The Region of Galilee and the Golan Heights
This article will be part of an on-going series of reviews on the out-of-print 1997 book titled, “Fascinating Torah Prophecies Unfolding” by Rabbi Nisan Aryeh Noveck”.
Constantly we have to listen to doubters, debunkers, and deniers of the holocaust, and against the Zionist State of Israel, who proclaim:
“How could Hashem sanction the existence of the State of Israel when there is so much corruption in the potential leaders of Zionist State of Israel? These leaders are Jewish communists, Jewish socialist Zionists, plus Jewish Shabbatean anti-Jews, Jewish Freemason Prime Ministers, Jewish Russian Oligarchs, Jewish Rothschild Internationalists, and the twelve Jewish oligarch dynasties who control the State of Israel for the purpose of making money and ‘controlling the world’. As Rabbi Noveck wrote:
Rabbi Noveck – “Hashem never stated anywhere that the newly created country (of Israel) would be led by observant Jews from its very onset.”
When we search the Written Torah and the Oral Torah, collectively it clearly states that the land of Israel as a piece of real estate on Planet Earth has no real value. Over the centuries it has languished as a desolate no-man’s land until the Jewish “thumb” began the reclamation project of the millennium; restoration of the Land of Israel into a flourishing farmland. Except when touched by the hand of a Hebrew descendant did the former breadbasket of Rome again fulfill her prophetic destiny; as a major food exporting country in the world.
In former times under the Imperial Roman rule (after the Jews had been expelled from the country, the Land of Israel was ruled by the Byzantines at Constantinople, the Islamic Caliphate era in Baghdad, the Turkish Ottomans, and the 19th century rule of the Egyptian Pasha called Muhammad the Great. Let’s examine the 19th testimony of Mark Twain:
Mark Twain (1860) – “A desolation is here that not even imagination can grace with the pomp of life and action…We never saw a human being on the whole route. We pressed toward… Jerusalem…Jerusalem is... lifeless. I would not desire to live there. It is a hopeless, dreary, heartbroken land… Palestine is desolate and unlovely. Can the curse of the Deity beautify a land?”
Yet, when the Land of Israel was “touched by the finders of the Jewish immigrants, no matter where they came from, it flourished and prospered. Even the Written and the Oral Torah describes that a generation of non-observant Jews, who, except for circumcision (brit Milah) will govern a state “with no real value, yet is willing to give away the entire country to “Arab murderers” whose stated goals, as proclaimed in the 1988 Hamas Charter is the annihilate the Jewish people:
1988 Charter of Hamas – "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.”
The Jewish secular minded leaders are also willing to follow the dictates of their own cousins, the “Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel” who abandoned the Torah, defied the G-d of Israel, and refused to worship in the “House of Hashem”, called Solomon’s Temple. They also refused to live under the ruling monarchy that was approved called the Davidian Dynasty of Kings David and Solomon. They also refused to accept Hashem’s ‘Mechoqeck’, the Jewish rabbis of the House of Judah as the approved legal guardians of the Torah in both its Written and Oral forms in order to define the present interpretations on how the Ancient Torah at Sinai should be halakhically interpreted to guide the Jewish people throughout the ages and today, in the modern Zionist State of Israel.
The Sea of Galilee looking towards Tiberius and Mount Hermon – Scottish Painter David Roberts (1840-1850)
Let us not get too hard upon the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel, for truly they were a rebellious people, and were also described in not “flattering terms” by the G-d of Israel through the mouth and pen of Ezekiel the Prophet. He claimed that the defiant Israelites had and would continuously “abominated and desecrated the Holy Name of the G-d of Israel throughout the ages in every country/s in which they resided or had dominion.
Even to the end of the ages the Lost Tribers would remain “filthy” with a “heart of stone” until the day of their redemption by the “Act” of G-d Himself. He proclaimed that He will redeem the Lost Tribers for only one reason; to Honor His Holy Name, which the descendants of the Lost Tribers over the centuries also refused to do, whatever lands in which they lived.
