Final Redemption Is Coming: Where Do You Stand? Rabbi Tovia Singer

So, it's a personal delight for me. Again, it's actually a big privilege and a merit for our father, Rabbi Singer. And without further ado, I'd like to introduce Rabbi Toby Singer. >> Okay, so [Applause] thank you. Thank you. Wow. um Hakur who um according to his wisdom and perfect knowledge did not give me brothers but gave me the most wonderful women I know my sisters who each married giants in Tyra and Rifkala married This is giant early Bur Bodenheim. I'm very grateful to you, Rifka. Um, the last time I stood here was my father's Levia. In fact, I was here and then we went to the burial and it was a very strange experience given that as I was burying him, it was the first time I'd ever buried anyone as a clan. But I also knew that I would never see his caver again and see him in the resurrection in my brother-in-law just mentioned something very striking in Tanakh. There's a very unusual phenomena in the Hebrew scriptures. Wicked people say very nice things about the Jews. They do. When Bum got up to speak, he said wonderful things about Kalisrael. In fact, the earliest time in Tanakh where we have an explicit reference to Messiah is the fourth oracle of Bilum. That's the first time in Tanakh where we're told a little bit about Messiah. Now bear in mind that although our sacred literature particularly the Tyra tells us that the Jews must pick out a king for themselves and say let us be like the other nations and then you should give them a king. So therefore, we can't get into the nitty-gritty yet because the Jewish people did not have a king yet and we would not have a monarchy for many many years until Shaul. But the first reverence is Bum who said very nice things about the Jewish people. He's not the only one, but actually wicked people say nice things about the Jews. We stick together. Kyra, what a nation this is. They're all holy. Interesting thing. Another wicked man says very nice things about the Jews. Today you see people who speak about the Jews, they stick together. They control the government. They control the banks. They control the they but they're unbelievable. I'm going, "Wow, this is fantastic." on when he brought his case to he said there's a nation and they have their own laws. What is very striking about this my dear brothers and sisters is that the nim the prophets of blessed memory really had some very critical things to say about the Jewish people. If you open up Isaiah chapter one, any of the oracular prophets, Jeremiah chapter 1, Ezekiel chapter 1, it's an explosion of problems. Isaiah chapter 1 is so painful or so shocking that we read it in the ha before tishov and is read to the music to the song of that we read to a lament it's very powerful what is this what's going on that all the wicked people saying nice things about us Jews that Jesus recognized many years ago the Baptist church understood the assemblies of God of church understood that it's not easy to convert Jews. They're reluctant to become apostates. For 2,000 years, the church has been trying to convert Jews and they're the hardest people to convert. In contrast, missionaries from Portugal went to Brazil and they they converted up everyone there and they're all Brazil today is the largest Roman Catholic country in the world. Christianity spread across Europe like wildfire. The Jews with all their problems, our spiritual enemies will admit that the Jews are a very unique people and very praiseworthy and they have to be converted. The Nvim we understand why were Nvim written the Nvim the purpose of the Nvi was to tell you how to become a better person. Isaiah wrote he wrote for a very long time. He he was in Nvi for for a quarter of a century of Uzio's life 16 years of Yotam's life. The only king who never sinned. He was a Ni for 16 years under his son's rule. Who was Yoam's son? He was very very wicked. His name was Akaz. He became king at the age of 20. He died at the age of 36. And Aaz, who could have been probably the most wicked king of all, he had a son who was probably one of the the most righteous king. In fact, it says explicitly in 2 Kings 18 verse4 that was the greatest king of all the Davidic kings that ever lived and ever will live openly. Behol, who was a giant, he actually would assemble the book of Isaiah. He and his companions. He was a giant. He ruled for how many years? 29 years. 29 years. And then his son, you know, Manasha murdered his grandfather. So Isaiah was in Ni for a very very long time. And what was his purpose? What was his goal? You need to be in or go. Your role is to bring about Messiah. In fact, the only passage in Tanakh where we are told explicitly that it is the repentance of the Jews that will bring Messiah. Isaiah 59:20. You say it every day. and to Zion will come forth a redeemer the shesh of to those in Jacob who do chuv this is the reason that means it's the repentance of the Jews that triggers the coming of the Messiah this is the reason my holy sisters and brothers that we're not allowed to make calculations on when Messiah comes why is there a curse upon anyone who would try to make a calculation most people don't understand this concept They people come there