So Many Sinners, How Can Moshiach Come?

The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD come. [Joel 3:4]  

The full moon two nights ago, not exactly "blood" - but orange with a pink aura is good too.

Question:

Can the Moshiach come in our time, even though there are people who have not yet repented and don't keep the Torah?

Answer:

Regarding the coming of the Redemption, our sages taught: “This matter depends only on repentance.” Maimonides likewise writes that “The Torah has promised that the Jewish people will ultimately repent at the end of their exile, and will immediately be redeemed.” However, the Redemption will not be delayed even if this condition is not fulfilled. There are three reasons for this:

1) There is no one who has not had at least one thought of repentance at least a few times in the course of his life. Even one such thought can transform a person from an utter rasha to a perfect tzaddik.

2) Many of those who do not keep the Torah and its commandments were not raised in observant homes, and have not had the benefit of a comprehensive Jewish education. As such, they have the halachic status of victims of duress, and the Torah exonerates them for their lack of observance.

3) The Redemption will come even before the Jewish people repent. It is written in Psalms, “And He will redeem Israel from all its sins.” Commentators explain, “Even sin will not obstruct the Redemption, for He will redeem Israel from sin.”

G-d is merciful and overlooks transgressions, as described in the verse: “Who is a G-d like You, Who pardons iniquity, and forgives the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not maintain His anger forever, for He delights in mercy.”

Rabbi David Kimche comments on this verse: “As to those people who remain when the Redeemer comes..... even though their unworthy deeds could make them liable for the punishment of not being redeemed from exile, G-d will not direct attention forever to their deeds, for He delights in mercy.”

[From Exile to Redemption, pp. 128-29. Sicha of Parshat Vayechi 5751. Shabbos 68b. Bava Kama 28b. Tehillim 130:8. Meztudas David, loc. cit. Michah 7:18]

Hints Galore

Hot on the heels of "Leaving the World Behind" with all it's hidden messages, comes "The Colour Purple" released in the US on December 25.  The plot of the movie is not relevant, it's the title and the publicity it's generating that is the hint.  The colour purple is of course the colour of Royalty, to match the purple skies we are seeing.  

There's also a ton of memes going around about the fact that the last date of this year is 12.31.23 which, when written without the dots reads 123 123 - a sign that we are counting down to something new.  

It's not just us [Geula watchers] who are noticing all this.  Many spiritually minded people have picked up on all these hints and they are out in force trying to get their message across to whoever sees their social media posts.

I'm expecting a massive light show on New Year's Eve, but not from the fireworks, I think Hashem will be providing His own fireworks, to match the ones we saw here over Xmas. "The awful conditions that have plagued eastern Australia are set to ease – but not for long with meteorologists warning of New Year weather drama."  [News]  Sydney is always the first up with the NY's Eve fireworks, supposedly watched by millions around the world via TV or internet. Maybe this year we'll all get something to remember ! 

Australia Dec 19, photo Jeffrey Anderson

Bondi Beach

 Napisiti over Bondi Beach right now.

    Massive.

The Ultra Light Show #2

A couple of short videos of the lightning on the night of the 25th in the Gold Coast, Queensland.  We've seen this lightning here in Sydney as well. It's non-stop flashing lights.    In the second one, suddenly it all turns pink for a moment.

Through Our Own Efforts

Surely, if Yaakov would have indeed revealed the time of Moshiach's coming to his children [Vayechi 49:1], they would have been totally devastated to hear that they had so long to wait.

When Yaakov's sons would hear that Moshiach was not scheduled to come for a long time, they would have realized that some considerable additional effort was needed to bring him sooner - as the Talmud states that through additional merit the Redemption comes earlier [Sandhedrin 98a].  Thus, Yaakov hoped that by revealing that ''the End of Days'' was a long way off, it would motivate his children to add substantially in Divine Service, so as to bring Moshiach sooner.

Nevertheless, despite his good intentions ''the Shechinah departed from him'' and Yaakov found himself unable to reveal the ''End of Days''.  For, ultimately, God wants us to bring Moshiach through our own efforts, and not through the assistance of ''revelations'' from Above.

Based on Likutei Sichos vol 20 Lubavitcher Rebbe

The Ultra Light and Sound Show

As I type this I can still hear thunder rumbling in the distance.  We've had these incredible storms for days now, it's a storm watcher's dream [or nightmare, depending on the damage inflicted].  I have to say that the thunder over the last two nights was SO LOUD it even terrified me. One giant crash of noise and everyone got the shock of their lives!  Hashem is waking us up and it's magnificent and really scary at the same time.  It's like Hashem is telling people that if they want a light show for Xmas, they're going to get a light show like they've never seen before!  

Flooded airports, flights cancelled, cars destroyed by giant hail as big as your hand, Bondi Beach steps turned into a waterfall, massive amounts of water coming down.  None of this is normal and for those of you who have seen my previous photos, you can see from these photos that the planets are causing all this.  All of these photos are from the east coast of Australia over the last two days.

That's a planet, always planets when it's purple - you can see the outline
of the sphere and the vertical stripes

Purple lighting Queensland

Giant spiked hail

Base clouds of Napisiti - the darker blue is the sphere shape of the planet, and 
the lighter blue is the sky. 

Napisiti

Napisiti again

This is a planet /or moon over the row of shops, the thick white
clouds are cloaking it, they are not Earth clouds

Here you can see part of the base clouds of Napisiti, and overlapping it is another planet, the bulk of Napisiti is behind this sphere. with the light in the centre of the sphere.  These planets are huge, much larger than Earth, and even though they are still millions of miles away from us they are filling the skies. We are seeing them overlapping each other as they pass by between the Earth and the Sun. 

The Last Xmas?

I have been tossing up whether or not to blog this, but because it's driving me crazy, I decided to blog it and get it out of my system.

I spent many years in London growing up, and at some point in time there was a band called "Wham!" who were huge in the 80's. In those days I had never even heard of the word "Moshiach" and I was very different to who I am now.   

If you are old enough to remember Wham! and the lead singer George Michael, you will know how popular and famous [sometimes infamous] he was at the time.  It is a little known fact that George Michael was actually Jewish.   In June 2008, Michael told the Los Angeles Times that his maternal grandmother was Jewish, but she married a non-Jewish man and raised her children with no knowledge of their Jewish background due to her fear during World War II.   George Michael, although a Jew, lived his entire life as a devout Xtian.

 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Michael]

George was incredibly gifted, and in an interview he said that the music would "come down" to him and he could feel it at the back of his neck when he'd got the entire thing - the music, the lyrics and the sound of the final production.  So he was sort of "given" his songs, they were meant to be.  George Michael's fame was meant to be. 

Interesting..... but that is just an introduction.

The actual point of this post is to bring to your attention that a song [written by George Michael] that was released by Wham! in 1984 has, in 2023, gone to the No. 1 spot on the British pop charts.  That song is called "Last Xmas".

George Michael died in 2016, on Xmas day actually.  Seven years later, his Xmas song is No. 1, 39 years after it was first released.

Last Xmas.... is this a sign that it is actually The Last Xmas ever ?

I think it is. 

Perfect Health When Moshiach Comes

H/t Sherry

Rabbi Zalman Goldberg - 4 minutes

 

Why is illness so rampant in the world now? How does Hashem plan to remove that with the coming of Moshiach? Listen to this eye-opening (pun intended) shiur and learn!