The Rider on the Black Horse– Painting by George Frederic Watts
As the Jewish people have just celebrated the last days of the Festival of Succot 5771 in September 2010, we remind ourselves that the last two days are days of significant meaning to our Hebrew-Judaic forefathers; Hoshana Rabbah, the 7th day of Sukkot and Simchat Torah, the 8th day of Sukkot. On the seventh day of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, 21st day of Tishrei, Hoshana Rabbah is called the "Great Hoshana” or “The Great Day of “Supplication". On this day during a special synagogue service, the worshippers make seven circuits around the ark with the Torah scrolls with their lulavs and etrogs as the congregation is reciting the Hoshanot. During this time, the scrolls of the Torah are removed from their protective arks. In many congregations in Europe and American, with the sound of the great shofar the congregation makes each circuit around the ark; seven times.
According to the Zohar, the judgment of the Divine is sealed for the New Year on Yom Kippur. Yet this sealed judgment is not “delivered” until the seventh day of Sukkot. Until this day, each individual verdict and decree for the New Year can still be altered. With the salutation spoken in Yiddish, “A guten kvitel” or “A good note” they proclaim the hope that the verdict of the Almighty is positive, as they officially end the new years.
It was a little over seven years ago, on September 24, 2001, thirteen days after the 911 destruction of the World Trade Center and the attack on the Pentagon in Washington D.C., Yehoshua Meiri, a close confidant of the court of the esteemed and very popular but aging Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri, believed to be over 108 years of age, spoke for the rabbi on Israeli Channel One TV News the following; "On Hashanah Rabba (2001 or Jewish year 5762), the actual war of Gog and Magog will commence and will last for some seven years."
Thirteen days later (broadcasted on September 24, 2001) on October 7, the celebrations of the Jewish holiday Hoshana Rabbah, the 7th day of Succot, began. Precise to the minute as the sun was setting in the western horizon, the eve of the festival day began, the US and British forces began an aerial bombing campaign against the Taliban and the Al-Qaeda forces in Afghanistan and the War against Terror was begun. Seven years later, did the Gog Magog War against Terror end?
When we consider the Seven Year Sabbatical Week of Years of the Jewish calendar cycles, we remind ourselves that the first Shmita (Shemittah’z) year, that occurred after the Jewish State of Israel officially became a state on its independence on May 15, 1948, was the Jewish year beginning on Rosh Hashanah 1951 (Jewish year in 1951-1952 or 5712 in the Hebrew calendar). This was approved by the Council of Rabbis, as reported in the Institute for Global Jewish Affairs, and calculated since the days of the compilation of the Jewish Mishnah.
As such, the subsequent “7th year” of the Sabbatical Week of Years called the Shmita or “Sabbath Year” in the Jewish calendar since the beginning of the Jewish State of Israel, are the years of; 1951 [1951-1952 or Jewish Year 5752)], 1958 (1958-1959), 1965 (1965-1966), 1972 (1972-1973), 1979 (1979-1980), 1986 (1986-1987), 1993 (1993-1994), 2000 (2000-2001), and 2007 (2007-2008).
The 50th year of the land, also known as a Shabbat of the land, was called the “Yovel” in Hebrew which became the origin of the 50th year in Latin called the, “Jubilee Year”. Today the Jubilee Year is not observed by the Orthodox Jews because the G-d of Israel has not revealed to the Sanhedrin or the Gedolim, the “Great Ones” of the Rabbanim when this day shall be.
Concerning the “Land of Israel”, and especially the matter of shmita (the 7th Sabbath year), the “Seventh or Shabbat Year” of the Sabbatical Seven Year cycle, we begin to notice that a literal cycle of the Hebrews was beginning to merge with the final prophetic cycle of this world age, or the conclusion of the “Time of the end”. Will this war cycle herald the last Seven Year cycle before the coming of the Messiah since the beginning of the last secular Jewish State of Israel began?
On this last seven year cycle, Rosh Hashanah started in September, 2001, (Jewish Year 6762), so the seventh year (2007-2008) of this sabbatical week of seven years called “shemittah”z year came in September, 2008, or the Jewish year of 5768. If Rabbi Kaduri was correct in his calculations concerning the time of the end by the writings of the Vilna Gaon, then the Gog Magog was completed at Rosh Hashanah in the year of 2008.
So we ask, “Did the Gog Magog War end on Rosh Hashanah, 2008? Did something special happen on Rosh Hashanah 2008 that affected the whole world as much or more than a global war?
When people think of war, we envision military conflicts with jets bombing, shooting missiles, tanks, nuclear weapons and bloody bodies lying on battlefields or in cities. Yet, at the time of the end, a different type of war may be revealed by the G-d of Israel.
The purpose of war, according to man’s intent on military conquest is to destroy one’s opponent so that your “national interest” will prevail, and they will become subservient to our way of living and supportive of our type of world order. During the 911 incident in which “Al Qaeda” and Saudi Islamics have universally been of accused of engineering as an “act of war” against the Great Satan of the United States, we ask, why was such a crime committed and what was the “national interest of Al Qaeda” or the rationale of committing such an evil act?
The prevailing opinion has been that the acts of violence and destruction against the Twin Towers of New York and the Pentagon in Washington D.C. were aimed at the two main symbols of Western and American power over the world. The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center represented the total economic control of America and Europe over the rest of the world. The Pentagon represented the immense unparalleled aerial military might of the United States around the world. The purpose of these two attacks was to destroy America and Europe’s political, economic and military power. It was the goal of Al-Qaeda to begin the chain of events to put the United States and Europe into a cycle of war that would spiral out of control and consume all of their economies.
Over the past century, the Rabbis of Judah have proclaimed that the Gog-Magog War would come in three cycles. The First War of GoguMogog was World War I, the Second War of GoguMogog was World War II, and now we stand in expectation as the world around Israel, from Iran, to Syria, to Hezbollah and Hamas, are arming themselves for one purpose in mind; World War III and the destruction of the State of Israel.
Remembering Sukkot 2001 and the GogUMogog War
Part One - “Remembering Sukkot: Hoshana Rabbah and the “War against Terror” called the Gog-Magog War”
Read Part Two – “The Day the World Economy Collapsed the Gog-Magog War Ended”
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