The odds of Biden holding in there for the full four years is sketchy at best. I did think his visions about vehicles, considering it was 1933, to be rather awesome.

@toronto_Georgia Yes, and the remote control part was interesting too. The passengers playing games part reminded me of texting & playing Gotta Catchem all Pokemon or Minecraft, very impressive and definitely rather awesome.

I disagree with my pastor on certain peripheral points of doctrine, but we're 100% in agreement in Soteriology. What I'm trying to say is, too much is at stake to let another man's take on scripture decide one's fate. What if he's wrong? Will my guide and I both fall into a ditch? A discerning Jew needs to empty out the takes of others and read the Torah for himself as to what it's really saying.

I wonder what today's rabbis would have in ready answer to the question as to why YHWH allowed the sacking of Israel in 70AD and the consequent diaspora of nearly 2000 years (and the continuing maligning and persecution), since the sacking and the diaspora themselves profanes YHWH's Name among the nations. "Aren't these the people of the God of gods? Why was their city desolate and why were they scattered? Doesn't YHWH care about His city and people?"

Of course Israel is back in its own land today, just as prophesied in the Torah, to prepare her for what I like to call the "Grand Reconciliation" of Hosea 6:1-2. But there are questions that need to be answered as to why YHWH turned His face away from His own people even to a much greater degree than the Babylonean captivity. And a "clue to the clue" is just right at the preceding verse, in Hosea 5:15.

I'm glad your rabbi is now "open to a point to Christians and their views" as this is a good sign of a thawing. Because what many rabbis view as a non-Jewish book in the New Testament, the fact of the matter is, it is every much as Jewish as the Torah. And with it is the fulfillment of God's promise to Abraham that through his Seed all nations will be blessed.

@eschatologyguy He welcomes all to classes to learn, you may not like what you hear though, but it is the truth, and you will learn if you apply yourself to task. His latest video talks some about the questions you ask, starting around the 11 to 12 minute range. He refers to the Essences as the Jewish Taliban of their day. If you can make it to minute 15, then you will understand the something to contemplate.

There's more videos on his channel or e-mail him directly.

I believe he has said in the past, name one non_Jewish authored title in the books of the new testament. Much like the prayers of the Last Supper, all Jews know them but most Christians do not. Ruth is the only non_Jew book of the 'old' testament not counting the conversion for argument sake. I believe Daniel was written in Aramaic in part too, thus not counted as a prophet even though prophetic.

@eschatologyguy from the days when he use to do class on the computer like fireside chats voice only and no video

@Weltansicht Not surprised. Still, these are his opinions, his takes. But are his takes even in the ballpark? With pride marches still regularly going on in Israel, I don't think Israel is already reconciled with God. Jacob's Trouble and Hosea 5:15 is still coming down the pyke.

@eschatologyguy Yes it is opinion unless he says verifiable fact. I agree that no Israel is nowhere near reconciled, he talks about the religious hypocrisy, and he regularly goes against those opinions of his peers.

Isaiah 13:12 is more in the unfolding, and I am not referring to the 'feminazition' of biological males. Listen I have to shut down in 5 minutes or so....it is Erev Yom Kippur and although I am not too happy with Israel ~ I am observant.

I have wanted to move to Israel for 40 years, always been denied by G-D....now I know why. They all took the Pfizer version. G-D forbid but it is true.

All my enemies are gone vanquished. They are either in maximum security prison, or dying from inoculations. New ones are already taking their places. I have already dealt with the Urdu speakers and expect more.

May you find peace in your path and walk Sir

@Weltansicht YHWH did not say through Amos in 9:10 that it would be via a vaccine of some sort, so I guess you can be a little less stressed about the jabs I'm neutral about it and I believe getting jabbed with a largely useless vaccine is a personal choice.

Passages in the Torah that you may want to check out for yourself without relying on the take of a rabbi is Amos 9:12: "All of the heathen, which are called by My Name" who will help Jacob "posses the remnant of Edom." Heathen who are called by His Name? When did that happen?

Another is in Hosea 5:15
"I will go and return to My place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek My face: in their affliction they will seek Me [earnestly]."

