The Time Before The End

FULL MEETING WITH MIDRASH HERE

NOTE: THE TRANSCRIPT IS NOT EXACTLY LIKE THE RECORDING.

We now know exactly what the end times deception is which Yeshua warned us about. There has been so much deception of God’s people over the last 2,000 years, but Yeshua was talking about A specific doctrine that would arise and show its ugly beast face in the end of days! What doctrine is that? Judeo-Christian Zionism, the newest deception among those who say they believe in Yeshua. Zionism seeks to bring the Armageddon war and the rapture so the Jews can rule the world from the land (from the Euphrates to the Nile) and the Christians can get outta here to go inherit heaven! These are the ulterior motives of the Abrahamic apostate religions.

How do we know there is an end times deception above all the other deceptions in Christianity and Judaism? Here is what Yeshua said:

Matthew 24:3 And as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the world?
Matthew 24:4 And Jesus answered and said to them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
Matthew 24:5 For many will come in My name, saying, I am Christ, and will deceive many.
Matthew 24:6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled, for all these things must occur; but the end is not yet.
Matthew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in different places.
Matthew 24:8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. 

Mar 13:3 And as He sat on the Mount of Olives, across from the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked Him privately,
Mar 13:4 Tell us, When shall all these things be? And what shall be the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled?
Mar 13:5 And Jesus answering them began to say, Beware that no one deceive you.
Mar 13:6 For many shall come in My name, saying, I AM, and shall deceive many.
Mar 13:7 And when you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be troubled. For it must happen, but the end shall not be yet.
Mar 13:8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there shall be earthquakes in different places, and there shall be famines and troubles. These things are the beginnings of sorrows. 

Luk 21:7 And they asked Him, saying, Teacher, but when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign when these things are about to take place?
Luk 21:8 And He said, Take heed that you are not deceived, for many shall come in My name, saying, I AM! Also, The time has come! Do not go after them.
Luk 21:9 But when you hear of wars and disturbances, do not be terrified, for all these things must first occur, but the end is not at once. 

AVOID THE DECEPTION

“Don’t be deceived!” Well! That was rather unspecific! Deceived about what? This is more than general doctrinal deception.

Yeshua was not as concerned with providing information about the end as He was about exhorting people to beware of a specific coming great deception. This is why He did not answer the disciples’ questions in the order they were asked: 1) when shall these things be; 2) what shall be the sign of Your coming; and 3) what will be sign of the end of the world? Rather, Yeshua began with the exhortation to not allow ourselves to be deceived but He did not even define that deception except to say that it would come the false prophets among us, among believers in Yeshua, who would proclaim Him to be the Messiah and then they would lead people into the deceptive doctrine.

The definition of this great deception was, apparently, revealed to Paul, John and Peter later on. Paul understood what was going to happen and he told us about it.

2 Thessalonians 2:1 Now we beseech you, my brothers, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him,
2 Thessalonians 2:2 that you should not be soon shaken in mind or troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word or letter, as through us, as if the Day of Christ is at hand.
2 Thessalonians 2:3 Let not anyone deceive you by any means. For that Day shall not come unless there first comes a falling away, and the man of sin shall be revealed, the son of perdition,
2 Thessalonians 2:4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself forth, that he is God. 

1 Timothy 4:1 But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,
1 Timothy 4:2 through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies…

Paul wasn’t the only one to understand the coming of the son of perdition who would introduce the deception of all deceptions to the world. John also understood.

2 John 1:7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist. 

John wrote about the son of perdition in even more detail than Paul.

Revelation 13:11 I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon.
Revelation 13:12 He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence. He makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed.
Revelation 13:13 He performs great signs, even making fire come down out of the sky to the earth in the sight of people.
Revelation 13:14 He deceives my own people who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast; saying to those who dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast who had the sword wound and lived. 

Even Peter wrote about the coming deception, although what he wrote was about ALL deception throughout all time.

2 Peter 2:1 But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
2 Peter 2:2 Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned. 

Many will be deceived; even the elect if that were possible (Matthew 24:24 and Mark 13:22). That is how slick the heresies will be. Many will believe the heresies because Yeshua said the false prophets would still proclaim that Yeshua is the Messiah. The people will believe the heresy and Yeshua is the Messiah simultaneously, all the way to receiving their very own slave mark! The false doctrines spread by Christian leaders will come from the Jews.