are people holy people said you come up with a calculation if it doesn't happen people will lose their faith. If you make a calculation of when Msiah comes you're essentially going to to war with God. God says that the way Messiah comes is the truth of Kal Israel. And you're saying it's a number. If you say it's a number you're going to war with the book of Isaiah. Do you understand? Isaiah says it's the repentance of the Jews that triggers Msiah. You put a number, you're saying I disagree with Isaiah. You can't do that and your bones will never remain still in the ca. That's why it's so be very careful about this. The repentance of the Jews could be triggered by the Almighty, blessed be his holy name, will use whatever stimulation is necessary to draw Jewish people together. It could be that we need a very very big hit, a very big pounding in order to trigger our unification. And the garra says that gag begins will begin on sukus because of this we read from the book of Ezekiel chapter 38 and 39 the garra says it openly that's why we read the haftra on the on shabas that comes out on zukus and there it was and that is a trigger it unifies us we stop fighting in the streets over makas and all these things. It happens to be, my holy brothers and sisters, listen carefully. It happens to be that the only source for a separation between men and women. Now, we have a separation between men and women because we were instructed to do so. But the only reference to it is the same chapter that deals with Messiah and Yoseph Zechariah chapter 12 that men and women will mourn apart over this tremendous terror attack and the Kazal learn out from there if during a time of aos if during a time of mourning men and women mourn separately at a time where the when a time when it's least least likely anything inappropriate will go on after all it's a time warning how much more so during this time of normal same chapter incidentally I'm going to say this to you my holy brothers and sisters that the book of Zechariah safe zakaria is not an easy safer it's not it's not easy it's so not easy that it's the only book in the entire Tanakh that Rashi wrote a hak domo wrote an introduction. In fact, not only is it the only book in Tanakh that Rashi ever wrote an introduction to, it's the only thing that only introduction to anything Rashi ever wrote is the book of Zechariah Zakaria. Rashi Hakode, one of the greatest men that ever lived. He was writing during the first crusade. He wrote everything on anything. I mean he writes in the introduction that he doesn't have a clear misora a tradition for the book of Zechariah. Moreover, Zakaria is filled with stoumis which means hidden things. Now don't it's not esoteric complicated hidden but it does begin with eight epic numinous visions and they're not that simple. It's not nuclear chemistry but it's not the simplest thing in the world. It's not the hardest book in but it's not an easy one. Not easy. But there's one of these 14 chapters that's very easy. Very easy. And that's Zechariah chapter 12. any one of you if you picked it up now you'd read it know exactly what's going on the Jewish people return back to Israel Mashiah is not here yet they have an army they defeat all their enemies Jerusalem is liberated all the nations that come in are destroyed Mashiah is not here yet because Msiah comes there's no war it'll be in that day that I will destroy all those who come against your schlime. That's the motherload of bad ideas. They'll all be destroyed one after the other. But then you're going to get a zets. You're going to get a painful hit and they're going to turn to you because of people who are killed and as a result people are going to mourn and that's going to trigger an unstoppable process of a redemption. We are living bishas. I couldn't help noticing that the on that bema there's a covering and that covering is dedicated to my grandfather a blessed memory my father's father David Yehuda Hakayen Ben Tovia he was murdered in 1944 why did choose that this tovia who's mentioned in Zakaria a different person not me but there is a toia in the book of Zechariah chapter 6 verse 10 why did wasn't he to see the redemption and we are it's very close now we're in the middle of a process this I don't know my friends if you don't study Zechariah 12 after 120 God's going to ask you and you're not going to have a good answer. It's written simple with simple terms because you cannot understand what the messianic age without it and you have to know what's coming. In fact, the garra says the says in track Shabbat that in fact after a person dies one of the questions you're going to be asked is see peace Yeshua. Did you usually it's translated the Jew anticipate the coming of Messiah but it doesn't mean that really is a is a someone from a watchtower right it's like someone's watching are you were you watching for signs of Msiah it's one of the questions that a person's asked what am I supposed to look for looking at now it's a very very unique time we're living in. It's time where has to be unity. Our minds have to be sharp and focused. Now our enemies are coming against us. There's a hatred that exploded after October 7th that I think caught us all by