JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
ISRAELI PROPHESIES.
7 YEARS OF DEATH AND HELL.
REVELATION 6:7-8 (8 BILLION- 2 BILLION = 6 BILLION)
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 BILLION) to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
REVELATION 9:15,18 (6 BILLION - 2 BILLION = 4 BILLION)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,
18 By these three was the third part of men killed,(2 BILLION) by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMBS)
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE 17:34-37 (8 TOTAL BILLION - 4 BILLION DEAD IN TRIB = 4 BILLION TO JESUS KINGDOM) (HALF DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD JUST LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS)(GOD DOES NOT LIE)(AND NOTICE MOST DIE IN WAR AND DISEASES-NOT COMETS-ASTEROIDS-QUAKES OR TSUNAMIS)
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.(half earths population 4 billion die in the 7 yr trib)
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES.BECAUSE NOT HALF OF PEOPLE ON EARTH ARE CHRISTIANS.AND THE CONTEXT IN LUKE 17 IS THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION OR 7 YR TREATY PERIOD.WHICH IS JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH.NOT 50% RAPTURED TO HEAVEN.
MATTHEW 24:37-42 (THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-SURE NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
42 Watch therefore:(FOR THE LAST DAYS SIGNS HAPPENING) for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.(CAN YOU SAY TORNADOES,HURRICANES,VOLCANOES,EARTH QUAKES,LANDSLIDES,FLASH FLOODING,EXPLOSIONS,SNOW STORMS,THEN FINALLY NUKESAND ANY OTHER JUDGEMENTS THE EARTH CAN VOMIT THE SINNERS OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH WITH.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
2 Peter 3:6-7 Amplified Bible (AMP) (HOT SUN, NUKES ETC)
6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed.
7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON THE MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS-PROPHECY SIGNS) and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE.
Joel 3:2-King James Version (YOU DIVIDE JERUSALEM IN HALF - YOUR POKING GOD IN THE EYE - GOD SAYS AN EYE FOR AN EYE AND A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH- YOU WANNA DIVIDE JERUSALEM IN HALF - HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION 4 BILLION DIE ON EARTH.
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE.
LUKE 19:40
40 And He answered and said unto them, “I tell you that if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
PA paid terrorists $200 million in 2025 while cutting schools to three days a week-Zahava Schwartz-Israel News-November 11, 2026
For the fourth straight year, 600,000 Palestinian children attend school part-time because the PA says it cannot afford full teacher salaries. A watchdog estimates the PA will pay terrorists and their families $315 million this year.The Palestinian Authority paid more than $200 million to terrorists and their families in 2025, according to a US State Department report to Congress, even as it kept its government schools in Judea and Samaria open only part of the week for a third straight year because it says it cannot afford to pay its teachers. The shortened schedule continues into a fourth year this fall for more than 600,000 students, while Palestinian Media Watch estimates the PA will pay $315 million to terrorists and their families in 2026.Mahdi Daraghmeh’s three children, ages 6, 8 and 13, are among those students. Their school in the Jordan Valley town of al-Malih is open three days a week, and the rest of the time, Daraghmeh told The Times of Israel, the children stay home on their phones playing games and forget what they learned.Half a salary, half a school week-
More than 40,000 teachers work in the PA’s government schools. For five years, the PA has paid its public employees only part of their salaries, often months late. In September, the Palestinian Finance Ministry announced that employees would finally be paid for June, at 50 percent of their salary or NIS 2,000, whichever was higher. One principal told The Times of Israel he has received half his pay, around NIS 2,800 ($911) a month, for three years.In 2023, the PA allowed public employees to work just two days a week, and schools cut back to two or three days. The Association for Civil Rights in Israel reports that class time for Arabic language alone has fallen by nearly two-thirds. A Ramallah teacher told the group that her daughter finished first grade without knowing her letters in Arabic or English. Test results published in September by the OECD showed math and science proficiency among Palestinian 15-year-olds falling since 2022, with scores among the lowest in the world.The approximately 46,000 students in UNRWA schools and more than 160,000 in private schools are largely unaffected. Private schools charge several thousand shekels a year and keep paying their teachers.Saad Erekat, head of the Palestinian Teachers’ Union, tied the return to full schooling to the restoration of full salaries: “I want a full salary and full schooling.” He said the union proposed that teachers alone receive full pay, and the PA rejected the idea on the grounds that it could not favor one group of public employees over another.The payments that continued-The Times of Israel report attributes the crisis to Israel withholding tax revenues it collects for the PA, which Mahmoud Abbas says have reached $6 billion. The article makes no mention of the PA’s payments to terrorists, which are the reason Israel began withholding much of that money. Under a 2018 Israeli law, Israel deducts from the PA’s tax revenues an amount equal to what the PA pays terrorists and their families.Under the PA’s program, imprisoned terrorists receive a monthly salary that rises with the length of their sentence, from NIS 1,400 up to NIS 12,000, according to Lt.-Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs. A terrorist serving a long sentence can earn more than four times what the half-paid principal now takes home. Hirsch calculated that the PA’s terror payments totaled more than a billion dollars between 2018 and 2023.On February 10, 2025, under Western pressure, Abbas announced the end of the program, saying payments would move to a new body, the Palestinian National Economic Empowerment Institution, and be based on financial need. The State Department report, first obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, found the payments continued, including to convicted terrorists released from Israeli prisons in October 2025 under President Trump’s 20-point plan. The report also found that the PA continued to glorify violence in its educational materials and summer camps.The payments violate an American law written specifically to stop them. The Taylor Force Act, signed by President Trump in March 2018, is named for Taylor Force, a 28-year-old US Army veteran and Vanderbilt University graduate student who was stabbed to death by a Palestinian terrorist in Jaffa in 2016. The law bars US economic aid that directly benefits the PA as long as it keeps paying terrorists and their families, and requires the State Department to report to Congress each year. The State Department’s April 2026 report concluded that the PA “continues to provide a system of compensation in support of terrorism through new mechanisms and under a different name.”The law has a gap. It blocks only one category of aid, the Economic Support Fund, and leaves untouched the money Washington sends for the PA’s security forces. According to an analysis by the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, the US continued to provide the PA with tens of millions of dollars a year through that channel, covering routine operations, maintenance, vehicles, and equipment for PA security units. The Jerusalem Center found that some of the PA security personnel trained with that funding were terrorists. Money is fungible: every dollar Washington spends running the PA’s security forces is a dollar the PA no longer has to spend on them, freeing its own budget for other priorities. Those priorities, by the State Department’s own findings, still include paying terrorists.Palestinian Media Watch reports that the PA has hidden its 2026 payments by disguising at least 23,500 recipients as civil servants, security personnel, and pensioners. In February, the group reported that the PA reclassified another 6,000 recipients as pensioners. PA Finance Minister Estephan Salameh responded to the exposure by affirming that the payments would continue despite the PA’s financial distress.The figures make the choice concrete. The principal interviewed by The Times of Israel is missing about $911 a month, half his salary. If PMW’s estimate is accurate, the $315 million the PA plans to pay terrorists this year would cover that missing half-salary for roughly 28,000 teachers for a full year.The PA told the teachers’ union it could not prioritize teachers over other employees. By the US government’s own findings, it has continued to prioritize the people sitting in Israeli prisons for attacks on Israelis.Western governments still describe the Palestinian Authority (PA) as the foundation of a future Palestinian state. What they envision is an unprecedented state within Israel’s borders: militarized, ethnically cleansed of Jews, with an exclusively Muslim capital in Jerusalem centered on Judaism’s holiest site, the Temple Mount. The State Department found that the same government cutting its children’s school week is still funding terror and teaching violence in the classrooms that remain open.The breath of schoolchildren-The Talmud records a teaching from Resh Lakish in the name of Rabbi Yehuda Nesia: the world endures only because of the breath of tinokot shel beit rabban, the children who sit and learn Bible from their teacher (Shabbat 119b). The Sage Rav Pappa asked his teacher Abaye whether the Torah study of grown scholars like themselves counted for the same. Abaye answered that breath tainted by sin cannot compare to breath free of sin. The innocent voices of children reciting their lessons, the Sages taught, carry a power that the learning of adults cannot match.The Talmud draws practical laws from that teaching. Schoolchildren may not be pulled from their studies even to build the Holy Temple, and a town without schoolchildren will be destroyed. The Psalmist expressed the same idea:“Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast Thou founded strength, because of Thine adversaries; that Thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.” (Psalms 8:3)-The verse places the source of a nation’s strength in the mouths of its children, and names that strength as the answer to the enemy and the avenger.The Palestinian Authority has inverted that order. The Sages held that not even the construction of God’s house may interrupt a child’s lesson. The PA has cut the lessons of 600,000 children in half for four years, citing a lack of funds, while, by the US State Department’s findings, it paid more than $200 million in a single year to terrorists and the families of terrorists. The money that could have kept the classrooms open went to the people the Psalmist called the enemy and the avenger.
Sharks are returning to Israel’s coast. This biblical prophecy may explain why.Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz-Biblical News-November 11, 2026
Several dozen endangered sharks have returned to the warm waters off Hadera for the winter. Israel has become a refuge for a predator disappearing across the Mediterranean. The Bible and the Zohar describe the multiplying of fish as a stage in the redemption.The sharks are back. The Israel Nature and Parks Authority on Tuesday warned the public against diving, snorkeling, or entering the water near the Hadera power station after sharks returned to the area for the winter, cautioning that encounters with the predators are unpredictable and potentially dangerous. Every year, from November to May, several dozen dusky and sandbar sharks congregate in the warm water discharged by the Orot Rabin power plant. They come to Israel’s shore from a sea where their numbers are collapsing, to one of the only coastlines where they are protected by law.A winter gathering-The two species that gather at Hadera are the dusky shark, which in Israeli waters reaches about three meters in length and about 150 kilograms, and the smaller sandbar shark, which reaches about two meters and 70 kilograms. Their dorsal fins can sometimes be seen cutting the surface near the plant’s outlet, where the discharged seawater is roughly ten degrees warmer than the surrounding sea. The sandbar shark is classified as endangered in the Mediterranean, and too little data exists to determine the status of the region’s dusky sharks.Researchers say the sharks come to rest and warm themselves. According to the authority, the heated water accelerates physiological processes, including digestion and processes associated with reproduction. Reporting on the gathering has noted that most of the sharks at Hadera are pregnant female dusky sharks and male sandbar sharks.