So I've been surfing the internet and I happened to discover this interesting piece.  Am I alone in thinking that this 12th century rabbi's predictions for the future of Israel are so uncannily accurate that it's beginning to look more and more like we can expect to see the fulfillment of or at least the beginning of the unfolding of the Fatima prophecies by 2017 rather than latter?  50 years from the 1967 Arab/Israeli war brings us to the year 2017.  With the situation the world is in today, this seems highly likely.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/12th-century-rabbi-predicted-israels-future/#Y1A2rcZrclpO06Br.99

“When the Ottomans (Turks) – who were already a power to be reckoned with on the Bosporus in the time of Judah Ben Samuel – conquer Jerusalem they will rule over Jerusalem for eight jubilees. Afterwards Jerusalem will become no-man’s land for one jubilee, and then in the ninth jubilee it will once again come back into the possession of the Jєωιѕн nation – which would signify the beginning of the Messianic end time.”

One jubilee is 50 years (Leviticus 25).

The Mamluks, who had been reigning in Jerusalem since 1250, were conquered in 1517 by the Ottoman Turks. They remained for eight jubilees (8 x 50 = 400 years), that is to say they were in Jerusalem for 400 years. Exactly 400 years later, in 1917, the Ottoman Turks were conquered by the British. The League of Nations conferred the Mandate for the Holy Land and Jerusalem to the British. Thus, from 1917, under international law, Jerusalem was no-man’s land.

Then, when Israel captured Jerusalem in the Six Day War of 1967, exactly one jubilee (50 years) after 1917, Jerusalem reverted to Jєωιѕн-Israeli ownership once again.

Ben Samuel was often called “Light of Israel.” Even bishops came to him for advice. If anyone asked him where his wisdom came from he would answer, “The prophet Elijah, who will precede the Messiah, appeared to me and revealed many things to me and emphasized that the precondition for answered prayer is that it is fuelled by enthusiasm and joy for the greatness and holiness of God.”

The rabbi also prophesied that during the ninth Jubilee Jerusalem would be a “no-man’s land.” This is exactly what happened from 1917 to 1967, due to the fact that the Holy Land was placed under British Mandate in 1917 by the League of Nations and literally “belonged” to no nation.

It was not until the Six Day War in 1967 when the entire West Bank of the Holy Land was conquered by the Israeli army that the whole city of Jerusalem passed back into the possession of Israel.

But it gets even more interesting, because Judah Ben Samuel also prophesied that during the 10th Jubilee Jerusalem would be under the control of the Jєωs and the Messianic “end times” would begin. If he’s right, the 10th Jubilee began in 1967 and will be concluded in 2017.

I found another site stating this same prophecy.

http://destination-yisrael.biblesearchers.com/destination-yisrael/2012/12/rabbi-judah-ben-samuels-jubilee-prophecy-gives-the-year-of-the-messiah.html



Rabbi Judah ben Samuel (1140-1217)

It's one thing to use private revelation to speculate on the near future.

It's entirely different to use false religions to do the same.

Rows,

You'll have to pick up one and put down the other.

Judaism, particularly the chassids, are a distinct belief and prophecy than Our Lord and His time.  Consulting these mystics from belief systems which deny Christ, as I see it, borders on consulting a palm reader.  If this seems like I am exaggerating, remember that I first advised you to pick one up and put the other down.

It's either Christ, Our Lord or the rabbis.  Pick.

We can't, with integrity, play both sides of the fence.  We should esteem the conjuring of the medieval rabbis with the same respect in which we hold for the sidewalk second hand goods hawker or the street magician who promises that he can guess your wait.  

I think it's good advice to hold the charms of Judaism with a quiet contempt.

I am looking at the prophet Daniel.  When the Mass will come to an end.  What I think is more than that.  Without the Mass, what about the other sacraments?

Rows,

You'll have to pick up one and put down the other.

Judaism, particularly the chassids, are a distinct belief and prophecy than Our Lord and His time.  Consulting these mystics from belief systems which deny Christ, as I see it, borders on consulting a palm reader.  If this seems like I am exaggerating, remember that I first advised you to pick one up and put the other down.

It's either Christ, Our Lord or the rabbis.  Pick.

We can't, with integrity, play both sides of the fence.  We should esteem the conjuring of the medieval rabbis with the same respect in which we hold for the sidewalk second hand goods hawker or the street magician who promises that he can guess your wait.  

I think it's good advice to hold the charms of Judaism with a quiet contempt.

Capt,

Of course I will pick Christ every time.  I just thought is was uncanny the way all the dates lined up so accurately and both articles state that even Roman Catholic Bishops consulted this man.  If this is true, I wonder why they never tried to convert him?   It's always possible that the rabbi got his inspiration from the devil himself.

 You know it hadn't occurred to me that this as a form of idolatry.  I think I better confess this Saturday.  God willing I live till then.