surprise. There are many things we don't know about that very dark day. But it's not too difficult to figure out what probably happened. I think I can share this view and say that the one thing that remains somewhat mysterious to all of us is why is there this explosion of hatred after October 7th? I mean after the Holocaust as an example, the world went easy on us for a few years. There was like a window where you know but it's something very odd like Tucker why now like why pink now you know Candace why now why not before it doesn't even make sense when it doesn't make sense that means it's from above you understand you have to know that andal are sages of blessed memory all with one voice in their commentary on Tanakh say very explicitly that we'll explain to you what is going on what the pashad is but it's only the generation that sees it they'll understand it completely so we're in a unique position now to assemble history and what's occurring and the world is simply the middle is dropped out and it's either I love the Jews or I hate the Jews people are filling up conversion programs where you cannot get in and it's all packed There's a war going on. Missiles are flying and people are coming to get to convert to Judaism. They they they can't even land during the war. So they land in Jordan and they cross over into Israel in order to get in to start learning on time in order to become a Jew. Some believe what's going on now. Or they're cursing us, which really is a Genesis 12:3. I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you. But what about the people in between? There are nobody in between. There is no in between. If I and and to do a thought experiment on this, if I ask any of you here, what do you think of the Chinese, not the food, and who are the people? This is the most successful race on the planet. One out of three people who live on this earth is Chinese. What do you think about them? Most you would have would not have very strong opinion about them. They're okay. They're fine. That's onethird. Jews are one quarter of 1% of the world's population and everyone's got an opinion. What's going on? This is and they're either joining us or trying to convert us. Fundamentalist Christians are targeting the Jews for conversion a way now that we've not seen in history. They've got a brand new message which they had to work out. They didn't understand why is the Jews so difficult to convert. How could it be that for the the church sent missionaries into all over South America, Central America and converted people overnight? Christianity spread like wildfire all over the Jews with all their problems so difficult to convert. Why? They realized that Jews Jewish evangelism poses certain problems and they discovered this in the early 1970s. In the early '7s and just to frame this you why it would be really it's 1972 5 years earlier Jerusalem had been liberated. Now you might think well what does that mean? Well, it's really important in messianic terms. In Tanakh, everything is about Jerusalem. In fact, every passage in the Hebrew Bible that you can think of that is messianic, that is esqueological, that deals with the end of days. Only is mentioned, not Israel. It's all your devour may Isaiah chapter 2 verse three and 4. Jerusalem Jerusalem Jerusalem everything about Jerusalem. They realized they had to bring their message but they had problems with converting Jews. Jewish people they discovered for some reason equate Christianity, check this out, with persecution. I know I couldn't figure that out either. For some reason, Jewish people, you know, there's a phenomena in Manhattan, in New York, Dava, specifically in New York City, in Manhattan, because real estate is so expensive. So, the churches are right up to the sidewalk. In other places, here in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, there's a church, but it's all the way has a big front lawn. You need banak, you'll see what's going on inside. But in Manhattan, the churches are right there, right? You're walking by. There's right there whatever. And you ever see, you know, they some of the doors are over and they see twoic Jews walking by. They look, oh yeah, give look what's going on in there. It makes us uncomfortable. I'm sure you've been to an airport, you've been to Newark and you see two priests and every Jews go, "Give a look at those priests over there." I wonder what they're thinking. Look at that nun. We You notice every single nun going by. Right or wrong? You're in JFK and there's a lady with a big schmata on her head, a tablecloth going down and you go, "Give a look at what she did." Right? If it's a Haric Krishna with orange pajamas and pace in the middle of his head and a tambourine, you what do we all say? That poor mother, right? What happened to you, Sheldon? When we see there's something about the church. When we see a Christian symbol of something, we're shocked by it. We're stunned by it. Why? 2,000 years the church developed a method to deal with this problem, this public relations problem. And it goes like this. You're Jewish. We love you. Baruk Hashim, we love the Jews. You're chosen. You're the apple of God's eye. We love Israel. We are totally pro- Israel. Persecution. Any