“In Israel, sharks are a protected species and are highly important in maintaining marine ecosystems,” said Yigal Ben Ari, head of the authority’s Marine Unit. Harming, harassing or feeding them is a criminal offense. Ben Ari said shark populations across the Mediterranean have suffered steep declines from overfishing and accidental capture, and that sharks caught unintentionally are sometimes thrown back into the sea dying or dead.The authority’s warning carries the memory of a tragedy. In April 2025, Barak Tzach, 40, a father of four from Petah Tikva, took a break from fishing near the mouth of the Hadera Stream to enter the water and film the sharks. Witnesses heard him scream “They’re biting me!” before he was dragged farther out to sea. His remains were recovered after a two-day search by police, navy and rescue divers. Ben Ari said it was only the third recorded shark attack in Israel in some 80 years. The area where the sharks gather is closed to swimming, and the authority warns that strong currents, whirlpools and discarded fishing gear near the outlet add to the danger.A refuge in a dying sea-University of Haifa researchers have tracked the Hadera sharks for more than a decade. Dr. Aviad Scheinin, head of the Marine Apex Predator Lab at the university’s Morris Kahn Marine Research Station, has run what has been described as the only long-term shark tagging study in the entire Mediterranean. His team has followed sharks tagged off Hadera to Cyprus, Egypt and, in 2021, as far as Sicily, when a sandbar shark the researchers named Hagai made the longest journey ever recorded for the species in the Mediterranean.The research has turned up a striking picture. With most of the Mediterranean’s shark species in serious danger of extinction, the Jerusalem Post reported that Israel has become an oasis for them because they are protected there. Scientists have also found that different genetic lineages of the same shark species converge in Israeli waters, a phenomenon that, according to Israel21c, has not been documented anywhere else in the world. Sharks scattered across the sea, from different branches of the same family, gather every winter on one coastline: Israel’s.The fascination is ancient. In 2021, researchers announced the discovery of 29 fossilized shark teeth in a 2,900-year-old site in the City of David in Jerusalem, dating to the generations after King Solomon. The teeth belonged to sharks extinct for tens of millions of years and had been carried to Jerusalem, likely from the Negev, at least 80 kilometers away. Found alongside hundreds of clay seals used by the kingdom’s officials, they may have been prized collectibles in the court of the House of David. “We’ll probably never really be sure,” lead researcher Dr. Thomas Tuetken told the Goldschmidt Conference.Not everyone in the region sees the sharks as a curiosity. After a series of shark attacks at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in December 2010, a guest on a popular Egyptian television show accused the Mossad of planting GPS chips in sharks’ fins and steering them to attack. Israel’s Foreign Ministry replied that the host had apparently seen “Jaws” one too many times.Fish of the Great Sea-Israel is a dry land, dependent on rain and on a handful of springs and rivers. Yet the prophets describe the redemption in images of water and fish.Why would the Hebrew prophets, writing for a people of shepherds and farmers, describe the final redemption through an abundance of fish? The clearest answer comes from Ezekiel. In his vision of the future Temple, the prophet sees a river flowing out from beneath the threshold of the Sanctuary, growing deeper as it runs east until it reaches the Dead Sea and heals its waters. Wherever the river flows, Ezekiel says, “there shall be a very great multitude of fish” (Ezekiel 47:9). Then he describes a scene that has no place on today’s lifeless Dead Sea shore:“And it shall come to pass, that fishers shall stand by it from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim; there shall be a place for the spreading of nets; their fish shall be after their kinds, as the fish of the Great Sea, exceeding many.” (Ezekiel 47:10)-The Great Sea, HaYam HaGadol, is the Bible’s name for the Mediterranean, the waters off Hadera. Ezekiel measures the coming abundance against the richness of the Mediterranean. Zechariah adds that in that day, “living waters shall go out from Jerusalem: half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea; in summer and in winter shall it be” (Zechariah 14:8). The western sea is the Mediterranean.The link between fish and the redemption runs back to the Patriarchs. When Jacob blessed Joseph’s sons, Ephraim and Menashe, he prayed that they “grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth” (Genesis 48:16). The Hebrew verb, v’yidgu, comes from dag, fish. Rashi explains that Jacob blessed them to multiply like fish, over which the evil eye has no power. The Talmud (Berakhot 20a) teaches that the descendants of Joseph are protected from the evil eye just as fish, covered by the waters, are hidden from sight.That connection to Joseph lies at the heart of a teaching in the Tikkunei Zohar (Tikkun 43), the mystical work attributed to Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai. It describes the increase of fish as a sign of a specific stage in the messianic process, when the process of Mashiach ben Yosef, the Messiah from the House of Joseph, joins with that of Mashiach ben David, the Messiah from the House of David. The House of Joseph represents the practical rebuilding of the Land, the return of the people, the planting of fields and the building of cities. The House of David represents the miraculous stage that follows, including the building of the Temple. The period marked by the appearance of fish is described as one of hamtakat hadinim, the sweetening of judgments, symbolized by the fish’s life in the salt sea.The fish appear in Ezekiel’s prophecy of judgment as well. In his account of the war of Gog and Magog, the prophet describes all of creation trembling at God’s presence: “So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the ground, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at My presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground” (Ezekiel 38:20). The creatures of the sea, in Ezekiel’s vision, are witnesses to both the upheaval of the nations and the healing of the Land.Sharks make aliyah-Every winter, the sharks of the Mediterranean leave waters where they are hunted and fished out, and gather on the one coast where they are protected. Lineages of the same species, scattered across the sea, converge off Israel’s shore. Many of them are pregnant females, drawn by water that speeds the processes of birth. Scientists explain the gathering by the warmth of a power plant’s discharge. The prophets described a Land of Israel whose waters would one day teem with fish “exceeding many,” and the Zohar tied that abundance to the moment the building of the Land gives way to its redemption. Off the coast of Hadera, in a sea that is emptying of its great fish, the fish are coming to Israel.
