The Parched Shoreline of the Sea of Galilee called Lake Kinneret in Northern Israel
Sanhedrin 97a – “Rebi Yochanan ben Zaccai of Yavnah said: In the generation that Ben Dovid will come, talmidei chachamim, the “pupil of wisdom” known as the Torah sage or scholar, will decrease, and the eyes of the remainder will protrude from sighing and sorrow; many chastisements and many evil decrees will be renewed; one will not cease before another begins.”
The weather forecasters for Israel do not give any hope that the Jewish year of 2010-2011 will escape the dire forecast as being one of the worst on record for a water shortage and famine in the Land of Israel. The loss of precipitation for the Winter of 2010-2011 is expected to be exceptionally harsh and late in onset. Their weather forecasts predict that less rain will fall in 2011 than any of the last six bad annual droughts over the past decade. Though the year of 2009-2010 was “exceptionally wet” after six prior dry years in a row, it appears that 2011 beat all prior records as being the driest on record.
As we can see the above prophecy was attributed to the famous Rabbi Yochanan ben Zaccai of Yavnah (Jamnia). He, according to Jewish legend, was able to escape from Jerusalem in a casket during the last days of the Siege of Jerusalem in order to plead for the preservation of the town of Yavnah and its sages with the Roman general, Vespasian, the descendants of Rabbi Hillel the Great from his grandson, Rabban Gamaliel I the Great who were princes of the House of King David, and a physician to treat Rabbi Tzadok, who had fasted for 40 years trying to prevent the destruction of Jerusalem. He prophesied to Vespasian that he would soon become the emperor of Rome. Within months, Vespasian was now Roman Emperor and the Roman forces under Titus the General breeched the walls of Jerusalem and the Temple of Herod was burnt to the ground.
Rabbi Yochanan went on to transform the city of Jamnia into a Jewish religious center, a Jewish seminary called a Yeshiva, eventually the preservation and reestablishment of the Sanhedrin with the Council of Jamnia, and established as a principle contributor of the core text of Rabbinical Judaism, the Mishnah.
In the Rabbi Yochanan’s Sanhedrin prophecy, 97a, we witness a dire catastrophe that will occur in Israel at the time of the end on the 3rd year of the last Sabbatical Week of Year cycle; a large number of the Jewish sages will cease to live and no longer be an inspiration and a guiding light to the Jewish people in their final days of trial and tribulation.
The seventh year of the last Sabbatical cycle came on Rosh Hashanah 2007. On Rosh Hashanah 2008, the first year of this Sabbatical Week of Year cycle of seven years began. So with the beginning of the Third Year of this Sabbatical Week of Year cycle, Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger and Chief Sephardi Rabbi Shlomo Amar sent out the following letter to the Jewish people in Israel on Thursday, November 18, 2010 stating;
Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger and Chief Sephardi Rabbi Shlomo Amar; - “The summer is gone as is most of the winter, and we are yet to be redeemed by the downfall of rains of blessing, and the state of the waters in the Land of Israel is under duress and great distress, especially since this is not the first year of drought, and the land is dry due to our many sins, and this is a troubling matter.
It is our duty to seek and delve into our deeds, and come close to God with all our hearts, and set forth our pleas with a broken and despondent heart.”
Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger and Chief Sephardi Rabbi Shlomo Amar
The two leading rabbis gave to the Jewish people a fasting protocol for the day of fasting that included the order of the prayers along with encouraging as many of the people to fast. The text issued for this special prayer was to be recited when the Torah scrolls are taken from the ark, while it is opened with these prayers; “With one heart, as one person, and [the prayers] shall rise to the will of our Father in the Sky, who will gush out His blessings upon us, with grace, benevolence and mercy.”
As BibleSearchers Reflections posted three years ago on September 2007 the following article, we read the following;
BibleSearchers Reflections - If times appear to be bad in the land of Israel today, then according to the sages of Judah, the worst is yet to come. “The rabbis taught: The Shmittah period in which Ben Dovid will come the following verse will be fulfilled:
Year One of the Sabbatical Cycle (2009)–
“In the first year”, Rosh Hashanah 5769 (Tuesday, September 30, 2008) to Rosh Hashanah 5770 (Saturday, September 19, 2009)
“The following prophecy in Amos 4:7 will be fulfilled
“I caused it to rain on one city, but, on another city, I did not cause it to rain.”
