Road Map to the End of Days
by Professor Eugene Narrett, (OBM)
The end returns to the beginning in the lives of individuals, ideas, nations, cultures and entire civilizations. This law of nature and of nature’s G-d and Creator is being played out very vividly around the Promised Land in these autumn days.
During the past and present week, Jews and those who like to follow their studies and learn from their Scripture have been reading the Torah portions that tell the stories of Noah and Abraham. The key personal – and civilizational qualities and events of those days are being demonstrated before our eyes and the sight is not pretty: it is alarming.
“Noah was a righteous man, perfect in his generations; Noah walked with G-d” (Genesis 6:9). But in the days of Noach human beings corrupted their way upon the earth “and the land was filled with Hamas” (“violence”). It also was filled with sexual profligacy, predation and perversion, the fantasies of the human heart were evil from birth, that’s how bad it was; that’s how filled and conditioned by bad examples people were ten generations after Adam. The one righteous man and his family were ignored and G-d opened the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven to send a great flood upon the earth drowning all creatures except for this family.
Despite the rainbow covenant and laws of Noah, 340 years after this catastrophe the powers of the earth, led by Nimrod of Shinar – Ur Kasdim, Chaldea that became Babylon decided to band together in a “world community” whose power would tower into the heavens. Nimrod, who had persecuted the young Abraham for teaching that there is but One G-d, the Creator of all worlds, was the emperor and his name means “rebellion” (his attitude survives in English as “marauder”) for he rebelled against the sovereignty and mercy of the Eternal One. And so the nations were scattered but repeatedly, as in our day, they returned to gather against Jerusalem and the family and nation the Creator chose to bring His teaching and relationship to humankind.
The shoah, the German-led European attempt to exterminate the Jews of Europe (and the Middle East; the death camp was to be near Shechem where Abraham built the first altar to the Eternal One, Genesis 12:7) was used by America and England to promote and form the United Nations (its original format was the “United Nations War Crime Commission” — 1942 –whose task ostensibly would be to prosecute all Germans and others who had participated in murdering Jews, corporate-business moguls included). But for six decades the UN has shown the character of all forms of world government by returning to its original model, Nimrod’s in Babel and has spent most of its time condemning, vilifying, isolating with economic and military blackmail and diplomatic schemes God’s “portion and people” with whom he swore “an eternal covenant” (Deut 32:8, etc).
The nations gathered against Jerusalem are cursed, enflamed with an obsessively violent and marauding spirit: they are filled with Hamas. At the beginning of the Torah portion that begins the story of Abraham’s journey to the Promised Land, the Eternal One tells him, “those who bless you I will bless and those who curse you I will curse” (12:3). The final forms of the curses of those that will come against Israel are described clearly by Moshe (Numbers 22-24), Ezekiel (37-8), Zechariah (12-14) and Joel (3-4).
The hostility of the world community, their contempt for this promise and vow by the Creator, their obsessive putting of themselves in a modern Tower of Babel and playing god was shown clearly throughout the summer attacks by Hamas and Iran-Hizballah upon Israel. So long as there was fear that Israel might deploy and significantly use its military, there were frantic calls for a ceasefire. When one was arranged, all its provisions were violated and then explicitly repudiated by the United Nations forces and their French, German and Spanish commanders, military and political both. The Jewish soldiers, border guards really, abducted in initiating the assaults were not returned and still have not been returned. It is not clear even if they are alive. Neither Hizballah or Hamas have been disarmed nor will they be, — not be Europeans who concede that their activities are, 1) for show, 2) to stimulate the “Lebanese” economy, 3) to vacation in their Saunas and decorative tents (Finns and Indians), 4) to threaten (this is the French, including Defense Minister Alliot, and Germans) to shoot down IDF recon planes, monitoring the flow of armaments to Hizballah.
The powers of the north certainly have traveled to the Promised Land as if drunkenly imitating the scenarios of Ezekiel and Zechariah.
This is not the only form of European and jihadist assault upon Israel in these days, assault that echoes the imperial arrogance of Nimrod and the coalition of kings led by him and the king of Elam (now Iran) that took Lot and other captives to extract tribute and hostage payments from Abraham (Genesis 14). There also is the matter of sexual profligacy that with Hamas elicited the Flood and later brought fire and brimstone upon Sodom.
As if coordinating with the United Nations and EU (most of “the Quartet” that seeks to expel Jews from the center of the Promised Land under the term, “the Road Map”), the European Pride Organizers Association has been demanding to march through the center of Jerusalem on the eve of the very Sabbath in which Jews read the Torah portion that describes the destruction of Sodom. It’s as if they wanted to prove that they will have the last word, and that Jews and their faith will be mocked and driven out of their Land. The date, November 10 for this parade of what G-d Almighty describes as “abominations” this year arrives only two days after the Hebrew date on which the Flood began. So for the brigades of international transgressors, just like the armed hosts of Edom and Ishmael it’s a strategic two-for in blotting out the name and memory of Israel and of the Name of the One for Whom it is established as a “witness.”
Moreover, soon after Abraham comes to the Promised Land and receives the covenant of the Land (Genesis 15), the Eternal One establishes with him the covenant of the word (Brit milah) known in English as circumcision. With the covenant of the land, milah is integral to Israel’s eternal covenant of peace (Numbers 25, passim); it is absolutely degraded by the abominations that the international New Age marauders want to fling into the face of the Jewish people and the Maker of all worlds.
The nations certainly seem intent on setting up a contest, as if they, like Nimrod were telling the Eternal One to “bring it on.” Defiling the land, the commandments of sexual decency given to all mankind, expelling the Jews they are playing the old game noted in psalm 83: “saying, ‘come let us cut them off from nationhood that Israel’s name not be remembered anymore.’”
While all these scenarios, these wicked designs continue the game of WMD (weapons of mass destruction) ‘chicken’ continues with Iran with its President publicly committed to Armageddon, Shiite style. Whatever the outcome, how can Israel avoid being hit? In this context, the pride-recruitment parade arrives like German warships to defile the land.
Judaism teaches one not to rely on or to expect miracles; it also teaches that the actions of human beings can bring on “miraculous” changes of events in the merit of heroic deeds and their righteous intention. So the people of Israel organize to prevent the parade and to make it known to the world and to the Holy One that they want it banned just as they seek many ways to get leadership that will oppose the parade of armaments and armies that gather against the children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
It then is apt to note that even after the greatest hardships and suffering, the Eternal One asserts that “I will remember My covenant with Abraham, and My covenant with Isaac, and My covenant with Jacob I will remember, — and I will remember the Land!” And in the prophetic reading for these very weeks, the Almighty says, “to the islands and the regimes” (Europe and the Middle Eastern states inter alia), “be silent! Remember the one [Abraham] whom I inspired to come from the east (of the Euphrates) and to denounce the idolatry of selfhood, power and state terror by which the nations live and die.