IIRC, when HaShem instructed Gid'on to make war on Midian something like 32,000 answered his Tzav 8. HaShem said, "Too many. They're likely to think their own prowess brings them the victory. 'Am Yisrael need to understand that their victory comes from Me." So about 22,000 were sent home; only 10,000 remained. HaShem said, "Still too many." Ultimately the Jewish army was whittled down to 300.
There was no draft. There was a call for people to step forward and fight. We don't force people to fight against their will, especially not in an army run by Erev Rav who trample all over the Torah and send Jews into death traps to die for nothing.
From memory, Chazal teach that the punishment for Asa's reliance on arms instead of Hashem was the loss of a unified Kingdom. The split was only supposed to last for 36 years - Asa's sin was so grave that it extended the split until the final redemption - thousands of years (and counting).
This highlights your point even further - for any that daven for the return of the Davidic Kingdom, it's obvious that we'd have to undo the original sin, not entrench ourselves in it further.
It's usually a sign you're a kofer if you deny the truth of clearly stated prophetic messages.
It's also usually a sign that you're desperately trolling when you set up straw men such as "you think you're the only one in the world with the truth".
"The larger the army, the safer we will be."
IIRC, when HaShem instructed Gid'on to make war on Midian something like 32,000 answered his Tzav 8. HaShem said, "Too many. They're likely to think their own prowess brings them the victory. 'Am Yisrael need to understand that their victory comes from Me." So about 22,000 were sent home; only 10,000 remained. HaShem said, "Still too many." Ultimately the Jewish army was whittled down to 300.
There was no draft. There was a call for people to step forward and fight. We don't force people to fight against their will, especially not in an army run by Erev Rav who trample all over the Torah and send Jews into death traps to die for nothing.
From memory, Chazal teach that the punishment for Asa's reliance on arms instead of Hashem was the loss of a unified Kingdom. The split was only supposed to last for 36 years - Asa's sin was so grave that it extended the split until the final redemption - thousands of years (and counting).
This highlights your point even further - for any that daven for the return of the Davidic Kingdom, it's obvious that we'd have to undo the original sin, not entrench ourselves in it further.
It's usually a sign you're a kofer if you deny the truth of clearly stated prophetic messages.
It's also usually a sign that you're desperately trolling when you set up straw men such as "you think you're the only one in the world with the truth".