Within the Chumash (Pentateuch written by Moses) and the Oral Torah established by Moses with the Elders of Israel, Rabbi Noveck stated that the rabbanim have rediscovered the fact that during the days of the final guela (“redemption of All Israel”), the G-d of Israel will chose to work through human mediators that are wicked, crooked, evil, or just narcissistic self-centered politicians seeking power, greed, and control. Wicked people, unknown to them will actually be doing the will of the Divine. Yes, many or most of them will not be fully observant Jews.
Yet, we also cannot sit in judgment of these people. Hashem, as the Sovereign G-d of the Universe has claimed the right to judge; He and He alone. Let us see how Rabbi Noveck actually states these facts as they have been written above:
Rabbi Noveck – “Specifically, I refer to some Jews who incorrectly claim, ‘Hashem would never perform a miracle to Jews who are mostly non-observant nor would He create a State of Israel for Jews who are secular and anti-religious. So they continue: ‘So the State of Israel should not be supported and it is not right for Jews to own it at this point in time’.
By the way, are these critics certain that Hashem would create a country for them if they would desperately need it? Are they certain that Hashem would save them if their lives were being threatened?”
So the critics so also the media, protest along with the very people who seek the Jewish peoples destruction, not considering that when the enemies of the Jews potentially by genocide slaughter all the Jews in the Land of Israel, will they be so kind to the Jews who are Israel’s critics. History disputes that fact with great certainty.
Rabbiu Noveck accepted this fact with great certainty that the G-d of Israel gave the Jewish people the Land of Israel in which to have a country that would protect them in their Jewishness. By giving them the “Land, He would allow the Jewish people the freedom to worship as the G-d of Israel commanded National Israel on Mount Sinai; to demonstrate the great power of the Divine by living the 613 commands of the Torah.
Stele of Zakkur mentions BenHadad as "Bar Hadad, son of King Hazael".
It was the Rebbi (rabbinic mentor) of Rabbi Noveck, called the Gaon Reb Ahron Soloveichik shlita, who emphasized clearly how in the TaNaKh, in the “Story of the Four Lepers” that led to this halakhic understanding of this most critical question in modern Jewish history. Gehazi was a metzora (had a contagious illness), along with his three sons. They all had contracted an incurable skin disease, called tzara’as. So they were isolated from the Israelite society so that others would not contract the disease also.
According to Rabbi Noveck, they were also “spiritual lepers”, who were so bad that they were cast out of the Israelite social and business culture. How did this come about?
Gehazi was known to be ruthless, arrogant, and greedy. He was a crook, an evil businessman who in the days of a seven year drought was ‘raping’ the people in the city of their money and their few possessions they had. His actions caused the economy to crash and a hyperinflationary depression had set within the city.
Consider the fact that Gehazi in modern American terms was like the Chairman of Goldman Sacks or a Ben Bernanke, the Chairman of the Northern Kingdom of Israel’s “Federal Reserve” in the capital city of Samaria. Now he and his unscrupulous family were cast outside the walled city of Samaria. Their lifestyle had been corrupt, exploitative and offensive so much that they had caused irreparable damage to the business culture of the Northern Kingdom of Israel.
As Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin reported in his “Oznayim Latorah”, Gehazi was so evil that their affect upon the Northern Israelite culture was so non-redeeming that Gehazi and his family were denied a “share in the world to come”. This denial by G-d as what some would call the “unpardonable sin” was so rare that it was only mentioned in four separate instances in the TaNaKh (Old Testament), as reported by the Talmudic sages,
It so happened also at this time, that the armies of King Hadad, king of Aram at Damascus were poised to attack the city of Samaria as their army had surrounded this capital city of the Northern Kingdom of Israel. The seven year drought had so weakened the national culture and farming community that most of their military horses had died. Their citizens were so starving that they were actually eating their dying starving children.