The enemy in the Siddur: Rabbi warns of Armilus, the Jewish Antichrist few Jews have heard of Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz-Biblical News-November 2, 2026
Jews pray three times a day for protection from an end-of-days destroyer most of them cannot name. A New York rabbi says Armilus may already be operating through Iran or forces centered on Rome, as Christianity and Islam carry their own versions of the same figure.Three times a day, Jews standing in prayer ask God to rebuild Jerusalem and restore the throne of David. Printed beside that blessing in many prayer books, in small parentheses that most worshippers skip, is an instruction to pray that Mashiach ben Yosef, the Messiah descended from Joseph, will not be killed by Armilus. Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff says almost no one notices it.“This is a character if you ask most Jewish people, even observant ones who learn and study Torah, even Kabbalah, they’ve never heard of this individual,” Rabbi Hajioff said in a recent YouTube interview with Rabbi Aron Sokol. “And yet we see this character called Armilus that the siddur is saying, by the way, be wary of this individual.”Rabbi Hajioff, a London-born educator on the Judaic studies faculty of Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, wrote The Future: A Guide to the Jewish Messiah, Israel, and the End of Days. He has a personal stake in the subject: his Hebrew name is Mashiach, passed down in his family of Persian Jews.Who is the destroyer that Jewish prayer guards against without naming aloud, and why are Christians and Muslims waiting for figures that look so much like him? “Pure, Thorough Evil”The earliest reliable authority to describe Armilus is Rav Saadia Gaon, the 10th-century head of the Babylonian academies, in the eighth chapter of his Emunot v’De’ot (Beliefs and Opinions). Rabbi Hajioff explained that Saadia Gaon describes a figure who appears just before the revelation of Mashiach ben David, the Messiah descended from King David.“He is real evil,” Rabbi Hajioff said. “This individual and the army that he controls is not like Gog and Magog. Gog and Magog is a political, maybe a strategic movement. Armilus may work alongside Gog and Magog, and is pure, thorough evil, and its one goal is almost like the Nazis: to take over and kill all the Jewish people. And his main target, says Rav Saadia Gaon, is Mashiach ben Yosef.”The Talmud (Sukkah 52a) teaches that Mashiach ben Yosef will fall in battle before the final redemption. Rabbi Hajioff explained that he may be an individual or “a movement, a national revival of the Jewish people in the land of Israel,” meaning Armilus represents “a direct threat to Israel, to the Jewish people in Israel.”The Hebrew texts of the early medieval period fill in the portrait. The Sefer Zerubbavel (Book of Zerubbabel), composed in the seventh century, describes a marble statue of a beautiful woman in Rome, with whom Satan will cohabit to produce Armilus, a cruel tyrant who rules the world and marches on Jerusalem with nine other kings. The Midrash Vayosha describes him as a deformed figure, bald, with one large eye and one small, deaf in his right ear and maimed in his right arm.In these accounts, Armilus claims to be the Messiah and even God, and the descendants of Esau, meaning Christian Rome, accept him. Mashiach ben Yosef, named Nehemiah ben Hushiel, and his followers confront Armilus by reading him the first of the Ten Commandments, “I am the LORD, thy God.” When he demands that the Jews worship him, they cry out that he is Satan, and he kills Nehemiah in the battle that follows.The Breath of His Lips-Armilus also appears in the Aramaic translation of the Bible. Isaiah describes the Davidic king who will judge the world:“But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the land; and he shall smite the land with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.” (Isaiah 11:4)-Where the Hebrew says rasha, “the wicked one,” the Targum attributed to Yonatan ben Uziel names him: “Armilus the wicked.” The Messiah descended from David kills him with words alone.The ending never changes across the sources. Armilus wins a temporary victory; Mashiach ben Yosef falls; Israel suffers; then Mashiach ben David arrives and destroys him. Rav Saadia Gaon writes that the Messiah will wrest Jerusalem from Armilus and kill him, bringing the true redemption.The name itself points west. Scholars connect Armilus to Romulus, the legendary founder of Rome. Rabbi Hajioff cited a kabbalistic source holding that the gematria (Hebrew numerical value) of Armilus equals that of Melech Romi, “king of Rome.” The letters of Armilus total 347, while Melech Romi totals 346, so the match works only with the kolel, the traditional practice of adding one for the word itself.“There seems to be some Roman connection,” Rabbi Hajioff said. “When we say Rome, we mean Rome being the center of the Catholic church, the Vatican, and there’s a lot of problems that are stirring up from that place. So Armilus also represents false messianism.”Iran, the Ayatollahs, and the “Armilus Section”Rabbi Hajioff offered his own reading of how Armilus may operate today. He described Armilus as possibly “the military wing” within Gog and Magog, the coalition that Ezekiel prophesies will attack Israel.“It could be, and this is my conjecture, of course, that the Persian empire that we’re seeing today, these Ayatollahs who are controlling the Persian people, the Iranians, are actually the military wing, who are dead set, hellbent on destroying the Jewish people in the land of Israel,” he said. “We say that’s Gog and Magog, which I believe it is. However, I think that they could well be the Armilus section within Gog and Magog.”He closed the discussion with both candidates: Armilus, he said, is coming “via either them or forces within the Christian world who are really out to destroy us specifically in the land of Israel.”Rabbi Hajioff stressed that individuals choose whether to join the ranks of evil. “People who we see online all the time, the Tucker Carlsons of this world, who have made an absolute deliberate free choice decision to attack the Jewish people and to bring harm to our nation,” he said. “These people will be punished severely for what they’re trying to do.”The two-faced ruler-Jewish educator Efraim Palvanov offered a very different candidate in an October interview with JTV, as Israel365 News reported. Palvanov drew a sharp line between the two end-of-days enemies.