On October 13th 2003, Babylon has completed 70 years, since its independece, according to the civil date. As remembered, Jermiah's prophecy that was interperted by prophet Daniel says that

And it was interperted in the Talmud that the original Babylon did not complete 70 years, since it was conquered by Darius within its 70th year (see Rashi's commenary on Taanith 12 page 1, which starts with "Another year to Babylon"). Since then no independant state existed in the area of Babylon until the establishement of current Iraq, that completed 70 years on October 13th. [for more details, see the old 'year signs' page on this site], and we expect the prophecy will be fulfilled within this year.

However, since we [the Jews in Israel] might now face an Iraqi missile attack, that causes many fears in the public, some people familiar with this prophecy might became doubtful. So, in this page we will bring ASTONISHING proofs of the fullfilment of Jermiah's mentioned prophecy, and we will show that the war with Iraq is actually the strongest support to the fulfillment of the prophecy (Clues 1 thtough 6 deal with the 'seventy years' prophecy proofs)

Furthermore, we will ultimately proof from various sources, hundreds and thousands years old, that this time period IS EXACTLY the period of redemption (clues 7 and above deal with other prophecies that lead exactly to the same time period).

No matter who you are, you are sure to be impacted by this page. You be the judge:

This page includes the following `clues`:

 

The Midrash-Rabah of the Song-of-Songs (parasha 3), shows, quite amazingly, a similar situation to the current: 70 years of the Babylonian independce have passed, but Jermiah's good prophecy that was supposed to be fulfilled on the completion of the 70 years, was still unfulfilled. The people of Israel go the the prophet Daniel and ask him why wasn't the prophecy fulfilled. Prophet Daniel's reaction is amazing. This is the Midrash commenary:

The situation that is described in the above Midrash is amazingly similar to the current situation, where the seventy years of Babylon-Iraq have been completed, but Jermiah's good prophecy is still unfulfilled, although ALL the bad prophecies about the Jewish people have already been fulfilled. (Actually, only in our time we may say that ALL the bad prophecies were fulfilled, after all of the Jewish troubles in the diaspora, including the late terrible Holocaust)

Prophet Daniel's reaction is surprising. He tells them to bring him the book of Isiah, and he begins to read it until he reaches the verse "A vision of an ocean-desert as desert storms" (Isiah 21). This chapter in Isiah describes Babylon's fall in the past (at the time of Medes and Persia) and also in the future (as the ancient Yonathan translation says on verse 9: Babylon had fallen, and will fall again in time to come).

In other words, when prophet Daniel is asked about the fulfillment of the good propehcy of what will happen when seventy years for Babylon, he answers them: You should wait for the fall of Babylon!!!

But in that time this was not an available possibility, since at that time when 70 years passed since the independence of original Babylon, Babylon was already fallen!!! So what fall should they wait for?! Also, at that time Daniel has already recieved prophecies (as described in the book of Daniel), that told him that redemption is far away.

So we should understand that this Midrash, as many other parts of the Midrash and the Talmud, gives as clues about our time, where Babylon-Iraq had already completed 70 years, but we didn't begin to see the light. So, the Midrash explains by the name of prophet Daniel, that we simply need to wait a little more for fall of Babylon-Iraq. And, whooops, "by accident" the Iraqi regime is going to be fallen very soon, in an attack which should occupy Babylon-Iraq, and will create a puppet-regime for the US as it was made in Afghanistan.

Another amazing thing, is the verse which prophet Daniel read from Isiah about the fall of Babylon: "A vision of an ocean-desert as desert storms" (Rashi: this prophecy is about Babylon). The first association that comes to one's mind when he reads "desert storms" is: "Desert Storm", the American name for the Gulf-war. So the prophecy says that the fall of Babylon-Iraq will come as desert storms, which means that it will be similar to "desert storm", only that in a bigger magnitude. Amazing!

The Midrash continues to commentate on that chapter in Isiah, when reaching verse 4 this is what the Midrash says:

Meaning, the Midrash says that the time of redemption itself will be a time of fear and terror, as we see as the time of the attack over Iraq is neare, fears grow in the Jewish Israeli public.

However, it is more important how this Midrash concludes:

Which means that the Midrash itself says that it talks about the destruction of Babylon at the time to come, meaning our time!

