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800-Year-Old
Prophecy Declares When “King of Persia Will Provoke King of Arabia” Redemption
is Around the Corner
“Arise,
shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.” (Isaiah 60:1 (The Israel Bible™)
When Saudi Arabia severed diplomatic ties with Iran, this
created a chain reaction that led Bahrain and other Middle Eastern countries to
expel Iranian diplomats.
Unwittingly,
Saudi Arabia’s actions can be seen as the fulfillment of a messianic Jewish
prophecy found in the ancient Jewish holy book known as the Yalkut Shimoni.
The
Yalkut Shimoni, a compilation of rabbinic commentary on the Bible, is believed
to have been composed in the 13th century. Despite being written over 800 years
ago, the Yalkut Shimoni has something extremely relevant to say about today’s
headlines.
Speaking
about the relevant passage in the Yalkut Shimoni, Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam,
better known as the Klausenberger Rebbe, said, “Remember these words. Now, perhaps, they are not understood, but in
time, they will be, and they will be a source of chizuk (strength)
to Am Yisroel (the Jewish people).”
The
Klausenberger Rebbe was an Orthodox rabbi with thousands of followers in the
years prior to World War II. Most of his followers were murdered in the
Holocaust. The Klausenberger Rebbe died in Israel in 1994.
What was
the prophecy of the Yalkut Shimoni that the Klausenberger Rebbe knew would
bring comfort and strength to the Jewish people at a future date? The Yalkut
Shimoni predicted that the year the Messiah would appear, the “King of Persia [Iran] will provoke the King
of Arabia [Saudi Arabia].”
The two
main sects in Islam are Sunni and Shia. While they both have much in common,
the differences between the two sects in Islam have led to a long history of
violent and deadly conflict among Muslims.
Many of today’s political and
diplomatic conflicts between Iran and other Muslim countries are connected to
this Sunni-Shia divide.
Not
surprisingly, Iran and Saudi Arabia do not share the same Muslim sect. Although
the vast majority of the Islamic world today is Sunni, Iran, and, to a lesser
degree Iraq, are home to the majority of the region’s Shiite Muslims. Saudi
Arabia is more than 90 percent Sunni. Iran, by contrast, is 95 percent Shiite.
Thus, when
angry Shiite Iranians recently overran the Saudi embassy in Tehran this past
Sunday to protest the execution of a Shiite Muslim cleric named Nimr al-Nimr,
the duel between the Sunnis and the Shiites was inflamed.
As a
consequence, Saudi Arabia gave Iranian diplomats 48 hours to pack up and leave.
The full
text of the Yalkut Shimoni connects the political tension between Iran and
Saudi Arabia with good news about the full redemption of the Jewish people.
“Rabbi
Yizchok said: ‘The year that Melech
HaMoshiach [Messiah
the King] will be revealed, all the nations of the world will be provoking each
other. The King of Persia (Iran) will provoke the King of Arabia, and the King
of Arabia will go to Edom (the West) to take counsel, but the King of Persia
will in turn, destroy the entire world. The nations of the world will be
outraged and panicked. They will fall on their faces, and they will experience
pains like birth pangs. Israel too will be outraged and in a state of panic and
ask, where do we go? But say unto them, “My children, do not fear, ‘Higiyah
zman geulatchem’ [the time of your redemption has come]. And in the last
redemption will be different from the first which was followed by further
bondage and pain. After this last redemption, you will not again experience any
further pain or subjugation.”
Rabbi
Baruch Cohen, a civil trial attorney in the US and pro-Israel blogger at American Trial
Attorneys In Defense of Israel shared
with Breaking Israel News the
enthusiasm many feel when comparing the ancient prophecy to current events.
“It is incredible to see Chazal’s [the Jewish sages’] prophecies come to life in real time in today’s
headlines,” he said.
“The Baal Haturim [early
14th century scholar of Jewish law] explains when Yishmael [Ishmael,
meaning the Muslim Arabs] will fall and be finally defeated in the end of days,
then the Moshiach [messiah]
– the descendant of Yishai [father
of King David], who is himself a descendant of Yitzchak [Issac],
will come.
Even in the most terrifying
of times, we are comforted by the fact that eventually, with the ultimate
downfall of the descendants of Yishmael, we will merit the final redemption by
our righteous Moshiach.”
Cohen
concluded his comments to Breaking
Israel News with
with a spiritual challenge to those who are waiting for the Messiah to come and
redeem humanity.
“Yishmael typifies the power of prayer. He himself
was born out of the power of the prayer of his mother Hagar. To this very day, the Arabs excel
in prayer, which
occupies a significant place in their daily ritual. In order to counteract the
power of their prayer, we need to improve the concentration and intensity of
our own prayers.”
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Dr. Rivkah Lambert
Adler is a Bible and Prophecy Watch reporter on Breaking Israel News. She made
aliyah in 2010 from Baltimore, where her husband served as a synagogue rabbi.
Rivkah currently lives in Ma'ale Adumim, just east of Jerusalem. On September
11, 2001, she became passionate about the Land of Israel and the Final
Redemption, about which she has been writing, speaking and teaching ever since.
Rivkah also enjoys writing about women and Judaism and about making aliyah. She
has a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland.
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