“Armilus is the one that’s associated with Satan and with those kind of evil, impure forces. Gog is more of a political figure,” he said. “The texts describe him as actually having two heads, so to speak. Not literally two heads, but he’s a two-faced person and he kind of shapeshifts. He changes who he is, his public persona. He’s described as a figure who is incredibly haughty, who has a huge ego and who seeks to dominate the whole world. It doesn’t say about Gog that he wants to rule the whole world.”Palvanov said an early medieval prophetic text ties Armilus to the descendants of Kedar, Ishmael’s second son, a name he connects to the modern Gulf state of Qatar. “And I suggested that it could potentially be somebody like a Donald Trump, who is very much involved with that world, with the Saudis and the Qataris, the Bnei Kedar, who does have a huge ego,” he said.He anticipated the objection. “But Trump is so pro-Israel, right? But that’s the whole thing of Armilus being described as a two-faced person,” Palvanov said, pointing to the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico and the president’s push to acquire Greenland. He stressed that the outcome remains open. “Again, this is all speculation. I think that Trump has that potential that it could go either way. He has the free will to choose to go either way.”Palvanov’s warning about free will matches Rabbi Hajioff’s: the role of Armilus waits for whoever volunteers to fill it.Gog is Iran, not Putin-Rabbi Sokol played a clip of Palvanov arguing that Gog is a political figure acting from self-interest, most likely Russian President Vladimir Putin. Palvanov argued that the October 7 massacre served Putin’s interests by killing a Saudi-Israeli peace deal and a planned pipeline to Europe, drawing the world’s attention away from Ukraine, and that Putin hosted Hamas leaders in Moscow within weeks of the attack.Rabbi Hajioff disagreed. He acknowledged that Ezekiel places Gog in the north and that Russia fits the geography, and pointed to Ezekiel 38:12-13, where Gog seeks plunder, territory and power over vulnerable nations. Ezekiel 38:16 makes clear, he said, that Gog comes into Israel to destroy the Jewish people, and Putin has no such ideological goal.“Putin doesn’t care about Israel,” he said. “He just wants to create alliances that are going to increase the size and the power and the influence of the empire which was lost. They are not focused ideologically on the land of Israel. Iran is. Their goal is Jerusalem.”He noted that Ezekiel lists Paras, Persia, among Gog’s allies. “Iran is the center of evil,” Rabbi Hajioff said. “They are Gog and Magog. They’re coming for us. They’re going to use money and resources from other nations, including Russia. No doubt about it. But their goal is us.”The Christian Antichrist-Christian readers will recognize Armilus immediately. Christian tradition expects an Antichrist, a deceiver who rises at the end of days, claims divine honor, persecutes believers, and is destroyed when Jesus returns. The medieval Jewish texts drew the connection themselves. The Otot HaMashiach (Signs of the Messiah) refers to “Armilus, whom the Gentiles call Antichrist.”The two figures share their deception, their claim to be God, and their destruction at the Messiah’s hand. They part ways over his followers. In the Jewish sources, Armilus is born in Rome, and the descendants of Esau worship him while the Jews refuse.Islam’s False Messiah, Killed in Israel-Islam has its own version. The Dajjal, from a word meaning “deceiver,” appears in the hadith, the collected traditions of Muhammad, and is called al-Masih ad-Dajjal, the false messiah. Like Armilus, he claims first to be the Messiah and then God. Like the Armilus of Midrash Vayosha, he is marked by a deformed eye. The hadith describe him as a young man with curly hair and a protruding eye.The Islamic tradition casts the Jews as his army. According to Sahih Muslim, one of Sunni Islam’s most authoritative collections, 70,000 Jews of Isfahan will follow him. Jesus, in this tradition a Muslim prophet, will descend at the white minaret east of Damascus, chase the Dajjal down and kill him at the gate of Lod, the Israeli city beside Ben Gurion Airport. The Muslims with Jesus will then hunt the Jews who followed the Dajjal, and the rocks and trees will reveal Jews hiding behind them, a tradition Hamas wrote into its founding charter.Isfahan sits in the heart of Iran. Islamic tradition places the Dajjal’s army in the Jewish quarter of an Iranian city, while a rabbi of Persian descent warns that Iran’s rulers may be the army of Armilus.The nations running to Jerusalem-Rabbi Sokol and Rabbi Hajioff turned to the opposite end of prophecy, the nations who come to Israel in peace. On Monday, the First International Congress of Noahides opened at the Seven Arches Hotel in Jerusalem. Running through November 6, the gathering, hosted by Brit Olam, the Noahide World Center, brings representatives of Noahide communities from six continents to sign a founding charter, establish an international rabbinic court and regional councils, and be received by the President of Israel at Beit HaNasi, the official residence. Noahides are non-Jews who keep the Seven Laws of Noah, the Bible’s covenant with all humanity, without converting to Judaism.Rabbi Sokol called the congress a fulfillment of Isaiah:“Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and a nation that knew not thee shall run unto thee; because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel, for He hath glorified thee.” (Isaiah 55:5)-“We’re literally witnessing this prophecy alive today,” Rabbi Sokol said. He described speaking regularly with Rod Bryant, a Noahide leader in Houston, and said the congress seeks to “announce that they’re with the Jewish people” through a shared charter despite their differences.Rabbi Hajioff called for gratitude. “Most the world has gone against us, and these individuals are coming forth to show us that they are part of our people in a sense,” he said. “They’re coming to Israel, and they’re standing at a time of potential war, shoulder-to-shoulder with us, the Jewish people, and they’re not Jewish, and they don’t want to be Jewish. They don’t need to be Jewish.”He predicted the movement “is going to blossom and grow and become a major force within not just Israel but the entire world.” When Isaiah describes the nations streaming to the house of Jacob, Rabbi Hajioff said, “It’s talking about them.”The choice belongs to every nation-Rabbi Hajioff insisted that no nation is destined for either role. He compared the end of days to God’s covenant with Abraham, where God foretold that Abraham’s descendants would be enslaved by a nation He did not name.“It could well be that that nation had not actually stood up to identify itself, to volunteer,” he said. “It’s the same thing today. There could be various nations that make up Gog. Could be various individuals that make up Armilus. Everyone can decide whether they become a Satan or a malach, an angel.”The Jews who confronted Armilus in the Sefer Zerubbavel answered him with a Torah scroll and the words “I am the LORD, thy God.” This week in Jerusalem, men and women from six continents came holding the same words, choosing the side of Israel’s God on their own. Isaiah promised that the breath of the Messiah’s lips would end Armilus. Every prayer book carries the warning in parentheses, and every nation is writing its answer now.
