Prophecies and the expectation of the Messiah
Since the time of the expulsion of the first people, Adam and Eve, from paradise, all humanity has been awaiting the coming into the world of the One who would atone not only for the sin of our ancestors, but also the personal sins of each person, and would make all people free from slavery to passions and death. The faith and hope of people were based on the vows that the Lord God gave them. Since the only people of the ancient world who retained true faith in God were the Jews, then, according to God’s promise, it was from them that the Messiah was to come (in Hebrew - Moshiach, in other Greek - Christ - lit. “Anointed One” ). Throughout the entire Old Testament period (that is, before the birth of Christ), the chosen people included righteous men and prophets, through whom God reminded the Jews of the need to maintain the purity of their faith and be ready to accept the Redeemer.
The first hidden indication of the future birth of the Savior, during the expulsion of the ancestors from paradise, was given by the Lord God Himself. In words addressed to the serpent who tempted people to sin, He said: “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; it will bruise your head, and you will bruise its heel” (Gen. 3:15). In this prophecy, by the image of a serpent, the Christian Church understands the fallen angel of God, Dennitsa - Satan, the devil. By wife is meant the Virgin, from whom the Savior was to be born.
The next prophecy about the coming of the Messiah into the world is considered to be the promise given by the Lord God to Abraham. After the Lord tested the faith of the righteous man, He said to him: “In your seed all the nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice” (Gen. 22:18). In these words of God, the Church sees an indication that it was from the line of Abraham that the Messiah was to be born.
At the end of the book of Genesis there is another hidden reference to the birth of Christ. Before his death, the righteous Jacob, in one of the prophecies given to his sons, says this: “The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the lawgiver from between his feet, until the Reconciler comes, and to Him the submission of the nations” (Gen. 49:10). The Reconciler is precisely the future Savior. The meaning of the entire prophecy is the following: the chosen people will have freedom and statehood until Jesus Christ comes to the world, but in the future, for His rejection, everything will be lost. The submission of nations means the conversion of the pagans to Christ.
Saint Micah, who lived approximately seven centuries before Christ, also prophesied about the birth of the Messiah. In his words about the future Messiah, the prophet speaks about the place of His birth: “And you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, are you small among the thousands of Judah? from you will come to me one who is to be ruler in Israel, and whose origin was from the beginning, from the days of eternity” (Mic. 5:2). The city where the Messiah was to be born is directly named here: Bethlehem.
A whole series of promises about the birth of Christ were made by the holy prophet Isaiah, who lived at about the same time as Micah. “And a branch shall come forth from the root of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his root; and the Spirit of the Lord will rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and godliness... And it will come to pass in that day that the Gentiles will return to the root of Jesse, which will become like a banner for the nations...” (Is. 11:1 , 10) - this prophecy reveals the theme of the origin of the Savior - He was to be born of a Virgin, who would come from the line of Jesse and David (Jesse is the father of the holy king and prophet David). The second part of the prophecy speaks of the coming to Christ of the pagans. Another of Isaiah’s prophecies about Christ pointed to His future miracles, power, spiritual power, healing: “Your God ... will come and save you. Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped. Then the lame will jump up like a deer, and the tongue of the dumb will sing...” (Isa. 35:4-6).
The most famous and vivid prediction about the birth of the Savior, made by the prophet Isaiah, sounds like this: “The Lord Himself will give you a sign: behold, a virgin will be with child and give birth to a Son, and they will call His name Immanuel” (Is. 7:14). These words speak not only about the coming of the Messiah, but, what is much more important, the mystery of the Incarnation is revealed - the Savior had to be born precisely from the Virgin, who mysteriously “received in the womb,” and His name is Emmanuel, which translated from Greek means “With us” God".
