The Significance of Yom Teruah - Observations

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XX. Observations

AN OMEN

copyright (c) 2005 by Dr. Yacov M. Tabak [mailto:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.]

LIBERATED YERUSHALIYIM, D.C. (David's Capital), Liberated Israelite Tribal Territories of Yehudah and Binyamin, Kingdom of David and Shlomo, United Israelite Kingdom of Yehudah and Yosef, Yom Rishon, 20 Tishrei, 5766, Root & Branch Information Services [mailto:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.] [www.rb.org.il]:

An annular solar eclipse took place on Erev Rosh Hashanah (Eve of the Jewish New Year) 5766 -- October 3, 2005.

Hazal (Our Sages) determined that "likui hamah -- siman ra leovdei kochavim" [Babylonian Talmud/Tractate Sukkah 29a] -- solar eclipses bode ill for the nations of the world.

Lunar eclipses on the other hand are worrisome for Israel (since we are the ones whose fortunes wax and wane...).

Note where this eclipse is first to be observed:

The path of the annular eclipse begins in the North Atlantic at 08:41 UT. Rushing southeast, the antumbra quickly reaches the northern coast of Spain and Portugal (08:51 UT). Bisecting the Iberian Peninsula, the antumbra engulfs Madrid (08:56 UT) which lies near the central line. The annular phase will last 04m 11s from this capital city with 90% of the Sun's surface being obscured by the Moon.

This is from the website www.spaceweather.com. I am grateful to my sister-in-law for the reference.

Madrid (gematria = 258) is the key take-off point for Milhemet Gog Umagog (War of Gog and Magog) [ki kibetzam ka'amir Gorna (258) -- Micha 4:11-12]. Please read the chapter carefully. It describes Bat-Zion as a woman in trepidation and pangs of childbirth, who goes forth from the Kiryah (Israel's military headquarters), dwells in the field (as armies do), gets as far as Bavel (Iraq) and at that point is saved by G-d.

How?

The Nations sit in judgement on Bat-Zion at a conference, decide that Bat-Zion is guilty ("techenaf" in Hebrew) and as punishment they want to gaze on Zion themselves (i.e. come here to Israel). They do not understand G-d's strategy in that He gathered them together at Gorna (a threshing floor, but the gematria equivalent of Madrid: A correlation first pointed out to me by my son the day after then Secretary of State Baker announced this venue for the post-Gulf-War Conference).

The Nations end up getting thoroughly threshed, i.e. crushed, which the commentators identify as the outcome of the Gog Umagog (Gog and Magog) conflict!

This scenario in detail took place in 1991-92 with the first Madrid Conference, except that then the Nations did not decide on an invasion of Israel.

This time around, the Quartet - United States, Russia, United Nations, and European Union -- imposing its "road map" on Israel, was constituted on April 10, 2002, again in Madrid. Remember, important events happen twice -- even this one.

If, on the day before Rosh HaShanah (Jewish New Year) 5766, a bad omen for the Nations of the world is first observed at Madrid, it may well be that this is the year whose developments will lead to the finale of Gog Umagog (Gog and Magog).

This is not the first indication of the importance of 5766, but it may be a very powerful pointer. That would mean that the finale, preceded by a nine-month gestation-like occupation of Israel by a coalition of Christians and Moslems (see Zechariah 14), could take place on the night of Hoshana Rabbah, 5767.

Recall the January 15/Hoshanah Rabbah interval chart I prepared 4 years ago? Human gestation is an average 40 weeks, 270 days. The interval in 2006 is 271 days. The year of the Gulf War 1991 it was 264 days. It does not match perfectly, but it is close. Humans do not deliver babies after an exact interval either.

So, if the U.N./Quartet convenes -- most appropriately but not necessarily in Madrid, delivers an ultimatum to Israel to destroy yishuvim (Jewish Pioneering Communities) in Yehuda and Shomron and perhaps even in the Old City of Jerusalem -- chas vechalilah [Heaven Forbid], delivers a deadline that this destruction must be initiated by January 15, 2006, and threatens to invade and do it themselves if we do not [since the Gaza precedent now shows that we know how], hold on to your hat.

Plan to be in Eretz Yisrael (Land of Israel) for Succoth (Tabernacles), 5767 (Shabbat, October 7 -- Shabbat, October 14, 2006).

It will be the safest place at the world-wide finale.

Shavua Tov and Chag Sameach from Liberated Yerushaliyim,

Dr. Yacov M. Tabak