A mystic rabbi living in southern Israel is urging all Jews to pray and repent as the third Blood Moon of a tetrad cycle approaches.

Rabbi Amram Vaknin, who similarly predicted the events of the Gaza flotilla and the Carmel forest fire in 2010, and Operations Pillar of Defense (2012) and Protective Edge (2014), warns that Israel is facing great judgment and potential danger at this time.

One of Rabbi Vaknin’s students, Gil Nachman, spoke to Breaking Israel News and, quoting the sage, explained that the numeric value of the Hebrew word for blood, dam, which is 44, alludes to the 44th president of the United States.

WATCH: Rabbi Vaknin Calling for Jewish Repentance

Vaknin predicted that the 44th president would bring bloodshed (dam) to the Jewish people. It should be noted that the rabbi made this prediction before President Barack Obama’s election to office.

Vaknin believes that only 44 plus one, or 45, can counter the danger represented by the blood moons. This, he says, is Adam, or Man, which in this case refers to the Messiah.

Rabbi Vaknin called for a day of prayer at the Western Wall this past Wednesday to encourage the arrival of the Messiah and the redemption of the Jewish people and the world.

According to their Facebook page, “In these critical times, Am Israel must join together to pray to Hashem to send us Mashiach Ben David!!!”

The repeated number four is also noteworthy, as in addition to the value of 44 and the four Blood Moons of the tetrad, this will be the shortest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century, lasting a mere four minutes, 44 seconds.

Rabbi Vaknin is not alone amongst Jews in associating the current tetrad with Jewish redemption. With the first and third Blood Moons in this current tetrad cycle coinciding with Passover, and the second and fourth with the Feast of Tabernacles, the connections to times of redemption run deep.

The Talmud states, “In [the Hebrew month of] Nisan our forefathers were redeemed from Egypt, and in Nisan we will be redeemed.” Likewise, the Feast of the Tabernacles is associated in Jewish tradition with the battle of Gog and Magog, the final war that is said to precede the final redemption and arrival of the Messiah.

Moreover, this year in Israel is a Sabbatical, or shmitta, year, a time in which the land of Israel is commanded to be left fallow. Yahadoot.net notes a statement by the Sages in the Talmud which says, “In the sixth [year there will be] voices [of war], in the seventh [there will be] war, and at the end of the shmitta, the [Messiah] son of Jesse will arrive.” Although the Talmud never states in which seven-year cycle in history this will be fulfilled, the website suggested that thus far, our modern period fits the description.

The Blood Moon phenomenon has attracted much attention of late thanks to the efforts and solar discoveries by Root Source’s Bob O’Dell and Gidon Ariel.  Not everyone is an agreement as to what the Blood Moons signify. According to O’Dell, “All the prior blood moon tetrads point to a pattern of blessing on the Jewish people. They are good news for the Jews. They are a great indicator of God’s love and commitment to the Jewish people to preserve them, and a warning to those who stand in opposition to Israel.”

A so-called “Blood Moon” is a total lunar eclipse, the nickname stemming from its stellar red color caused by the bending of the sun’s rays around the Earth.

When four occur in succession without a partial lunar eclipse between them, they are noted as a tetrad. These tetrads are fascinating on their own, but the current tetrad marks only the fourth time in five hundred years that all four Blood Moons of the tetrad fall on Jewish holidays.

The Hebrew-language website yahadoot.net delves into the Jewish perspective on this celestial phenomenon. The Talmud discusses the significance of astronomical events in human history, stating that a solar eclipse is a warning to the nations, while a lunar eclipse signifies danger for the Jewish people, who are likened to the moon.

The Sages go on to explain that this is because God sits in judgment at those times, and human actions and choices are being weighed. It is a time when our mistakes may come back to haunt us.

Rabbi Vaknin adds his voice to other religious leaders calling on their followers to pray for peace and security in Israel. Christian leaders Mark Biltz and Bob O’Dell have organized a prayer gathering for Christians worldwide to pray during the 4 minutes and 44 seconds of the total lunar eclipse late Friday night.

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On the morning of Tuesday, June 9, Israeli mystic Rabbi Amram Vaknin, led a prayer service at the Cave of Elijah the Prophet in Haifa, Israel, along with approximately 30 Jewish men and 30 Jewish women, to pray for the welfare of the Jewish people.