During this same time, the Prophet Elisha was inside the king’s palace giving a warning to the king plus a prophecy. He prophesies that the hyperinflationary prices of flour and barley would suddenly collapse and for one shekel the citizens of Samaria could once again purchase a measure of fine flour or barley for one shekel. These four wicked, ruthless businessmen, outcasts of the Israelite society were about to become their saviors of the city of Samaria.
Gehazi and his sons, not able to get within the safety of the walls of Samaria decided that the only way that they could live and get food was to approach the military troops of the King of Damascus. Yet, when they came to the camp, to their surprise, there was no one there. The G-d of Israel had caused a noise to come upon the camp as though a large military army was about to surround them. They thought that either the military forces of Judah or Edom were about to overtake them, and so they fled in a panic, leaving their horses plus all their food, provisions and a large quantity of silver, gold and all sorts of precious articles for celebrations.
Here in the TaNaKh (II Kings 7:1-19) and in the words of the Talmudic sages (see Rashi’s Sanhedrin 90b; Mefaresh on I Chronicles 21:8; and Oznayim Latorah by Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin), we read the commentary of how Gehazi, after feasting themselves and looting some of the gold and silver, he and his three sons went to the walls of the city of Samaria, and sent a message to the king.
By the action of these four evil men, the city of Samaria was saved from starvation and military destruction. Yes, Samaria was saved. The Northern Ten Tribes of Israel were once again temporarily blessed by G-d and given more time to repent by the One G-d of Israel. Yet, their day of judgment and exile were still to come.
When Jehoram, the king of Israel was given the prophecy that his city and kingdom would be saved by the personal message given to them by Elisha the Prophet, the king’s assistant, or the captain of the king’s guard became a scoffer. He refused to believe G-d’s prophet. As Rabbi Novick wrote about the King’s assistant.
Rabbi Noveck – “This can’t be a miracle’, he shouted. ‘The fact that the Aram army suddenly fled from the Land and the fact that there is now a storehouse of food to save the lives of all the Israelites – these are not a miracle.’ ‘Stay away,’ he continued.
‘Wait for a miracle that Hashem will perform through observant people. We must also wait until all Jews become observant in order for Hashem to save us.’”
This is the way many Christians look upon the Zionist State of Israel, not willing to accept that the G-d of Israel is a “Zionist”. It is He who proclaims that the Land of Israel and the city of Jerusalem belongs to Him, and Him only. This is also the way many Jews who are have not been studying the wisdom of their sages and prophets think also about their present government. Instead of seeking to support the government of Israel, they seek to demoralize and destabilize the political government of Zionist Israel.
Strange as it may seem, many of these self-righteous people who claim that G-d will only save Israel when the whole land of halakhically pure, are the very ones who are seeking to Hellenize or secularize the State of Israel or ally themselves as partners with the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Holocaust denier with his anti-Israel venom .
It is they, who scoff that Jerusalem must become a halakhically observant city before they can become deserving of Divine intervention. Yet, here come again the “back-seat” judges who feel they have to be G-d’s providence and that they can do a better job than Hashem Himself in deciding by their omniscient criticism of who is deserving and who is not. As Rabbi Noveck continues:
Rabbi Noveck – “These Jews, who are so critical of others – these Jews do not even understand a simple story in the TaNaKh; how could they be considered as quotable when they do not even know the Aleph-bais of Judaism, a simple story.”
So here are some gems of the Talmudic giants critical of the concept that the “saving of lives is the exclusive assignment of Jewish observant intermediaries”.
- No human has the divine prerogative to judge another situation or character. (Talmud Avos 2:5 and 4:10)
- “Hashem only produces miracle that are valid and just.” (concept emphasized in the Talmud B’rachos 58a)
- “Any person will prepare in order to enable the righteous to benefit from that work.”
- The Great Master of the world [brings everything to fruition and to help Him accomplish these tasks, He] enlists the assistance of the fool and the sinner.” [Iyov (Job) 27:17, Mishlay (Proverbs) 26:10]
We are reminded of the Holocaust! During these days of utter evil, millions of Jews were incarcerated to be starve to death or to be incinerated in the ovens of Dachau. Many today are envisioning a new holocaust, to annihilate the Jews but also to destroy those who support the Jewish people, most of whom are descendants of the Lost Sheep of the Northern Tribes of Israel.
