Who is
Edom? Continued...
By Rabbi Levi bar Ido /Bnai Avraham
Before Mashiach returns, a world government patterned after the ancient
Roman Empire must be set up among the goyim. It is being put together in our
day.
- Rabbi Hama bar Hanina said: The
son of David will not come until the despicable Roman government will
be utterly wiped out from Yisrael, for the verse states (Yeshayahu 18:5): For before the harvest, when the
blossom is past, and the bud is ripening into young grapes, he shall cut off
the sprigs with pruning hooks, and remove and cut down the branches. Rabbi
Hana bar Hanina understands the
word translated here as sprigs, as a reference to the despicable
government of Rome.
Only after that government is cut off will the final redemption
come, for the verse that follows states (Yeshayahu 18:7): In that time will a present be
brought to the YHWH of hosts, by a people tall and smooth.
- Rabbi Zeeiri said in the name
of Rabbi Hanina: The son of
David will not come until the arrogant of spirit are utterly wiped out from
Yisrael, for the verse states (Zephaniyah 3:11): On that day you shall not be ashamed
for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I
will take away from your midst those who rejoice in your pride, and you shall
no more be haughty in my holy mountain.
And the next verse states (Zephaniyah 3:12):
And I will leave in your midst a poor and lowly people, and they shall
trust in the name of the YHWH (p.16).
The
despicable government is understood by the ancient sages as referring to
Roman that is despicable and despises
Yisrael. Rashi and Ramah
understand the expression to mean sovereignty of little value. The Mashiach will not come until the
last vestiges of sovereignty and self-rule, meager as they might be, are utterly
wiped out from Yisrael (Notes, p.16).
The Talmud:
- Rabbi
Simlai said in the name of
Rabbi Elazar the son of Rabbi Shimon: The son of David will not come until all the judges and
officers are wiped out from Yisrael, and the last vestiges of Jewish self-rule
disappear.
Under Notes:
- Some understand that Rabbi
Simlai means to say that the Mashiach will not come until the wicked judges
and officers of Yisrael are utterly wiped out, for their sins and wicked deeds
cause the exile to continue so long.
Louis Ginzberg in Legends of the Jews gives
us information concerning Esau, linking him and his
seed to Rome.
According to tradition, Rebekah suffered such pain during her pregnancy
that she went to Shem and pleaded with him to inquire
of Elohim concerning the cause of her distress.
- And Shem replied: My daughter, I confide a secret to
thee. See to it that none finds
it out. Two nations are in thy
womb, and how should thy body contain them, seeing that the whole world will
not be large enough for them to exist in it together peaceably? Two nations they are, each owning a
world of its own, the one the Torah, the other sin. From the one will spring Solomon, the builder of the Temple, from the other
Vespasian, the destroyer thereof' (Legends, 1968, vol. 1, page
314)
The Mother of all
persecution and religious apostasy has its home in Rome. Rome fulfills the words of Edras that Esau is the end of this age, and Yaakov is the beginning of the one that
follows.
- They [Esau and Yaakov] will never be
in the same estate. Esau will vaunt elohims, while Yaakov will have Kings. They, Yisrael and Rome, are the two
nations destined to be hated by the entire world. One will exceed the other in
strength. First Esau will subjugate whole world, but in the end Yaakov will
rule over all (Legends, vol. 1, page
314)
- Elohim will call out to the
Mashiach: "Roar at this monster that devours the fat of the nations, that justifies
its claims for recognition through being a descendant of Avraham by his
grandson Esau, the nation that forgives all for the sake of money ,
that kept Yisrael back from the
study of the Torah, and tempted them to deeds that are in accord with the
wishes of Satan (Legends, vol. 3, page
167)
Esau was
significant in Rome.
No doubt that Rome in a very real sense epitomizes the way
of Esau.
The Book of Yasher connects
Esaus seed with the Romans.
- And the children of Chittim
[Cyprus, Phoenicia,
Rome] saw the
valor of Zepho [a valiant descendant of Esau], and
the children of Chittim resolved
and they made Zepho king over them . . . . Zepho reigned over the whole
land of
Chittim and over the
land of ITALIA 50 years (p.186).