Year Two of the Sabbatical Cycle (2010) –
“In the second year”, Rosh Hashanah 5770 (Saturday, September 19, 2009) to Rosh Hashanah 5771 (Thursday, September 9, 2010)
“There will be a “slight famine” in which according to Rashi, “no place will be completely satisfied”.
Year Three of the Sabbatical Cycle (2011) –
“In the third year”, Rosh Hashanah 5771 (Thursday, September 9, 2010) to Rosh Hashanah 5772 (Thursday, September 29, 2011),
“The famine will be great, and men, women, children, pious people, And men of good deeds will die; Torah will be forgotten by those who learned it.”
For those who know prophecy well, the Holocaust of the Jews will not match the horrors of the coming tribulation, a Holocaust for the Whole World. It will be a tribulation that will be experienced by all peoples, on every continent and of every race and religion on the face of the earth. Yet the Holocaust of the Jews, an account missed by most biblical scholars was prophesied by Jeremiah the Prophet when he wrote:
Jeremiah 30:4-9: “This is what the Lord has said to Israel and Judah. These are the words of the Lord:
“You shall hear a cry of terror, or fear without relief. Ask and see: can a man bear a child? Why then do I see every man gripping his sides like a woman in labor, every face changed, all turned pale? Awful is that day: when has there been its like? A “time of trouble for Jacob”, yet he shall come through it safely.
‘In that day’, says the Lord of hosts, ‘I will break their yoke off their necks and snap their cords; foreigners shall no longer use them as they please, they shall serve the Lord their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.”
The “Time of Jacob’s Trouble” for the Jewish People was a time on earth when all the nations of the earth participated in the isolation and destruction of God’s chosen people of the House of Judah. Of all the Protestant Religions, only the Jehovah’s Witnesses were willing to raise a cry of outrage to the treatment and progressive holocaust of the Jewish people. The Holocaust started in the heartland of the “Sea Beast”, the leopard body of the Third Reich of Nazi Germany. The concept of “Replacement Theology” and “Spiritual Israel”, which was instituted in the collective consciousness of the gentile Christian Protestant Church by the Orthodox Roman Christian Church had so permeated their religious culture that the Christian Churches acted as though the Jews and Israel did not exist.
As though the “Appointed Time” has come, the Land of Israel is suffering its severest drought in ages. This is portrayed in part in Northern Israel where the Kibbutzs, such as Kibbutz Ein Zivan near the Syrian border at the base of the Golan Heights, conservation and recycling water have been a part of life for many decades. There they grow apples, grapes, berries and flowers.
They have watched the Sea of Galilee, the nation’s largest source of fresh water, slowing dwindling as it today now sits on the feared “black line” for when it is there, no more water can be pumped from the lake. The waters are becoming progressively polluted, as Israel’s largest fresh water lake is becoming stagnant. They water their orchards and farms with treated sewer water and captured rain runoff in a nearby reservoir. By using a water drip system, his farm has continued to surviving, until….
As early as 2008, the apple orchards were being torn down and the apples taken off the trees prematurely and let rot on the ground in order to save the trees through the drought. Though spared because of extra rain in 2009-2010, the drought crisis is hitting again, this time more severe.
