The stakes are high - 80% of Jews weren't redeemed from Egypt, and those that are too entrenched in flase ideologies may not survive this one too.
One other caveat - you wrote that "And when it does arrive, we’ll support its good kings and criticize and admonish its bad ones — as the entire prophetic tradition adjures us to do."
This is incorrect - there will not be any bad kings. As Yechezkel prophecises, we will have a new heart, one that is bent towards good. Chatas sacrifices will exists only for shogegim, but there will not be wilful sin.
The treif restaurant is a great analogy!
The stakes are high - 80% of Jews weren't redeemed from Egypt, and those that are too entrenched in flase ideologies may not survive this one too.
One other caveat - you wrote that "And when it does arrive, we’ll support its good kings and criticize and admonish its bad ones — as the entire prophetic tradition adjures us to do."
This is incorrect - there will not be any bad kings. As Yechezkel prophecises, we will have a new heart, one that is bent towards good. Chatas sacrifices will exists only for shogegim, but there will not be wilful sin.
Hallevai.
We should live to see it.