In addition to a large number of prophecies about the place and the very fact of the birth of the Savior, there are many others in the Old Testament - about His earthly journey, miracles, suffering, death on the cross and Resurrection. Every Jew knew all these predictions well, and everyone who came from the family of David hoped that it was in his family that the Messiah would be born. The sadder thing is that the bulk of the Jews did not see the expected Savior in the Lord Jesus Christ. They looked at it - they did not believe it, or, like Judas Iscariot, they were deceived in their expectations, thinking that it was the earthly king and ruler who had come who would make Israel the center of the world. As a result, from Israel, which did not accept Christ, according to the words of the righteous Jacob, “the scepter departed,” and the good news began to spread among the “tongues,” that is, other, still pagan, peoples.
Portrait of the Prophet: famous soothsayers revealed the secrets of the Messiah
The representative of the Universe and the creator of the world religion is already on Earth! Statements by famous soothsayers about the new prophet are in our article.
Every world religion without exception contains predictions of the second coming of the Prophet or Messiah. Scientists and religious leaders argue about who he will be - an Atlantean, an alien, a spiritual teacher or a representative of a superior race? But it never occurs to any of them to think about how the new Prophet will differ from other people. What if he is already among us, but we are not able to identify him?
The answer to this question can be found in the statements of famous soothsayers. Living in different times and on different continents, they tried to look into the future and find out what the one who would save humanity from the Apocalypse would be like. Of course, each of the predictors had their own vision of such a large-scale personality, but it is not difficult to get a general idea of the Rescuer according to their forecasts.
Of course, first of all, one should look for information about the new Prophet in religious works that existed in ancient times. In Islam, this is the Mahdi - the twelfth imam, whose appearance marks the arrival of the time of Resurrection. His descent onto the planet will not be accidental: he will come when evil begins to triumph over good, in order to inspire the people to a decisive battle and victory. If the Mahdi and the people willing to accept his beliefs fail, humanity will plunge into eternal darkness. Ali B. Abi Tali talks about how you can know when the day of that battle is approaching:
“People will neglect prayers and the divinity bestowed upon them, legalize untruths, practice usury, accept bribes, build huge buildings, sell religion to conquer this low world, hire idiots, associate with women, destroying family ties, obey passion, and consider insignificant oaths. Generosity will be considered weakness, and lawlessness will be glorified. Princes will be corrupted and ministers will become oppressors. False evidence will be presented openly, and immorality will be loudly proclaimed. Women will ride horses, they will become like men, and men will become like women. People will prefer the deeds of this low world to the deeds of the Highest and will hide the hearts of wolves under the skins of lambs.”
It becomes clear to anyone who reads this prophecy that the time of Judgment Day has already arrived. Moreover, such thoughts come not only to ordinary believers: three years ago, the US and Israeli intelligence services announced the start of the search for Imam Mahdi and a huge reward for anyone who can find him and hand him over to the intelligence services. One can only guess why these countries want to stop the Mahdi from saving humanity.
Representatives of all Christian denominations have been awaiting the second coming of Christ since this phenomenon was described in the New Testament. Among the signs of the approaching “day of the Lord,” as it is called in the books, are the impoverishment of faith, natural disasters, solar and lunar eclipses, and the spread of false truths.
Both in the books of prophecies of Christ and in the Gospel of Matthew it is said:
“And in the days of those kingdoms, the God of Heaven will erect a kingdom that will never be destroyed... it will crush and destroy all kingdoms, and it itself will stand forever. The sea will roar and be indignant, the earth will shake. And suddenly, after the sorrow of those days, the sun will darken, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of heaven will be shaken.”
They were able to calculate the exact date of the coming of Christ back in 1844. Millerites, followers of Adventist teaching, have secret knowledge of how to recognize Christ among ordinary people. They know that he will be born on October 22, 2021, according to a prophecy based on the laws of Moses:
“This law states that the cleansing of the sanctuary, or the great Day of Atonement, occurs on the tenth day of the seventh Jewish month, when the high priest made atonement for all Israel, and having cleansed the sanctuary from the sins of the Jews, he went out to the people and blessed them. Likewise, they believed that Christ, our Great High Priest, would appear to destroy sin and the sinner, cleanse the earth and give immortality to His people. The tenth day of the seventh month is the great Day of Atonement, the time of cleansing the sanctuary. In 2021, this day will fall on October 22.”
