הנבואה האיומה שהתפוצצה לכנסייה בפרצוף - הרב טוביה סינגר

Persia and its [music] proxies will be utterly destroyed. Listen like you have never [music] listened in your life. What's happening in our time should never happen according to the church fathers. >> [music] >> And they will surely if this is some weird catastrophe of history where the Jews return, surely it will be temporary. But when Israel defeats all of its enemies, specifically Persia who will to [music] the end fight against the people of Israel but will be utterly defeated and everyone, yes, everyone, even those in [music] the apostolic church will realize the church fathers were wrong and the God of Israel was true. >> [music] >> We're indeed living in a remarkable time. The children of Israel had returned back to the land of Israel after thousands of years of exile, precisely as prophesied by the prophets of Israel, Jeremiah 30:3. Hosea prophesies that the children of Israel abide for many days without a king, without a sacrifice. It's talking about the time we're in right now. And then finally chapter 3:4-5, after a very long time without a king or a sacrificial system, without the high priest, the children of Israel return to the Lord their God and David his servant as king. That's the Messiah that's in view. We're told that there's an order of events that must occur coming up to the Messiah. It's not an accident that the Passover Seder that we celebrate and recall the redemption of the Exodus is called well just that, a a Seder, an order. Why order? What kind of a name is that? It means that there is an order of events or a sequence of events on the night of the 15th day of the first month and 15 events take place at our Passover Seder table that brings us to the final redemption. That's how it happens. You have Jacob's trouble. Jeremiah appearing to the future. He saw the destruction of the first temple. And he said there's a day coming that'll be an ace or Heliaco time of great tribulation for Jacob. And there's nothing like it. We know what happened more than eight decades ago. When may men are you will share the prophet Jeremiah says that from it, from that catastrophe you will be saved. Very important prophecy. The Jews must return back to the land of Israel. Jerusalem must be in our hands. See Zechariah chapter 12. The Jewish people return back here to the land of Israel. Jerusalem is our hands. That won't stop the tribulation. Nations will go to war with Israel over Jerusalem. Jerusalem, this city will be a burdensome stone to all those nations who come against it. Zechariah chapter 12 verse 3. God's going to take a broken people and make them strong. Strong like even the angels of the Lord of hosts. Strong like David. Zechariah chapter 12 verse 7 and 8. God will destroy all the nations who come up against Jerusalem. Very critical event. We're told however in the Bible that immediately before the Messiah comes, there'll be a war. It's not between any two interlocutors. It's not necessarily a war between Jews and Arabs. Now, one might think biblically that that's where the tension should lie. And it would seem that way. Over the last 75, 80 years, it would seem that maybe it's the Bene Yisrael. Oh, no. It'll be Persia. A non-Arab country. A country 1,000 miles east of where I am right now would go to war directly with Jerusalem. We're told about this end-time war is a number of places in the Bible, but as it turns out, the prophet Ezekiel provides more saturated copious information about the Messianic age than any other prophet. There are many prophets that spoke about what would occur in the end of days, but Ezekiel provides saturated information, copious details about the building of the third temple described in Ezekiel chapter 40 through 48, essentially the last nine chapters of that holy oracle. Ezekiel tells us about the war between Persia and Israel. That's famously known Milchemet Gog u'Magog, the war with Gog. And it's Persia, and this is so unlikely. Meaning, the Persian Empire going back 2 1/2 thousand years ago, >> [snorts] >> Persian Empire was a relatively benign empire that no doubt Israel was a vassal state under the Persian Empire. It was a relatively benign relationship. In fact, it was Cyrus, the king of Persia, and I mean Cyrus the Great, who told the Jews, "Come back here. Come back to Jerusalem. Build it. Build your temple." And throughout history, the Jewish people had a good relationship with the Persian Empire, the Sasanian Empire. That was Persian. It was under the Sasanian Empire that the Babylonian Talmud was authored, was written in southern Mesopotamia, what what is today southern Iraq. Persia doesn't even share a border with Israel. Persia until the late an ally of Israel, but prophets had a way of teaching Jewish history, and specifically that history that had not yet occurred. Why was it necessary for the children of Israel at the end of days to go to war with Persia, of all countries? Why? Why did there need to be a war altogether? As it turns out, we're not always given a reason for everything, but this we're told explicitly. In Ezekiel 38 and 39, these two chapters belong together, we're told at the very end of these chapters that the reason why there's this war at the end of days, why the Jews must return back to the land of Israel with full sovereignty over this, over Jerusalem, we're told explicitly is so