By the way, the original Babylon was fallen and occupied by Darius (as written in the book of Daniel and in Midrash of the time order). The familiar chapter 137 in Psalms "By the rivers of Babylon" discusses the revenge of Babylon at the end of times: "Oh, the robbing daughter-of-Babylon, happy will be the one who will repay you for what you paid for us. Happy will be the one who will hold and shattered your infants to the rock". Pay attention: the Hebrew text uses both future (will hold) and past (shattered), as it were the same one who did it in the past, will also do it in the future. And the ancient commentary of the Metzudoth says:

 

Which means, that also according the the Metzudoth, he who shattered in the past, will also do it in the future, and this is "Darius". And the holy Zohar (book of Splendor) had already said that it time to come HaSehem (G_d) will bring to life (meaning reincarnation) the kings of ancient history (Zohar Exodus pg. 58). So who is today's Darius? We know that hints to the reincarnations of people can be found in the Gimatriya (Hebrew numbering) of their names. And if you check the Hebrew numbering you will be amazed to see that:

 

Habbakkuk (2:3) brings this prophecy about the time when the Messiah will come:

This prophecy is a basis for the belief of every Jew in the Messiah, as it was been written in the Jewish prayer books for thousands of years. The plain meaning of the words is also clear: even if the time of the Messiah will come and he'll be delayed, wait for him, because he will come and not be delayed too much.

But Holy Rashi commentates in a much detailed manner. About the phrase "there is another vision for the time", he writes:

Read carefully: Rashi says clearly that the redemption of Israel will come at the time of the fall of Babylon, which is Iraq!

About the expression "talking about the End Time" Rashi says:

Which means that Rashi says the the End Time and the redemption will be when Babylon will complete 70 years! But Rashi lived thousands of years after the fall of ancient Babylon, so what sense there is in his commentary?!

Only, that Holy Rashi knew then what we understand today: that we should've been waiting to the end of seventy years of another Babylon, which is Iraq.

Rashi continues and says that if you see that the time of the fall of Bablyon is being delayed after the seventy years, this is a good sign and it means that you should wait for 'him'. The logic in his words is, that ancient Babylon fell BEFORE completing seventy years, so although seventy years passed, and Babylon fell, redemption didn't come. But if you see that seventy years have passed and Babylon is not yet fallen, this is a sign that after it will fall - redemption will come!

And Rashi concludes:

Which means that the prophecy for this final redemption is already written in the Holy Torah (Deuteronomy 30), but the timing is unclear. So Habakkuk added more information to cross with the same Torah prophecy to explain it.

And we can almost say with no doubt that the verse in Deuteronomy 30 that talks about the timing is verse 4 which says: "If any of you will be in the edge of the sky", which also, as you will see if you read further (clue 7), exactly coincide with the current time period, and as the Holy Zohar explains.

Leviticus (25:29) says:

The Midrash (Tanhuma) and top Jewish commentators interpret this verse about the final redemption. And these are the words of the `Da'ath Zqenim` (of the Ba'aley haTosfoth):

So we see, that also according to the Daa'th Zqenim it is being ultimately cleared that the final redemption is "when Babylon will complete 70 years".

In his commentary to Isiah, the Malbi"m says:

Which means that also according to the Malbi"m, the time of the final redemption is "when Babylon will complete 70 years".

In his commentary of prophet Micah, the Metzudoth writes this:

And here is another ancient commentator which relates the redemption of Israel to the fall of Babylon- Iraq, and it is clear that he is not talking about the ancient Babylon, since then the return to Zion and the building of the 2nd temple was according to the decree of Koresh king of Persia, but here he says clearly that this redemption will come with no help from non-Jews kings, which means that he is talking of the near redemption which is related to the fall of another Babylon, and it is clear that it is Iraq.

If someone still has any doubts, see how the RADAK wipes them all. This is his amazing commentary for Isiah 43:19:

Which means that the Radak explains and sharply prooves to everybody: Make no mistake - the prophecy "when Babylon will complete 70 years" is about the Final Redemption, when both diasporas will be gathered to the land of Israel, the ten Israelite tribes diaspora and the Judea (Jewish) diaspora. This is the biggest proof, comming from a leading ancient Jewish commentator.

Also, the Radak brings verses from Deuteronomy 30 that talks about the timing of the same Salvation that will come when Babylon will complete 70 years. These verses talk about: "If any of you will be in the edge of the sky", which also, as you will see if you read further (clue 7), exactly coincide with the current time period, and as the Holy Zohar explains.