There is a widespread belief among astrologers and researchers of the Christian religion that the prophet was already born in 1982. It is known that the most powerful religious figures were born at the peak of solar activity, which in 1982 exceeded all permissible limits. That same year, in the spring, a parade of planets took place, when all nine cosmic bodies gathered on the right side of the star. This event was repeatedly mentioned by soothsayers as a signal of the coming of the Messiah.
Nostradamus was able to predict the approximate birthplace of the Prophet. The French astrologer and pharmacist, shortly before his death in 1566, wrote a quatrain in which he indicated that “the new Savior will be from Asia and will come from the 51st degree.” It contains cities such as Voronezh, Kursk, Orenburg and Saratov.
Could Nostradamus be wrong in believing that the Savior will come from Russia? Hardly. Paracelsus also mentions Rus' as the place of the second coming of Jesus. A talented doctor and predictor wrote in the book “Oracles” that:
“The Russians are destined to surprise the world in the new millennium with discoveries in the field of human spirituality. Herodotus called this people Hyperboreans, but the current name of this people is Muscovy.”
The Orthodox monk Abel predicted that Russia would be able to throw off the yoke of false prophets and politicians who built their power on blood. The man who predicted the short reign of Paul I and the burning of Moscow by the French was confident that “Russia will get rid of the yoke of godlessness and will return to the origins of its ancient life, since it is destined for a great destiny.” Astrologer Yuri Ovidin reinforced his words with the confidence that “Russia will become the birthplace of a revived religion,” and Vasily Nemchin was even sure that “a representative of the Universe will make itself known in 2025.” Russia is again indicated as the place of his appearance.
American occultist and mystic Max Handel was a representative of the Rosicrucian Order, a secret theological society that sought to understand the secret truths about religion. While making predictions for the Order, Max accidentally discovered the details of the appearance of the Messiah:
“The Highest Initiate will appear publicly at the very end of the current era, this will happen when a sufficiently large number of ordinary citizens themselves wish to voluntarily submit to such a Leader. This is how the ground will be created for the emergence of a New Race, and all current races and nations will cease to exist... It is from the Slavs that the New People of the Earth will emerge. Humanity will form a United Spiritual Brotherhood.”
Most of Vanga's predictions were also devoted to the future of Russia as the residence of the Prophet and the cradle of the salvation of the planet. She called the teachings of the Messiah the most ancient and true, predicting that the Bible before the Apocalypse will supplant all other religions and they will cease to exist:
“Russia will strengthen and grow, no one can stop Russia and its new Leader, there is no such force. Russia will sweep away everything in its path, and will not only survive, but will also become the sole and undivided “mistress of the world,” and even America in the 2030s will recognize Russia’s complete superiority. Russia will again become a strong and powerful real empire, and will again be called by the old ancient name of Rus'. The person who curbs it will be able to unite everyone under the wing of religion.”
Based on the description of the time of the appearance of the new Prophet, the wait for a meeting with him will not be long. The world is mired in lies instilled through the media and the Internet, politicians are only interested in money, and people have forgotten the way to the temple... During the descent to earth, God or his messenger will have to virtually recreate the value system of humanity from scratch.
Prologue
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Let’s agree right away in our thoughts that Clio is not our assistant, for she is a muse, and it is difficult to expect constancy from a muse.
In our reflections we will not be able to rely on historical experience, because there is none due to its complete absence. It would be good to take a cast from the past, shake off the dust of centuries from it... but, alas, there is no coincidence in human history with the current situation, and to our great regret we have no help and nowhere to wait for it.
What made me sit down to write these thoughts.
While wandering around the Internet, I somehow suddenly suddenly felt that there was no soil under my feet, and therefore it was impossible to move forward, then what I present to your attention now appeared.
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Any young civilization (which originates in space), during its maturation and at the beginning of its development path, runs a very high risk of falling into the trap of degradation and self-destruction. And if there is a Supreme Mind (God) in the universe, which was formed in the past cycles of the universe and gained such power that it survived the Big Bang and took control of the development and formation of our universe and its entire future, then this Supreme Mind is interested in the salvation of most civilizations , which arose according to His program and according to His will. Further, the saved civilizations will develop independently until they merge into a single organism and enter the state of god in the next cycle of the universe. Hence man was created in the image and likeness of God. And our God will move to the next universe in the state of the holy spirit.
