The Story Of Our Generation

The Jewish Press (Link)

We are in the month of Nissan, the month of Redemption. How we yearn for the geulah. As our Exile becomes more painful and our hearts ache with sorrow, grief and fear, many of us find ourselves crying out to our Father in Heaven:

"Tati, we can't take it any more. We cannot cry another tear. We have none left. We're willing to give up all the toys of Exile: the cars, the cell phones, the entertainment, the 'good life' we have learned to pursue ... all of it! Just bring us back to our Holy Land in peace and harmony. Let us immerse ourselves in Your Holy Torah. That's all we want. It is enough!"

Nissan is the month in which Redemption becomes reality. But how do we bring it about? What can we do? On April 8, 2009, a little less than a year from now, we will recite Birkas haChama, the Blessing on the Sun. Our rabbis have instituted this prayer to be said every twenty-eight years when the sun returns to the exact position it occupied relative to the earth at the moment of original Creation. But that's not all. Occasionally, a few times throughout history, Birkas haChama has fallen on the 14th of Nissan, the day before Passover. One of those times was directly before Yetzias Mitzraim, the Exodus from Egypt. Another time was directly before the original miracle of Purim. The next time will be ... next year.

According to the Kadosh Elyon, the Ostrovster Admor, this will be the very last time in history that Birkas haChama can fall on the day before Passover and that, "shortly afterward, the Redemption must come." That's right - the cosmic event that preceded the two greatest Salvations in the history of the world will take place again next year.

We know the Children of Israel are chosen by God to be His emissaries in the world, to live by His Torah in the Holy Land. Why is it that we are universally hated, reviled, cursed and attacked? Why are we the universal scapegoat? Why is the entire world shooting words, bullets and missiles at us? Why? Because the world's peoples are trying to kill God Himself, trying to free themselves from moral restraints in order to carry on their depraved lifestyles. They can't reach God, however, so they attack His emissaries.

But we seem so helpless, so weak, so powerless. What can we do? Look at the events of Passover. The Children of Israel were subjugated and enslaved, victims of the "superpower" Egypt. No one could challenge the "mighty" Pharaoh. Then came a man named Moses, a servant of the Almighty. God ruled that Egypt must fall, and Egypt came down like a pile of matchsticks or a house constructed of playing cards. The mighty nation disintegrated before anyone knew what was happening. What had seemed the ultimate power, a civilization that would never end, blew away like a puff of smoke.

We must not be blind to the signs that are before our eyes. Did we not see the World Trade Center topple in seconds? Did we not witness the mighty economic structure of Bear Stearns falling apart before our eyes? Did not the powerful governor of one of our great states fall in the blink of an eye? These were mighty structures and mighty men.

I am not casting aspersions on any man nor making any moral judgments. There but for the grace of God go any of us. Yet we must know that to assume the invincibility of anything but Almighty God and His Torah is to depend upon straw. Egypt became a shambles and its great army drowned in the Red Sea. The nations of the world who strut in today's sunlight are ephemeral creations in the Eternity of God's Reality.

We must know that God is preparing great acts that, with His mercy, we will see in our lifetime. Cosmic events greater than the power of any man to control are unfolding. We cannot stop them, but, if we stick like glue to God and His Torah, we will live through them and enter a new existence so great as to be the stuff of our dreams.

Psalm 126
When God will return the captivity of Zion, we will be like dreamers. Then our mouth will be filled with laughter and our tongue with glad song. Then they will declare among the nations, "God has done greatly with these."

Not even the mightiest of men could stop the collapse of the mighty fortress of Egypt, and no one can stop this process. When God desires to liberate His children, no man or nation can stand in the way. Whoever believes the Muslim or Western nations are strong is incorrect. They are twigs that will soon blow away in the mighty wind God is preparing.

Psalm 48
For behold, the kings assembled, they came together. They saw and they were astounded. They were confounded and hastily fled. Trembling gripped them there, convulsions like a woman in birth travail. With an east wind you smashed the ships of Tarshish.

When the Blessing on the Sun occurs on the 14th of Nissan, not only does the sun return to its original position relative to the earth; in addition, the moon is full. Both Great Lights are in the position they occupied at the very moment of their Creation.

Every month we say the following Kiddush Levana prayer: "May it be Your will, my God and the God of my forefathers, to fill the flaw of the moon that there be no diminution in it. May the light of the moon be like the light of the sun and like the light of the seven days of creation, as it was before it was diminished, as it is said, 'The two great luminaries.' And may there be fulfilled upon us the verse that is written: They shall seek God, their God and David, their king. Amen."

When the blessing of the sun occurs on the 14th of Nissan, the universe is in exactly the same alignment as at the moment when God created this world. Then the earth was new and pure, untouched by corruption, a world of perfect sanctity, perfect law, perfect alignment between man and his Creator. This was the moment of original redemption, when God created perfect order out of chaos.

Nations of the world that dare to torture God 's chosen emissaries and challenge our eternal right to dwell in our Holy Land in peace, beware - the fate of Egypt will be yours. Soon we will see the invincible power and the salvations of God. The story of Egypt is the story of our generation.

I would like to send a belated thank you to Shanh who sent me this in April and I just now came across it again. What is the potential significance of this in light of the HIStory, Our Future Bible studies? Timing. From my research in Bible prophecy, the day of the Lord is 1,000 years (2 Peter 3:8-10) and comes like a thief in the night (1 Thessalonians 5:1-11) with sudden destruction like the days of Noah and Lot. (Matthew 24:36-44 | Mark 13:28-37)

Genesis 1:14-19
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

God created the universe in six days and on the seventh He rested. In the creation of the heavens, they were set to mark time and be signs. Man has had dominion on the earth for 6,000 years and according to Bible prophecy Yeshua will rule for 1,000 years. If a day is as a thousand years to the Lord, then the "day of the Lord" is the "last day" we are raised up at (John 6:35-58 | John 11:24) just before the sudden destruction, a pre-wrath gathering of the bride of Christ according to Matthew 25:1-13.

As far as Israel is concerned, the significance of Purim to my studies also has some potential connections with Bible prophecy. According to Revelation 12:13-16, at the time when the dragon is cast down to the earth and the man of sin begins his reign for 3 1/2 years, Israel in Judea falls into great tribulation that threatens her very existence. (Matthew 24:15-22) According to the timeline I came across from other's research, the time of Israel's escape into the wilderness could coincide with the celebration of Purim when Israel was saved from almost assured destruction.

So I find it interesting that my conclusions on timing had placed the day of the Lord at some unknown specific time after February of 2009 within approximately a month (unknown day or hour). And that according to this article, it is just a little over a month that they believe marks the time of creation and therefore the most probable time for the 1,000 years to begin with sudden destruction as prophesied. Does that make the timing I've come to accurate? Not necessarily, but I find it interesting enough anyways and thought I would share.