Let the Skies Roll Up

After the “Travail of the Shepherd” it became more and more obvious that other end time prophesies would begin to fall like dominoes. One is about to fall, or is falling as I write this. We are smack in the middle of the “Year of Yitzkhak”. Yitzkhak Avinu is set to be “born a second time” this Pesach. Surely events that have led up until now will climax at that time.

First of all of note the Israeli elections are two days before Rosh Chodesh Nissan. I believe that this choice is so critical that anyone who chooses Kadima, Meretz, or Labour after the exposure of the Palestinian Authority for what it is, is putting their eternal soul into grave danger. This could really well be one facet of the final test of where every Jew is holding before the Wars of Gog and Magog get very bloody. The Zohar is very clear. After 6 ½ years after the year 5760, there is supposed to be a full remembrance of G-d’s covenant with Ya’akov. I have been debating in my mind whether that full remembrance is this year Nissan 5766 or next year Nissan 5767. See my article on the “Secret of the Vav in HaShem’s Name. In that article I assume the first possibility for the sake of argument, but to be honest the second opinion is just as valid since the Third year of Sukkot is the Year of Yaakov (See the Cosmic Clock in the sidebar). The difference of one year is crucial, but Kol HaTor comes to the rescue when it says that Edom rules here for nine months. If Armilus’s government is to be considered Edom’s government, where Armilus is Gog and Co Rice’s (Koresh’s[1]) Hakhshara[2] (see Sefer Eliyahu[3]), then his government began on the Fifth of Teves and will end just before Yom Kippur 5767. If on the other hand Edom’s rule has a different meaning, then the full remembrance is next Nissan 5767, for it was Erev Pesach when Ya’akov Avinu “stole” Esau’s blessing for leadership in the World to Come. Of course he was meant to get it, for one cannot steal a blessing unless the recipient is really “zoche” to receive it. G-d willing it is not next year, for if it is I may be writing this blog from a sukkah by Pesach of next year.

Having said all this, if the full remembrance is this Rosh Hodesh Nissan, then the Erev Rav and hedonistic “left” coast Jews are falling into a major trap. If G-d remembers Ya’akov this New Moon of Nissan, those who are not from Ya’akov loins are signing away their Olam Haba two days later. I figure that a vote for Netanyahu might at least guarantee a possibility that the voter, though not a tzaddik, can at least repent until Yom Kippur.

This would all just be speculative if it were not for the event that is set to occur between the day of the vote and The New Moon. The intervening day is not your normal Molad where the moon passes the plane between the sun and the earth so that it can be spotted that evening a few hours later. No, that molad is scheduled to be, since the time of The Creation, an 80% solar eclipse. That’s right there will be an 80% symbolic diminution of the power of the Nations of the World vis-à-vis Yisrael. The 80% can be understood from the Zohar which says that four of the five evil husks of the mixed multitude are set to be destroyed at the End of Days. 4/5 is 80%. To understand who really gets whacked spiritually by this eclipse it is instructional to follow the path of totality. From a quick perusal, Muslim North Africa takes the brunt of this spiritual reckoning. It just makes sense that when Yitzkhak is about to be born, Yishmael's power is about to take a severe beating, along with 80% of the mixed multitude that seems to control so much of what goes on in the Holy Land these days. In addition, though, a major reduction of Yishmael's power in the world this year must be followed next year with a major reduciton of Edom's power in the world, for after all it is the Third Year of Sukkot. Remember from my article, Heavenly Court Cases Continue, Esau is judged during the Third year of Sukkot. This, of course makes sense for just like Yishmael should be judged in the Year of Yitzkhak, Esau should be judged during the Year of Ya'akov. The question of when during that year comes up, though, from Sukkot at the beginning of that year until the end of that year. Sukkot would seem to be an appropriate time because Yom Kippur 5767 will be the Seventh Yom Kippur of the Al Aksa Intafada which followed on the heels of the year of Yom Kippur (see again The Cosmic Clock and "Secret of the Vav…"). At this juncture the Jewish people here will have bowed down before Amalek seven consecutive Yom Kippur's in a row. That is the amount of times that Ya'akov bowed down before Esau over 3500 years ago when traveling back from Uncle Lavan's house in Charan. According to Me'am Loez it was Yom Kippur. He then agrees to accompany Esau to Mt. Seir, but he decides to only go part way, to build a home in Sukkot, and to build sukkot for the following summer for his animals. Only at the end of days will Ya'akov actually make it to Har Seir to be in on Esau's final judgment, when the He goat that has lead Mankind for so long is thrown over a cliff to Azazel . Then Ya'akov will travel on to Sukkot.

