SIGNS OF THE TIMES – THE COMING OF MESSIAH!
SUPPLEMENT TO ARCHIVE UPDATES 66 & 67
August 14, 2005
The following article, from the Religion Section of Interfax News, cries out in history reminding us of the rejection of the first and only Messiah of Israel and, that indeed, all Chief Rabbis will soon see him return just as he once promised the Chief Rabbi or High Priest of Israel.
Matthew 26:59-64 – Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death; [60] But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses, [61] And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days. [62] And the high priest arose, and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing
? what is it which these witness against thee? [63] But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God.
[64] Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
Revelation 1:7 – Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
Matthew 24:30 – And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
I believe the Chief Rabbi, in the following article, is quite correct in his prediction of the arrival of Israel’s Messiah in the not too distant future, but I fear he will be very surprised at who appears in the clouds of heaven.
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Russia’s Chief Rabbi Predicts Imminent Coming of a Messiah
Moscow, August 9, Interfax – Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar believes the Earth will soon see the coming of Messiah to reward everyone according to his deserts.
‘We know that he (Messiah – IF) is very near at hand, but he needs not only to be born
but also to come. The Messiah may well have been born already, but unless he is ordered by God he cannot reveal himself with God’s help and change the world for the better’, the rabbi said in an interview published by
the Gazeta daily on Tuesday.
Lazar explained his assumptions about the imminent coming of a Messiah by the fact that “the world today is in a state described by our sages as ‘hevley mashiah’, that is, labour that precedes the coming of a Messiah’.
‘It is a time’, he explained, ‘when many good things are created in the world and the progress of science and technology has made it possible to solve many human problems, to overcome diseases, famine, etc., on one hand.
On the other hand, it is for the first time since God created human beings that humans have taken hold of such means of destruction that the whole of our race and even the globe itself can be destroyed instantly’.
‘We are living on the verge of history; it can be felt everywhere’, Rabbi Lazar is convinced.
Recalling the comparison made by philosopher Maimonides who likened the world to scales, Lazar assumed that ‘perhaps God is waiting for only one deed to be put on the good scale to order the Messiah to reveal himself’.
Speaking about it, Russia’s chief rabbi called upon everyone ‘to add this good deed as one’s contribution may prove decisive’.
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Just as the High Priest Caiaphas prophesied that one man had to die in order for the whole nation not to perish, and identified that man as Jesus, so will that same Jesus come to deliver Israel out of the Negev at the battle of Armageddon, that the whole nation does not perish.
John 11:47-53 – Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we
? for this man doeth many miracles. [48] If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
[49] And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all, [50] Nor consider that it is expedient for us,
that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not. [51] And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation; [52] And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
[53] Then from that day forth they took counsel
together for to put him to death.
I am afraid that the Chief Rabbi’s reference to “the labor that precedes the coming of a Messiah,” would be better applied to Jeremiah 30:7, as opposed to labors involving good works.
Jeremiah 30:7 – Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.