Christian that persecuted a Jew named Jesus couldn't be a real Christian. A real Christian loves the Jewish people. That was stage one. But just loving us to death wasn't enough. wasn't sufficient because after all it does not address as Rabi B9 point doesn't address the real reason why Jews don't want to convert to Christianity it was attemp it was an attempt actually Luther tried earlier in the 16th century Luther the father of the reformation also wrote an essay in 1523 explained that if we were nicer to Jews and we treated them nicely then maybe they would convert but of course the Catholic church would treat the Jews with such antipathy and so on. Of course, the Jews didn't convert. He said even he writes he writes that if I had been a Jew and seen such idiots trying to convert Jews, I would have rather been a pig than a Christian. That's what he writes. But he ultimately hated the Jews very much. And when a rabbi in Germany tried to convert Luther, it really got under his skin and he devoted his whole life to trying to destroy us. Because the heart of the matter is the reason they realize that Jews don't want to convert to Christianity because Jewish people are very proud of their Jewish identity and don't want to stop being Jewish. This come as a very big surprise to rabbis but it's true. Jewish people are very proud of the Jewish identity and they understand by becoming a Christian you're ceasing to be Jewish. And Jews will say, "Yeah, I'm not talking about you who go to goes to shul who would I'm talking about your your brother-in-law who's not religious, but he still would say, look, I'm a Jew. I'm not becoming a Christian." So that's where the second technique has come in that has been devastatingly successful. When you become a believer in Jesus, you're not converting to another religion. No, no, you're becoming a Messianic Jew, a complete Jew, a fulfilled Jew, it's the most Jewish thing you can do. After all, Jesus was a Jew. All his disciples were Jewish. How can it not be Jewish to believe in Jesus? This the horror of Jewish communities worldwide has been devastatingly successful. There are more than a thousand organizations in the United States that are completely devoted to converting Jews to Christianity. And in Israel, it's a nightmare. In Israel, it's worse than any other place in the world. Yet, how could that be? After all, Israelis speak Hebrew. But in Israel, Christians have a unique relationship with Jews. Whereas in the United States, it would be virtually, it would be inconceivable that a synagogue or a temple would have any relationship with a church. That's not going to happen. Hey, Temple Emanuel, Temple Shalom. That makes no difference. They're not doing stuff with the assemblies of God. But in Israel, they consider these Christians to be Israel's best friends. And therefore, they're deeply inconce in the government. They're deeply connected to um Jewish communities. They're volunteer for all sorts of humanitarian programs in Israel. Israel has been going through a I made aliyah and six months later CO broke out and it's been non-stop like like all of us are going what's next you know we wake up in the morning and just look at the news and we just wonder what's going to you know what's today you know what's today going to be like you imagine in Israel but in Israel the evangelical Christians and I say evangelicals I don't mean Roman Catholics Roman Catholic church generally is not interested in converting Jews. There are some notable exceptions. They're generally not. Not talking about Orthodox Christians, uppercase O. They don't like Israel. They don't like Jews that much and well at all. And they're not interested in converting us. We're talking about not any Protestant, not the Hillary Clinton Protestant. Hillary Clinton is a member of the Methodist church. She's not interested in converting Jews because she's the liberal Methodist church. It's a divided church. But we're talking about the fundamentalist evangelical born again Christians. All of them are Christian Zionists. If you'll ask me later, what does that mean? It's it's a movement that began in America in the 19th century called premillennial dispensationalism. I'll repeat that. premillennial dispensationalism. John Nelson Darby, born in the UK, came to the United States with a new message. And the message was that until this point, the church considered the Jews rejected by God. While once chosen, because they committed the unspeakable crime of not only rejecting Jesus, but killing him. I always wondered about that. Like you should be thanking us if he been hit by a bus like would you wear a bus on your necklace like you have no religion you should think I thank you so much I don't know what happened without you we would you know like in Europe where almost you know more than half the populations they whenever I speak especially like in the UK they always want me you know more than half the audience is an atheist half people in England they still hate us so they'll say I don't believe Jesus, but I know you killed him. Was unbelievable. You know, I don't believe in him, but I know you did it. They should thank us. The New Testament curses us for killing him. We didn't