God’s Wrath
In many passages of Scripture the restoration
of God's people Israel (Jacob) in their own country is announced. The
oldest we find in Devarim (Deuteronomy) 30.
After Elohim in the preceding chapters had announced repeatedly that Israel
would face severe hardship in the Diaspora, his representative Mosjeh fortunately could also provide a comforting
announcement:
When all these words come upon
you, the blessing and the curse that I have put before you, and you call them
to mind in all the nations where YHWH your God has dispersed you, and you
return to YHWH your God and listen to his voice according to all that I am
commanding you today, you and your sons, with all your heart and all your soul,
YHWH your God will then bring back your captives and show you mercy and regather you from all the peoples where YHWH your God has
scattered you. Even if your
people are dispersed to the extremity of the heavens,
from there YHWH your God will gather you and bring you back. YHWH your God will
bring you into the land your fathers took possession of, and you will possess
it; and he will make you prosper and will multiply you more than your fathers.
YHWH your God will cleanse your
heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love YHWH your God with
all your heart and all your soul and you may live. Then YHWH your God will bring all these curses upon your enemies, who
hated and persecuted you.
What a superb prophetical promise, where one can consider moreover
that YHWH Elohim then proved already to be completely familiar with the
entire historical development of his people Israel, his Wife-Congregation, even
before the Israelites could have put one foot in the Land of
Promise. Already then YHWH knew - it turned out
much later - that he would expel his ‘Wife’ to all nations, but also that
afterwards he would gather her again.
To date, the fulfilment of this promise did not yet come. YHWH Elohim has
certainly not brought back his people to the dear country. And surely, the Jews as a people have not taken at
heart all these words: the
blessing and the curse that I have put before you.
But when that time comes YHWH Elohim will surely
punish those enemy-states that hated you and
persecuted you. A second assurance of that part of Elohim’s purpose is found in Zephaniah:
Behold, I will deal at that time
with all those afflicting you, but I
will save her that is limping, and gather her that is scattered.
I will set them as a praise in all the land of their shame.
At that time I shall bring you people in, even in the time that I
gather you. Because I will give you a name and a praise among all the
peoples of the earth, when I gather back your captivity before your eyes, YHWH
has said (Zph 3:19-20).
From the prophecies in Jeremiah, chapter 25, we find further details
when precisely we may expect that YHWH Elohim will take revenge on those
nations that severely afflicted his own people, His pupil’s eye (Zch
3:8).
Jeremiah had to take the cup of the wine of God's wrath and give it for
drinking to all the nations to whom Yahweh sent him:
When 70 years have been fulfilled… For thus said YHWH Elohim of Yisrael to me:
“Take this wine cup of
wrath from My hand, and make all the nations, to whom
I send you, drink it. And they shall drink, and shake, and go mad because of
the sword that I am sending among them.”
I then took the cup from
the hand of YHWH and made all the nations drink, to whom
YHWH had sent me… and all the reigns of
the earth which are on the face of the ground. Also the sovereign of Sheshak shall drink after them.
Thus said YHWH of hosts, the Elohim of Yisrael:
Drink, be drunk, and
vomit! Fall and rise no more, because of the sword
which I am sending among you. And it shall be, when
they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to
them: Thus said YHWH of hosts, You shall drink!
For look, I am beginning
to bring evil upon the city which is called by My
Name, and should you be entirely unpunished? You are not
going unpunished, for I am calling for a sword on all the inhabitants
of the earth, declares YHWH of hosts.
And you shall prophesy
against them all these words, and say to them: YHWH roars from on high, and
utters His voice from His set-apart dwelling place. He roars mightily over His
fold, a shout as those who tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the
earth.
Tumult shall come to the
ends of the earth, for YHWH has a controversy with the nations.
He
shall enter into judgment with all flesh. The wrong He shall give to the
sword, declares YHWH.
Thus said YHWH of hosts: See, evil is going forth from nation to nation, and a
great whirlwind is raised up from the farthest parts of the earth. And in that day the slain
of YHWH shall be from one end of the
earth even to the other end of the earth. They shall not be lamented, or
gathered, or buried, for they are dung on the face of the ground.
(Jer
25:12-33)
A careful analysis of this chapter seems to reveal that in God’s
dealings with the nations his prophesied judgments merge from the past into the
future. This conclusion is further supported by the gematria which related to
chapter 25 is strikingly End Times oriented. Especially verse 26 >>
And all the kings of the north, both near and far, one
after the other, and all the kingdoms of the earth that are upon the face of
the earth; and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
First:
The total value of this verse is
5-666 and that reminds us at once of the number of the
Beast –the Pseudo-messiah of the End time - according to Revelation
13:18 >>
Here is the
wisdom! He who has understanding, let him calculate
the number of the Beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.
In the figure of Haman in the Bible book Esther, we find the truth about
the Beast, a.k.a. the Pseudomasjiach of the End Time, but hidden, as indeed is
characteristic of the Esther story.
On the basis of the principles of gematria, the doctrine of
numerical values of Hebrew Bible words, however, much becomes clear.
As we all know Haman was finally hung on the
execution gallows that he had intended for Mordecai. But
Haman also had 10 sons who, having been slain, were also hanged (Est 7: 9-10; 9: 7-10; 9: 13-14).
But what is intended in the story that those 10
sons are mentioned by name? Apparently, the mention of their names seems
unnecessary; entirely irrelevant. On
the contrary, however! Precisely through that
YHWH Elohim revealed that the Beast and his 10 horns are supernatural and
demonic. How?
On the basis of their numerical values.
First, of course, Haman himself. The story names him as:
Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite.
The NV: 95 + 52 + 450 + 22 = Total: 619.
Then his ten sons. In Est
9:7-9 they are enumerated:
Parsandatha 1035; Dalfon
170; Aspatha 542; Poratha
687; Adalja 46; Aridatha
616; Parmastha 1021; Arisai
281; Aridi 225
(According to Brown-Driver-Briggs ארידי 225; also version JPS) and Waizatha
424. Total 5047.
Added to the NV of Haman: 5-666 (619 + 5047).
Exactly the numerical value of the Beast (666), the supernatural value 5000
inclusive.
See the study: Esther,
she who hid
Second:
The NV (numerical value) of Sheshach, which is
cryptic for Babel, is 620.
And that is precisely the NV of Hater
of all Jews (as was Haman in the Esther story).
But the value 620 is also the sum of
Cush (326) and Nimrod (294), a duo that foreshadowed the Pseudo-messiah
(Antichrist) in his twofold shape: The Beast and the False Prophet.
We are now living seventy years after the end of World
War II, and consequently also 70 years after the end
of the terrible crime of the Holocaust which caused the loss of 6 million
Jewish lives.
And it is really inconceivable that
the German nation, together with the other Jewish enemies, could escape God's
judgment of wrath: Then YHWH your God will bring all these
curses upon your enemies, who hated and persecuted you.
Now, living in the turbulent times
of the year 2016, it seems that Elohim's wrath
has already reached Germany. As may be concluded from this
article by David P. Goldman: A Parable for
Germany