that the nation will know that I am Lord. Persia and its proxies will be utterly destroyed. You can read the last 10 passages of Ezekiel 38, the last 10 passages of Ezekiel 39. Just read these two chapters. We are told unambiguously, transparently, that the reason why there's this war at the end of days, in which the enemies of Israel are destroyed, is so that the world will know that I am Lord. Israel will know that I am Lord. The children of Israel are not whitewashed in these two chapters. One would think, well, these two chapters have nothing negative to say about the Jews. Oh, no. There's no whitewashing going on here. Quite the contrary. In these chapters, we're told about the long exile of the Jewish people that would precede their returning back to Jerusalem. All the people who believe in replacement theology, they're just not connected to the prophets. This is going to loom very large. Because the prophets, the same prophets that said that the Jewish would go into exile because of their sins, would one day return back this land and their sins will no longer be remembered. Isaiah chapter 65 is an excoriating chapter. This is not a chapter where the Jews look great. Most of the prophets were very critical of our behavior. Why? Just like our doctor's critical of the way we eat or the way we behave, and our parents when we were kids and did stupid things. The prophets wanted us to be better. But, as we see in Isaiah 65:8, you see that cluster of grapes? Yeah, there are a lot of things there that are waste, but there is juice in them. There is wine in them. There's that specific the Israel. there is the remnant of Israel. And as Zephaniah, Zephaniah lived 2,500 years ago, right here. Zephaniah lived in this city. He walked right where I'm standing. Zephaniah tells us what that remnant will look like. What can we expect from them, from the She'erit Yisrael? See Zephaniah chapter 3 verse 12 and 13. The remnant of Israel, like Isaiah 53, they will not sin. There'll be no deceit in their mouth. That's what's unique about the remnant of Israel. It's not all of the Jews, of course not. It's that remnant. It's not the cluster of grapes. It's that precious juice in the cluster. Isaiah 65:8, 9, 12. In fact, that chapter is devoted to explain that ultimately within the cluster of grapes, where there's a many things that are not useful. After the peels of a grape are used, after the skin of a grape is used to make the wine red, it has very little value, and neither the seeds. And certainly the grapevines have very little use. But there is that juice, that She'erit Yisrael, that righteous remnant. But think about this, my brothers and sisters from all around the world. Why why a war? Why is that necessary? Why will only that convince the nations of the world that the Lord is God, and that the God of Israel is the only true God? Why is that very important in the end of days? Well, there's a problem. I'll explain to you. I've mentioned so many passages in the Hebrew Bible that describe an eternal covenant that God has with the children of Israel. That cannot be broken, that cannot be undone. God makes that covenant with Abraham. He renews it with Isaac and ratifies it with Jacob. It's an eternal nation that cannot be broken, cannot be destroyed. So says the Lord who created the sun to illuminate the day, the the moon and the stars to illuminate the night. If these laws can pass before me, if the very foundations of the earth could be measured, so too I cast off the seed of Jacob from being a nation before me. Now, Christians they're familiar with Jeremiah 31, but just one part of 31, not this part. And that's a tragedy. But there's a further tragedy within Christendom. I mean, let's think this through for a moment. How will in fact the nations know that the Lord is God? How will they know? And this is particularly true for what's called apostolic churches, the largest Christian denominations in the world, the largest the Roman Catholic Church. The Roman Catholic Church is so large that if you took every other Christian denomination in the world, they added it up, it wouldn't be as large as the Roman Catholic Church. Here's the key about what a an apostolic church is and why it's so deeply germane to the end of days. Listen, like you have never listened in your life. In short, apostolic churches claim that their tradition comes directly from the apostles and through their disciples and their and their and essentially the church fathers. So, therefore, the church fathers completely reinterpret the entire Hebrew Bible was to understand it through their eyes. So, in the Roman Catholic Church, Augustine is revered. Augustine is revered all over the place. Augustine was, as all the church fathers were, a virulent anti-Semite. He did not like the Jews. In his magnum opus, The City of God, he said because the Jews committed plot against Jesus and giving him over to be crucified and are under the wrath of God, they will never return back to the city. This is very, very important. John Chrysostom, he's highly revered in the Orthodox Church. John Chrysostom was the Archbishop of Constantinople. He was a virulent anti-Semite. Why is this all germane? What does this have to come to with the coming of the Messiah? The problem that the church has and even exponentially more so among apostolic churches is that they will tell you "We read the