Gil Nachman, an aide to the Rabbi and an eyewitness, told Breaking Israel News that at approximately 11:30 AM, Rabbi Amram Vaknin suddenly fell to the ground, into the mud and water on the floor of the cave.

In this world, Rabbi Vaknin was lying on the floor, but what happened in that cave, according to Nachman, “was above this world. The rabbi received a message for the Jewish people from Eliyahu haNavi (Elijah the Prophet) that there is a decree from Heaven that war will be starting in the south of Israel, will move to the north of Israel and will continue inside of Israel. Thousands of people will die, God-forbid.”

All Jewish people throughout the world are being urgently requested to unite, to pray together in groups, to fast and to give charity in order to avert this decree. Jews are being urged to direct the power of their prayer to beg God to have mercy on the Jewish nation.

Further, according to Nachman, people are being asked to polish their character traits, their fear of Heaven and to improve their interpersonal interactions, in order to change the decree in Heaven.

In an interview with Breaking Israel News, Nachman, speaking for Rabbi Vaknin, passionately appealed to the Jewish people to unite. “We have to be together! No matter what a person wears on the outside, we have to have the intention to love one another.”

Yehudis Schamroth of Beit Shemesh, Israel began attending Rabbi Vaknin’s prayer gatherings six months ago. She told Breaking Israel News, “I first went to Rabbi Vaknin for brachot (blessings) for me and my family. He took a genuine interest in me in a grandfatherly way. He became especially animated in conversation when I asked him how I could help bring along the geula (the final redemption of the Jewish people).”

Rabbi Vaknin, a 76 year-old mystic who lives in striking poverty in the port city of Ashdod, comes from a family of mystics. His mother and his grandmother had the same gift of receiving revelations from Heaven.

Through these messages, Rabbi Vaknin accurately predicted the “Gaza Freedom Flotilla” in May, 2010, the deadly fire in the Carmel forest in December of 2010 as well as Operation Pillar of Defense in 2012 and Operation Protective Edge in 2014.

In the coming days, Rabbi Vaknin is expect to announce a large prayer gathering in Israel. Although a video of the revelation was posted to Facebook, it is difficult to understand. Nachman told Breaking Israel News that some Hebrew subtitles have been added..

The location where this message was received by Rabbi Vaknin is significant. The cave is the very place where God spoke to Elijah when he was hiding from King Ahab and Queen Jezebel.

Further, in Jewish tradition, it will be Elijah the Prophet who announces the ultimate redemption of the Jewish people.

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For three and a half hours this past Saturday night, Rabbi Amram Vaknin, a 76-year-old Israeli mystic, fell to the floor as he received a warning from the next world.

From approximately 9 PM until 12:30 AM, in his modest home in the port city of Ashdod, Rabbi Vaknin was cautioned that war is coming to Israel very soon, the rabbi’s student revealed to Breaking Israel News.

The most recent revelation from Heaven was given over to the rabbi from a small group, including the prophet Elijah and his own deceased rabbi, Rabbi Moshe Zrihan, along with Rabbi Vaknin’s father and grandmother.

As previously reported by Breaking Israel News, Rabbi Vaknin receives periodic messages from the Next World, warning about events in Israel. Gil Nachman, a close student of Rabbi Vaknin’s, told Breaking Israel News, “Pray that it’s not going to be today, tomorrow or in two weeks.”

Nachman recounted the specifics that Rabbi Vaknin received in the message. “The Muslims are going to contaminate the water, the fruits and vegetables.They are going to damage the electricity,” he said. “And there are going to be people dying in the streets, thousands of people all over Israel.”

Nachman urged that the Israeli water company, the electric company and food importers should be prepared for these attacks.

According to Nachman, Rabbi Vaknin was told that Arab citizen of Israel and Member of Knesset Hanin Zoabi is the one planning it. Vaknin stated his belief that Zoabi is a spy for ISIS and Hamas and is providing the terror groups all the information they need to plan the attacks.

Why is this happening? According to Nachman, it is because the leaders of the generation “don’t want to do teshuva (to repent). They aren’t waking up. Hashem (God) wants to lead them in the right path. We all need to do teshuva.”

Nachman said that in the past, Jewish leaders such as Moses and King David knew about decrees against the Jewish people before they happened. These great leaders took it upon themselves to repent first, but the leaders of today are telling others to repent without doing it themselves.