But it would be a very big mistake to believe that God entrusted the entire mission of saving the young civilization of mankind only to Himself. On the contrary, God is interested in the independence of humanity, which is why he needs overcomers, who will become the main and main saviors of humanity. Otherwise, it will turn out like in the parable where the righteous man drowned because he expected God to save him by pulling him out by the hair, and did not pay attention to the logs and rafts that God sent to the righteous man for his salvation. The weapons of those who overcome are reason and rationality, which are two-edged swords-tongues. To act in concert, the winners must unite into a collective brain. In order to act correctly and do deeds pleasing to God, those who overcome must familiarize themselves with God’s plan as instructions for action. To receive instructions, you need to decipher the scriptures using semantic decoding. Semantic decodings are available only to enlightened people of our century of scientific progress. Scientific progress appears only under capitalism (the fourth beast of the Barbarian cycle, where the cycle is a dragon with seven heads and ten horns). Hence it is clear why the conquerors could not appear during the Middle Ages or the Roman Empire, when there was no scientific progress and people were illiterate. And from here it is clear why the beginning of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ took so long - two thousand years! The coming of Jesus Christ must begin with the emergence and formation of overcomers.
And so now we can move on to understanding the role of the hidden Messiah, who must organize and form the overcomers. His time has come! Today, human civilization is in great danger - the process of “the rich are getting richer, the poor are going pale” is taking place in the world. This process is a direct path to the Kingdom of Antichrist, to some kind of dystopia, where all wealth will be concentrated in one hand, and peoples will find themselves in electronic slavery. At the same time, conditions will be created so that it is not beneficial for people to show discontent; with the help of electronic surveillance, all dissatisfaction will be recorded, and all dissatisfied people will be transferred to a lower standard of living with lower salaries. Humanity will be deprived of will and reason - it will turn into cattle, and its numbers will be sharply reduced with the help of an artificial reduction in the birth rate. In short, humanity will fall into the trap of degradation and self-destruction, from which it will be impossible to escape. And one could only hope for some major natural disaster that would destroy this devilish trap for humanity. But God sends us the white horseman of the apocalypse, who is the Victorious One - the hidden messiah and helper of Jesus Christ.
The hidden messiah has been hidden for two thousand years primarily in interpretations of the New Testament. Why hidden? Well, firstly, so that faith in Jesus Christ does not weaken. Secondly, because of interpretations of the Bible, Christian churches multiplied, fought and even fought with each other. If another son of man were revealed, then these conflicts would multiply. But it is about this that the disciples of John the Baptist Jesus Christ ask: “Are you the one who should come, or should we expect something else?” Who is the other son of man? The hidden messiah is hidden only in interpretations, but the bible itself has a lot to say about him. He is the Conqueror, and the white horseman of the Apocalypse, and the Comforter, and the Reconciler, and the Restrainer, and the Steward, and the Son of Man brought to the Ancient of Days, and so on, and so on. But his first crown, as a white horseman, is the crown of the Conciliator. Before solving problems pleasing to God and before experiencing sorrowful days, he must unite everyone, and therefore reconcile. He will come not only as the forerunner of all events, but also as their organizer. He will create a collective brain mechanism. He will build a statehood that will last forever and will never be destroyed. He will bind the devil for a thousand years and take away his title “prince of this world.” He will change the incorrect development matrix of the “harlot of Babylon”, the top of which is the desire for power and enrichment, to the correct development matrix, the top of which is salvation (survival). He will create mechanisms of self-regulation and perfection and with their help he will rule the people with an iron rod (laws). With the help of the Jewish network, he will not only identify the Moshiach for the Jews, but will also endow him with a mission and bless him as in the order of Melchizedek. He will usher in a New Faith that will unite churches and religions and fill the world with meaning. He will create an ecological energy generator that will help survive the sorrowful days when infrastructures are destroyed. He will become an Orthodox king and will not ask anyone for permission. He will lead science, become a scientist and will not ask anyone for permission. But at the same time, he will not hold any administrative positions in religion, politics, or science. He will become the ideologist of the Apocalypse - he will gather all ideologies together and cleanse them of filth. His deeds will glorify Russia, Russia will become a spiritual leader throughout the world, as many seers predicted. After sorrowful days, he will fill the world with happiness and justice, and this will be guaranteed by his desire for the highest power over humanity - power over the mind. Such power, aimed at an endless series of future generations, rests only on respect, so any self-interest is not possible here, it will undermine respect. In heaven he will go from a child born of a wife in the sun to a youth, to become a called son of Jesus Christ and to sit as one who conquers on the same throne with Jesus Christ.