Hebrew Bible through the church fathers." Watch this. >> We don't follow the Old Testament at all. The Old Testament is our root. [music] The Old Testament is a preparation for the New Testament, but Christians [music] read the Old Testament through the New Testament because everything in the Old Testament was about Jesus Christ. So, for a Christian, we understand the Old [music] Testament to be a for a earlier, what St. Paul would call a childish age, an age [music] in which the human being had not yet been redeemed. God had not yet become man. Sin had not yet been atoned for, and the Holy Spirit had not been given to believers until the [music] day of Pentecost. Once that happens, a much higher way of life, the Christian way of life is established as normative. So, it would make no sense at all for us to follow [music] the Old Testament. >> Do you understand what that Orthodox priest is saying? What he's saying is that we read the so-called Old Testament through the filter of the church fathers and the New Testament. Do you understand what the problem is? I don't know if you have to wrap your mind around this. This is what makes the situation so difficult, but this is what helps us understand the book of Ezekiel. Listen very carefully. If Christians are reading the Hebrew Bible through the filter of the New Testament and in case of the vast majority of Christians through the church fathers then essentially they have no guardrails. It's like playing tennis without a net. They're always reading the Hebrew Bible through a christological filter, through the grid of the New Testament and through the church fathers. That means, theoretically, they can't get it. They can't get it because again, there's no guardrails. As an example, in 132, about six decades after the Second Temple was destroyed, there was a revolt here in Jerusalem when Bar Kokhba led a revolt for about 3 years until 135, when Bar Kokhba rebelled against the Roman Empire. It was a brutal war. The Roman Empire had to bring in legions and even their premier general from Britain in order to defeat it. But the point is that while Bar Kokhba was fighting here in Jerusalem, there were many people, rabbis, who thought maybe he is the Messiah. But the moment he was killed by the Romans, that's our guardrail. We knew he couldn't possibly be the Messiah. Instead of Bar Kokhba, he's now called Bar Koziva. He's rejected. Why? Because we have a net. Because we have guardrails. And therefore, the moment Shabbetai Zevi commits apostasy, converts to Islam rather than martyrdom, we know immediately he can't possibly be the Messiah. The church has no such guardrails. The problem for billions of people in apostolic churches in particular is how could they know? How will they know that the Lord is God? After all, that's the most important feature of the Messianic Age, that the knowledge of God will cover the world as the water covers the sea. Isaiah chapter 11, verse 9. Zechariah chapter 14. God will be king of the whole world. He will be one. His name will be one. Everyone will know about the God of Israel. And 10 gentiles of different languages and nations will grab the shirt of a Jew and "Nel him ok, he shall Manu Elohim but how could this happen? After all, they have no guard rails. They're playing tennis without a net. They're simply reading the Hebrew Bible through the filters of the church fathers of Augustine and Chrysostom and Cyril Cyril of Alexandria. None of them had any use for the Jews. The answer? The war. The restoration of the Jewish people to this land. And the utter defeat of the nations that surrounded them. You see, the church fathers all said that would never happen. In fact, the church fathers went further. They said that the the destruction of the second temple and the expulsion of the Jews from Jerusalem demonstrated the truthfulness of Christianity and Judaism was completely false, was now a false religion. Therefore, what's happening today is not supposed to occur. Therefore, what's happening in our time should never happen according to the church fathers. And they will surely, if this is some weird catastrophe of history where the Jews return, surely it will be temporary. >> [clears throat] >> But when Israel defeats all of its enemies, specifically Persia who till the end fight against the people of Israel who will be utterly defeated, and everyone, yes, everyone, even those in the apostolic church will realize the church fathers were wrong, Augustine was wrong, Chrysostom was wrong, Cyril was wrong, Irenaeus was wrong, Athanasius was wrong, and the God of Israel was true. And that's where we are right now. Right now at the very very end. Right now facing a time, time when Zephaniah promised that all the nations will speak in a pure speech, chapter 3 verse 9. And that's why this war is necessary. That's why the complete shlita, sovereignty of the Jewish people over Jerusalem is necessary, not as some nationalistic, no. It's so that the nations could be saved. So the nations will know that I am Lord. And that's how Ezekiel 38 ends. That's how Ezekiel 39 ends. The restoration of the Jewish people to their land will show the world that the Lord is God. May we see [music] the coming of the true Messiah quickly in our time. Shalom. If you enjoy this program, please like and [music] subscribe. >> Adonai Echad Asher malach Beterem kol yetzir [music] nivra