2 Peter 2:3 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words… 

…Words like that if you don’t support the modern UN-created STATE of Israel in their genocide in Gaza and their plans to take all the land from the Euphrates to the Nile and their plans to build a temple in Mystery Babylon from where they think they will rule the world forever, you are wicked! They tie supporting Israel with you being blessed by YHVH. But that is not what YHVH said, is it? He said we will be blessed if we obey His commandments (Deuteronomy 28). But Christianity’s (or should I say ‘anti-Christian’, anti-what-Yeshua-said) rejection of YHVH’s blessings through our obedience has been perverted into that if we keep the commandments we are working for our salvation. Therefore it is better to reject the Law of Moses. That perversion is over 1600 years old but it is foundational for the end times deception when the false prophets will redefine supporting Mystery Babylon as the way to receive YHVH’s blessings!

For the Mystery Babylon temple to succeed, it needs loyal followers like Zionist Christians who agree with Judaism regarding the land and the Law! The Jews get the land; Christians get heaven, and the Jews get the Law while Christians get the Sermon on the Mount which they don’t see as coming straight from the Law of Moses.

The current geopolitical world now has an evil alliance between Jews and Christians that no one saw coming until Charlie Kirk began speaking out about it just last year. And then he was assassinate for it. We couldn’t see it until it was time for us to see it.

Daniel 12:4 But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end…” 

Let me explain that we are now in the time of the end prophesied by Daniel, Yeshua, Paul and John. These times were prophesied in one way or another by all the prophets: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and all the others but Paul and John knew exactly what the specific deception would be and they told us about it. Paul and John both prophesied that the son of perdition will set himself up as god by deceiving people so badly that he would be able to sit in the temple as if he was god and people will not rebel against him for it. Even the Jews who believe their messiah is human only! Of course, there will be the 2 witnesses teaching the Gospel in opposition during that time as a countermeasure.

The other part of the great deception is that Israel has an end times mandate, coming from God, to rebuild a temple, the kind of temple wanted by the Jews that follow after King Solomon’s apostacies and which satisfies their cultural need to manufacture a religion where “the god” can be manipulated through sacrifices, using and mimicking the system that YHVH gave all Israel 3500 years ago to enslave people and deceive them into thinking Judaism’s “world to come” has arrived instead of YHVH’s Kingdom having arrived!

The Jews call their god “ha shem”. We don’t know who this “ha shem” god really is. He is a mystical god, a “musterion” mystery (Strong’s G3466) god straight out of the Kabbalah and the mystery religions. He is a god that says god has no son, a doctrine touted as coming from Islam. But the Jews were denying Yeshua long before there ever was an Islam. It is not YHVH who has mandated the Zionist Judeo-Christian monstrosity temple to be built very soon on Temple Mount. No, it is the unique god of the Jews, whoever he is (probably the god of fortune (Isaiah 65:11)! Always follow the money, folks!

The building of Mystery Babylon’s temple and the reinstitution of the sacrificial system will bring the most deception in the history of the world. Enough so that Paul it called the “falling away” (2 Thessalonians 2:1-4).

Let’s see how Yeshua answered the disciples’ other questions.

WHEN WILL THESE THINGS BE?

These questions do not pertain to the time of Jacob’s Troubles. The answer to the first one pertains to the time before Jacob’s Sorrows while the other 2 pertain to after the Tribulation but I will include the answers here.

This question was answered with the Parable of the Fig Tree in Matthew 24:32-25, Mark 13:28-31 and Luke 21:29-33.

Matthew 24:32 “Now from the fig tree learn this parable. When its branch has now become tender, and produces its leaves, you know that the summer is near. 

The fig tree represents the Southern Kingdom of Judah, the 4 tribes that were left after the Assyrian captivity. The Southern Kingdom is not the 13 tribes of Israel. People must stop lumping all the tribes of Israel under the heading of “Jews”. This is just another of the deceptions. Each tribe is a branch on the olive tree whose root is Yeshua, God Himself. But the figs are Judah. Here is what YHVH told Jeremiah about the figs, about the Jews of the Southern Kingdom.

Jeremiah 24:1 Yahweh showed me, and behold, two baskets of figs were set before Yahweh’s temple, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
Jeremiah 24:2 One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
Jeremiah 24:3 Then Yahweh asked me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I said, “Figs. The good figs are very good, and the bad are very bad, so bad that can’t be eaten.”
Jeremiah 24:4 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
Jeremiah 24:5 “Yahweh, the God of Israel says: ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.
Jeremiah 24:6 For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land. I will build them, and not pull them down. I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
Jeremiah 24:7 I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh. They will be my people, and I will be their God; for they will return to me with their whole heart.
Jeremiah 24:8 “‘As the bad figs, which can’t be eaten, they are so bad,’ surely Yahweh says, ‘So I will give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem, who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.
Jeremiah 24:9 I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I will drive them.
Jeremiah 24:10 I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, until they are consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.’” 

