Prophecy Unfolding Before Our Eyes: A Series of Events Leading to Redemption - Rabbi Tovia Singer

So no further ado. >> Thank you. Thank you so much. Wow. Thank you. >> Wow. Thank you. Good evening. Wow. This is um a a deep gratitude to Rabbi Rosenberg for working on this program. Julie, you're there somewhere. >> Right here. >> There you are. She's very excited right now. I just want you to know she worked very hard on this. And of course, this evening's program is in merit of her father's memory. May all those who knew him be elevated by his memory. It's a joy to be here with you. It wasn't easy getting out of Israel. >> People are plotting to get into Israel. There's a war. We need to get there. And um and our prayers are with the people of Israel right now. We are living in a remarkable time. We are living in a period when we can observe prophecy unfolding. Our sages of blessed memory tell us that while we can provide we could supply commentary on the numinous passages in Hebrew scriptures that describe the end of days. It'll only be that generation who live bishas hagula who live during the time of the redemption and we are only they will fully grasp the oracles of the prophets of blessed memory. And here we are. and I confess to you that when my greatgrandfather after whom I was named was murdered by the Nazis in the spring of 1944 when virtually all of Hungarian jewelry was destroyed in a fairly short period of time. He was a very great man. He was a kidic rabbi. And I do not know why it is that God in his perfect wisdom and understanding chose me rather than him to observe this sader of events. And I chose that word very carefully because it's a series an series of events that happen one after the other. And I chose that word because after all that word is a name that identifies the most famous meal throughout the calendar. The Passover night is called the seder. What an odd word to use to describe a redemption, but rather it's a seder of events. 15 parts. And we name them and enumerate them. Why? Why are there 10 plagues? God couldn't have done it with one plague. Why did God need Pharaoh's permission? He Why did he So people would wake up in Duchuva and we are living in a striking time when people are being transformed. The people all of us were on October 6th nearly two years ago no longer exist. We will never be the same people again. The world has been transformed and none of us could have imagined the events that would unfold. Moreover, there are many questions for which we I we do not have answers about that very dark day, October 7th. The order of magnitude of that day just to you know we often think of tectonic events in Jewish history 20th century the Kishnet pgrams that took place in 1903 in April of that year word went out that a Christian boy disappeared and he was found murdered and the Jews were responsible for two days Christians were slaughtering Jews. And it had an enormous impact on jewelry in the in the pale of the settlement in the western part of the Russian Empire. An enormous impact and Jews packed up and fled. We look at the the play, the book, the film Fiddler on the Roof as fiction, but it really isn't. It's just fiddler on roof happened in thousands of littleet throughout the western part of the empire where Jews were permitted to live under Zarus Russia. But the Kishna pagrams in total 49 Jews were murdered. We could think of the moment that ignited the showa crystal November 1938. 92 Jews murdered October 7th. The information will come out and I'm not looking forward to reading about it. But there is a mystery that I don't think any of us can answer is why the anti-semitism, the explosion of anti-semitism after October 7th. How did that happen? Like Tucker, where did you come from? Like how did like Candace like why now? I mean just so that you know I'm not after the show after European jewelry was destroyed there was a window of time when the world kind of felt sorry for us for a few years it's unlikely that the vote in the United Nations in November of 1947 would have gone 33-13 if it had not been for the destruction of European jewelry. What's happening? It is I would posit to you. I don't need to I am confident that every single one of you sitting here tonight listening to my voice shares this feeling of were just totally perplexed by this. How could Israel's intelligence completely collapse? Obviously it was something that's inexplicable but we know there was just a perfect storm of but this part is very difficult because it is really which means it's supernatural and who is Israel's implacable enemy a country who is identified in the Hebrew Bible by the prophets of Israel that shares no border with the Jewish state. Persia is not filled with Arabs. What is I get it that Syria is an Arab country. They would like the Golan at the least, but they at least have some there's something. But but this is the way our prophets of blessed memory spoke about events that had not yet