The Rome-Esau connection is verified
time and time again in various writings.
The children of EDOM or ESAU intermarried with the Italians and they became ONE
PEOPLE. Esau is identified as the people of Italy, the
Romans, and the source of religious apostasy.
According to prophecy, the rivalry
between Esaus and Yaakovs seed was to characterize the ongoing relationship
of these two people throughout time.
Finally, the age of Esau -- this present
world will be replaced by the age of Yaakov. The Book II Esdras in the
Apocrypha states:
- What will mark the parting of
the times? Or when will the end
of the first or the beginning of the second be? And he said to me, From
Avraham to Avraham, for from him sprang Yaakov and
Esau, but Yaakovs hand held Esaus heel from the beginning. For ESAU
IS THE END OF THIS AGE, AND YAAKOV
IS THE BEGINNING OF THE ONE THAT FOLLOWS. For the beginning of a man is his
hand and the end of a man is his heel (II Esdras
6:7-10).
In
the book The Other Bible
Code: Ancient Hebrew Revelations
about Events of Our Time, written by H. M. Davidson it says:
- In many ancient Hebrew and
Aramaic writings, Rome and obscure Italian village which
emerged as an early hub of Western civilization and economic power is
identified as an early extension of the Esau/Edom personality (p.6-7). The Babylonian Talmud, a treasure of
information, identifies Esau/Romes scheming against the sons of Yaakov as not just a plot or scheme, but as a
country: Germany! (Babylonian Talmud, Megillah,
6a).
Rome is the earliest post-Biblical extension of
Esau and his descendants. If it was compared to a tree, then
Esau would be the root, and Rome would be the major
branch from that trees root.
The
eighteenth century Lithuanian rabbi, Elijah ben-Solomon Kramer,
known as the Genius of Vilna, Davidson
writes:
- Argued that half of the
nations of the contemporary world are branches of the Esau/Edom/Rome tree
(Davidson, page 37).
The sixteenth century Rabbi Yehuda Lowe, the Maharal, argued that
characteristics which ancient Jewish writings attribute to Esau/Rome can be used
to:
- Identify the contemporary
groups of nations which today bear the torch of Esau/Edom/Rome (ibid.).
Thus we see that Euro-Western
civilization may be regarded as a BRANCH OF THE ESAU/EDOM/ROME TREE, he
explains:
- And the mind-set of the
contemporary West also suggests a kinship with
Esau/Edom/Rome.
European and
Western civilization is the beneficiary of the culture of Rome, with similar
institutions, government, and laws.
Also, like ancient Rome, modern Europe/America, and the Western
world enjoy largely unchallenged military, economic, and political dominance
over most of the world, and a disproportionate part of the worlds wealth.
Says Davidson,
- The West champions democracy,
freedom, opportunity. Most people
in the Western nations cheer these concepts, but these principles are not of
themselves intrinsically good! A
society consisting of thieves and crooks, even though it has a democratic
government, will still be evil.
Democracy and decently are not identical. Iraq today has
democracy but is filled with hatred, conflict, and is on the verge of Civil
War due to disagreeing factions of Islam battling each other for
supremacy. According to ancient
Jewish sages, the essence of Esau/Edom/Rome was its emphasis on outward
form and appearance over intrinsic goodness. Good manners took precedence over good
morals. Etiquette over
ethics. Judicial process and
procedure over justice. System
over substance (p.39).
Ancient Rome was the center of civilization during its
day a mega city which was the financial center of the world. Its legacy, today, which would
symbolically be called Rome, would be New York City in the USA an
attraction for powerful people, wealth, politics, and business.
Davidson adds
on page
40:
- In todays world, the city of
New York has
no equal as a financial hub. Many
of the worlds most influential companies are based in New York and it is in
New York
that their shares are traded. The
adage, When Wall Street sneezes, the rest of the world catches the flu,
captures the essence of New Yorks financial hegemony over the rest of the
world In addition, he says, the presence of the United Nations in Manhattan
underscores New York Citys status as an unparalleled magnet for dignitaries
from across the globe, much as Rome was in ancient
days.