Rabbi Kessin: Europe’s riots are Isaiah’s winepress, and Edom’s day of reckoning has arrived-Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz-Biblical News-October 29, 2026
As riots spread from Paris to Tirana, Rabbi Mendel Kessin says Europe is living out Isaiah’s vision of God treading the winepress of Edom. The UN walkout on Netanyahu, he says, sealed the verdict.A city hall burned in Limoges. Rioters broke into the Ohalei Yaakov synagogue in Paris’s 19th arrondissement and left holy books scattered across the floor. Jewish-owned shops went up in flames in Marseille, and a Reuters photographer captured the Palestinian flag flying beside the French tricolor over Place de la République. Since mid-September, a wave of protest that began in France has spread to Spain, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Albania, Greece, Germany and Austria. Nearly 1,800 people were arrested across France in a single weekend, according to Reuters, and Barcelona police arrested 128 people after a night of riots and looting.Governments and economists blame the cost of living, housing shortages and budget deficits. French unions have called a general strike for November 5, Spanish unions for November 11, and a German youth movement calling itself “Gen Z regelt” has summoned nationwide protests for October 31. Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has already been forced into snap elections set for November 29.Rabbi Mendel Kessin, whose weekly lectures on the divine plan and the end of days draw a worldwide following, told his audience this week that the economic explanations miss the story entirely.“We’re not looking here at the downfall of a nation,” Rabbi Kessin said. “We’re looking at the end of a civilization.”“There’s something going on now which I think everybody should certainly be aware of, and that is the nations of the world,” he said. “There’s a tremendous unrest, or I should even say upheaval, in Europe. Tremendous. We’re not looking here at an incident.”“There certainly looks like we have an acceleration of what is going to happen at the end of time,” Rabbi Kessin added.Rabbi Kessin said the scenes from Paris, Marseille, Milan and Barcelona were written down more than 2,700 years ago by the prophet Isaiah, in a vision of God returning from the land of Edom with His garments soaked in blood. That leaves the question of why the prophet saw the final judgment of Edom as a man trampling grapes in a winepress, and what that image has to do with the streets of Europe in the autumn of 2026.The Winepress of Edom-The 63rd chapter of Isaiah opens with the prophet watching a terrifying figure approach.“Who is this that cometh from Edom, with crimsoned garments from Bozrah? This that is glorious in his apparel, stately in the greatness of his strength? ‘I that speak in victory, mighty to save.'” (Isaiah 63:1)-The prophet asks why the garments are red, “like him that treadeth in the winevat,” and God answers:“I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the peoples there was no man with Me; yea, I trod them in Mine anger, and trampled them in My fury; and their lifeblood is dashed against My garments, and I have stained all My raiment. For the day of vengeance that was in My heart, and My year of redemption are come.” (Isaiah 63:3-4)-Rabbi Kessin explained that Isaiah was afraid. A royal figure in blood-red garments represents middat hadin, the divine attribute of strict justice, and the prophet feared that judgment was coming for Israel.“God tells him, don’t worry, it’s all just and righteous,” Rabbi Kessin said. “What appeared to be incredible brutality is really the administration of justice.”“When God comes to you in a garment soaked in blood, what are you afraid of? That He’s after you. It’s middat hadin,” he said. “God is coming to you as a judge to exact punishment.”The key phrase, he said, is God’s complaint that no one stood with Him. “Nobody assisted me to do justice. I did justice, and I did it alone,” Rabbi Kessin said, paraphrasing the verse. “That means everybody else was not interested in justice. That is an accusation of mankind.”“It’s like somebody kills in front of you, and you say to people around you, ‘Let’s get him. Let’s stop him.’ And they do nothing and they all walk away, not interested,” Rabbi Kessin said. “They themselves are guilty.”Rabbi Kessin then asked why Isaiah chose the image of a winepress at all. His answer pointed to a specific country.“If Edom is Europe, what country is famous for its wine? It’s France,” he said. “So God is using imagery that’s familiar with that location in Edom, so everybody will understand what country I just stepped on.”“God is alluding through a hint that I’m coming from France, and I stepped on them, which means I’m crushing their civilization because of what they did,” Rabbi Kessin said.Esau’s Three Faces-To explain why Europe stands in the crosshairs of Isaiah’s prophecy, Rabbi Kessin traced a lineage the Sages laid out in the Talmud. Esau, Jacob’s brother, became the nation of Edom. The Sages identified Edom with Rome. Rome adopted Christianity, and Christianity shaped Western civilization.“That’s really what Western civilization is,” Rabbi Kessin said. “Western civilization, which is Christianity, which is Rome, which is Edom, which is Esau.”He said Esau carried three defining traits, and each one settled into a different branch of the modern West. The first is ga’avah, arrogance. “That nation is Russia,” he said, pointing to its atheism under communism and its imperial pride. The second is mirmah, deceit. “Esau was known as a fraud, an impostor. So he becomes Europe. Europe is a very fraudulent place, full of deception.” The third is ta’avah, the drive for pleasure and appetite, which Rabbi Kessin assigned to the United States.“Russia, certainly under communism, tremendous atheistic ideas, tremendous arrogance,” he said of the first. Of Europe, he said, “The fact that they butchered so many people over the thousands of years, how many Jews they’ve killed in spreading the religion of Christianity, condemns them in a terrible way.”He noted that Esau also excelled in kibbud av va’em, honoring his father and mother, a trait he said lives on in America. “It’s only basically in America where you have Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. That’s ingrained in their nature.”Rabbi Kessin has developed this framework of Esau’s three faces in earlier lectures, including his teaching on the role of President Trump and the United Nations at the end of days.Why Nations Vanish-Rabbi Kessin grounded his reading of current events in what he calls the divine plan. God created two realities, Olam Hazeh, this world, and Olam Haba, the World to Come. The Jewish people move the world from one to the other through three tools: mitzvot (commandments), teshuva (repentance), and yissurin (suffering).