Endnote 206 (back): See Exodus 14:11-12; 15:24; 16:2-3; 17:1-4; Numbers 11:18-20; 14:1-5, 40-45; 16:1-3, 41-45; 20:2-5; 21:4-5; 25:1-9; Deuteronomy 1:26-27, 42-43; 9:9-17, 23-24.
Endnote 207 (back): Exodus 17:4. Then Moses cried out to the LORD, “What am I to do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”
Numbers 14:10. But the whole assembly talked about stoning them. Then the glory of the LORD appeared at the tent of meeting to all the Israelites.
Endnote 208 (back): Exodus 16:7-8. “. . . and in the morning you will see the glory of the LORD, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we, that you should grumble against us?” Moses also said, “You will know that it was the LORD when he gives you meat to eat in the evening and all the bread you want in the morning, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we? You are not grumbling against us, but against the LORD.”
Numbers 20:13. These were the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarreled with the LORD and where he was proved holy among them.
Endnote 209 (back): Exodus 32:1-6. When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.” Aaron answered them, “Take off the gold earrings that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me.” So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron. He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, “These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.” When Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of the calf and announced, “Tomorrow there will be a festival to the LORD.” So the next day the people rose early and sacrificed burnt offerings and presented fellowship offerings. Afterward they sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.
Endnote 210 (back): Numbers 12.
Endnote 211 (back): Isaiah 65:2-5. [Quoted in text.]
Endnote 212 (back): Deuteronomy 9:7. Remember this and never forget how you aroused the anger of the LORD your God in the wilderness. From the day you left Egypt until you arrived here, you have been rebellious against the LORD.
Endnote 213 (back): Exodus 32:9-10. “I have seen these people,” the LORD said to Moses, “and they are a stiff-necked people. Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”
Numbers 14:11-12. The LORD said to Moses, “How long will these people treat me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of all the signs I have performed among them? I will strike them down with a plague and destroy them, but I will make you into a nation greater and stronger than they.”
Endnote 214 (back): Exodus 32:22. “Do not be angry, my lord,” Aaron answered. “You know how prone these people are to evil.”
Endnote 215 (back): Exodus 33:3-5. “Go up to the land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people and I might destroy you on the way.” When the people heard these distressing words, they began to mourn and no one put on any ornaments. For the LORD had said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go with you even for a moment, I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments and I will decide what to do with you.’”
Endnote 216 (back): Psalm 14:3. All have turned away, all have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.
Psalm 53:3. Everyone has turned away, all have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.
Ecclesiastes 7:20. Indeed, there is no one on earth who is righteous, no one who does what is right and never sins.
Romans 3:10-12. As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”
Endnote 217 (back): Deuteronomy 7:6. For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.
Deuteronomy 14:2. … for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, the LORD has chosen you to be his treasured possession.
Endnote 218 (back): Genesis 41.
Endnote 219 (back): Hosea 2:23. I will plant her for myself in the land; I will show my love to the one I called ‘Not my loved one.’ I will say to those called ‘Not my people,’ ‘You are my people’; and they will say, ‘You are my God.’”
Romans 9:25. As he says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people; and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one”.
Endnote 220 (back): Romans 11:25-27. I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, and in this way all Israel will be saved. As it is written: “The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob. And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins.”
Endnote 221 (back): Zechariah 12:10. [Quoted in text.]
Endnote 222 (back): The Via Maris connecting Egypt and Mesopotamia, and the route linking eastern Palestine with the Mediterranean.
Endnote 223 (back): Before Previous Era, that is, B.C.
Endnote 224 (back): The reporter makes the common error. Prophecy indicates only that Armageddon will serve as a staging point not as the site of battle.
Revelation 16:16. Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.
Joel 3:9-11. Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for war! Rouse the warriors! Let all the fighting men draw near and attack. Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weakling say, “I am strong!” Come quickly, all you nations from every side, and assemble there.
Zephaniah 3:8. Therefore wait for me,” declares the LORD, “for the day I will stand up to testify. I have decided to assemble the nations, to gather the kingdoms and to pour out my wrath on them—all my fierce anger. The whole world will be consumed by the fire of my jealous anger.”
Endnote 225 (back): As reported by Antipater of Sidon (circa 130 b.c.).
Endnote 226 (back): Revelation 18:23c. Your merchants were the world’s important people.
Endnote 227 (back): Revelation 17:15. Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations and languages.”
Endnote 228 (back): Revelation 18:3b. …and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries.
Revelation 18:11-13. The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her because no one buys their cargoes anymore—cargoes of gold, silver, precious stones and pearls; fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet cloth; every sort of citron wood, and articles of every kind made of ivory, costly wood, bronze, iron and marble; cargoes of cinnamon and spice, of incense, myrrh and frankincense, of wine and olive oil, of fine flour and wheat; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and human beings sold as slaves.
Endnote 229 (back): Revelation 17:2. With her the kings of the earth committed adultery, and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries.
Revelation 17:4b-5. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries. The name written on her forehead was a mystery: BABYLON THE GREAT THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Revelation 18:3a. For all the nations have drunk the maddening wine of her adulteries. The kings of the earth committed adultery with her…
Endnote 230 (back): Revelation 18:13c. …and human beings sold as slaves.
Joel 3:3. They cast lots for my people and traded boys for pros
titutes; they sold girls for wine to drink.
Endnote 231 (back): Revelation 18:23d. By your magic spell all the nations were led astray.
Endnote 232 (back): Revelation 17:6. I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of God’s holy people, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus. When I saw her, I was greatly astonished.