“Our weapon is not Tzahal (IDF), not Netanyahu, nobody. Only teshuva,” Nachman urgently told Breaking Israel News.

When asked what Rabbi Vaknin said people should concentrate their repentance on, Nachman mentioned four things. Repent for “the inner sins that you hide away from people and the sins that people see. And kibud av v’eim (honoring your father and mother) is one of the most important things. And always say the truth of what’s in your heart. Be real. It’s all about emet (truth).”

“The war is very close. We have no choice. The teshuva of Am Yisrael (the Jewish nation) will determine the rachamim (mercy). But war is definitely coming,” Nachman insisted. “We beg Am Yisrael to do teshuva as soon as possible, because we don’t want to see people dying. Stop thinking about material things. That’s not going to give you life. When Moshiach (Messiah) comes, material is not going to mean anything to anybody.”

“We’re getting close to the big day of Moshiach. Before that happens, Hashem wants us to do teshuva. We have to be ready and prepared,” pleaded Nachman. “When we do real teshuva, Hashem will fight for us.”

Nachman concluded by recounting a teaching from the Talmud, the primary source of Judaism’s rabbinic tradition. The eagle approaches his baby eaglets in the nest very slowly. He makes sure that they notice him gradually, so as not to shock them, because they can die from such fear. Similarly, God does not want to hurt us. He’s warning us to wake up because He’s about to rule the world, so He’s warning us little by little, in order that we recognize His approach. Every earthquake, every terrorist incident, every battle, is a warning to wake up.

Through previous messages from Heaven, Rabbi Vaknin accurately predicted the “Gaza Freedom Flotilla” in May, 2010, the deadly fire in the Carmel forest in December of 2010 as well as Operation Pillar of Defense in 2012 and Operation Protective Edge in 2014.

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A recent heavenly warning of imminent war in Israel is being hailed as a major wakeup call from God to repent.

In August, Rabbi Amram Vaknin, a mystical rabbi from the port city of Ashdod, warned of a fast approaching war in Israel after receiving a divine prophetic message. Breaking Israel News reported on Rabbi Vaknin’s warning, leaving many frightened and wondering what can be done to avert the decree of war.

Speaking with Rabbi Vaknin’s English spokesperson, Gil Nachman, Breaking Israel News followed up on the rabbi’s heavenly message, wanting to know how people around the world should respond to the threat of war.

“When Hashem (God) doesn’t see that people are waking up, He has to wake them up,” Nachman explained to Breaking Israel News. “The rabbi is here to ensure that the message comes in rachamim (mercy), not din (strict judgement). Rabbi Vaknin is the messenger. He’s the message of rachamim on Am Yisrael (the Jewish people).”

According to Nachman, the importance of repentance cannot be overstated. Rabbi Vaknin is urging the Jewish people to repent for four things in particular.

The most urgent things to repent for are “the inner sins that you hide away from people and the sins that people see. And kibud av v’eim (honoring your father and mother) is one of the most important things. And always say the truth of what’s in your heart. Be real. It’s all about emet (truth).”

In light of the divine message of war, Rabbi Nachman called on his followers to attend a special  prayer gathering, scheduled for Thursday, Sept 17, which falls during the spiritually significant  period between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, known as the Ten Days of Repentance.

“Any decree can be changed. It depends on Am Yisrael’s teshuva (the repentance of the Jewish People). The people in Israel are really scared of what’s coming, Hashem (God) wants us to do a prayer gathering of everyone who’s really in fear,” Nachman explained.

The Book of Proverbs (14:28) states, “Barav am hadrat melech – The King’s glory is in a multitude of people.” According to Nachman, “If there are at least 100 men, we can change the decree. We will ask Hashem for rachamim (mercy) and ask Hashem to bring Moshiach (Messiah).”

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In the early hours of Monday, September 28, the last blood moon in the current tetrad (cycle of four moons) will occur during the Jewish festival of Sukkot (Tabernacles). The blood moon, a full lunar eclipse in which the moon appears red, will be visible from the US, beginning shortly after midnight on Sunday, September 27, for approximately one hour and 11 minutes. Even more significantly, the blood moon will also be visible from Israel.