occurred at the time. The Persian Empire was a friendly empire. It was a benign empire. And after all, it was the the first king of that empire that told the Jews, "It's time to go home." Cyrus, after all, looked at a prophecy in the book of Isaiah, and it had his name on it, and he said, "It's time for the Jews to go home." And 42,360 Jews packed their bags in Boville, in Babylon, and came to the land of Israel to begin the second Commonwealth. We know their names. They're identified in the book of Ezra chapter 2. Ezra chapter 2 names every single family that made aliyah after 50 years from the destruction of the first temple. Isn't that remarkable? And here we are. We're watching this. We're watching this event. And those Jews who did come to the land of Israel to make aliyah the initial wave were predominantly not religious Jews. And Ezra and go out of their way to let us know that many of them didn't keep the Sabbath. Many of them took non-Jewish wives. It's in there. Why is it in there? After all, we know that the katuim, the writings, that third section of the Hebrew Bible is all about Messiah. Now, why why why would the Bible, our scripture go out of its way to tell us it'll be a gentile king, not the most religious man in the world, who would move the embells, go to Jerusalem. And the bulk of the Jews that would go, not all, were not religious, find it very interesting historically. Barbara Tuckman could have written about this and it would be intriguing. One of the finest historians of our time, but it why is it scripture? What does that tell us about a messianic age? And after these Jews move to the land of Israel, a man rises up and seeks to destroy all the Jews. Why oh why is it in the Bible? And here we are living today in a remarkable time where I would submit that the middle has fallen out. meaning that I mentioned a moment ago that it is striking that there is this virulent form of anti-semitism that is exploding in the mainstream. Not the weirdos with pillow cases over their heads. I'm not getting them, you know, not the odd balls, you know, who want to march in Skoi. That was like the big thing in the late 70s. Some of you may remember it when neo-Nazis wanted to march in a suburb of Chicago that was home to one of the one of the largest Holocaust survivor communities. And the fellow he dressed like Hitler. Anyone remember his name? Frank Colin, neo-Nazi. And as it turned out, like today we have these very odd people who are of Jewish extraction. As it turns out, Frank Colin lost his job because it was discovered that not only was his father Jewish, but his father was a survivor of Bookenwald. And we turn on the TV and sometimes we're we find this circus of events on Pierce Morgan of Jews who are are implacable enemies and advertise their Jewishness using marshalling a a reverse ad homonym fallacy and using their Jewish ancestry in order to bring the most serious charges against the Jewish nation today. But yet we're living in a time when there's a great affection for the Jewish people. This is so striking. We are one quarter of 1% of the world's population. Yet that's all they can talk about. We know it. Think of other peoples. The Chinese, the most successful race on the planet. One out of three people who occupy this earth of ours is Chinese. And you ask most people, well, what do you think of the Chinese people? And most people would go, we're not talking about their food now, right? We're talking about they would go I I don't really have a very strong opinion about them. I think they're they're good folks. I what do you think about the Koreans seem to be just fine? But I love the K. When it comes to the Jews, if we do the thought experiment, the only rulers, you have to say what you really think. People either just love the Jews or hate the Jews. And it kind of reminds me of Genesis 12:3 when the Almighty is blessing Abraham. He says to them, "I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you. In your name, all the nations will be blessed." And you have to wonder yourself, what happens to people who just don't have a real strong opinion about them? Oh, no. There won't be people like that. There won't be anyone in between. They might hide their views because it's socially unacceptable. Well, they may mask their feelings about the Jewish people by their feelings about the Jewish state, but everyone's got a very, very strong view about a nation, one quarter of 1% of the world's population. A country so tiny that when you look at a globe, the name of the country can't even fit inside the country. Israel has to be spelt out in the Mediterranean Sea. Syria, no problem. Big letters, fill it up. Egypt, no problem at all. Israel, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, were somehow all floating. These names are floating somewhere in the Eastern Mediterranean, a country of 26,000 square kilometers. That's the Holio. I remember giving the American ambassador um the 14th governor