The Holy Zohar (book of Spledor) in Parashath Ki-Tissa page 188 says:

 

And he who reads and understands the things that are written here, may not believe what great amazing sign is given to us by the Holy Zohar about the near redemption:

The Holy Zohar explains that HaShem (G_d) will fulfill at the end time all the good prophecies for the people of Israel, and explains that it depends in repentance. But the Zohar explains that not at any time repentance that will bring redemption could be made. There is a need in the fulfillment of certain verses from Deuteronomy 30 in a certain order:

1) "When all of these things will come upon you...": which means that the people of Israel should have suffer (Has-VeShalom) all the bad prophecies written in Deuteronomy, which were ratified by the true prophets. And as we have seen throughout Jewish history in the diaspora, and in the last generations with the terrible Holocaust, and also nowadays when everywhere hatred and violence is used against Jews everywhere.

2) "and you will repent with all your heart in the nations where you were scattered": which means that the people of Israel should be scattered in all the nations (which did not happen in the Babylonian diaspora).

3) "and you will repent to HaShem (G_d) your G_d..": a process of repantance will begin in the people of Israel, as we can see, Baruch HaShem, nowadays, a process of repantance in huge numbers which has never been in the people of Israel since they bacame a nation!

4) "and then", so writes the Zohar, only then -according to the Holy Zohar- the final sign for the redemption will be given, and it is: "if any of you will be in the edge of the sky from there you will be gathered..."

Dear people of Israel !

What "the edge of the sky" means? Commenator Abraham Ibn Ezra writes: "against the Land of Israel" which means in front of it, from above the Land of Israel. But there's no exile and no diaspora in the sky?! And if we say it talks about airplanes, the verse says "in edge of the sky" and not "in the sky".

Only that soon the first Israeli astronaut is about to fly to space (in the spaceshuttle Columbia), and his main mission in space is above the Land of Israel (meteorological study), in a flight that is being postponed time after another, so many times (for about a year now), in a manner that can drive some people crazy. Now, after the launch of the first Israeli astronaut to space, the prophect of"if any of you will be in the edge of the sky" will be fulfilled (as it was written any and not some). And only then can the repantance bring the final Redemption and Salvation.

And now we see that this sign coincides perfecrtly with the sign of fall of Babylon-Iraq after completing 70 years. Can someone call this coincidence?! A verse written in the time of the desert, more than three thousand years ago, is going to be fulfilled now! TRULY AMAZING!

but wait, there's more:

The Holy Zohar (at Exodus pg. 8) discusses a situation when one day in "the Big City" a thunderlike sound will cause the falling of high towers, and smoke will darken the whole area (as it happened in the past when the Temple was destroyed) so much, that people will be unable to see the sun at noon. This event will cause a feeling of helplessness all over the world. During 12 months since this event, the nations' leaders will try to extriminate Israel and (Has-VeShalom) will succeed (keep in mind the opinion that the lost ten Israelite tribes are in Afghanistan). After a year, a period will begin that will end when the revenge of HaShem (G_d) will begin and the Messiah will be revealed.

These are the words of the Zohar:

So, this means we're talking about 12 months, which means a year after the Sep11th attack or after the begining of the war in Afghanistan (Oct 7th), which means this was around the new Hebrew year of 5763. After that time, according to the Holy Zohar's prophecy we should expect revenge from HaShem (G_d) [the first revenge is of-course from Babylon] and then the preparation for the final redemption and revelation of the Messiah King.

Amazingly, this prophecy is fits exactly to the time period of all previous prophecies in this page, and the date that only after it we should expect revenge (Sep-02) and preperation to the revelation of the Messiah is almost identical to the date when Babylon-Iraq completed seventy years (Oct-02).

And if you look deeper in this prophecy, you'll be amazed to see that the destruction of the twin towers of the world trade center, and the pentagon that was viewed all over the world, is by itself a sign for the time of redemption (as mentioned above), as it is written clearly and sharply in the words of the Holy Zohar written almost 2000 years ago!!

This part cannot be translated to English. In short, it's well known that the verse of Genesis 2:1 which is said in the Sabbath Kidush every week ("VaYachulu HaShamayim VeHa'aretz") contains the secret of the redemption timing. In the Hebrew site you will see how the mystery about this verse unfolds with great simplicity, according to the Midrash-Rabah, the words of Haham Yosef Hayim z.z.u.k.l. and the Talmud. Since this is simple, but is based on Hebrew letters and Hebrew numbers, it will not be translated.

As known, the Talmud gives us clear signs for the time when Messiah son-of-David will come.