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The current tetrad has high significance for Judaism and Israel. Each blood moon in the tetrad has fallen on a Jewish holiday: Passover of 2014, Sukkot of 2014, Passover of 2015 and now Sukkot of 2015. A tetrad of blood moons all coinciding with Jewish festivals is extremely rare; only three such tetrads have occurred in the past thousand years. This is the fourth cycle. According to many rabbinic scholars, these tetrads always signify turning points in Jewish history. A prophecy in the Book of Joel states that the coming of the Messiah will be preceded by a blood moon.

“I will set wonders in the heavens and the earth: blood and fire and pillars of smoke; the sun will turn to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and awesome Day of God” (Joel 3:3)

Over the course of the current tetrad, Breaking Israel News has done extensive investigations into the Blood Moon phenomenon and its Biblical connections. Find out everything you need to know about blood moons right here on Breaking Israel News with our top blood moon articles and videos.

1. Blood Moons: Are They Absolute “Nonsense”?

Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi, a popular Orthodox lecturer, has pronounced the blood moon phenomenon as absolute “nonsense.” Citing Jeremiah 10:1, Mizrachi further explained to Breaking Israel News that the Bible explicitly warns the Jewish people not to pay attention to, or be upset by, claims of doom via heavenly signs. However, blood moon expert Bob O’Dell has a different take, arguing that the “Blood Moons are a witness to the Jews of God’s eternal covenant to the Jews, and are therefore a cause for celebration, even if the nations are dismayed by them.”

2. Experts Say the Final Blood Moon Will Mark Major “Turning Point in History”

As the fourth blood moon approaches, Breaking Israel News interviewed blood moon experts Bob O’Dell and Gidon Ariel about the historical significance of blood moons throughout the past century. They pointed out positive trends in the Jewish world that had occurred on or around times of past blood moon tetrads and discussed how the last blood moon of the current tetrad might impact Jewish and global history.

3. New Blood Moon Revelation Claims to Reveal Date of Biblical Exodus

Blood Moon expert Bob O’Dell came out with a startling new understanding of the Blood Moon Prophecy. Rather than seeing the blood moons as signs of Divine Judgement, he said, they are actually “bread crumbs in the sky” left by God to remind the Jewish people that He has not forgotten His covenant to restore them to the land of Israel. Thus, they should be a cause for celebration for the Jews, rather than fear. O’Dell used Biblical calculations to propose a theory that the chronology of the Exodus from Egypt fell on the dates of a blood moon tetrad.

4. BLOOD MOONS: What is God Telling Us?

What exactly are Blood Moons? In this short and informative video, Breaking Israel News describes the blood moon phenomenon and looks into the history of blood moon tetrads.

5. Passover Blood Moon Preceded by Exceedingly Rare Solar Eclipse

Last March, before the third blood moon took place over Passover, an extremely rare solar eclipse hid the sun from view for two minutes over the North Pole on the first day of the Biblical calendar year. Blood moon expert Bob O’Dell explained to Breaking Israel News that the solar eclipse in the wilderness of the North Pole, which belongs to no single country or people, on this incredibly significant day demonstrated that the Divine Word belongs to all of humanity, Jews and non-Jews alike.

6. Shocking Passover Blood Moon Predictions by Israeli Rabbi [VIDEO]

Well-known mystical rabbinical figure Rabbi Amram Vaknin, who is known for correctly predicting disastrous events in Israel, warned that the Jewish people were facing a time of great judgment and danger as the third blood moon approached in April. He called for Jews to repent and pray for redemption and showed, using gematria, the Hebrew system of numerology, that certain numbers and words related to the blood moon revealed the Jewish significance of the event.

Count down to the last Blood Moon in the tetrad and be a witness to history as the rare eclipse and Jewish holidays coincide!

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In another of a series of prophetic-like transmissions, the soul of Rabbi Amram Vaknin, a 76-year-old Israeli mystic, communicated with Heaven after the Jewish Sabbath ended on October 10. The divine message warned of worse things to come in Israel and against the Jewish nation.

Speaking to Breaking Israel News, Gil Nachman, Vaknin’s English-speaking spokesman, reported that there will be an escalation in the attacks on Jews in Israel and that the attacks are going to start coming from groups of Muslims, not just single terrorists.

During the vision, Vaknin reported seeing Elijah the Prophet coming in and going out. According to Jewish tradition, Elijah will announce the Messiah’s arrival. He also saw holy rabbis from previous generations crying.