The "offence" in the verse is singular and absolute. Could this same offence be the cause of YHWH's allowing the sacking of Jerusalem in 70AD and the diaspora? Another thing in the very same verse is this Person's returning to His place, which can only mean that He had already come beforehand. There are not two Messiahs, one suffering and the other victorious. There is One, with two visitations, the first prophesied in a cryptic verse in Daniel 9:25 which proved to be accurate to the day, 69 weeks of years or 173,880 days from the decree of Ataxerxes on March 14, 445BC for the Jews in Babylon to return home and rebuild the city, to its termination on April 6, 32AD, the day Zachariah 9:9's prophecy of Messiah riding into Jerusalem on a donkey's foal was fulfilled.

The second visitation's cryptic timeline is prophesied in Hosea 6:1-2. You might want to use the date the 2nd temple came crashing down as your terminus a quo or starting date, because it is the biggest candidate of the date of the smiting of Israel. Where it ends is the date of Israel's reconciliation with Messiah, the date Zachariah 12:10 would be fulfilled. And if you figure this out, you will realize that this reconciliation date (which is post Jacob's Trouble) is conceivably within your lifetime. Daniel did call his descendant Messiah "Lord," and there is no Lord above a king except Elohim. If the concept escapes you at the moment, try King of kings and Lord of lords

@eschatologyguy Perhaps, but let me share Parshah Ha'Azinu observation with you. Sorry its a bit lengthy.

I am more in the Jonah 4:11 category camp and besides I thought you Christian people believed in the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and one of them invoking pestilence.

Parashat Ha’azinu

Israel: Cyclical Time & The Universal Constant
By R. Ariel B. Tzadok
Copyright © 2000 by Ariel Bar Tzadok. All rights reserved.

“Remember the days of old understand the years generation after generation . . . When [The One] Above gave the nations their inheritance, when He separated the children of men, He set the borders of the nations according to the number of the children of Israel.” (Dev. 32:7-8)

The Zohar (1, 117a) records a remarkable revelation. Beginning in the year 5600 (1840) the Zohar states, the Gates of Wisdom from above and below were to be opened, revealing to mankind the secrets of hidden knowledge. All this was to occur so to prepare the way for the coming of Mashiah. While we cannot point to any one significant instant occurring in that specific year, we can indeed point to this general period as being the beginning of the industrial revolution, the birth of technology.

Now, some 160 years later, technology has revealed to us the elemental roots of all physical matter. We can explore subatomic realities and we can even see an atom itself using electron microscopes. Using our telescopes, we have viewed the farthest reaches of the galaxy. Today such one time fantasy topics as faster than light speed, time travel, anti-matter, parallel dimensions are no longer in the realm of science fiction. Today most of these matters are already science fact.

Scientific discovery is speeding ahead. Many scientists have already postulated, many are even afraid, that in not too long a time, they will no longer be able to deny the Hand of G-d in creation. When science touches the spiritual realms, then religion will no longer be a matter of faith, it will be a matter of fact.

One of the prophecies (ref. Jer. 31:30-33) concerning the messianic times is that all peoples will come to KNOW HaShem, from the least to the greatest. The whole earth is to be filled with KNOWLEDGE of HaShem. In the days of Mashiah, faith will no longer be necessary, for faith only supports that which is not seen or proven. When Mashiah comes, the truth of the Torah will become evident to all, without contest. Science will have finally caught up with the revelation at Mt. Sinai.

Yet, until this day comes (may it be soon), we are required to live by our best wits. We have to understand our universe and our lives the best we can, using our G-d given talents of inquiry, discovery, intellect and rationality. When Mashiah comes all the secrets of the universe will be given to us on a silver platter. Until then we have to make due with what we’ve got, the best we can. The birth of technology has certainly helped our lot in understanding and making due. As the Zohar states, technology is an aspect of “WISDOM” revealed by G-d to assist in ushering in the messianic age.

