This article is in response to a recent Baruch Gordon article at Arutz Sheva entitled: "Leading Kabbalist Urges Jews to Israel - More Disasters Coming " (Oct 19, '05/16 Tishrei 5766), during which Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri, the 104-year-old leading known Kabbalist Rabbi in Israel, uttered some prophecies. These prophecies included the fact that "another wave of natural disasters will strike the world". Later that day, Kaduri made the stunning announcement that, "With the help of G-d, the soul of the Mashiach has attached itself to a person in Israel"....

The Artuz Sheva article states, in part:

What is amazing about all this is that many traditional Jews are not hesitating to jump on this "future Messiah" bandwagon. They are willing to blindly believe the above, yet - regardless of the mountain of evidence throughout the Bible - they steadily refuse the reality of Yeshua HaMaschiach with every fiber of their being! Websites such as Qeren - Royalist Movement Of Israel are springing up all over the 'net about this "coming Messiah", and espousing, among other things, that the world disasters "are directly related to the redemption process, which will culminate in the coming of the Mashiach".

But, the Books of Daniel and Revelation both clearly outline what will happen in this world, including the disasters that will strike. Yet, most people are unwilling to let the Truth sink in - and this Truth is, the Bible tells us:

• The Jewish Messiah has ALREADY come - God sent us an aspect of Himself in human form two thousand years ago, in order to teach man about Himself, to show us how to live with each other according to His will, and then to offer Himself up as the final, DIVINE Sin Sacrifice. If God can do all the following, then what is so impossible about believing that He sent an aspect of Himself to earth in the form of a man, in order to offer us eternal life?
  
  (1) Created the universe and everything in it including humans and animals
  (2) Warned Noah to build a boat because God was about to rid the world of evil humanity via a flood
  (3) Sent ten plagues upon Egypt so that Pharoah would let God's People go - and immediately afterward supernaturally parted the Red Sea so that millions of Hebrews could cross safely - and then CLOSED it up and drowned Pharoah's army!
  (4) Supernaturally fed millions in the wilderness for forty years, PLUS...
  (5) God presented Himself through a burning bush, a pillar of cloud by day and fire by night, "three men" that Avraham addressed as "Lord" when "ADONAI appeared to Avraham by the Oaks of Mamre" at Hebron, and to spoke through a donkey....
  
  
• Yeshua has fulfilled approximately 300 OT prophecies
  
• He will be returning to fulfill the few prophecies that are left (Daniel 9, Matthew 24, Book of Revelation)
  
• He will establish God's Kingdom on earth and bind the adversary for a thousand years before finally loosening him for awhile, and then we are promised a "new heaven and a new earth" (Revelation 21:1)....
  
• That He pre-Existed
  
• That Messiah would come for all people
  
• That Messiah would be God Incarnate
  
• That Messiah's mission would be salvation
  
• That Messiah would be the Son of God
  
• That Messiah would be betrayed
  
• The time of the Messiah's coming
  
• That Messiah would be abandoned
  
• About the genealogy of the Messiah
  
• That Messiah would be despised
  
• About birth and childhood of the Messiah
  
• That Messiah would be judged
  
• About the forerunner of the Messiah
  
• That Messiah would be rejected
  
• About the attributes of the Messiah
  
• That Messiah would suffer greatly
  
• About the events during the Messiah's ministry
  
• About the crucifixion of the Messiah
  
• That Messiah would perform miracles
  
• About the resurrection and victory of the Messiah
  
• That Messiah would come to do God's Will

Yeshua was foreshadowed throughout the Tanach, yet many traditional Jews prefer to cling to MAN-MADE thoughts and traditions, as if the actual WORD of GOD means nothing! Yeshua came at exactly the "right" God-ordained time! For example, here are but a few as seen in Messiah Revealed:

• Daniel 9:24-25 indicates the Messiah will be killed before the destruction of the Second Temple and Jerusalem in 70 CE. (A "future Messiah" could not fulfill that prophecy!)
  
  
• Messiah was to die before the 2nd Temple was destroyed (Daniel 9:24-27) - (A "future Messiah" could not fulfill that prophecy!)
  
  
• To perform miracles (Isaiah 35:5-6) (Yeshua performed MANY miracles, including healing the terminally ill, walking on water, and raising the dead.)
  
  
• To be raised from the dead (Psalm 16:10, Isaiah 53:10). The Bible tells us that at least 500 witnesses SAW Him AFTER His crucifixion! (A "future Messiah" could not and WILL NOT fulfill that prophecy! Has Rabbi Schneerson or any other mere MAN managed to perform miracles, including personally rising from the dead? See Is the Lubavitcher Rebbe the Messiah?)

ONLY Yeshua THE Messiah could have, and has ALREADY accomplished all of the above! For more examples, see: Qualifications of Messiah; Who Does Messiah Say He Is?; and So, You Don't Believe?

Let's discuss THE ODDS of so many prophecies being filled by one Person:

By investigating the Messianic prophecies in the Old Testament, we find that hundreds of prophecies were all fulfilled in the life of one individual — Yeshua of Nazareth!

Speaking of just eight key prophecies, Peter Stoner, a mathematician, points out, "We find that the chance that any man might have lived down to the present time and fulfilled eight of the prophecies is one in 100,000,000,000,000,000" (Science Speaks, Moody Press). And the probability of any one man fulfilling all of these hundreds of prophecies is a number too large to write down.

He also discussed the probabilities of just the 48 prophecies (in our article) being fulfilled in one person is the incredible number 10^157!

As for the "disasters" mentioned by Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri - The Books of Daniel and Revelation aptly outline those as well. We are forewarned of natural disasters, the likes of which the world has never seen; of diseases caused by "beasts of the field", and strange weather patterns. (See our End Times article, along with The Signs of Christ's Return.) The ENTIRE Bible is unfolding before our very eyes - and most people don't even realize it!

• Israel back as a nation...in unbelief, denying the Jewish Messiah who came to offer them eternal life
  
• A Generation morally corrupt and filled with violence
  
• Iran-Russia alliance threatening Israel
  
• China armed with weapons capable of quickly destroying 1/3 of mankind
  
• Europe-Rome reuniting and rising
  
• Teachings of false "Prophets" leading many astray (this includes the false teachings of Islam whose aim it is to take over the world and force everyone to become Muslim. The Bible tells us that many believers in Christ will be beheaded for their belief - and who are the ONLY people who still behead?....)
  
• "The falling away" - churches and synagogues no longer teaching or enduring "sound doctrine"
  
• Israel and Jerusalem are a world trouble spot
  
• All nations of the world turning against Israel

For the first time ever in history this 'prophetic equation' is nearly complete....And all in THIS generation - the Generation of wrath, of the 'Apocalypse', of Armageddon...and, of course, Messiah's Return.