As it took the holocaust to precipitate the raising of the “dry bones” of the House of Judah who did return to the land of their forefathers, so it will take equally severe catastrophes to rouse up the “dry bones” of the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel. It is they who live today predominately in the Northern countries of Europe and America, and it is they who must eventually be willing to give up their “golden calves” of materialism and be willing to return back to the land of their forefather’s in the region of Shomron, Northern Israel, the regions around Damascus and in the region of Basham, and Gilead, all the way down to Amman, Jordan. These are the tribal lands of the Northern Ten Tribes of Israel. Today, the G-d of Israel is beginning to lay down the gauntlet and say, “It’s time for you to return home!” As we continue to read the above article, we learn:
BibleSearchers Reflections – “A careful picture of God’s dealing with His chosen ones will lead any prudent and careful scholar to one conclusion; the Lord of hosts always punished Israel first before He gives judgment on the rest of the nations. We talk so much about the exile and destruction of the Jewish people, the exile and loss of identity of the citizens of the Kingdom of Israel, but we fail to read the rest of the oracles of destruction on the rest of the nations of the world and especially those that surround Israel. God always chose His people to send them first into the fires of purification yet the promise of redemption was always given;
The G-d of Israel - “I will redeem you not because you are worthy, in fact you are a stiff-necked and rebellious people, but I will redeem you, because I am the Lord your God and I will honor My Holy Name. Just remember, what I say that I will do, that I will do. My Name is Holy, Just, and Truth.” (paraphrased)
By the time the New Covenant was revealed in the gospels and the future prophecies of the time of the end was revealed by one of the guardians of the New Covenant, John the Revelator, none of the nations of the Middle East that surrounded the Nation of Israel and Judah existed. The national identity of the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Edomites, the Ammonites, the Philistines (Palestinians), the Gebelites, the Hagerites, the Moabites, and the Ismaelites had all disappeared as nationalistic or cultural people. They all disappeared except the Jews to be resurrected at the time of the end. Yet, the Drama of the Ages will be played again for its epic and final dramatic act.
Then, the Day of the Lord will come and last a thousand years for did not the Lord proclaim;
II Peter 3:8 – “But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”
The Seventh Year of the Sabbatical Cycle of War as we are beginning to perceive was only a preparation period to set the stage for the final Holocaust and judgment. It will occur not upon the Jewish people but upon the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel, and the Gentile nations of the whole world.
What we can only perceive darkly now, out of the fires of tribulation will arise; the last ingathering of God’s chosen people. This ingathering will include; the House of Joseph (Ephraim) and the return of the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel to their promised homeland, into the fields of Ephraim and Samaria in Northern Israel, plus Lebanon, Basham, where HaShem’s Zion called Mount Basham (Hermon) hovers over Northern Israel and Gilead.”
It is time to pay attention to G-d’s details. When He spoke to the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel in prophecy by the Prophet Ezekiel, He said:
Ezekiel 36:22, 24-28 (parts) - “Thus says the Adonai G-d, “I do not do this for your sake, O House of Israel, but for My holy Name’s sake, which you have profaned among the nations wherever you went…I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land. Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols…
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them. Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your G-d.”
This is not a prophecy for the Jewish people. It is for the rebellious, arrogant, and self-righteous Lost Tribes of the House of Israel as the Northern Europeans and Americans, plus any other land in which they may have been scattered. It is the governments of the Lost Tribes of Israel who today are trying to give away the region of Samaria and Judea to a people who have no historical, ancestral, or spiritual roots or claims to that land.
Yet, as the Lost Tribes of Israel, their forefather’s rebelled against the G-d of Israel and He in His mercy had to exile their forefathers from that land. Yet, the G-d of Israel was also a righteous G-d and a good Father, for He promised that He would never forsake them, and would someday redeem them as the children and descendants of those He loved but had to let go.
Yet, today, the Lost Tribers are awakening. The Lost Tribers mean you, for no doubt that is why you are reading this blog. You are now beginning to open your heart to your tribal brethren, the Jews of the House of Judah. It is you, who desire to travel to the Holy Land and walk on the land of your forefathers. Soon you will be asking a Jewish rabbi, “Teach me the ways of Torah!”
Can you not see, the millions who yearly are visiting the Holy Land in droves as Christian Zionists are learning to celebrate G-d’s Statutes, and Judgments the “old fashion way”, in the festivals of the L-rd, just like G-d taught their forefathers the Torah at the foot of the mount called Sinai?
The G-d of Israel has promised that these things will happen and if we open our eyes, we will see that these prophesies are now being fulfilled in front of your eyes, and also in your hearts. Maybe it’s your time to begin to open your heart back to the G-d of Israel, begin your journey back to the faith of your forefathers as you leave your apostate Christian faith behind and return to your Hebrew-Judaic roots! Soon, you will become part of the great aliyah (return to the “Land”) with the Return of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel.
To understand more about the Return of the 10 Tribes of Israel, Contact “Kol Ha Tor”, the Voice of the Turtledove, As a Reception from the House of Judah is forming to welcome the returning House of Israel
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