The bible is a collection of unrelated texts written by bronze age goat herders, combined and edited by a group of elites, with an agenda to combine and grow their relative political and social power. It has been translated, edited, embellished, and exaggerated countless times by countless people with their own countless agendas. It's historical value is nil, and it's "prophecy" value is less. We need to take some ron paul advice, and let the rest of the world deal with their own f*cking problems. (this includes israel)