“The judgement has come. It’s here,” said Nachman.

“We’re in a very crazy situation and Hashem (God) is going to push us to the corner,” he continued. “The world is a filthy place. There are many inner, hidden sins of immorality. God is using the Muslims to wake the Jewish people up from their spiritual slumber.” Vaknin also warns the Jewish people exceedingly sternly against being overly prideful.

Nachman’s wife Miriam told Breaking Israel News that this past March, at a talk in honor of the anniversary of his father’s passing, Vaknin predicted that the time will come when people are going to be afraid to step outside, afraid to walk in the streets of Israel.

Vaknin’s last message from late August of this year warned of imminent war coming to Israel.  Three weeks later, Russia started deploying warplanes to Syria and has since built a coalition of countries – including Syria, Iran, Iraq and China – to fight ISIS that some believe is the beginning of the Final War of Gog and Magog.

In August, Vaknin also predicted that “there are going to be people dying in the streets, thousands of people all over Israel.” A few weeks later, Israel saw a sharp uptick in terror attacks across the country.

The most recent messages from Heaven are darker still.

According to Nachman, Vaknin asserts that the situation with Russia in Syria is the War of Gog and Magog. There is a whole different war going on inside Israel with the Muslims and that war is directed at the Jews.

“Whoever is working with a Muslim is in danger,” Nachman reported Vaknin saying.

Vaknin is praying to God to remove the decree from the Jewish people and he urges everyone to pray, to beg God to cancel out this decree or at least to lessen its harshness. He also urges Jews to use the tools of teshuva (repentance), tefillah (prayer) and tzedaka (acts of charity and kindness) to avert the decree. A public prayer service is being arranged in Israel’s port city of Ashdod.

“In the end,” said Miriam Nachman, “Israel is going to be the safest place.”

Speaking further, Nachman quoted Vaknin as saying, “There is nobody to trust and rely on, only Hashem (God).” Nachman concluded with these words from Vaknin, “The world is in a situation that it’s like a woman who is about to give birth and she’s in a lot of labor pains. That’s the situation.”

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Just as the Bible includes two scenarios for the War of Gog and Magog, so too do today’s rabbis have different approaches to events that mark the End of Days.

Two main Biblical prophets – Zechariah and Ezekiel – foretold messages about the War of Gog and Magog, a key event that sets the stage for the imminent arrival of the Messiah.

The prophet Zechariah lived after the destruction of the First Holy Temple in Jerusalem and his prophecy about the War of Gog and Magog is the darker of the two. According to Zechariah, the Jewish people will be the focus of Gog and Magog, with the battle being waged in Jerusalem.

“I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem for war. The city will be captured. The houses will be destroyed and the women violated. Half the city will go out into exile and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.” (Zechariah 14:2)

Zechariah’s approach is similar to the ominous messages from Rabbi Amram Vaknin, an Israeli mystic whose most recent transmission from the Next World relayed that “there will be an escalation in the attacks on Jews in Israel and that the attacks are going to start coming from groups of Muslims, not just single terrorists.”

Zechariah’s foreboding prophecy is also similar to messages from Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi, a popular Orthodox rabbi whose weekly lectures are posted to YouTube. In his most recent lecture, The Streets Are Full Of Israeli Blood, Mizrachi echoes Zechariah’s prophetic style when he said, “HaKadosh Baruch Hu (the Holy One, Blessed be He) is sick and tired of us. That’s why he sent us these wild animals everywhere.” He also quotes verses from Leviticus chapter 26 that describe the punishments God will inflict on the Jewish people if His laws are not kept. Mizrachi tells his audience that these punishments “are happening in front of our eyes.”

In contrast to Zechariah, the prophecy of Ezekiel, who lived before the destruction of the First Holy Temple in Jerusalem, has a more positive approach.

“And you will ascend upon My people Israel like a cloud to cover the earth; at the end of days it will be, and I shall bring you upon My land in order that the nations recognize Me when I am sanctified through you before their eyes, O Gog.” (Ezekiel 38:16)

In his book The Ishmaelite Exile, which is all about the times we are currently in, Rabbi Yechiel Weitzman writes, “According to the prophecy of Yechezkel (Ezekiel), the Jewish nation will not be involved at all in the war of Gog, for it will take place only in the mountains of the north.”