In Tehillim 140:9, we read,
Grant not, O YHWH, the desires of the wicked man; further not his plotting
lest they be exalted. In the Babylonian Talmud, in a
commentary on Tehillim 140:9, the wicked
man in this verse is identified as one of Esaus
later day manifestations namely, Rome.
Yisrael pleads with Elohim to withhold the desires of Rome and to stop
Romes plotting
against Yisrael.
The whole world today seems to be
plotting against Yisrael. The Road Map to Peace, which threatens Yisraels
future, is evidence of a conspiracy to eliminate the Jewish state, in favor of
Arab oil, on which the worlds and the USAs whole economy
depends.
In the same passage from the Talmud, Esau/Romes
plotting is identified with or connected with Germany (Babylonian Talmud, Megilla 6a,
H.
M. Davidson, page
7).
Germany has been a root of
anti-Semitism in the twentieth century.
Hitlers pogroms, and his final solution,
which led to the deaths of six million European Jews, was not an isolated
episode. German resentment toward
the Jews was historic, and today remains against the state of Yisrael. The Germans, as a leader in the European
Union, are strong advocates of the deceitful Road Map to Peace. Germany has long been a very powerful
advocate of the Arabic lobby and the Palestinians.
Says Davidson:
- The Talmud continued that
Yaakov/Yisrael feared that if Germany and Rome were to end their
mutual antagonism (as we see in the world, today, with Germany being
a part of the Western Alliance and NATO)
and combine forces, they would set forth to destroy the world (page
8).
Elohim warned the Yisraelites to never
forget the attack of the Amalekites, when they left Egypt under
Moshe. Elohim
said:
- Remember what Amalek did to you
on your journey out of Egypt, how he attacked you on the way, when you were
faint and weary, and struck down all who lagged behind you; he did not fear
Elohim
The Jewish and Yisraelite struggle
against Amalek was not a one-time affair, but was to continue through
history. Amalek was to be blotted
out, but it never happened. A
descendant of Amalek during the Persian
Empire. An Amalekite by
the name of Haman, viceroy to the king, sought to
kill every Jew in Persia. (Esther 3:13).
Likewise, Germany, in the
twentieth century, fulfilled the same role. Germany is a contemporary state with
a strong Amalekite/Esau inspiration, as well as being populated by many
Assyrians, who anciently fought against Yisrael.
Hitler
succeeded in annihilating one third of the Jews alive during World War II. In Jewish thought, there is a
German-Amalekite connection.
The Talmud warned that another
Haman would arise in the future. In a section dealing with the End of
Days, and the coming of the Mashiach, we read:
- If the people of Yisrael fail
to repent on their own, the Holy One, blessed be He, will set a king over them
whose decrees are as harsh as those of Haman, and the people of Yisrael
will repent against their will, and He will restore them to good (Sanhedrin 97B, vol.21,
p.13).
This prophecy was
fulfilled by Adolf Hitler, who, like Haman, sought the total annihilation of the Jews. The
Holocaust woke up millions of Jews who during and after World War II sought
sanctuary by fleeing to Palestine, their original
homeland.
Was the Nazi Holocaust prophesied in
Scripture? Interestingly, a passage
in the Book of Esther describes the
execution of Hamans ten sons. A look at the names of Hamans ten sons
reveals three Hebrew letters are written very small in the Hebrew text the
Hebrew equivalents of T (tau-t), Sh (shin-s), and Z (zayin-z); and one, the Hebrew equivalent of V
(vav-v), is written exceptionally large! (Esther 9:7-9).Why was this written in this
coded message?
Says Davidson,
- Such an oddity should draw
attention. The ancient Hebrews
understood that an enlargement or contraction of Biblical letters is always
significant. In the Hebrew
alphabet, every letter has a numerical value. In the case of the text in
Esther, the three small letters have
the numerical value as follows: T
= 400, Sh = 300, Z = 7, for a total of 707. The numerical value of the large
letter Vav is 6.