An understanding of science, of how our universe really works, helps our eyes to see and our minds to understand how HaShem indeed created His universe and how He has operated it ever since. In Pirkei Avot (5:26), Ben Bag Bag said with regards to the Torah, that we should plummet into its depths over and over, for everything can be found in it. In others words, he is making a point so eloquently stated in both midrashic and mystical Torah literature that the Torah contains within it all the knowledge in the universe.

Woe to us that we cannot even imagine a technique of data retrieval that would enable us to decipher all of the Torah’s secrets. The present day Torah Codes still only scratch the surface of everything that the Torah has to offer. Other than the Biblical prophets, only the Torah mystics, the holy Mekubalim have any idea as to what lies buried deep within the depths of the Torah. These pious Rabbis are the only ones who can perform miracles and bend the laws of nature. They can do this because the Torah has taught them how.

With this introduction, we can now come to understand the profundity found in this pasuk (verse). “When [The One] Above gave the nations their inheritance, when He separated the children of men, He set the borders of the nations according to the number of the children of Israel.”

It is clear that the seventy nations of the world, (outlined in parashat Noah), each received their portion, their parameters of being, their size, strength and lands in accordance to the pattern of the Jewish people. This now raises a clear contradiction. The portions of the nations were ordained by G-d when mankind was scattered over the face of the Earth after the Tower of Babel incident. This event occurred hundreds of years prior to the birth of Abraham, all the more so prior to the existence of the Jewish people. How then did HaShem ordain the size of nations according to a pattern that did not yet exist?

The true answer to this question used to be found only among the mystics of Torah, but now, since 1840, that the Gates of Wisdom have been opened to all mankind. We can now understand this matter using concepts discovered recently by modern science, although these concepts have been known by our holy Rabbis for millennia. In order to understand this let me discuss the matter of how we measure time.

As is normally viewed, time (past, present, future) continues in a straight line. “Time marches forward” the saying goes. The past and the future never meet one another because on a straight line of two-dimensional points (in this case, points in time) they never overlap or converge.

With the advent of Quantum physics time is being reevaluated. It is possible, scientists have discovered, that just as space curves back onto and into itself, so time might do the same. In physical space, for example the planet Earth, if you proceed in one direction long enough, you eventually will circle the globe and return to your point of origin. Is it possible that time also curves back onto itself in a similar fashion? Is it possible that we can go so far into the future that we will eventually return to the point of the original creation? Bizarre as this might sound to many of you; this is a question and a quest that many scientists today seek to know.

While it might take scientists’ years, decades or even centuries to discover the answer to this, their lack of discovery does not mean that the answer to this question is hidden from others who have a different source of knowledge. Indeed curved time is a reality of physics, yet it exists as a dimensional plane “above” our present time-space continuum. This is a secret of the Torah. Torah time is cyclical. Points of times actually do merge, overlap and turn back onto themselves.

This is the underlying reason why HaShem ordained for the children of Israel to observe the three major holidays (regalim) of Succot, Pesah and Shavuot, each being a “remembrance” of Yitziat Mitzraim (the redemption from Egypt). We not only remember an event from history long past, we also relive it, on a higher dimensional plane where equal points in time overlap and merge with one another. For example, in the Pesah Hagadah it states that one who does not see himself as if he is leaving Egypt personally has not fulfilled his obligation of relating the Pesah story. The reason for this is because the telling of the Hagadah serves not only to remind us of an event in past history, it also serves as a time transport device that literally takes our souls into Egypt at that time. Thus, in reality, each of us individually actually is leaving Egypt on the night of each and every Pesah.

As we observe the coming holidays of Yom HaKippurim and Succot, our physical bodies will remain in this time and space. However, our spiritual selves will automatically bend time and merge this year’s holiday with all the holidays of this time that ever were before or ever will be from now. All Yom Kippurs and all Succots happen at the same point in cyclical "higher dimensional" time. The pattern of time is cyclical; it is the true quantum nature of real time.

