The Messiah Emerges from the Destruction—Rabbi Singer Reveals the Prophecy

The fault is by the Dead Sea about 25 km from here. But many, many, many earthquakes here in all the other religions, holy places, they all collapsed. Ela, do the rock, the church, all the church, they all collapsed. But this never went anywhere. This doesn't move. It's here. It's here for Msiah. So this is our future. Tishabove in Tanakh. So, as it turns out, there's a very intriguing event that occurs about 2500 years ago. Zachchariah was a prophet during the Persian Empire and people came to him with questions in hal in Jewish law. Imagine that. And they had a question for him and these were specifically the Jews of Bavl. And here's what they wanted to know. Here the second temple was being built. So Zachchariah was one of three prophets that lived during the Persian Empire. And they wanted to know given that now the second temple is being built, do we still have to fast on tishabove? Could you imagine that question? And could you imagine how happy Zachariah was to hear that question? He wasn't happy at all. And he certainly he asked them a question. He says, "Do you really think that God needs that your stomach is empty? Do you think you're fasting for God or is it to remind you to be closer to God?" And then he soarses into a prophecy that continues in chapter 7 and explodes in chapter 8. Chapter 8 begins with a passage you're all familiar with. Days are coming, sayeth the Lord, that old men and old women will one day walk in the streets of Jerusalem with their staffs and children will will play on the streets of Islam. You know, be glow because of this In the Jewish quarter you have the Cardo. The Cardo was built under the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantine Empire began in 330 and it was expanded under Justinian in the 6th century. He hated Jews. He made a takona that no Jew is allowed to even pray in Hebrew. So the people who built that cardo thought that no Jew would ever walk down that street again. In fact, Jews were expelled from Jerusalem during the Byzantine Empire except for 19 months when when Julian in 361 became emperor of Rome and he rejected Christianity. He's called Julian the apostate. He's like an idiot. He went to a war which he shouldn't have been. He got killed and it went back to Christianity and the Jew see he let the Jews back in and he said go make a Sanhedrin go build a temple do what you want I don't care I'm not a Christian it doesn't bother me at all but the key is that once the it reverts back to Christianity the Jews are then expelled and Justinian passed laws that even if Pesak came out before Easter the Jews were not allowed to celebrate it. That's that's the people who expanded that cardo. They never imagined the Jew would ever be there. And children who live in your have a game they play. They go into that area of the cardo. They throw little pebbles up and to see which pebble will land on top of the pillar and stay there fulfilling the passion that children one day will play in the streets of Jerusalem. And you who built those pillars thought that no Jew would ever come here. We're here. And if you want to learn about the Byzantine Empire, go to the library, blow off the dust off the books, and read about them cuz the Empire is finished. They were destroyed. They were defeated by the Turks and they're gone. But Khloe is here. And in fact, it's that pro that same prophet Zar Hanovi who launches into a soaring prophecy of Messiah and says a day is coming verse 19 chapter. It's all part of his answer that these fast days one day four fast days will be turned into days of great festivity and great joy. And then the prophet says, "And in those days 10 of the nations will grab the kafi, the corner of the Jew, and say, "Let us go with you." Because we have heard that God is with you. Why do they have to grab our corner as Rashi points out? Why? Because until that time, it's they who thought they are the true Jews. They're the new Jews. When the true Messiah comes, those who deny that the Jews are the heir to the promise of Tanakh will say, "Now I recognize you are the only ones who are the rightful owners of the sitas. It's not us. You were always the leader." And now we're saying, "Take us with you cuz now we know that God is with you. We as Kalisoul have to rise up to this moment, this glorious moment of our destiny. Yes, we fast to remind us of a bitter past but a marvelous future. And the western wall logically should be just a source of pain. Why? Because it's after all a relic. It's a zer of destruction. You know that when the old city was liberated, so an Israeli soldier climbed to the hotel and he put an Israeli flag up and he said, "Today we defeated Titus." The idiots think we defeated the Palestinians. We we defeated the Roman Empire. We had to wait a little bit of time. As the great prophet Hosea tells, it'll be a long time. Well, one day we when we liberated this, we defeated the Roman Empire and we turned back. Not Arabs, not anybody. We came back. But when the Mashia we should look at the Western and we probably do tear our shirts, we rice Korea in morning because this is what survived the but there's something very special in this in that we're very very close now to the sha we're very very close now. The question is what will happen to this wall when Mashia comes? Like what what happens to it? The answer is very simple. I know you went like this. Never thought about it. But there's a reason why this makes you happy and hopeful. That's the first wall of the messianic temple. So it's not only a zakurin of a painful past but it's also points way of a glorious future a promise and as the med says that the western rule theina never left it and will never be destroyed and even though there there have been many earthquakes the earthquakes really the the full is by the dead sea about 25 km from here but many many many earthquakes here here in Islam and all the other religions, holy places, they all collapsed. Eloxa, do the rock, the church, all the church, they all collapsed. But this never went anywhere. This doesn't move. It's here. It's here for Msiah. So this is our future. And that's why it's our source of hope and gratitude. So as we're here on Tishab, know that Mashiach was born on Tishab. Whether that's to be understood literally or not is not the point. In fact, I think it's distracting the thing about whether that should be literal. The key is from the depth of the spear. Hope is born. You live by your blood from it. Jeremiah 30:7 means Jacob's trouble. You will be delivered. May we see the pesak being brought here. We're very very it's not close to the gula. We're in a shas gula now. It's actually unfolding now. And we welcome the coming of the true Messiah. >> If you enjoyed this program, please like and subscribe. [singing] [music] [singing] [music] >> [singing]