kill him. You have no religion. If he would have died of Alzheimer's, that would be the end. It would never happen. He would have tripped in the shower. There would be I would be out of a job. I'd be selling pencils from a tin cup. But as it turns out, it doesn't even make sense. What I I'm This is funny and it's good. Actually, our sages tell us that mockery is forbidden, right? It's the first chapter of the book of Psalms. But bar except there's an exception making fun of of a deserter 46 begins with insane mockery of Bal which I won't even I can it's he makes fun of Bal like you wouldn't believe you know how Bal was worshiped he was worshiped by using it as a bathroom describing Bal unable to use the bathroom very explicitly. Elio Navi Elijah the prophet he mocked the principal. He mocked them. So you're allowed to What were we talking about? Oh yes. Right. So, as it turns out, his message was that the Jews are chosen. The land of Israel belongs to the people of Israel. And it was an idea that got gained traction in America. It would never have in England. England, they're not crazy about us today. I don't know if you read the papers. We're not they're not fans. And they didn't like us then. But the Church of England wasn't happy. But the United States, after all, hated England, didn't like England. Certainly did not like the the religion of England, meaning the Church of England. It was the Church of England that it was George III that America went to war with. 13 colonies went to war with to gain its in independence. As it turns out, the Americans would have lost that war. As the French had not stepped in and poured in a fortune of money and soldiers and weapons, it was inconceivable that those 13 colonies could have defeated defeated the British Empire. But the the Americans had a friend who invested everything in and through that America was able to this experiment was able to take off and became a country. That's how it works. And now the situation has turned a little bit. That's what happens. I hope Tucker's listening. He has to do Chuvu. So Americans, as you can imagine, were very receptive to the idea that the theory that the Church of England propagated, all the churches did, that the Jews were rejected and so on. No, the Jews are chosen. That the apple of God's eye and their conversion will trigger the second coming. I'm not kidding. And it spread like wildfire because people like Dwight uh like Moody, like Cyrus Scoffield who was a congressman from Kansas, they spread in their writings. And this this what premillennial means is not gerine. If you ask me later, I'll ask. What dispensationalism is not gerine. What is gerine is this idea that the Jew the covenant God has with the Jews is eternal, unbreakable and therefore the Jews have to be blessed and that the land of Israel must belong to the people of Israel. And as it turns out, Belelffor the foreign secretary of England believed in this. But these are the people uniquely who want to convert the Jews to Christianity. My dear friends, I could stand here and share with you about the methods, the chicainery, the changing of words, calling it Yeshua, calling churches and messianic congregations, using Jewish holidays like Passover to sell Christianity, using a Passover sader wine to say that belongs to the blood of Jesus and the matzah, the body and the Three matzas of the trinity and the broken middle matzah, the second person of the triune godhead. The holes in the matzah represent the piercings and the wrapping in a white towel represents the shroud and hiding beneath the father the tomb. The bringing back at the end of the seder the second coming pretty offensive. No, it's like you feel like you're being raped, right? I mean spiritually you just just feel like you just it it's good. By the way, if that did not bother you, there'd be something wrong with you. So, it's good. If what I just shared with you bothered you, that means you're spiritually going to be okay. There are diseases where people don't feel pain. That's when you need to go to the doctor. There's such a in the in the nervous system that people don't feel pain. It's very dangerous. So if this bothers you, that means you're on the right path. It's good. It's good. Good. Things that are disgusting repel you. Woe to those who call darkness light and like darkness sweetness bitter and bitter sweet. Isaiah tells us. So you know it's very important. It would be easy for us to talk about discuss what missionaries are doing altering the Jewish scriptures in order to make it appear christoologgical. literally making up verses that don't even exist and inserting them in the New Testament, altering the meaning of passages and deliberately not teaching parishioners the Hebrew language. They're unable to recognize it because all Christians are completely reliant on Christian translations that are all corrupt. I can stand here and do this and I do it almost every day somewhere in YouTube land. What is more difficult, my dear brothers and sisters, is for us to look in the mirror and ask the following question. What are we doing wrong? It's much easier for us to deflect our responsibility and just say, "Look how bad they are." It's more difficult to