Is it not amazing that most of these “Zionists” are Christians today living in Europe and America? With what appears to be the destruction of the Nation of America, with the destruction of her constitution, and the construction of a North American Union, many ponder with fear, will there be anyone able to intercede and protect G-d chosen people?
Yet, the G-d of Israel proclaims, “Do not fear!” Have faith (emuna) in My Sovereign Power that at the end, peace, safety and salvation will prevail, not by just a human mediator, but because today, I am involved in the affairs of the nations and I am seeking to bring all men to righteousness.
No, it won’t be just the Jews, but all who claim to be the followers of the G-d of Israel. History could repeat itself when we remember the famous quote of the German Pastor Martin Niemöller who was incarcerated in a German concentration camp from 1941 to April 1945.
- “First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a communist; - Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a socialist; - Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a trade unionist; - Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a Jew; - Then they came for me -- and there was no one left to speak out for me.”
(Martin Niemöller’s diary 1945)
In the Jewish halakhah, the most noble of action of any one person is to save a life. As it is quoted:
“To Preserve One Life is Equivalent to Preserving the Entire World”
For this reason, Hashem, the G-d of Israel gave us, the Lost Tribes of Israel divine insight that at the time of the end the House of Joseph (representing the entire House of Lost Israel) would be redeemed and together with the Jews of the House of Israel will fight for the redemption of the Land of Israel and the reclamation of the Jews in the Diaspora and the Lost Tribes of Israel scattered around Planet Earth.
For this reason, in His Divine Wisdom, the G-d of Israel created the Zionist State of Israel as a “Country of Refuge” to protect the Jews from being murdered by the non-Jewish world – because Jews were threatened with extinction and there was no other way to save their lives – not then and not now and also not for the immediate future. Hashem created a place of refuge where every Jew could seek shelter and protection from the unfortunate evil that abounds in this world.” This leads us to this gem from the Talmud.
“Hashem never produces a miracle that is accidental, misleading, purposeless, premature, or] fraudulent.” (Talmud B’rachos 58a)
As the social cultural world and the elements of the natural world all seem to be descending into chaos, we must remember that time is short. If you consider that chaos reigns today and that this world of chaos is transforming itself too fast; wait till tomorrow, if we have any freedoms left. We have today thousands of people making preparations for their personal safety and protection. Bunkers by the tens of thousands are being built in the underground shelters, while larger bunkers are put in safe havens under mountains for the economic and political elite.
Yet there will be one safe haven in the world before the Day of the Messiah arrives. All men will be craving to take control of the Land of Israel. Yet the G-d of Israel promised the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel (Ezekiel 36), that in that day, “He will bring them out of the lands of their dwellings and implant them back into the lands of their forefathers.”
Why will all the nations of the world be coming to the Plains of Megiddo or the Valley of Jehoshaphat for Armageddon or the final GogUMagog War? It appears that this region surrounding the Land of Israel will be recognized by the elite rulers of the world to be the last safe haven on earth.
It also appears, in the plain interpretations of the prophets of old, that the entire world will come to a “reality” that an “alien invasion” will be imminent over Jerusalem. Little do they comprehend the fact that this “alien” presence will be the Maschiah ben Dovid (Messiah son of David) “coming” with the angelic hosts of heaven, when the Messiah is “revealed” in Jerusalem as he takes control of Hashem’s capital on Planet Earth.
This will be HaSatan’s and the forces of darkness’ last stand against Michael and the angelic forces of light. At this “appointed time” HaSatan will face his final judgment. Jerusalem and the “Land” will be reserved by the King of kings and the L-rd of lords for his chosen ones; the Jews of the House of Judah and the Lost Ten Tribes of House of Israel.