What is the difference between a false messiah and a messiah? The false messiah is a dummy who has nothing to do. He cannot say: “Judge me by my deeds.” Therefore, he calls to believe in him and for this he even creates a sect and dreams that his sect (faith in him) will cover the whole world. Some false messiahs even call themselves Jesus Christ. But everyone knows that when the Second Coming takes place, the need for faith in God will disappear, and no sects will be needed. If the word “Messiah” is considered as salvation by one’s own works, then the desire to change the world for the better through works does not carry with it any abnormality. On the contrary, in the near future the desire to become a messiah will deserve respect. Since a person must have the right not only to life and the right to freedom, but also the right to a mission. The mechanism of collective intelligence, which can be created even in ordinary forums, will allow ideas to be improved without any conflicts that usually arise in discussions. And the perfection of these ideas can involve thousands and even millions of people. With so many brains, you can solve any problem and bring ideas to their full perfection. If people begin to unite into a collective brain and jointly solve the world's problems and begin to represent public opinion, the world will begin to change instantly, and every person will feel like a messiah, since he has done his bit to change the world for the better. When citizens participate in shaping their future in their country and in the world, this is the power of the people, this is true democracy.
So who are the overcomers? These are those whose sins will be written off for their godly deeds, and they will go to heaven. Here they are, the overcomers - “Rev. 7:9. After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from all nations and tribes and peoples and languages, stood before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes and with palm branches in their hands.”
Where will we be when Moshiach comes?
Where will we be when Moshiach comes? And what will we do when he comes? And finally, when will he come?
About 60 years ago in New York, in Brooklyn, about 770 - the Center of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, in the middle of Shabbat, a Hasid was walking during the day. And hums a tune to himself. This time, when he went for a walk, he did not take his frock coat and hat with him . Suddenly, as he passes about 770, the Lubavitcher Rebbe comes out. He was very surprised. He was very embarrassed that he was meeting the Rebbe without these clothes, in which he usually comes and meets the Rebbe.
The Rebbe smiles and says: “It will be the same when Moshiach comes. Mashiach will come suddenly, and we may not be ready for him . He will find us wherever we are.” Our task is to be ready for this coming.
It is said that one day a group of students came to see the Rebbe, and they asked many questions. At the end of their meeting, after the Rebbe had explained to them everything they were interested in and wanted to know, they asked the Rebbe: “Rebbe, please tell us, who is a good Jew?” They were still non-religious Jews, and they were waiting for the Rebbe's answer .
The Rebbe told them that the Jews have 613 commandments. We compare these 613 commandments to one long, long ladder. This staircase has 613 steps. There are different Jews who are at different levels. But there may be a Jew who is at the top of the stairs, but he is looking down. Or maybe there is a Jew who is at the bottom of these stairs, but looks up . The Rebbe says: “A good Jew is one who, wherever he is, looks up.”
Let's do everything we can. We do not know when Moshiach will come, but we know that it is close. What could it be at any second? We don't know where we will be when he comes. But it depends on us what we will do when he comes . Let's change, let's direct our direction upward. More and more, even a little! So that when he comes, we will be smart!
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Rabbi Shlomo Noginsky Help the lesson Rabbi Shlomo Noginsky is an envoy of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, a rabbi in the Russian-speaking community of Boston (Shaloh house), certified as a regional rabbi by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, and a family relations consultant.
