Does Sharon’s death mean the Messiah is coming soon? Kaduri said it before Sharon’s stroke and death

WorldNetDaily.com, with numerous journalism awards, offers information on a Kaduri kabbalistic rabbi who had many loyal followers in Israel. In the last days before his death, he shared with his followers that he “met the Messiah who would come after the death of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.”

Two months later, Ariel Sharon suffered a massive stroke and was in a coma until her recent death on January 11, 2014. Kaduri died a month after Sharon suffered the stroke in 2006. Before her death, she left a letter which he said was to be opened a year after his own death.

When it was made public, the name of the Messiah, whom Kaduri met after years of prayer and fasting, was ‘Yehoshua’, a Hebrew name, a variant of Yeshua that translated as Jesus from the Greek.

So how could all this play out? Not like most people would expect! When asked about the end of the world, Yeshua (Christ) admonished us to understand the book of Daniel which was “sealed until the end timeDaniel 12:4.

Gabriel told Daniel that his “vision is at the time of the end”, Daniel 8:17. It was a ram whose horns were broken, it was said that they were the kings of Media and Persia. Today those areas are Iraq and Iran.

This supports a double application for Daniel with us living in the time of the end, and suggests an impending war against Iran.

Daniel 8 is also linked to Daniel 9 with the 70-week time period given, separate (chawthak in Hebrew) from the 2,300 days in Daniel 8. And the 2,300 days in Daniel 8 need a starting point. Daniel 9:25 has it as a decree to restore and build Jerusalem with 69 weeks until the Messiah.

The decree quoted was that of a Persian king, Artaxerxes. His decree was in 457 BC, however, 69 weeks later, no Messiah appeared. But the Hebrew allows them to be 69 weeks of years which fits the Jewish reckoning of a day for a year in Numbers 14:28 and Ezekiel 4:6.

69 weeks of years (483 years later), Yeshua was anointed by the Holy Spirit at his baptism, around AD 27. His death in the middle of the 70th week (3 1/2 years later) fits the prophecy of Daniel 9: 26 where he was “cut off” by the rejection of the Jewish leaders.

But the Jewish rejection of the Messiah, also foretold in Isaiah 53:4-7, implies that it was for us, for all mankind. “He was smitten for our transgressions…as a lamb to the slaughter,” fulfilling the Passover imagery at Passover circa 31 AD

Let’s stop blaming the Jews. The Romans killed Christ. We all did. We did it? And a response from the heart with gratitude is what we need in response to Abraham’s declaration, “My son, God will provide himself a lamb” (for a sacrifice), Genesis 22:8.

Considering that Daniel 8 has a second “end time” application, and Daniel 8 is linked to Daniel 9 as suggested above, the Messiah (anointing) could be an anointing of God’s people as in Ezekiel 36:24 -28, to include Christians who accept the Torah (statutes and judgments in the text) and Jews who accept the Messiah, also seen as the two sticks that become one in the next chapter, Ezekiel 37:16,17.

The starting point for this is shown in Daniel 9:25. “From the decree to restore and build Jerusalem to the Messiah (anointing, Ezekiel 36:24-28) there are 69 weeks.” What does a decree to restore Jerusalem mean?

This implies that Jerusalem will be destroyed, as Zechariah 14:1,2 also suggests for the end times: “All [Arab or United?] The nations will gather against Jerusalem for battle. The looted houses, the raped women… Then the Lord will go out to fight against those nations.”

Could it happen like “Arab spring” with “blood moon” this spring at Easter, April 2014?

Having Jewish friends and a Giebel grandmother (Jewish like Ezekiel, Daniel) who kept the Sabbath, I am hopeful that Rabbi Kaduri’s message of Messiah as Yeshua can be considered by Jews. Because heeding Yeshua’s warning in Matthew 24:15 could have saved the Jews in AD 70 when he warned his followers to flee when they saw military men. And why not a loving Messiah giving credence to his identity (and warning of his) to his people through an esteemed rabbi?

For reasons beyond the scope of this article, the timing of the Arab Spring may be correct. For more information, readers can see World Net Daily’s report on the rabbi’s encounter with the Messiah.