With this insight, we can now understand how HaShem ordained the boundaries of the nations, both their physical and spiritual boundaries in accordance to the Jewish people who did not yet exist. When the nations were ordained and their portions set, true the Jewish people did not yet exist in this time-space continuum. Nonetheless, in the dimensional plane “above” this one, where cyclical time prevails, the Jewish people predated the existence of the nations. Indeed the Jewish people, i.e., Israel pre-existed the creation of the universe. As we say in the L’kha Dodi song every Friday evening welcoming in the Shabat, “Sof Ma’aseh, B’mahshava Tehilah” (last to be created, first to be conceived). The creation of Israel is what motivated HaShem to create the universe.

The Zohar (111, 73a) states that HaShem, Torah and Israel are one. The Midrash teaches us that HaShem gazed into the Torah and from it created the universe. The Midrash might as well have said that HaShem gazed upon Israel and used them as the pattern to create the universe. For this is what our pasuk here is telling us.

“Remember the days of old, understand the years generation after generation.” This pasuk is telling us that if we are to study the course of human history, if we are to delve back to creation itself, something which modern scientists are doing with the study of the big bang, then what will be found is Israel. At the very beginning was Israel. At the Tower of Babel was Israel. In Egypt was Israel. Today there is Israel. Tomorrow there will be Israel. No matter what has happened, is happening or will ever happen, Israel is the universal constant. Israel will survive for Israel is the blueprint, the pattern, and the archetype of creation. If there were no Israel, there would be no universe.

If one were to honesty study human history, one would find that Israel, i.e., the Jewish people, have stood at the forefront of every discovery and step forward in social, spiritual and scientific evolution. HaShem has ordained this so. Israel is His people. Therefore, even if they sin and go astray in the worst of ways, HaShem will, nonetheless, bring them back to Him. For the Zohar states, HaShem and Israel are one. This bond cannot be broken. It existed prior to creation and is the cause of creation.

The cyclical nature of Israel’s return (teshuva) to HaShem is, therefore, an inherent principle in the laws of the natural universe. As we again approach HaShem prior to Yom HaKippurim, we are laden down with the sins that we have accumulated through our orbit of the year in time. Yom HaKippurim again comes to wash our souls clean of sin so that we can enter under the Huppah (marriage canopy) of the Succah (booth) with the purity of a virgin bride.

This most important lesson we learn here, at the end of the Torah reading cycle, for here is its most appropriate place. Here, at the end of the Torah, with Moshe Rabbeynu’s final words to Israel, he reminds them, he reminds us – to open our eyes – and to pay attention – even the laws of nature will reveal to us the ways of HaShem’s holy Torah. The ways of the Jewish people are ingrained in the laws of nature. If we pay careful attention, then everything in life, even the Heavens and the Earth themselves will serve as our teachers. As we begin a new cycle of Torah and of years, let us remember that we are all in orbit. We are all circling HaShem. If we focus on our source we will never lose our path, nor feel lost, even in the deepest recesses of inner space. HaShem is with us, always.

When we contemplate time, whether it is the past or the future, we will find that Israel is already there and that HaShem is with us.

Shabat Shalom.

@Weltansicht the four horsemen's time is not yet. Covid is just a foreshadowing. Just a word of caution: a guy is coming who will be able ro deliver global peace. This is NOT yet the Messiah, because as Daniel tells us he will enforce a covenant with many for a "week" (7 years), but in the midst of that week he unilaterally breaks the covenant and start killing your people (even those who followed him) and everyone else who is not his follower. The real Messiah returns at the end of Jacob's Trouble, to stop the carnage. Those among your people who will follow the usurper will suffer for it. Don't be among them, even if your rabbi tells you otherwise. Even if this guy can seemingly do miracles. Shabbat shalom.

@eschatologyguy I am not even among the vaccinated of Israel I am one of the remnants, antiquated for sure, old for a head of cabbage but for a mountain I have just begun No worries on following anybody. He holds with the position that northern Israel becomes a battlefield in the End of Days.