of the state of Arkansas, Ambassador Huckabe, a a tour of Israel with a helicopter and I was his guide for the day years ago. And we went up and I said, "Okay." We were facing north. I said, "Look to your left." He said, "That's the Mediterranean, isn't it?" I said, "Yeah, sure is." Now, look to the right. That's the Jordan. I don't remember how high we were. Maybe it was 1500 ft from the river to the sea. That's the whole thing. There are driveways in Texas bigger than us. Our opponents are not just our physical opponents that want to destroy us, our nation. Spiritual opponents, fundamentalist, evangelical, bornagain Christians, Protestants. They want to bring you to the church. I don't mean the large. How are you, dear? >> So good to see you. Wow. So, I do not mean because I I I'm I'm cognizant that I'm in San Diego where there's a very large prestigious Roman Catholic community here in the city. Okay. The Roman Catholics you will meet in San Diego for the most part are not interested in converting Jews to Christianity. The liberal Protestants, there are many of them here in this city. Episcopalians, Methodists. These people too are not interested in converting you to Christianity. San Diego is loaded with Messianic congregations, churches that are designed to appear as though they're synagogues. Fundamentalist Southern Baptist churches in this city. There are in the United States more than a thousand missions to the Jews that are dedicated to bring each and every one of you to the cross. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent annually to bring each and every one of you to convert to Christianity. They've got a message for you, sir. You need to believe in Jesus. And if you believe in him, you're saved. And if you don't, you're damned. Mark chapter 16:E1 16. There's no salvation outside of the cross. That's their message. These fundamentalist Christians like the Assemblies of God, that's the fastest growing Protestant denomination in the United States. That's the largest. Southern Baptists take that prize. Southern Baptist Convention. Anyone know what they're about? Like what does that mean? Southern Baptist like a Baptist and if you have a suntan is a southern what does this mean? The whole Southern Baptist church was born out of hatred and racism. In the 19th century, the Baptist church declared that if you own slaves, you could not lead a church. Seemed reasonable. But there were a lot of folks who wanted a church and they wanted a slave. So in Augusta, Georgia in the early 1840s, the Southern Baptist Convention was created so that slavery can continue and still have a church in in good standing. The whole thing is born out of racism. That doesn't they're not the only ones who are racist in the 19th century, but the was that that's why they were created. It blows my mind away to see African-Americans going into a Southern Baptist church. Don't I like plots I remember once driving to Newark, New Jersey. So Newark airport, Newark airport. So to get to Newark airport is very easy because you imagine Northern New Jersey and there you can take the Garden State Parkway, you could take the turnpike and it all. Is this too complicated for the Californians? So, but sometimes there's traffic. I know you're from California. You don't know what traffic is, but there's such a thing as traffic. I remember Sunday I had to catch a flight and the Garden State Parkway. I was going from north to south. So, I think it's exit 142. You get off the Parkway. You have to get on to 78 and take a a little turn there like this. you get how you normally would get to the airport, but the parkway was packed. There was a parking lot, but I knew the trick. And that is you get over at exit 143B. I believe I got that right. And then you drive in the in the Newark area and you drive on the streets and you can go pretty fast. And I'll never forget this. So I I get off Garden State because it was a nightmare. I had to catch this flight. It's a horrible feeling. And I'm just waiting there at a light. And then I look to my right and I'm going Southern Baptist Church. It was a Sunday morning and there were black women dressed to the nines in their Sunday best. I mean just most be and I just wanted to park in my car and go. Do you understand what you're doing going into a building like that? I couldn't get him. But these people here it's bad. In Israel it's a nightmare. In Israel, it's a nightmare because in these are Israel's best friends. So, they're highly integrated into Israeli society, very close to the government. It's a stage for cancer in Israel. For those who don't know, there is no such thing as stage five. It's very very serious in Southern California because here you have home to essentially the second largest Jewish community in the United States. Southern California and you have many evangelicals in Southern California. It's not just here but in Orange County. I don't need to tell you. You after all live here. And