Rabbi Tuviah Singer

The War with Iran

Adapted from:

The War of Gog and Magog Explained - Rabbi Tovia Singer - Living Inspired
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq3LAe9cOYs
with Rabbi Aron Sokol

Note:
Contrary to the sources quoted below Brit-Am does not consider the present conflict to be an End-of-Times scenario but it may be a kind of runner-up to it.
Nevertheless this source is of interest and importance to us.

Extracts (slightly edited):

Selected Extracts:

Persia is the head of the snake and our implacable enemy at the end of days is
 It's very important because Persia of all the empires was the most benign and benevolent
toward the Jewish people. After all, Cyrus the Great is called the Messiah. He tells the Jews to return.
Israel has no border with Iran. This is very important to keep in mind. Modern
modern day Iran. We don't have a border. We There are proxy wars between Israel and Iran. We had a 12-day war with Iran,
but there's no land issue like we have with Syria, like we had with Egypt and
so on and so forth. So, this is very very critical that the prophets are
point to something which there is there's there was nothing in their view
that could have indicated to them that Iran's going to be the problem.
So Ezekiel 37 is entirely messianic. It begins with the
vision of Israel being restored. It's a powerful numinous image of that
Ezekiel encounters a valley of dried out bones. There's no hope. And then this
these bones uh gain flesh and sinners rise up a powerful army. This is the
people of Israel. Okay.  The northern kingdom will restored which means nine and a half tribes are lost.
And that's Ephraim. with two sticks in
hand restored.
be. And then we're introduced to Messiah. This is Ezekiel 37 24 and 25.
Messiah is called the Nusi, the Pince. He'll be called the Prince throughout the end of Ezekiel. Remember I always
9:39
told you Ezekiel, this chunk is all Messiah from 34 on. Ezekiel 37:24 and 25
is Messiah himself. It's one of the rare places where the Messiah is discussed. The Jews will be keeping all the Torah
and all the mitzvah. That's 24 and 25.
... Now what happens in Ezekiel 38 is now he's winding back like Genesis 2. He says okay let's examine the course of
events that will occur in the end of days. How will it happen that the enemies of God will be
destroyed and God's name will be raised up above every other name? After all, that's the goal of the messianic age.

So, first, the Jewish people are come under attack.
Daniel 7:13, the Messiah comes with the clouds of heaven. That's why in  Zechariah 14:16,
the nations celebrate Sukkot. celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles which ordinarily non-Jews are not supposed to
be celebrating suk because there's the amazing thing because they the the righteous of the gentile nations trusting
in the clouds of heaven so they get the opportunity to join the Jews to celebrate the festival tabernacles.
Hashem is going to bring the enemies of Israel out. He's going to draw them out. Literally, the text is saying he's going to be like hooks.
HE is going to draw out the enemies of Israel and he's going to draw them into war.I Ezekiel 38 verse 5, we're told explicitly that Persia is the
chief of enemy adversary...By name. Persia is Iran. And it's intrusant. It's very interesting just
Let's go back to the text now
because it's very very important. If you look at Ezekiel 38 and 38 and 39, it
literally says that the Jewish people will return from great wars and return
back to the Land of Israel. A land which had been desolate, a land which Jews had
been expelled from, a land where the Jews weren't there. And if you go to chapter 39, it actually tells us why the
Jews weren't there. It's going to tie it up that way. Back to Ezekiel 38:8 all the way 23 is an example. It says
the Jews sinned that's why they were expelled from the land. Like this is not a chapter that whitewashes anything. The
chapter is explaining why is God doing this. So the chapter explains the Jews
sinned. They were sent to exile. The land was basically without Jews, without anything. Nothing grew here. That's
literally. But at the end, the Jews are coming back. The text says that the Jews sinned. That means this text is not trying to xonerate the Jews or
whitewash every sin of everyone including our leaders. It is there for everyone to to see.

Jeremiah, God comes to Jeremiah and says to him, I need you to be the Prophet to go tell the
Jews to do teshuvah, to repent. Jeremiah is puts up a fight as we had expected. He says, "I can't do it." And his argument that I'm
a kid and he was he was only 15 years old. He was a kid. And Hashem said, "Look, I literally created you from your
mother's womb for this job. His prophetic career would go on for 41 years the same length as as our Prophet Moses.
According to the Abarbanell Jeremiah was the greatest prophet after Moses in terms of greatness, not in writing style but in greatness.
 It was unbelievable.

Virtually every culture that has an ancient history. The Chinese - they all wrote about a worldwide flood and a boat
which saves a family and then they you know there are some difference in the Torah but what would you expect if in
fact the flood which I think 1656 after creatio but the key is because it affected everyone so everyone wrote about it.

We see in Isaiah how the sins of Israel will be forgiven through repentance, through justice, and by destroying the idolatry of the nations. It is in
Isaiah. that the Jews would return back to the Land and then God's name will be glorified and raised up above every
other name and the nations of the world will know that I am the LORD. So that's why all this is happening and you know you
and I are here talking on air and we know in very real terms.