-“This is the wherewithal of how we change reality from Olam Hazeh to Olam Haba,” he said. “This is it. There is no other way.”Every commandment draws down sparks of holiness, he explained. Every sin hands those sparks to the forces of evil, which feed on them. When the Jewish people repent or endure suffering, they pull those sparks back out.“We both vie for the same energy source, namely the sparks of holiness,” Rabbi Kessin said. “If we don’t take it down, then it’s transferred to him, and that gives him enormous power. We’ve got to take away his food, so to speak.”That process, Rabbi Kessin said, explains why the great empires of the Jewish exile are gone. Israel passed through Egypt, Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome, each one a test powered by the forces of evil.“What happens to those nations that represent the temptations of the Satan? They collapse. They disappear,” he said. “That is why you do not see any of the nations of antiquity at all. We have taken out the sparks. We are the cause of the collapse of the nations of antiquity.”A Mission Betrayed-Rabbi Kessin cited the Rambam (Maimonides), who wrote in his laws of kings that Christianity and Islam served to spread the concepts of Messiah, Torah, and commandments to the distant islands and to many nations, preparing the world for the true redemption.According to Rabbi Kessin, God granted Christianity its astonishing success precisely for that task. “What were the odds that somebody crucified on a cross, killed as a criminal against Rome, would become a world religion, one of the greatest forces on the earth? There were no odds. But it happened. Why? Because He had a task for the Christians.”The task never included killing Jews. “He did not want them to try to be a rival to the Jewish people and, as a result of the rivalry, to kill the Jews,” Rabbi Kessin said. “What happened? They developed a tremendous jealousy, and as a result of that they became rivals, and once they became rivals they condemned the Jews, and they killed them.”He listed the record: pogroms, expulsions, Crusades, the Inquisition, burnings at the stake, the Holocaust. Then he offered a calculation. Historians estimate roughly nine million Jews lived in the Roman era, alongside an estimated 25 million Chinese. Today there are 1.4 billion Chinese and about 16 million Jews.“This has been the history of Christianity with Judaism for thousands of years,” Rabbi Kessin said. “Pogroms, expulsions, Holocausts, Crusades, Inquisitions.”“There should be about 500 million Jews,” Rabbi Kessin said. “Where are the rest? And the answer is they’re all dead. That’s how many people were killed in all those things. Do you think that’s what God is going to let go unpunished? No, not at all.”Ishmael, the Guardian at the Gate-Rabbi Kessin said God answered Christian persecution by raising up a counterweight. The Talmud (Bava Batra 16b) teaches that Ishmael, son of Abraham, repented during his father’s lifetime. Rabbi Kessin taught that in the merit of that teshuva, God gave Ishmael’s descendants a share in spreading belief in the One God, on one condition.Rabbi Kessin described Ishmael’s plea before God. “Please give my people, the Arabs, also the merit of getting away from paganism,” he said. “And God said, ‘I will do it because you did teshuva. You repented. I will give your descendants that emerge from you also the ability to promote God.'”“They will be My weapon, My instrument to stop the Christians from destroying the Jews,” he said. “So He gave Christianity a mortal enemy.”For 1,500 years, he explained, that rivalry played out in the Muslim conquests of the Middle East, the Crusades, the long struggle over Spain and the Ottoman sieges of Vienna. Yet Islam never conquered Christian Europe. Muslim armies were turned back at Tours in 732 CE and at the gates of Vienna in 1683 CE.“Had they taken over Vienna, which was the gateway to Europe, then Christianity would have ceased to exist,” Rabbi Kessin said. “They would have taken over the entire Europe.”“God said no. I have to have two distinct religions,” Rabbi Kessin said. “One has to promote My name throughout the world, which the Christians did.”Rabbi Kessin stressed that Muslim rule brought real persecution to Jews, including second-class dhimmi status, but said it never approached the scale of Christian violence against Jews in Europe.“There was no question that there was persecution by the Arabs, but nowhere near the butchery of the Catholics, of the Christians,” he said. “Burned at the stake, what are you kidding me? For what?”The Gates Opened from Inside-What changed, according to Rabbi Kessin, is that Europe opened its own gates. He pointed to former German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s 2015 decision to admit more than a million asylum seekers, and to the immigration policies that followed across the continent.“God put into the mind of the leaders of Europe to allow immigration by the Arabs in European countries,” he said. “For 1,500 years, they were never able to get into the Christian countries. For the first time, they’re in those countries.”Rabbi Kessin was scathing about Merkel. “It’s just incredible how stupid, and I have to say this, was that decision,” he said. “Maybe she feels guilty for what the Germans did to other people, so now she wants to come across as a kind woman. And then once she did it, it opened up to Europe. France did it, Spain did it, they all did it.”He was blunt about the consequences. “They will not assimilate in your country. They will gather together amongst themselves,” he said. “France, it’s only a matter of time until they burn down the Louvre.”“How’s France going to feel when their Louvre burns down, when they destroy their Eiffel Tower?” he said. “They want to take the nations of Christianity over. They think it’s a mitzvah, what Allah wills. They want to introduce Sharia law. It’s only a matter of time until it happens to England.”Rabbi Kessin said the current unrest is far more than a student movement. “The people rebelling, they’re not students. Many of them, and they’re well funded, many of them are Arabs, Islam.” He framed it as measure for measure. “You don’t want Jews, and that’s what you’ve demonstrated for 1,500 years. Great. I will give you Muslims. Let’s see how you get along with them.”Reporting from France has documented the Palestinian dimension of the riots. The Times of Israel reported that Palestinian flags and keffiyehs were a recurring motif in most of the violent protests, vandalism, and looting. French journalist Paul Amar charged that Jewish-owned shops were directly targeted while Muslim-owned stores were spared. France’s Jewish Community Protection Service, known as SPCJ, said it had found no evidence of selective targeting and urged caution about unverified claims. In Italy, Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara said the French unrest was fueled by the difficulty of integrating second-generation migrants into the school system.