An End-of-Days Guide
to the Palestinians and Gaza
“And I will wipe
out the inhabitants of Ashdod And the sceptered ruler of Ashkelon; And I will
turn My hand against Ekron, And the Philistines shall perish to the last man
—said Hashem.” Amos 1:8 (The Israel Bible™)
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By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz
June 4, 2018 , 11:30 am
As Israel’s southern border is threatened by rockets,
mortars and incendiary kites, End-of-Days experts weigh in on the prospective
roles that Palestinians in Gaza play in the Messianic era.
Palestinians: Spiritual
Roots in Israel’s Biblical Enemy
Rabbi Matityahu Glazerson,
a Torah codes expert, believes that the modern day Palestinians have their
spiritual roots in the Biblical Philistines.
“We can see this in the name they choose for themselves
and we can also see this in their attraction for Gaza,” Rabbi Glazerson told Breaking
Israel News.
He emphasized that not only was Gaza a military
stronghold but it was also a major center for the Philistines’ idolatry and
temple. “Their hatred for Israel is so great that it is clearly an ancient
conflict and not just one from the last few decades. Their recent kite attacks,
burning the fields in Israel, are precisely a desire of revenge for Samson
burning the Philistine fields in a similar manner.”
He lit the torches
and turned [the foxes] loose among the standing grain of the Philistines, setting fire to stacked
grain, standing grain, vineyards, [and] olive trees.Judges 15:5
In a recent video on the subject, Rabbi Glazerson used
a computer program that searches for equidistant letter sequences in the Bible
to find the word “Palestinian” in the Torah. He found it in the book of
Deuteronomy, which he explained is the section of the Bible that corresponds to
the current era. The word “Palestinian” intersected with a verse that described
God giving the land of Israel to the Jews.
Hashem your
God will bless you in the land that Hashem
your God is giving you as a hereditary portion Deuteronomy 15:4
“The Zohar (the seminal source for Jewish
mysticism) states that this conflict that began in the Bible will continue
until the Moshiach (Messiah)” Rabbi Glazerson said. “This is a spiritual
battle which will never be solved by politics. It has to be fought on spiritual
terms by learning Torah and keeping the Sabbath.”
Palestinians: A Nation
That is no Nation
Rabb Levi Sudri, an award-winning Bible expert who is well-versed
in esoteric sources, believes the appearance of the Palestinians is a final
attempt to fix a nation that was flawed from its Biblical beginnings.
“Reincarnations are
an attempt to fix things and this era, the time preceding the Messiah, is the
final chance to fix problems that have their sources in the Bible. What we are
seeing in the Middle East is the entire world focused on the final fixing of
the Philistines. We first saw this in the Bible in Ham, the son of Noah, who
was cursed for gazing on his father’s nakedness.
He said, “Cursed be
Canaan; The lowest of slaves Shall he be
to his brothers.” Genesis 9:25
“Abraham and Isaac tried to fix Ham by making a covenant
with Abimelech the King of the Philistines, Ham’s descendants. But the language
of this Biblical agreement is important today”, Rabbi Sudri emphasized.
And Abimelech said, “Here, my land is before
you; settle wherever you please.” Genesis 20:15
“This covenant was broken by the Philistines in the days
of Joshua, and again in the days of Saul,” Rabbi Sudri said. “It is precisely
this agreement that is being broken again today.”
Rabbi Sudri noted that despite Israel’s clear military
superiority, the Palestinians are succeeding in creating a challenge Israel
cannot defeat.
“How can it be that Israel, with such a strong military,
cannot cope with the Palestinians?,” the rabbi asked. “If there is a clear
enemy, even a strong enemy, we can fight them. We cannot defeat them because
the fight is on a spiritual level, the angel of one nation against the angel of
another nation. Every nation has an angel but the Zohar explains that
the Philistines do not have an angel.”
Rabbi Sudri referred to the Philistines as a “nation that
is not a nation.”
“Every nation has a patriarch but the Philistines did not
have a patriarch,” Rabbi Sudri said. “The word ‘Philistine’ is derived from the
Hebrew word meaning ‘wanderers’ or ‘foreigner.’ With a real nation, you can
make war or peace. Since they are not a nation, we cannot do either, neither
war nor peace, with the Palestinians.”