these people have a message for you. If you believe in Jesus, you're saved. And if you don't, you're going to hell. There is no hope for you. 2 Thessalonians 1:8 describes what will happen to those who don't accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior. When the French crusaders came into Jerusalem in 1099, in July of that year, they took all the Jews living in inim. They put them into a synagogue, locked the doors in the outside and recited John chapter 15 verse 6, which describes how those who don't believe in Jesus, they will be burnt alive with wood like packages of wood. The claim of Jews for Jesus, which is right here in your neighborhood. The claim of Chosen People Ministries, which is right here in your neighborhood, is very simple. If you believe in Jesus, you're saved. And if you don't, you're damned. You're going to hell. There is no hope for you. I remember I was speaking in Brooklyn. Yes. Looks very much like No, it doesn't. Looks nothing. It was a nice big crowd in the audience and after the lecture so people frequently come over to me after the lecture you'll see after you'll see and they asked questions right and I saw there was a crowd of people around me and I'm answering people's questions and I could see in the corner of my eye was my rebby from fifth grade Rabbi Franco was standing there his his beard was grayer I must have Even when I was a student, maybe I what was I 10 years old and he was just watching this whole spectacle and finally he made his way closer to me and when our eyes locked he said you know Tvia if you would have known your kish like you know the New Testament you would have been just fine. In 1959, Israel, the Mossad discovered where the architect of the Holocaust was hiding in Argentina, and it sent its agents to capture Adolf Aman. I met one of the men who grabbed him. In fact, he wrote a book called I in my hands. Name is Peter Malin. Spent good time with him. He captured him along with others. And Israel managed to bring him out of Argentina. It was a I mean Israel's in Argentina. Relations between the two countries did not heal for decades because of that. But he was put on trial for crimes against humanity. It was a a trial that seized the world. The it was broadcast and the prosecutor in the case his name anybody Gideon Howner justice in Jerusalem very important book. Akman is convicted of his unimaginable crimes and sentenced to be executed of May in 1962. Two days before his execution, he regret he requests a Dutch confessor and he accepts Jesus as his Lord and Savior two days before his execution on May 31st, 1962. In Christian theology, if he genuinely converted to Christianity, so then he went to heaven. And those that he murdered, after all, they didn't. They went to hell. This is what's called a fantastic claim. And it behooves us, I think, to ask a fundamental question throughout the entire corpus of the Hebrew Bible. How many times do we find this mitzvah, this commandment? I mean, in Christian terms, everything comes to that. If you, I am sure there are many of you sitting in this room who were Christians at one time. So, you know, I'm not strawmaning this. I'm not throughout the entire Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew scriptures, incidentally, is enormous. It's much bigger than La Havdo, the New Testament. The Hebrew Bible is in nearly 24,000 passages. It's made up of 36,757 words. It's enormous. throughout the entire corpus of Tanakh. How many times does it say that when Messiah comes, make sure that you accept him and you don't reject him? Incidentally, why is that a valid question? Before we address that, I mean, in ter for the church, that's everything. The church, if you're a Christian, you're saved. You don't if you speak to people who are Christians and you left it, they're going to the first thing I tell you is you're going to hell. Am I making this up? Cuz there a lot of people in the audience are going, "Rabbi, you're telling the truth." >> Okay. Okay. So, it's very important. This is terrified of this. It's intriguing, incidentally, that Tanakh never threatens hell. Never. Why? It's really of all the world religions, the afterlife is never used as a threat. Doesn't mean there isn't an afterlife. There is, but it's never the threat. Why not? Cuz it's a it's unfalsifiable. If you're making up a religion, you definitely want to get heaven and hell in there. And a lot. Why? Because you can't test it. What are you going to do? Go to Home Depot, hit the cemetery, spend two hours digging and say, "Hey, Charlie, so what happened?" If you are really God and you're inspiring a prophet, why would you talk about heaven and hell? That doesn't make sense. If you're God, that means you control the weather. So, you can say, "Well, here's what's going to happen. You turn away from me. It's just going to stop raining. And if it stops raining, your animals will have nothing to eat, and neither will you. and your wives will not have