“It’s not just in Paris,” Rabbi Kessin said. “It’s in Marseille and all the other French cities, and it’s in Spain, Barcelona. It’s in Portugal. It’s in Italy. It’s in Germany. It’s in Belgium. It’s in Greece. It’s Europe. And it’s only started now.”“What you’re watching is Isaiah 63,” Rabbi Kessin said. “God says this is vengeance, and the time of My redemption has come.”The Warning at the UN-Rabbi Kessin tied the prophecy to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s September 24 address to the UN General Assembly. Nearly 70 delegations walked out as Netanyahu approached the podium, some booing and jeering, after the Palestinian mission urged member states to empty the hall. Netanyahu called the departing envoys “moral cowards” and told the remaining delegates that accusing Israel of genocide is the greatest lie of the century.Rabbi Kessin said Netanyahu was fulfilling a role far larger than he knew. Before anyone can do teshuva, he explained, they must hear the charge against them.“The way I see it, he was compelled. This wasn’t an accident,” Rabbi Kessin said. “Not that Netanyahu knows this, but certainly he did it for his own reasons. He’s warning the world of the end of time, and he’s giving them a chance to do teshuva. Before you do teshuva, you have to understand and know what you’re accused of.”“He laid out an accusation against many of the nations that pursue and accuse Israel,” Rabbi Kessin said. “It is now up to them to listen to the charge and to ask themselves, maybe he’s right. Let’s examine the facts. Instead, they walked out even before he spoke.”“What Netanyahu did is he accused them of falsehood,” he said. “The false accusations that Israel is nothing more than genocide, which of course is absurd for anybody who looks at the reality of the Middle East. So what was it? It’s a warning.”The walkout, he said, sealed the verdict. “When God does take vengeance, He will be able to say to them: I warned you. I gave you a chance. All I asked you was to listen to what he says and verify if there’s any truth in it. Instead you walked out. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.”He connected the empty seats directly to Isaiah’s complaint that there was no helper. “Was there any supporter? No. They walked out instead of assisting me.”Rabbi Kessin also pointed to the recent Flydubai flight incident, which he called a public miracle that raised the standing of the Jewish people before the nations, alongside Israel’s widely admired intelligence penetration of Iran. “The Jews will look better and better,” he said.“The world respects heroism, especially of that caliber,” he said. “Already the world sees the Jews as one of the greatest intelligence agencies. It’s just incredible how they know everything going on in Iran.”Russia, America, and the Grid-Rabbi Kessin said Esau’s other two faces are faltering as well. Ukraine’s survival exposed Russia as “a paper tiger,” he said. “If it wasn’t for their nuclear missiles, people would laugh at Russia.”“Just go to Russia and check out their grocery store. There’s nothing there. Only the very rich can afford,” he said. “Putin needs to make peace because he’s losing the youth at an incredible rate. Does this sound like a formidable enemy?”He reserved his sharpest words of concern for America, and some of them for President Trump. Rabbi Kessin said Trump was spared the assassin’s bullet in Butler, Pennsylvania, for a mission: to remove the threat of the Islamic Republic of Iran. “You don’t negotiate with Hitler,” he said, criticizing the administration’s diplomacy with Tehran. “Yes, he did tremendous economic success. That’s very nice. But the real success is [to] do what God assigned you to do.”“Everybody knows you can’t trust these people,” Rabbi Kessin said. “Every five-year-old can tell you what they’re going to do. Tragically, they have made him look like a fool.”With the US midterm elections days away, he warned about the rise of the Democratic Socialists of America and pointed to New York under Mayor Zohran Mamdani. “They are destroying the United States,” he said. “New York is going to be a has-been.”“This is not a Democratic party. They stole the name of the party,” he said. “How can anybody vote for the Democratic Socialists of America? It’s ridiculous.”He also warned that America’s enemies no longer need an army. “You know how you could take out America in one day? The electric grid,” he said, describing the possibility of an Iranian cell inside the country striking unprotected infrastructure. “No heat, no phone, no banks, no stores, nothing.”“It is now possible for Iran, in a sleeper cell in America, to take out the system. I’m sure they know where the electrics are,” he said. “We live in a very dangerous time.”Rabbi Kessin said he believes America will be spared because of what it has given the Jewish people. “They have done so many good things for the Jewish people by allowing the Jews to learn their Torah, to practice their religion,” he said. “Americans basically are decent, and they want righteousness. They want truth and justice. God needs a country that fundamentally wants righteousness.”“Let’s hope that God has rachamim, mercy, on America because of all the chessed, the kindness, that they’ve done,” he said. “But right now Europe is being slaughtered. We have no idea how extensive this is going to become.”The Year of Redemption-Rabbi Kessin closed by returning to the second half of Isaiah’s verse, where the day of vengeance stands beside the year of redemption. Isaiah places the two in the same breath because they are the same event: the judgment of Edom for two thousand years of Jewish blood is the opening of the geula, the final redemption.“Enough is enough,” Rabbi Kessin said, voicing God’s words to the nations. “What they did to My children over the thousands of years, enough is enough.”“Vengeance really means justice,” he said. “They were supposed to do something limited, but not kill for 1,500 years. Burning at the stake in Spain, the Holocaust, six million Jews in the ovens. Now it’s time.”“We’re in the messianic times, and it’s moving very, very rapidly,” he told his listeners. “Get back into the groove of spirituality, because the Messiah is right around the corner.”