According to Rabbi Sudri, this confrontation with the
“nation that is not a nation” has a corresponding negative effect on the Jewish
Nation.
“Israel is the most ancient nation, with the clearest
claim to being a nation. But by entering into relations with the Palestinians,
by agreeing to that definition of what is a nation, we shed doubt on our
identity as a nation which is explicitly outlined in the Bible, a stronger
claim to nationhood than any other nation in existence. By calling the Palestinians
a nation, we have brought into doubt our claims to nationhood and our claims to
our land, a claim that is clearly seen in the Bible, in archaeology and in
every history book in existence.”
The Battle for Prayer
Rabbi Yosef Berger, the rabbi of King David’s Tomb on
Mount Zion, believes the spiritual roots of the Palestinians goes back to
Ishmael, the brother of Isaac.
“As such, his fate is to be in conflict always,” Rabbi
Berger said, quoting the blessing given to Ishmael by an angel.
He shall be a wild ass
of a man; His hand against everyone, And everyone’s hand against him; He shall
dwell alongside of all his kinsmen.” Genesis 16:12
“His warring nature will continue until the very last
moment before the Messiah,” Rabbi Berger said. “It will be the spark that
brings the Messiah.”
“But the name ‘Ishmael’ means ‘God will hear,” Rabbi
Berger pointed out. “By the merit of Ishmael, God heard Hagar praying in the
desert. The real battle is over who God will listen to. That is why the
Palestinians are concentrating on the Temple Mount, and specifically on prayer.
They want to be the only nation that God listens to, and they think they can do
that by preventing the Jews from praying on the Temple Mount.”
“Prayer has much more power than people realize,
especially prayer in our times just before Messiah, and especially on the
Temple Mount,” Rabbi Berger said. “We see this in the fact that since only
Muslims are allowed to pray there, Islam is getting stronger in the world. It
isn’t Islam that is getting stronger, it is the angel of Ishmael. The Temple
Mount is where the final battle between Ishmael and Israel is going to be, and
it is going to be a battle of prayer, a battle of the angel of Ishmael against
the angel of Israel.”
‘Run for the Ship’
Rabbi Pinchas Winston, a
prolific end-of-days author, believes the Palestinians are a prophesied wake-up
call to motivate the Nation of Israel to focus on Messiah. To illustrate his
point, he related a midrash (homiletic teaching) from the Talmud
(Tractate Baba Batra 73b). According to the Talmud, Rabbah Bar Hana was
traveling on a ship and went ashore to cook some food. The island turned out to
be an enormous fish covered in sand. Feeling the heat of the fire, the fish
turned over, sending Rabbah Bar Hana scrambling for his ship, which fortunately
was ready to sail.
Rabbi Winston cited Rabbi Yaakov Lorberbaum, the rabbi of
Lissa Poland in the 1800’s, known as Rabbeinu Yaakov.
“Rabbeinu Yaakov taught that this peculiar story in the
Talmud is actually an allegory of what will happen in the days before Messiah,”
Rabbi Winston said. “He explained the Talmud as teaching that the Jews will
return to our land but we will end up ruling over another nation. The other
nation will appear weak and small but they will actually turn everything upside
down.”
“If the ‘boat is ready’, if the Jews are ready for
Messiah, everything will be fine and we will enter into the Messiah,” Rabbi
Winston explained. “If the Jews are not ready, we will ‘drown from the
problems this small nation will cause us.”
Rabbi Winston sees this allegory as a perfect description
of the Palestinian Intifada.
“The Intifada started in 1987, precisely 40 years after
Israel became a nation,” Rabbi Winston explained. “40 represents is a complete
period of gestation. A woman is pregnant for 40 sabbaths.”
“After Israel became a state, we were given a period of
40 years to show what was really conceived when Israel first became a state,”
Rabbi Winston said. “We weren’t ready to ‘run for the boat’, to bring the
Messiah. Since we hadn’t prepared for the Messiah, the Intifada was sent to
wake us up, to push us to do what we need to bring the Messiah. In this case,
the wake-up call came from a small nation that succeeded in overturning the
entire nation of Israel, making us ‘run for the ship’.”
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