Remember, YHVH’s Word never changes. His definition back then is the same today as it was yesterday or 2500 years ago. Lest we forget, there are 2 kinds of figs in the Southern Kingdom, 2 kinds of figs among the Jews. There are the good figs and then there are the bad figs. The bad figs back then and now are the same rebellious rotten fruit of the Southern Kingdom who YHVH punished by sending them into Babylon and who will punish again for being Babylon – i.e. MYSTERY/Mystical Babylon, but He will save the good figs. There are good figs among the Jews both in Israel and wherever they live on earth.

The fig tree began to bud in the late 1800s and into the 1900s. Now, in the 2000s, the fig tree of Mystery Babylon is about to be fully fruited with the same rotten fruit that rejected YHVH and His ways in favor of their own ways as reported by all the prophets. Malachi chapter 1 says they were bringing defiled food to YHVH’s altar and offering defective animals. Ezekiel 8 and 9 said they were doing sun-god rituals at His altar. Jeremiah 19:5-6 said they were offering their children to Baal. Did you know the IDF will pay for 2 abortions for female soldiers who become pregnant out of wedlock and they also offer “morning after” pills so the male and female soldiers can continue their fornication unopposed? They are still offering their children to Baal!

Right now, the whole world has started seeing the fig tree again. And now there suddenly is a new thing for American soldiers that just started with this Iran war. It is something that has never been declared before in any US war. Ever. Military leaders are telling the American troops that America is in a holy war designed to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus (meaning Jesus will be coming to remove the Christians in the rapture). Armageddon, which will come at the end of the Tribulation, is being left to the Jews for their punishment for denying Yeshua as their Messiah, God and King. Google it. It’s in the mainstream media.

Thus the answer to “when will these things be” is “when you see the fig tree begin to produce leaves” to the time when its unripe fruit falls to the ground. In the grand scheme of earth-time, this is just a small season that comes at the end and last for around 150 years.

WHAT SHALL BE THE SIGN OF YOUR COMING?

Yeshua answered this question by saying:

Matthew 24:29 But immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken; 

Let’s stop here to describe the conditions before we get to the actual sign of His coming. The darkness covering the earth because the sun and moon are dark could be from volcanic activities or nuclear weapons or both. We have heard much about what these conditions will be like but what the falling stars? Not much is taught about the falling stars. The stars falling from the sky in Matthew 24:29 coincides with:

Revelation 6:13 The stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when it is shaken by a great wind. 

This also pertains to the fig tree. John tells us that the figs falling and the stars falling will happen together. The fig tree with its Mystery Babylon beast empire, the beast that came up out of the land having 2 horns like a lamb (Revelation 13:11), will be shaken and destroyed and this will happen as some stars begin to fall to the earth.

Yeshua told us to look for a fig tree that begins to get leaves but John told us it won’t finish ripening all the way to harvest time before it is destroyed. And we are to understand what this metaphor means. The unripe figs falling to the earth coincides with Yeshua saying “except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened” (Matthew 24:22, Mark 13:20). So, the figs will fall and the stars will also fall simultaneously.

We must investigate whether or not the stars of Matthew 24:29 and Revelation 6:13 could actually fall from the sky to the earth. First, the stars of heaven are a metaphor for the heavenly disobedient beings that will be destroyed. That is for another teaching. But there is an actual, physical meaning to the falling stars. Leaving those symbolic stars of heaven out of today’s discussion, let’s consider if a physical star could actually fall from heaven to the earth and the earth not be destroyed? No. That is not possible.

So what is possible? What could those physical stars be? Isaiah 34:4 describes the sky rolling up like a scroll and the stars falling, symbolizing the cosmic upheaval and God’s judgment against the nations. They could be asteroids, YHVH throwing stones are the whore of the whole earth that arose out of Mystery Babylon. That fits with the punishment due to a whore, according to the Torah. There is something else that could have appeared to John in his vision as literal stars falling from the sky aside from Isaiah’s prophecy.

There will likely actually be objects that fall from the sky. John (Revelation 6:13, 8:12) could not have known about the over 15,000 satellites that now orbit the earth. The natural and manmade disasters will unplug the technology that keeps the satellites in their orbits and they will start to fall for 3.5 years after the modern UN-created STATE of Israel Mystery Babylon is destroyed. It will be at the same time as the second “he” from Daniel 9:27 will make war on the whole earth as Daniel 11:40-45 says. The fall to earth of those satellites won’t happen all at once, though. Their orbits will degrade and they will fall a little at a time in clusters.

The falling stars could be all 3 meanings – actual sons of God that YHVH will be throwing out of heaven, away from His throne, asteroids to stone the whore and satellites falling.

And then Yeshua continues to define the SIGN of Him with:

Matthew 24:30 and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. 

We will first see the sign of the Son of Man and then we will see Him! But we have to see the sign first. What is the sign? He already told us the answer to this in verse 27. Lightning!