As the threats to annihilate the Jews become an ever present reality, we begin to see that it was divine intervention that set the stage for the creation of the Zionist State of Israel on May 15, 1948. As a Jewish people are progressively surrounded by the “wolves” of the nations of the earth, it is the intention of the G-d of Israel that this one small “dot” on Planet Earth would become a “Land of Refuge” for the Jewish people and someday in the future a safe haven for the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel as they return to claim their biblical and tribal inheritance. This leads to one Divine Reality:
“The State of Israel was created by Hashem to Save the Lives of Jews.”
Yet today, we have a new reality. The Jewish patriots are fighting to keep the Land of Israel that was given to the Children of Israel as an Inheritance for all ages. The strange act, according to divine promise, the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel are now beginning to awaken. Yes, they will also be redeemed and restored to the land of their forefathers as prophesied by the Prophet Ezekiel (Ezekiel 36). This is not a Jewish prophecy. It is a prophecy for the cousins to the Jews, called the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel. Let us consider this biblical theorem:
“The State of Israel was created by Hashem so that the Jewish Pioneers and Patriots will Protect and Preserve the Land of Israel so that the “Dry Bones” of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel will have a Land for their Inheritance to Come Home also.”
To live in the land of their forefathers, the Lost Tribes of Israel will also have to come back into a covenant relationship with Hashem the G-d of Israel. Understand, those that are redeemed of the “Lost Sheep of the House of Israel” cannot bring their allegiance to the “Triune Sun god of Rome” or the “Moon god of Islam”. These Lost Tribers will have to bewilling:
- To worship the One G-d of Israel, the Creator of the Universe. They will also have
- to also be willing to reverse their apostasy;
- to be willing to worship in the “House” of the G-d of Israel called the Ezekiel Temple,
- to be ruled by “David son of King David” of the divinely appointed Davidian Dynasty, and
- to be willing to sit with respect and honor at the feet of the Rabbanim of Judah, as their legal counselors of Torah law, to “learn the ways of the L-rd”.
Yet before the reunion of All Israel, the prophets all have a certain unity of opinion. As Rabbi Noveck states, “there will come a day where:
Rabbi Noveck – “Hashem suspends certain rules, laws, or other principles. Specifically, when there is no protector for defenseless Jews (and Lost Israelites) and when the physical existence of the Jewish (Hebrew) entity is threatened with extinction and when no country in the world is willing to protect the Jews (plus Israelites as All Israel) – during this period, Hashem intervenes! In these instances, Hashem considers absolutely no other circumstance or conditions. It is totally irrelevant whether the Jews (or Israelites) are deserving or meritorious nor does it matter who the Jewish leaders might be. The Prime concern is saving of lives.”
For those Jews of the House of Judah who are resistant and angry as a jealous “Elder Brother” that their “Prodigal” younger brother from the House of Israel is now coming back home, please consider; it was Hashem, “our G-d as the One who chose us both” has now promised to do an irreversible ‘attitude adjustment’ to our lives. We never will be allowed to rebel again. As the House of Israel (in Ezekiel 36) as a separate tribal entity as the House of Judah with the House of Israel (in Ezekiel 37), we then have this promise not based upon the fact that we are worthy, for the G-d of Israel has already pronounced us “filthy” and we have “abominated and desecrated His Holy Name all around the world. Yet, he has promised the Lost House of Israel that:
Ezekiel 36:25-28 – “Thus said the L-rd Hashem/Elohim: It is not for your sake that I act, O House of Israel, butfor My holy Name that you have desecrated…
- “I will take you from [among the nations] and gather you from all the lands, and I will bring you to your own soil.
- Then I will sprinkle pure water (purification water of the Red Heifer) upon you, that you may become cleansed;
- I will cleanse you from all your contaminations and from all your idols.
- I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you;
- I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
- I will put My spirit within you, and
- I will make it so (“write My Torah upon your heart” that you will follow My decrees and guard My ordinances and fulfill them.
- You will dwell in the land that I gave to your forefathers;
- You will be a people to Me and I will be a G-d to you.” (The Stone Edition TaNaKH)
Baruch Hashem Adonai (“Blessed be the Name of the L-rd”)
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