Ezekiel’s approach is similar to that of Rabbi Nir Ben Artzi, a rabbi from Southern Israel who is known for his prophetic messages, and Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, better known as the Lubavitcher Rebbe, who both try to strengthen and comfort the Jewish people.

Rabbi Ben Artzi writes a popular weekly column describing world events using a spiritual perspective. In his most recent column, which has been translated into English, Ben Artzi wrote, “People of Israel, do not worry. God is blessing all of Israel with good and is opening the gates for them. There is a cloud of fire protecting the borders of Israel.”

Though he passed away in 1994, Rabbi Schneerson continues to be a powerful and universally respected leader of the worldwide Chabad Lubavitch movement. In 1990, the Rebbe spoke to his disciples about a terrorist threat from the PLO to bomb Jews around the world.

In his talk, the Rebbe called on his followers to increase “Torah study with great depth and diligence. This will uproot all negativity, and even more so, it will transform the darkness into light and foolishness into wisdom.” He further called for people to increase the amount of charity they gave and “also to recite at least three additional Psalms,” including Chapter 150 which contains the verse “Let all souls praise God.”

In this way, during a time of threat, the Rebbe encouraged his followers to acquire additional spiritual merits and strengthened them to have total trust and faith in God. He did not seek to scare them.

Writing about whether Biblical prophecy is more or a prediction or a warning, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, former Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom said, “Precisely because Judaism believes in free will, the human future can never be unfailingly predicted. People are capable of change. God forgives. As we say in our prayers on the High Holy Days: ‘Prayer, penitence and charity avert the evil decree.’ There is no decree that cannot be revoked. A prophet does not foretell. He warns. A prophet does not speak to predict future catastrophe but rather to avert it. If a prediction comes true it has succeeded. If a prophecy comes true it has failed.”

Rabbinic scholar, author and teacher Rabbi Pinchas Winston offers advice on the proper way to orient one’s heart and soul toward Redemption in the face of such contrasting perspectives.

“There are the prophecies, some upbeat, many dismal. There is Jewish history, an ongoing testimony to just how bad it can become for the Jewish people, in the Diaspora and in Israel,” he told Breaking Israel News. “There is now the reality on the ground, becoming increasingly frightening by the day. Finally, there is the individual, wondering what to expect next and how to deal with it. There are also many good people left who share a common desire for peace.”

“We have to work together and look out for each other. We are a people that has, on many occasions, beaten the odds, and we can and must do so again,” Winston explained. “Despair never helps, but being positive and [working on] self-improvement does. The enemy wishes to turn this into a war in their favor. We need to turn into an opportunity in our favor.

“God wants to help. First we have to recognize that we need His help and ask for it.”

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Mystical rabbi Rabbi Amram Vaknin, from the port city of Ashdod in Israel’s south, has become known in recent years for receiving a series of prophetic-like messages from Heaven. His most recent message occured this past Thursday evening, November 26, when Rabbi Vaknin was praying with a group at the cave of Elijah the Prophet in northern Israel. According to witness accounts, his soul went up to Heaven and brought back an urgent message concerning the recent terror wave in Israel.

Accompanied by a group of 60 Jewish men and women, Rabbi Vaknin was being wheeled away from the cave when he received the latest prophetic-like transmission. He was in this altered state of consciousness for close to 20 minutes. The event was captured on video.

The core theme of his most recent message is that the Jewish people have the power to stop the spilling of blood on the streets of Israel by coming closer to God. As the world hurtles toward the Messianic process, God is trying to wake up the world to the critical, life-saving importance of repentance.

According to Rabbi Vaknin, the Jewish world is running out of time. The stabbings, car rammings and shootings are very stern warnings to the Jewish people to repent and to return to a state of humility when it comes to their relationship with God and with one another.

Gil Nachman, who accompanies Rabbi Vaknin at his prayer gatherings and who is his English-language spokesperson, told Breaking Israel News, “These decrees that are coming are because we have to repent, mostly from the inner, hidden sins. People have to say to Hashem (God) ‘I want to look good in Your eyes.’ We have to purify the inside first.”