Here is where it
gets remarkable! The date on which Hitlers ten henchmen during World War II
were hanged, even as Hamans sons were hanged, was October 16, 1946 a date
that coincided with the 707th year of the sixth millennium of the
Hebrew calendar the Hebrew year 5 7 0 7. Notice the large Vav refers to
the Jewish millennium 5. The
707 refers to the century and year. The execution date that year fell
on the 21st day of Tishri the day of Hoshana Rabbah, the seventh day of the Feast of
Sukkoth. That date, in Jewish
tradition, is identified as the one day of the year picturing the Judgment Day
of the nations of the world!
A reporter for Newsweek magazine,
at the time, wrote about the execution of Julius Streicher, one of Hitlers Nazi henchmen.
As he faced his execution we read in Newsweek:
- Only Julius Streicher went without dignity. He had to be pushed across the floor,
wild-eyed and screaming:
Heil Hitler! Mounting the steps, he cried out: and now I go to G-d! He stared at the witnesses facing the
gallows and shouted, Purim-fest, 1946!
(Newsweek, October 26, 1946, page
45).
The hanging of the
ten henchmen of Adolf Hitler in 1946 was a mysterious repeat of
the hanging of the ten sons of Haman on the day of
Purim, in 510 B.C.E. Hitler, like Haman, sought to annihilate all Jews. And like Haman, he died a terrible death, and his ten henchmen were
hanged just like Hamans sons.
Let us go forward to the year 2006. The
world is engaged in the war against worldwide terrorism. It is a war pitting the Muslim world
against the Christian world. It
involves terrorist groups and their Arab supporting nations the Middle Eastern
axis of evil.
In a prophecy found in Yeshayahu 21, Elohim condemns
the Arab nations for their treachery, perfidy and cruelty.
- As whirlwinds in the Negeb
sweep on, it comes from the desert, from a terrible land. A stern vision is told to me; the
betrayer betrays, and the destroyer destroys (Yeshayahu
21:1-2)
It is a scene of destruction. Yeshayahu
cries out, Therefore my loins are filled with anguish; pangs have seized me,
like the pangs of a woman in labor . . . My mind reels, horror has appalled me;
the twilight I longed for has turned for me into trembling (Yeshayahu.21:3-4).
This is a prediction concerning the
Desert Arabia and its inhabitants, the
Dedanites, Tema, and the warriors of Kedar (verses 13-16).
Writes Davidson,
- An ancient Jewish sage, culling
from the insights into this chapter which he had received from earlier
generations, states that the Arabs will wage an unprecedentedly heavy war
of confusion in the End of Days and that the scene of this war will be
a great city. Furthermore the
ancient sage continues this episode will trigger events which will lead to
the coming of the Mashiach and the Final Redemption of the world (p.41).
A war of confusion suggests a war where
the enemy is hard to identify as terrorists, who disguise themselves, and go
underground, and strike by craftiness.
The term a great city, says Davidson, in
ancient Hebrew literature, is almost invariably a coded reference to Rome or its successor (ibid.).
Thus here we are
reading about terrorism, a war where your enemies are not obvious and a
great city a modern day Rome. Does this not sound similar to the
events of 9-11?
The Zohar, an ancient Hebrew commentary, in its
section on the book of Bemidbar, gives details of devastation which would shake
Rome, in the
End of Days. Davidson adds:
- Amplifying the prophecy of
Bilam, the Zohar predicted that on a certain calendar date the future Rome
will suffer the tumbling of three high buildings or strongholds [Aramaic:
shoorin eelaeen], and that this event will be among the factors
triggering the process which will lead ultimately to the coming of the
Mashiach p.42).
On 9-11, not only the Twin Towers of the
World Trade Center collapsed after being flown into by hijacked airliners, but a
third 47-story skyscraper, part of the same complex, also tumbled to the ground,
at 5:20 pm, the very same day. The Zohar predicted this tremendous event would
occur on the 25th day of the month of Elul, in its most recognized
edition. However, in the
18th century, the Genius of Vilna stated the text was off by two days
that the most correct version of the Zohar reads that this devastation would
occur on Elul 23. September 11, 2001, was the 23rd
day of Elul!
Once again we
see a Rome/Esau/Edom connection in Scripture and other sources!
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