The clear sign of the timing is: 'At the Motzaey Shvi'ith year, the son-of-David will come', and the year of 5762 (last year which ended on Sep/02) was a "Motzaey Shvi'it" year.

But in the same page, the Talmud brings another sign: "The son-of-David will not come - - until they will lose hope for redemption". But this is ackward, If the Messiah will come at the "Motzaey Shvi'it" year, so everyone waits in this year (as it was throught history, every 7 years), so how can you say that they will lose hope for redemption, and then he'll come?

And the possible explanation is: When the "Motzaey Shvi'it" year will pass, then you might think that the time of redemption has passed, and then (Has-VeShalom) they might lose hope for redemption, and will say: the time has passed, but the son of David did not come. And then - says the Talmud - with this loss of hope, the Messiah, son of David will come.

And that's yet another sign leading us to the same timing.

The Midrash (Yalkut Bracha Remez 966) says about the verse "and there was no prophet as Moses in Israel anymore" (Deu. 34) the following: "In Israel there wasn't but in the nation of the world there was, and who is it: it is Balaam son of Beor".

The Talmud (Brachoth 7) explains that the only virtue that he had in prophecy is these words that were written upon him on: "and knows the mind of the Highest" (Numbers 24). And Rabenu Bahye (a top ancient commentator) explained (in Num. 24) that Balaam "knows what in the mind of the Highest G_d to do in the end of times". He continues: "and this is such as 'Day of revenge is in My heart' (Isiah 63) that our Rabbis Z.L. (in the Midrash) said: the heart did not reveal to the mouth".

The Midrash that Rabenu Bahye brings talks about the fact that the day of revenge and redemption is covered. The Midrash says: If someone tells you when the end of redemption comes, do not believe, as it's written 'day of revenge is in My heart', the heart didn't tell the mouth, how can the mouth tell anyone.

But according to Rabenu Bahye we understand that the only virtue in prophecy the Balaam had was, that he knew just that!

Now that we understand the importance of his prophecy (otherwise why should his prophecy be written in the Holy Torah anyway), let us read how his prophecy ends (Num. 24:23-24):

 

All the ancient commentators (includeing ancient Aramic translations) explain these verses at the same spirit, here is an outline of their words:

 

And here we see that a prophecy more than 3000 years old, from the times when the people of Israel were in the desert of Sinay, tells in details what's going to happen at the end of times. We'll now summarize the propehcy:

And once again we see another prophecy that relates the redemption of Israel to the fall of Babylon-Iraq, and fits exactly with all mentioned above prophecies.

On the eve of year 5763 we witnessed many rivers floods all over the world in the same time, in a manner that is not remembered for hundreds of years, and they all flooded together (Elba in Germany, Danube in Slovakia, and also floods in Hungary, Woltowa in Prague, Berpatura in northeast India, rivers in Bangladesh, Dong-Ting iin center China, south France and the Makong in Vietnam, almost all in the same time).

One of the signs for when the Messiah will come is given in the Talmud (Sanhedrin 98:1): "If you see a time when many troubles come as a river, wait for him [for the Messiah]". Also psalms 93 in tight translation to English says: "HaShem (G_d) has reigned, he wore high tide". Also the rest of the chapter speaks about rivers' tide before the reign of HaShem.

To the question "until when" the troubles of Israel and diaspora etc, the angel answer prophet Daniel (Daniel 8:14):

Now from the end of the book of Daniel we understand that the times in the book are coded, and will be revealed at the end of times.

We can now see something very interesting. The word `hundreds` in Hebrew (me'ot) has two meanings. One is, of-course, "hundreds", and the other is "from a sign".

The Midrash (Tanhuma) explains the mentioned verse from Daniel this way: When the morning of the world-nations will become evening. So we understand that we are talking about a time that relates to the world-nations, not Jews.

Now we can see clearly and read the verse correctly:

And the 'sign' of the world-nations is clearly the birth of Yesh"u of Nazzerath.

Jermiah 50:9 says:

The Malbi"m (lived about 200yrs ago) explains the expression "his arrows as an intellegent hero":

And this commentary is super-astonishing!!! About 200 years ago the Malbi"m explains the propehcy of thousands years ago, which says taht the enemy of Babylon will have "smart" weapons that can reach the target by themselves!!! How could these smart bombs and guided missiles been forseen hundreds and thousands of years ago?! And pay attention: the prophecy indicates that the massive use of this

bobms will be agains Babylon-Iraq. Now if this is not astonishing, what is ?!!