Responding to Vaknin’s critics, Nachman addressed the frightening nature of the current and previous warnings. “Leaders are telling people not to scare Am Yisrael (the Jewish people). The things that are happening now are not scary enough for people? Whatever he [Rabbi Vaknin] said, happened. He never had the intention to scare the crowd,” he told Breaking Israel News.  

“Some people come to Hashem with love and some with fear. Now the way we see things, it looks like Hashem wants to scare us,” Nachman continued. “There are people who won’t do teshuva (repentance) unless they get scared. The time of doing teshuva from love is past. Now there’s no time! So Hashem is bringing us to to do teshuva from fear.”

In his interview with Breaking Israel News, Nachman emphasized that the situation is turning critical. Time is very short and the violent events in Israel and around the world are going to increase in frequency and intensity as the Messiah’s appearance gets closer. He urged everyone, including the leaders of the Jewish people, to take the warnings of Rabbi Vaknin to heart and to work diligently on repairing their relationship with God and His laws. As Nachman explained, true repentance is the only way to avoid more bloodshed.

Improving our relationships with God at this precarious time is urgent. This message is even being sent through the mouths of our enemies,  “When the Muslims say Allahu Akbar [God is the greatest] before they commit an act of terror, they are reminding us of God. To wake us up,” Nachman explained. The Jewish people must pray for God to have mercy. “People have to demand Moshiach, demand the kingdom of David and the Third Temple,” he clarified.

Gil Nachman’s wife Miriam has been in Rabbi Vaknin’s presence during previous revelations. She told Breaking Israel News that, in a previous message from Heaven, it was revealed that, “He’s a person but he’s not a person. He eats and breaths like a person but he’s not a person. He’s on a very a high level in Shamayim (Heaven).”

Each time the soul of Rabbi Vaknin ascends to Heaven, he brings back prophetic messages for Israel. On October 12, Breaking Israel News reported the Rabbi’s message that Jewish blood was going to be being spilled in Israel. Sadly, his warning turned out to be accurate.

The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that, according Magen David Adom, 22 people were murdered and 211 were wounded, including 21 seriously wounded, on the streets of Israel since mid-September. The latest data available from the Israel Defense Forces shows that, as of November 29, there have been 80 stabbings, 29 shootings and 10 car rammings.

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Two Bible Code videos, both released on October 26, 2015, suggest that certain times are particularly auspicious for the arrival of the Messiah. Two of those potential times are the upcoming Jewish holidays of Hanukkah, which begins at sunset on December 6, and Purim, which takes place in March 2016.

A critically important message of many of the Bible Code videos, including this one from Sukkot, is that the timing of the Messiah’s arrival is dependent on the Jews fulfilling the word of God, by keeping God’s Biblical commandments.

In other words, whenever Bible Codes refer to a possible date for the coming of the Messiah, it isn’t a prophecy. Its occurrence is very much dependant on repentance and on the Jewish people strengthening their belief in God.

The call for repentance in preparation for the Messiah is being heard from an increasing number of sources in the Jewish world. For example, repentance is the central theme of every Heavenly message received by Rabbi Amram Vaknin, including the most recent one reported by Breaking Israel News. Another voice calling for repentance is Rabbi Alon Anava, a former Jewish atheist who came close to God and became an Orthodox rabbi after he had a near death experience.

The urgency of messages calling for repentance is based partially on the Jewish belief that once the Messiah arrives, the option to repent will cease to exist. Thus, as the Messiah’s appearance draws closer, the window of opportunity to repent begins to close.

Repentance and Hanukkah

In the longer of the two videos that suggest auspicious dates for the Messiah to arrive, Rabbi Mattityahu Glazerson, an international expert on Bible Codes, reviews a table that includes Bible Codes embedded in the Books of Numbers and Deuteronomy. Glazerson points out where the words Moshiach (Messiah) and Hanukkah appear together. Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights, occurs in the winter, close to the winter solstice, when the days are short.

WATCH: Repentance During Hanukkah Can Bring the Messiah

When speaking about the possibility of Messiah at Hanukkah time, Glazerson emphasizes the importance of the code b’teshuva (with repentance) which is spelled out by counting every eighth letter. Like Vaknin and Anava, Glazerson dwells on the necessity for repentance extensively in this video, quoting Maimonides, the eminent 12th century Jewish philosopher and Torah scholar.