children. When you go to war, your enemies will defeat you. Now, if you're not God, you definitely do not want to threat make those threats. Why? Because you can't control the weather. You can't control history. You can't control military outcomes. So, only the God of Israel would threat. There are threats in the Hebrew Bible, but it's never heaven and hell. Never. But why would a Christian agree that the most important question to ask is throughout the entire Jewish Bible, how often does it say that when the Messiah comes, make sure that you accept him and you don't reject him? How often does it say that? Why would a Christian concede that that's the fundamental question to ask? Can anyone tell me the what you're about to hear is not politically correct. But when you want to know the truth sometimes, right? Something let's say something you're not feeling well, you wake up. Something bothering you, something pulling, schleing, you're not feel person goes to the doctor. You hope not. You hope it goes away. But let's say it persists. So you go. Don't want to go, but you go. Now in truth, when a person goes to a doctor, there are things that go on in a doctor's office that if we're going anywhere else, you call the police immediately. You want me to do what? I don't know. We have in Israel have the tables and they have a piece of paper like a deli paper. Do they have a hair also? You feel like a pastrami sandwich over there. Why would you put yourself through that? Because you hope that the man or the girl, this lady knows what she's doing and she'll figure out you just need this little pillar, just one and you go home. But just I want to know the truth because it's really important. All Christians can see that the Hebrew Bible can be true and the Christian Bible false. That's not politically correct, but it's true. The Christian Bible, however, cannot be true and the Jewish Bible false. Why not? Because the Christian Bible explicitly states that it's basing itself on the Jewish scriptures. 2 Timothy 3:16 as an example. So therefore, it's fair to ask the question throughout the entire Jewish scripture throughout Tanakh. How frequently does it say that when Messiah comes, now Messiah is in Tanakh. There are hundreds of messianic passages in the Hebrew Bible. How frequently do we find the mitzvah, this commandment that when Messiah comes, make sure that you accept him and you don't reject him? Can anybody >> zero correct? It's not there. Isn't that interesting? You know the prohibition against eating cockroaches? >> Sorry for you there. It there are six prohibitions against it. doesn't literally say cockroaches, but just these creepy things. I nearly said crossdressing and then I realized, wait, it's 2025. We have to dump that. But it is in there. Go ahead. I got paid. I don't care. No, I'm just kidding. But it it's the prohibition against being unkind to the convert 21 times. If a person is kind to a convert, your makaya, you fulfill 21 mitz in the Torah. It's not there. There's not one passage anywhere in the Hebrew Bible that says what Jesus Jesus says is everything that when the Messiah comes, make sure you accept him. You don't reject him. It's not there. It doesn't exist. Why? Because it's not of God. It's of man. In fact, Christianity is man's failed effort to create God in his image. Conversely, Judaism is God's successful endeavor in creating man in his image. Exactly the opposite. That's why Jesus looks great. Why does he look terrific? If you and I were standing in CVS, right, and I say to you, "Hey, don't turn around right now, but the guy behind us looks exactly like Jesus." And then, of course, all the Jews go, "All right, what are you expecting to see there?" There'll be a fellow. He's 6 feet tall, perfect BMI, hair to die for, not a single split end, perfect beard. He looks terrific. You know what you're going to look at. He's not going to be a short fat bald yent with a mustache. It's not going to happen. It's just we know it. It doesn't matter. Does he know what he's going to look like? He's going to look like he's from GQ. Why? Because if man would attempt to create God in his image, that's what we would want. We'd want our God to look just like that. That's what it is. It's idolatry. I want to ask you a question, Kindle. I want to ask you a question, my dear brothers and sisters. Why in fact doesn't it say anywhere in the Jewish Bible that when the Messiah comes, make sure that you accept him and don't reject him. If we can for a moment, a thought experiment, let's set Christianity outside for a moment. We don't need it. But I would think that when the Messiah comes, we appear to be very, very close now to that moment. I would think that when it occurs that it really would be a very good idea to accept him and it would be it would be the motherload of bad ideas to reject him. So why isn't there anywhere in the Hebrew Bible it says that when the Messiah comes make sure that you accept him. Think