In order to tie these pieces together it is appropriate to introduce to you the appropriate parsha amongst our Holy Prophets who speak about this. Let me re-introduce you to Isaiah 34:

Come close, O Nations, to hear, and regimes be attentive; let the earth and its fullness hear, the world and all its offspring. For HaShem has a fury against all the nations and a wrath against all their legions; He has destroyed them; He has delivered them to the slaughter. Their slain will be thrown aside and their corpses will bring up stench; the mountains will melt from their blood. Yes, this definitely something that has not fully happened yet. It is an end times prophesy.

Verse four, though, is definitely worth commenting on, but I will let Rashi do it.

All the Hosts of the heavens will dissolve and the heavens will be rolled up like a scroll; all their hosts will shrivel as a leaf of a grapevine shrivels and like a shriveled leaf of a fig tree.

Rashi's comment: The Targum Yonatan comments this fairly literally, but my explanation is according to the matter that now the good and the light is given to the Yishmaelim. (The world's oil reserves by and large sit underneath their soil.) However when they will be erased and destroyed, the world will be as darkness upon it as if the sun and the light were rolled away like a bookscroll. Wow, Rashi is describing a solar eclipse! Not just a normal solar eclipse but one whose totality rolls through North Africa, cutting the Northern part of the African continent it two. See the clip again.

Rashi continues: (The Yishmaelim) will wilt like the fruit of a tree. It will be ripened in a state of kumra defined as fruit that has been picked, collected together, warmed up, and stuck in storage so that it can be ripened. Here I am not sure if Rashi is referring to these fruits being ripened because of darkness or because of excess heat from the sun after the eclipse. As it is he is describing a spiritual state of the Arab world in which it is withering and dying.

The fifth verse explains why Rashi seems to think that only the Yishmaelim are sent withering from the heavens being rolled up like a scroll.

For my sword has been sated in the heavens; Behold it whall descend upon Edom and for judgment upon the people of My destruction.

From here we see that the angel of Esau was not involved in the War in Heaven in verse four, but as it says in Makkot, Eilu Hen HaGolin: The angel of Rome will flee to Batzrah[4] and think it to be a city of refuge. Therefore we can understand why Rashi excluded Edom (Rome) from the heavenly judgment of verse four, for by verse five we see that the angel of Edom is on earth when the heavens are rolled up like a scroll. And in verse six, as if it comes to mirror the Talmud in Makkot:

The sword of HaShem is full of blood, greased with fat, with the blood of fatted sheep and he-goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for HaShem is making a sacrifice in Batzrah and great slaughter in the land of Edom.

For the sake of Your Holy Community here in the Land of Israel who serve you lishma, not for the bucks, but for the pleasure of being in Your Presence, may it be Sukkot 5767 and not Sukkot 5768 or G-d forbid as late as Sukkot 5769.


[1] Koresh is another name that Sefer Eliyahu gives to the end times Armilus. Condy Rice is Co Resh.

[2] Hakhshara means to make the vile behaviour of the governing authority “kosher” by giving it a legal basis. Sefer Eliyahu says that Shimon bar Yochai refers to Armilus as Hakhshara as his defining personality trait.

[3] The English Tranliteration of the name Cyrus should be Koresh, and Khusrau with the Hebrew letters should be Hakhshara (Hey Khaf Shin Resh Aleph) in the original Hebrew script.

[4] Batzrah is the Shiite stronghold in Iraq which will rebel against its Western handlers when Gog goes go war against Persia. It is a British troop enclave. See article Six Million for Machzit HaShekel for clarification about why the British are there.