Take care my friend, have a good weekend too

@Weltansicht

"He separated the children of men, He set the borders of the nations according to the number of the children of Israel.” (Dev. 32:7-8)

There is actually evidence that the Masoretic text has been fiddled with. If you read Deut 32:8 in the KJV, the NIV and most English translations (which translates from the Masoretic), you will find the same "children of Israel." But in the Septuagint which was the Torah translated into Greek close to 3 centuries BC (the ESV was translated from the Septuagint) and in the Dead Sea Scrolls, you read "sons of God" or "bene ha Elohim," the same words used in Genesis 6 and in Psalm 82. Another thing is that Israel did not exist yet when God scattered the nations after the Babel debacle. When God scattered the nations, He delegated them to the supervision of His subordinates, these lesser created elohims. But as we see in Psalm 82, these lesser elohims rebelled. Thus God decided to create His own nation. He took a man named Abram and his barren wife Sarai from Ur, and you know the rest of the story. He also promised Abraham (after His name was changed) that through his Seed (notice the seed is singular), He will bless the nations. Through Abraham's Seed, He will reclaim and reconcile the nations (or a remnant of them) to Himself.

Long story short, Israel (just like the rest of mankind) was rebellious, got punished, reconciled, rebelled again, and so on. But Israel (or the 1/3 remnant according to Zachariah) in the end will be saved. Not because of anything good Israel has done but because of God's grace. So gentiles and Jews are on the same level playing field in this regard, sinners all and in need of a Saviour. But because you are His chosen people, you will be His priests on earth when He returns. You will be like the Levitical priests and Gentiles will be like the rest of the tribes.

It will not be as some rabbis teach that the Messiah dies in old age and leaves the ruling to them. Oh no no. The Messiah has already gone through death and is alive forevermore. He will not abdicate, nor can he be deposed. He remains the earthly ruler of Jerusalem and the nations for a thousand years, a "priest (and king) forever, in the order of Mechizedek" (Psalm 110:4). After which in the "third day" of Hosea 6:2 where He will "raise us up, and we will live in His sight," however you interpret that for now. But that will be a discussion for another day

@eschatologyguy as I said before, I am more in the Jonah 4:11 persuasion

I am also more like King David in the Psalm 120:7 aspect, I was in that zone earlier this week with Israelis ~ defend yourself yes but the resolve is lacking when dealing with mandatory vaccinations and alleged Palestinians, who are unvaccinated. Using fear tactics to get compliance just gives those people another psychological weapon and enabling encouragement of shahida.

I am not in your school of belief system of sinners one and all needing a saviour. I live by, first and foremost, Jeremiah 33:3. If you have guilt from sin, talk to G-D about it ~ Isaiah 1:18 ~ and sin no more. Life is a school full of mistakes, the excellence of perfection to school is a road, not a destination. Life is a continuous journey that never ends.

There are various schools of thought concerning Moshiach. I remind you of Jeremiah 33:17 and from that, there has ALWAYS been one candidate to step up for G-D. If Kol Israel would just do the right thing, namely just once keep a kosher Sabbath. Refrain from slander & haughtiness. Give up the idolatry. Care for what you do to others.

If it came to the battlefield scenario of your Zechariah reference, it would piss me the hell off & I humbly remind you of the verse of Zechariah 12:8 and I would become more like the Judge Samson and take all you bastards with me. I grew up in the worst case nuclear scenario and am quite comfortable with accepting the mutual assured destruction protocols (MAD).

That being said, back to Moshiach; who in their right mind would want the job? You would become instantly the most hated man on the planet. Christians would say its the Antichrist and the Mooslims would say its Anjalin Al-Masih ad-Dajjal. So, I see it as an impasse that will only be resolved by G-D ~ Proverbs 16:9

I am sorry but I do not accept or hold your view with Messiah Jesus and those eschatology events to come to pass, they may be adverted as we have free will to choose to a point that is unknown to us or the boundary. Remember, G-D created good & evil and can change mind about divine retribution summary judgements.

Also, I cannot accept Jesus, as he did not fulfill certain tenets of my understanding of Moshiach. Was he a candidate ? Maybe, but who knows, perhaps Josephus. Beware of accepting celestial entities as manifestations of godliness. I am sure you are familiar with John 3:16 but John 3:11-13 is troubling to me, when compared with 2 Kings 2:11