yes sir. Bingo. Because because it's built in, it's sort of circular. The most important messianic prophecy in Tanakh is that everyone will know the truth. The knowledge of God will cover the world as the water covers the sea. Habacook 2:14, Isaiah 11:9, 10 Gentiles of different languages will grab the shirt of a Jew and say Elohim, let us go with you because we have heard that God is with you. In fact, if we're wrong about the Trinity and the Theotocos, why would they be coming to us? And the Jews will come to the Jews say, "Now we know that you had the truth all along. Why would you convert out the clear? The clear point is that the Messiah himself will rebuke the nations. He will judge among the peoples and the nations will follow him. You know that prophecy about when the Messiah, there's very little about Messiah in there hundreds of passages in the Hebrew Bible that are messianic about the messianic age. Very few of them are about Messiah himself. There are very few. And none of them he's doing miracles. None of them. He's not a he's not a miracle person. But Isaiah tells us that he will rebuke the nations and he will judge among the peoples and they will take their swords and spears and turn them into plowshares and pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation. Neither will they learn of war anymore. Isaiah 2:3 and 4. Even the United Nations, I'm not a big fan, but the United Nations on First Avenue and 42nd Street, it's chiseled into a wall in the Christian Bible. Not there. He didn't do it. Now that's you can imagine United Nations don't want to put that in there. That's that's definitely not going to go with the UN, right? The answer is that everyone will know the truth, right? Everyone knows because that's a signal to Falis. Everyone knows that Isaiah chapter 14, everyone will know that there's one God of Israel. Everyone will know the truth. It would be silly. That means if people don't think he's a messiah, that means he isn't. You see, it's really kind of built in there. And war will come to an end. According to the State Department, there are currently 27 wars that are raging in the world. You're very familiar with probably two, maybe three of them. One of them for sure, everyone knows about. There's a much very deadly war going on in Ukraine and Russia where between five and 10,000 people are killed weekly. That somehow, you know, is not that interesting. And in Nigeria, there's a civil war which almost no one's ever heard of. That will all come to an end. If there are rockets and missiles that are that means Messiah has not yet here. The in gathering the exiles. We are living a time ladies and gentlemen where more than half of the known Jews in the world are living in Arit Israel. That had not been the case since the days of Hezekiah. with the language lashed lashes that's inh Jewish the Jewish language Isaiah 36:1 is spoken in Erdro in the second temple conversational language was Aramaic not Hebrew people prayed in Hebrew of course they read Tanakh in Hebrew but their conversation was Aramaic you'd have to go back to first temple times our people are coming home It's time to go home. And this isn't it. There are so many mitzvah that you can perform in the land of Israel. You cannot perform here. It's time. And who is doing things to chase Jews out of places where they were very comfortable and people are starting to worry and starting to realize that I think in Belgium our time is running out. I think in England time is running out. Lord only knows what's about to happen in New York City. Time may be running out. The building of a temple in Jerusalem. From Ezekiel chapter 41-47, we have the unused blueprints of the third messianic temple. All the tribes will be restored. All 12 will be present. God tells Ezekiel, "Take two rods, one of them Judah, the other Ephraim. They'll become one in your hand. Israel can never disappear. He saw a valley of dry bones and God asked him, "Can these bones live?" And Ezekiel was smart enough to say, "Only you know, Lord." And they rose. And this is the people of Israel. Covenant Israel cannot disappear. No individual has that guarantee. The work we're doing in outreach is not to make sure that the Jews don't disappear. We can't disappear. We don't want you to give up your seat on the bus. These events will be preceded by the coming of Elijah the prophet Elio Anovi were told us at the very end of the last book of the prophets. Ladies and gentlemen, we're living in a remarkable time. We're living in a time where soon all the nations will speak bes in a pure speech. A time when there'll be peace. A time when all the nations will bend their knees and their tongues will praise only the God of Israel and no one else. And let us hope that we merit to see the coming of the true Messiah Bomeu very very quickly in our time. Thank you so much for joining me here tonight. Sean, if you enjoyed this program, please like and subscribe. [Music] [Applause] [Music]