answer, but what are we doing wrong? Because after all, I would posit if we were doing our job, the missionaries wouldn't get one soul. Let me rephrase that in a way that's easy to understand. The success of Jews for Jesus, chosen people ministries, and first fruits of Zion represent the unpaid bills of the Jewish people. And as you heard my brother-in-law say to you, Jewish education is everything. This makum tyra defeats Jews for Jesus every day because Tyra is spread here. This is a shining light in the United States. This is a muck terra. This always pushes away the darkness. What's here pushes away the darkness. If our sons and daughters understood our Hebrew scriptures, Tanakh has to be the study of Tanakh has to be redoubled. It's not good enough for me to be speaking about the book of Zechariah and people going, "Wow, that's interesting. It's not a good thing." Not a good thing. Jeremiah, what a holy man he was. You know how old he was when he became a Novi? When he became a prophet, he was very young. I would be shocked if somebody knew. >> Somebody says it, I'll you'll I'll fall over. to talk about that. >> What's that? >> He was in his mother's womb. >> I didn't hear you tal >> but he was still in his mother's womb. >> So, Hashem chose him. You're very sweet. I would give you a hug. You're too bad you're far away. His argument. You know theel says he actually rates all the nim. Do you know that theel rates all besides meenu? It's an icor of our moon. It's a foundational ama to know that moherenu is the greatest of all prophets. In fact, if someone doesn't believe that person has no place in the world to come person if you don't believe that is the chief of all prophets. It's one of the 13 core principles of our faith. It's open in that hashem spoke to moherenu in a way no other novi ever would. But it's interesting the barabell he was so unique and so he actually ram in their how great they were and also how good their writing style was. you know that. So he doesn't rate Yahoo high on writing style but he says he after he was the greatest of all prophets and he brings down 15 parallels between Jeremiah Yer and and Moses. As it turns out that yeru became a novi at the age of 15 years old came to him and said I need you to do the job and like he didn't want it. When you have people running to be chief rabbi this is not a good sign because all the real leaders of the Jewish people are reluctant for the job. They don't want jobs. You see a guy he wants the job. This is not a good this is not a good sign right away. Merenu spent a week arguing with God. I don't want the job. It's not for me. I can't do it. Jeremiah's chief argument was I'm a kid. So said to him said to him, but I made you from the womb for this job. Doesn't mean he didn't have but you have the you have the ability even though you're a teenager, you have the ability to do it. Just know. And how long was he a ni for? So he was in his entire prophetic career was the same as Moses. How long was that? 41 years, same as Mosher Rabenu. And so when he was 56 years old, that's when he was sent to Egypt. He sent he was kidnapped and went to Egypt and that was the end of his prophetic career as is recorded. There are many other he's a giant of a giant. His safer is very large. Even though there are fewer chapters in the book of Jeremiah than Isaiah, Jeremiah is much longer than Isaiah because the chapters are enormous. It's one of the largest firm in all of Tanakh. But as it turns out, if people don't understand the book of Jeremiah and they don't recognize the oracles of Isaiah, blessed memories, that's a problem. The time is now. We're living in a unique moment now. History is unfolding now. Now is the time for us to return to the God of Israel. After all, that's our job. What is our job? To make movies, to be an accountant, to keep people out of prison, to deliver babies? No. Our job is to be a a light to the nations. Exodus chapter 19. And I say Exodus 19 because that should immediately go, "Wow, that's right before the Ten Commandments. Who are you? Your role is to be a a you're a a treasured nation and I'm saga and you're to be a to be a a kingdom of priests. If we're priests, who are the congregants who are our who sit in the pews? The answer is the nations of the world. I need you to bring it together. I need you to bring Messiah. I need you to restore back all the lost Jews that are coming back now. And you can't stop them. I know. You are my witnesses, declares Lordi, my servant who I have chosen. So you should know, believe, and understand that I am God. Before me, no Lord was formed, neither will there be one after me. I, even I am the Lord, and besides me, there's no other savior. Let them hear that in the halls of the Vatican. Let those words be declared at Moody Bible Institute. Let those words speak. People should scream it aloud at Dallas Theological Seminary because the time is coming soon when the nation of the world will speak in a pure speech. Zephaniah chapter 3 verse 9. And we will za to see the coming of the true Messiah. Thank you for joining me. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. If you enjoyed this program, please like and subscribe. [Music] [Applause] [Music]