Matthew 24:27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Luke 17:24 For as the lightning, that lightens out of the one part under heaven, shines to the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of Man be in His day.

The sky above Jerusalem, and perhaps the whole earth, will be full of volcanic ash from volcanoes blowing from all over the earth and particles from bombs , even nuclear devices set off in America which has drifted eastward, and which will set up the conditions for lightning in the sky over Israel and the Middle East, at least. The entire globe could be covered with this rich ash that induces lightning.

Yeshua looked like lightning to the disciples at His ascension.

Matthew 28:3 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow…

He will return the exact same way and in the exact same place He ascended and there will be lightning just as there was when He ascended. This phenomenon will occur over Israel, specifically, and then into the Middle East because destructive wars are seen for miles away from blast sites.

WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS

Matthew 24:6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled, for all these things must occur; but the end is not yet.
Matthew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in different places. 

Mark 13:7 And when you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be troubled. For it must happen, but the end shall not be yet.
Mark 13:8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there shall be earthquakes in different places, and there shall be famines and troubles…

Luke 21:9 But when you hear of wars and disturbances, do not be terrified, for all these things must first occur…

The wars and rumors of wars is specific to the time period immediately preceding Jacob’s Sorrows, i.e. the time period that is just before the start of birth pangs. Yes, the argument can be made that there have been wars and rumors of wars for the last 2000 years since Yeshua’s prophecy was given. There are layers to prophecies. They do sometimes get fulfilled in degrees, and it is true the wars and rumors of wars have kept people awake at night for the last 2,000 years wondering if “this war” and “this rumor of war” is “the one” that will bring Yeshua back. But the text has an implication that there will come a specific time just before Jacob’s Sorrows starts when we will hear of specific wars and rumors of wars. We are in that time that is just prior to Jacob’s Sorrows but Jacob’s Sorrows has not yet begun.

The most recent “wars and rumors of wars” has to do with what is going on between the beast of Revelation 13 (America and Israel) and Iran right now. There must first be these skirmishes between the West (America and Israel) and the East (Iran and its growing coalition which includes Russia and China). We are now in the 3rd skirmish between America/Israel and Iran, all of which began with “rumors” of them. The first was in April 2024; the second in June 2025 and the current one.

The war Daniel describes, which will end the “wars and rumors thereof”, is one that involves more than missiles being lobbed. Iran will come like a “whirlwind” (Daniel 11:40). We call them tornadoes. Iran has fighter jets and helicopters which they are not using. They have tanks and other armored vehicles; hand guns and rifles of all kinds. Their military is a fully outfitted one. And they have an army of 610,000 active-duty personnel plus 350,000 reserves (960,000 men). They also have allies: Russia and China. These have not yet been brought to bear (pun intended).

This current skirmish is not the Daniel 11:40-45 war. A time will come when Iran will have a clear pathway free of American and Israeli and NATO armaments. Do I know how that will happen? No. It may have to do with Trump having bitten off more than the US can chew because US arms are dwindling as we speak. This may become the reason for the Gog nations (NATO) to enter Israel as a guard. If America is no longer able to guard Israel, NATO or some coalition of Western and European nations will have to step in. But NATO could suffer from arms attrition, too. The West is not making arms in as high numbers as in the past. They are all relying on their stockpiles. And arms take months or years to manufacture.

When that happens, Iran will move against Israel, Jordan, Egypt and the other nations with a ferocity we cannot yet imagine. They will bring everything they have to bear but they won’t use it all because they will have enough arms and troops to go out around the world for the last 3.5 years. Why won’t Iran use all their arms in that Daniel 11 war? Because Russia and China are still manufacturing arms and will supply Iran when needed. Trump just made a huge mistake on the world scene but it was prophetic and is just another step, another checkmark on the list of how Yeshua will return.

And then Yeshua said:

Matthew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places. 

A long time could be spent just investigating Matthew 24:7. The entire world is now in chaos. Thailand and Cambodia just ended a war that left thousands homeless. Trump went after Venezuela recently. These are just 2 examples of nations rising against each other that have nothing to do with the nations of Israel and Iran which are now fighting.

We already know what famines there are, and the plagues that can be deliberately made and set loose by man (read COVID). We see the earthquakes upticking day by day. These things are already in place.

And then…

Matthew 24:8 But all these things are the beginning of birth pains. 

It ain’t even getting started yet!

Back to the beginning: Yeshua’s biggest concern was our deception which, if we become deceived and start following the wrong path, will lead to our own destruction and no eternal life. Yet, He described the end for us, even breaking up the timeline into 2 parts – Jacob’s Sorrows and Jacob’s Troubles – so that we will know what is coming. He does not want us groping in the dark. He wants us to understand but He wants us to stay faithful to Him through it all.