Revelation 18:24. In her was found the blood of prophets and of God’s holy people, of all who have been slaughtered on the earth.
Endnote 233 (back): Revelation 18:4-5. Then I heard another voice from heaven say: “‘Come out of her, my people,’ so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues; for her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes.
Jeremiah 51:6. Flee from Babylon! Run for your lives! Do not be destroyed because of her sins. It is time for the LORD’s vengeance; he will repay her what she deserves.
Endnote 234 (back): Revelation 13:4b. …they also worshiped the beast and asked, “Who is like the beast? Who can wage war against it?”
Endnote 235 (back): Joshua 3-4.
Endnote 236 (back): Isaiah 53. [Quoted in text.]
Endnote 237 (back): Hence, this recitation occurs two days prior to the day of revival (depicted in Chapter 24 of this volume) and three days before the day of restoration (which occurs in the period between Chapter 24 and the Epilogue).
Endnote 238 (back): Hosea 5:15-6:3. [Quoted in text.]
Endnote 239 (back): Information on each of these false messiahs and many others can be found readily on Wikipedia.org.
Endnote 240 (back): Simon bar Kokhba briefly recaptured Jerusalem from the Romans in about a.d.130 and was proclaimed Messiah by Rabbi Akiba, but shortly thereafter was captured and put to death.
Endnote 241 (back): Moses of Crete promised the Jews of Crete he would part the sea and lead them back to Israel on dry land, but after failing to perform the promised miracle, quietly slipped into obscurity.
Endnote 242 (back): In 1284, Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia proclaimed himself Messiah. He falsely prophesied a messianic age, which was to begin in 1290.
Endnote 243 (back): Shabbetai Zevi’s thousands of followers in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and British Isles so ardently believed him to be the Messiah that his initials were inscribed in gold above the Torah shrines in synagogues, and prayer books were printed with his name appearing in place of the Messiah. When challenged by the Muslim Sultan in Constantinople to prove he was Messiah by turning away arrows fired at him, he instead chose to suddenly convert to Islam.
Endnote 244 (back): For example, Asher Lemlein, Isaac Luria, Hayyim Vital, Baruchya Russo, Jakov ben Judah Leibovich, Moses Guibbory, Abu Issa, Serenus.
Endnote 245 (back): Many of Rebbe Schneerson’s followers continue to believe he will rise from the dead and establish his messianic kingdom.
Endnote 246 (back): Romans 11:25-26. I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, and in this way all Israel will be saved. As it is written: “The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.”
Endnote 247 (back): Hosea 6:1-2. Come, let us return to the LORD. He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us; he has injured us but he will bind up our wounds. After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence.
Endnote 248 (back): Revelation 19:19. Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to wage war against the rider on the horse and his army. [In context, it is clear that the rider is Jesus.]
Endnote 249 (back): Revelation 16:18a. Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder …
Endnote 250 (back): Revelation 16:18. Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder and a severe earthquake. No earthquake like it has ever occurred since mankind has been on earth, so tremendous was the quake.
The earthquake resulting from the Chicxulub impact has been estimated at 12.5.
Endnote 251 (back): Revelation 16:19. The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath.
Endnote 252 (back): Revelation 16:19a. The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed.
Endnote 253 (back): Revelation 16:18-20. Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder and a severe earthquake. No earthquake like it has ever occurred since mankind has been on earth, so tremendous was the quake. The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath. Every island fled away and the mountains could not be found.
Endnote 254 (back): Revelation 16:21a. From the sky huge hailstones, each weighing about a hundred pounds, fell on people.
Endnote 255 (back): Daniel 7:21-22. As I watched, this horn [the Antichrist] was waging war against the holy people and defeating them, until the Ancient of Days [God] came and pronounced judgment in favor of the holy people of the Most High, and the time came when they possessed the kingdom. [Satan has long sought to destroy Israel and has achieved many victories through the centuries. He will continue his attack until the end of this age.]
Endnote 256 (back): Revelation 18:8. Therefore in one day her plagues will overtake her [Babylon]: death, mourning and famine. She will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.
Isaiah 21:9. Look, here comes a man in a chariot with a team of horses. And he gives back the answer: “Babylon has fallen, has fallen! All the images of its gods lie shattered on the ground!”
Endnote 257 (back): Zechariah 14:2. I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped.
Endnote 258 (back): Zechariah 12:8. On that day the LORD will shield those who live in Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the LORD going before them.
Endnote 259 (back): Isaiah 64:11. Our holy and glorious temple, where our ancestors praised you, has been burned with fire, and all that we treasured lies in ruins.
Endnote 260 (back): Revelation 18:9-10. When the kings of the earth who committed adultery with her and shared her luxury see the smoke of her burning, they will weep and mourn over her. Terrified at her torment, they will stand far off and cry: “Woe! Woe to you, great city, you mighty city of Babylon! In one hour your doom has come!”
Endnote 261 (back): Revelation 17:16-17. The beast and the ten horns you saw will hate the prostitute. They will bring her to ruin and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire. For God has put it into their hearts to accomplish his purpose by agreeing to hand over to the beast their royal authority, until God’s words are fulfilled. [Note that in Revelation 17:16-17 the ten horns/kings “eat her flesh and burn her with fire,” and yet in Revelation 18:9-10 (quoted in previous endnote), they are greatly distressed by her destruction. The explanation for this seeming paradox is found in how her destruction was accomplished, i.e., “by agreeing to hand over to the beast their royal authority.” In swearing their allegiance to Christopher and yielding their authority to him, they have sealed their fate and the fate of their capitol.]
Endnote 262 (back): Zechariah 14:2. I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped.
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