be tough to jar a person out of a rut but that would be used sparingly and only after foundation of rapport had been laid.

Whatever skills Trump has as a persuader did not come from any school or books but from a life of street-fighting in business deals augmented by a natural disruptive flair and a lack of scruples when it comes to flattery, bragging, lies and betrayal. That works until people catch on.

If Trump were truly a Master Persuader, he would have his shtick under control and wouldn’t, for instance, attack Gold Star parents in a stupid fashion or behave like a petulant child with all the cameras in the country upon him.

Scott Adams plays a double-edged game. If his ploy fails, he drops back into “I’m a Master Persuader too and I had you going, didn’t I?” Like neo I think Adams can justify anything Trump does as brilliant.

People who read that blog assume they are the exception to the “meat puppet” insult that Adams casts on humanity. Got to hand it to Adams that he insults his own readers, and they completely miss it.

Evidently, Adams assumes he is one of the rare ones who can observe and explain how the master persuader is working without being / becoming a meat puppet and fall under the persuader’s spell himself.

In Adams’ world, it seems the unique qualities that make a master persuader are not really identifiable ahead of time, so we can only know one when there are masses of people who are “persuaded”. Rather scientific that.

Come on, we need to put more serious thought into what’s going on than to give credence to Adams’ high school grade philosophy.

Bottom Line: trump brought this on to himself.

Instead, he is undermining his own message and brand – from a man who is trying to sell us on how media savvy he is, how successful he is, how he can get things done so unbelievably well, how he hires only the best and smartest people, how he can be “presidential” any time he wants, etc.