US
President Barack Obama at the funeral ceremony of Shimon Peres in
Jerusalem, September 30, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
The last of the founding fathers of modern Israel, Shimon
Peres fell asleep on Tuesday
September 27, having spent 2 weeks in a state of induced coma, following a
severe stroke he suffered on September 13.
Aged 93, he was buried with great honour on September 29 with at least 90 world leaders from
over 70 nations physically present at his funeral in Jerusalem. Peres was one of Israel's longest-serving
and most-distinguished politicians. He was at different times Defence Minister,
Prime
Minister (2 non-consecutive terms), and President
of the Jewish nation.
There is no doubt that the departure of Shimon Peres, a few days to the
close of the iconic year 5776, is of immense
prophetic significance. Just like the
death of Methuselah coincided with the Noahic rain that ushered in a new world
order, as it were, there is considerable excitement at what the death of Shimon
Peres might mean for the world.
In particular, the entire world of Bible Prophecy, both Jewish and
Christian, is agog with the expectation that the arrival of the Messiah is
imminent. As we have shown extensively
in past articles (e.g.Vol 9 No 1), the expectation for a Messiah is in fact
shared by virtually all religions – from Islam, Hinduism, etc to the New Age
movements. Virtually all those expecting
the Messiah also readily aver that he is due to show up any moment from
now. The only difference, and it is a
big one, is that while Christians expect the Messiah to come from heaven, He
having been around earlier and having left a promise to return in the same way
He exited the planet (Lk 1:11, Jhn 14:1ff, etc), every other look-out is
expecting a messiah coming from the earth.
In this respect, they are some 2,000 years behind schedule, and are
doomed to fall for the anti-christ who they would presume to be the bona fide Messiah.
Now according to mainstream Judaism teachings, as recently
expounded, for instance, by prominent Jewish educator and bestselling author,
Rabbi Shimon Apisdorf, the coming of Israel’s Messiah would involve two distinct eras. First the era of Moshiach Ben Yosef (Messiah from the
house of Joseph) and, subsequently
that of Moshiach Ben David
(Messiah from the House of David).
Messiah from the house of Joseph supposedly speaks of a deliverer in the
material sense. Just like God sent
Joseph ahead into Egypt to preserve life and lay the foundation for the
formation of the nation of Israel (Gen. 45:7), the Era of the Moshiach Ben Yosef was to involve the
establishment of the materials side of the modern state of Israel. With that done, the era of the Moshiach Ben David, which would
establish the spiritual side of Israel was to be ushered in. These same two phases are clearly seen in the
vision of the Prophet Ezekiel: first a materials Israel being revived from her
hopeless dry bones, to be followed by a spirit-filled living Army thereafter
(Ezk 37:10)
In his discussion with BreakingIsraelNews, Rabbi Apisdorf identifies the modern period of Moshiach Ben Yosef as taking off on the 28th day
of the Hebrew month of Iyar in 1904 (May 13, 1904) with the stepping on Israel’s soil of the highly renowned and respected Zionistic
rabbi, Avraham Isaac Kook, the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel. Upon his
arrival, Rabbi Kook had eulogized Theodore Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism (and a secular Jew), referring
to him as the “beginnings of the Moshaich Ben Yosef.” In the opinion of Rabbi Apisdorf, the burial
of Shimon Peres in Jerusalem on September 29 represented “an unmistakable
historic shift.” According to the
rabbi, “I sense that the period of Moshiach
Ben Yosef ended with the burial of Shimon Peres, the last of the founding
fathers of the state that embodied that process [of creating the state]….If
this is true, then beginning this past Shabbat, and then as the New Year began,
the transition period ended, and we are now solely in the period of Moshiach
Ben David.”
Now Bible students would understand that the partial “blindness” that keeps Israel
from realizing that Jesus Christ of Nazareth was and is the Messiah, will
persist “until the fullness of the gentiles” are come into the kingdom of God
(Rom 11:25). Another verse which clearly defines limits of gentile activities
in divine end-time schedule is Luke 21:22 and 24 describing how the trampling
of Jerusalem (the Temple Mount, in reality) by non-Jewish would come to an end
someday. Without any doubt, this will be simultaneously followed by the
building of the 3rd Jewish Temple on the site, symbolizing the commencement of
spiritual Israel. The titanic resistance to this development is encapsulated in
the recent declaration by the UNESCO that Mount Moriah
(the Temple Mount) has no spiritual value to Judaism, ascribing all its
sacredness to Moslems!
It is clearly
understood that neither of the events described in the two Scriptures cited
above will happen whilst the Church is still around on the Planet. Call it Rapture (from the perspectives of
Christ’s saints) or Riddance (as New Agers
firmly believe would happen), it is only at the exit of the Church that the
antichrist would be released to fully manifest and implement his morality- and
godliness-blind global governance agenda. (2 Thess. 2:7) Decay of godly values, currently being
strenuously threatened, would only enter into a free-fall after the Restrainer,
the Church is taken away from the scene.
The long and short of all these is that, clearly the exit of that iconic leader of
modern day Israel, Shimon Peres, marks the end of building of material
Israel. The next step, the building of
spiritual Israel, is about to begin. And
the Church (from whichever perspective the issue is considered) is NOT listed
as a participant! If you are a Christian and you still are not
preparing for the Rapture, you cannot claim you have not been warned. Remember the five foolish virgins!
(Read our
related article Exit of Sharon at http://churcharise.blogspot.com.ng/2014/01/exit-sharon-end-of-generation.html )
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