So tonight is Rosh Chodesh Av 5770. There has been a lot of talk out there in Geulah blogland on this date and I must say the numbers are very convincing. If one wants a good run down go to Mystical Paths. As far as I am concerned we have been in the twilight of the final redemption ever since Sept. 11th 2001. Not because of the attacks on the World Trade Center themselves, but rather the results of those attacks and what they unleashed on the world.
The nearly 9 years since that event has paid witness to a world so different than in the ensuing decades. We have witnessed international wars, explosion in micro technology, environmental disasters, and the rise of global forces so divorced from previous conceptual models that the world seems to be in a raging chaotic storm.
This is not to say we have not witnessed earth shattering events in previous times, but I believe the past years have culminated in something akin to turning the world upside down. The global order of the 20th century so fixed in our mind was shattered after Sept. 11th 2001.
The wars between America and Afghanistan and Iraq that followed were not only devastating to the Middle East, but they shattered America’s cultural and economic fabric by puncturing holes in its inflated belief in its impervious state of existence.
More importantly is the meaning behind the wars, the fall of the economy, and the natural disasters (all culminating with the election of Barak Hussein Obama) and of course the closing in on the finality of the world as we understand it to be.
First of all I do believe as many others in Moshiach blog sphere do that this is the end times. Yes, there are those who feel it is imminent and have calculated and calculated ascribing every world event to Moshiach’s certain arrival. So far many of these calculations have come and gone. Many thought George Bush was Gog and that the State of Israel would fall apart and so on and so forth. What HaShem entered us into after 9/11 was a period when all previous conceptions of the world were shredded. This is Gog U’Magog. The war between The West and Iraq/Afghanistan/Iran is the war of Gog U’Magog. Why and what about coming to Jerusalem? The war was initiated by George Bush and this war in fact was and is focused on the same general region since 9/11. After a deeper look into how Jewish sources views this region, one concludes it is reasonably “the Land of Magog” as Areah Kaplan did.
During this war which started on Shemini Atzeret 5761 we have witnessed Earth changing events from an environmental perspective, political perspective, and economic perspective. This is a series of wars initiated by George “Gog” Bush and they have seen no sign of ending.
But what about Jerusalem? Aren’t the nations supposed to come against Jerusalem. Yes. So far they have decided during this near decade of the War between George “Gog” Bush and the Land of Magog to focus on using the client regime in Israel to dismember and internationalize Jerusalem. One must remember that the prophecies are vague and may be referring to a spiritual war against Jerusalem. The international events spoken about above help us to identify this spiritual war in order to place it in its proper context.
Tonight, Rosh Chodesh Av 5770 marks the point in time that we as a world have entered the final leg of the spiritual battle of Gog u’Magog, which is the battle to break Am Yisrael’s connection to the Creator as Midrash Esther 7/23 indicates. This may or may not be revealed right away in the physical world, yet we need to be ready with pure faith and a deep connection to HaShem with what awaits very soon.