“And Israel will only be redeemed [from their current exile] through repentance.” – Maimonides, Laws of Understanding

In the video, Glazerson points out the Hebrew letters that stand for 5776, which is the current year in the Hebrew calendar, and the words “Ben Yishai” (Son of Jesse) and David, both clear references to “Moshiach ben David” (Messiah, son of David).

At the end of the first video, Glazerson reiterates the need for the Jewish people to keep all the commandments of the Torah. Speaking to Breaking Israel News, Glazerson explained, “These [dates that are found in Bible Codes] are dates destined for Mashiach (Messiah), but if the condition of repentance is missing, it [his arrival] will be delayed to another appropriate date.”

The Purim Messiah?

The second, shorter Bible Codes video mentions the Jewish holiday of Purim as another possible date for the arrival of the Messiah. Purim celebrates the salvation of the Jewish people from Haman, who planned to kill all the Jews in ancient Persia, as told in the Biblical Book of Esther

Although, as mentioned, Glazerson routinely emphasizes the importance of repentance as a condition of the Messiah coming on any date mentioned in Bible Codes, the Purim Messiah table is different. Intriguingly, he remarked to Breaking Israel News that, in the Purim table, there is no clear mention of repentance. “Maybe this time, things will bring [us] to a situation that Mashiach will come [regardless of our behavior],” he said.

WATCH: The Purim Messiah?

The Purim video opens with a quote from Rabbi Shimon Dahan, an Israeli expert in Judaism’s mystical tradition. Glazerson quotes Dahan as saying, “Something great and joyful is going to happen on Purim.”

The most significant finding in this second table are the words HaMoshiach Purim (the Messiah  Purim) appearing in a column together. This Bible Code, linking the Messiah and Purim, was found by counting every 5776th letter. This is meaningful because 5776 is the current year in the Hebrew calendar.

To strengthen the connection, the letters that spell out 5776 in Hebrew also appear in this table near the HaMoshiach Purim column. The Hebrew word that means “this is the time” also appears, to the right of the HaMoshiach Purim column.

As described In the Book of Esther, Queen Esther led the Jewish people in repentance. It was this repentance that saved them from the genocidal plotting of Haman. The Hebrew word for salvation also appears in this table in two different grammatical forms, again connecting repentance to salvation.

Finally, Glazerson points out the similar sound of Haman, the villain of the Book of Esther who is ultimately defeated by the Jews and Khamenei, the current Ayatollah of Iran, who has publicly threatened Israel’s future.

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Last week, Rabbi Amram Vaknin of Ashdod, Israel, who has become well-known for receiving spiritual messages from Heaven, was given a strong warning for the Jewish people.

Rabbi Vaknin routinely prays for the safety and security of the Jewish people with a group of his followers in holy places throughout Israel. Last week’s prayer gathering, the thirty-first the group has undertaken, was held at the cave of Elijah the Prophet in Haifa in northern Israel.

Gil Nachman, Rabbi Vaknin’s English spokesperson, described the rabbi “screaming to Eliyahu haNavi (Elijah the prophet) to ask Hashem (God) to have mercy on the Jewish people.

“After we finished our prayers, we were on our way out. The Rav (Rabbi) said, ‘There’s somebody calling me.’”

After being called back by voices from Heaven, Nachman told Breaking Israel News that it looked as if Rabbi Vaknin was speaking the way people speak face-to-face. Only the rabbi was able to see and interact with what Nachman confirmed were three voices.

Rabbi Vaknin was told that the fact that people are getting stabbed and dying is connected to a harsh decree from Heaven, intended to arouse the entire Jewish people to teshuva (repentance). This call for teshuva is echoed by many other rabbis who speak about the arrival of Moshiach (Messiah).

According to what Rabbi Vaknin was told, there are two particular mitzvot (Biblical commandments) on which the Jewish people must concentrate their efforts. One is kibud av v’em (honoring one’s mother and father).

Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which Hashem thy God giveth thee. (Exodus 20:11)

The other mitzvah which the Jewish people are warned to keep are the laws of family purity. These laws are based on Chapter 15 of the Book of Leviticus, which explains that a husband and a wife are not permitted to have sexual relations during a woman’s menstrual period.

Although these two mitzvot were singled out in the message Rabbi Vaknin received, Nachman emphasized that everyone, “from the leaders to the middle to the lowest” among the Jewish people, must repent for the sins they do in private as well as in public.

“If we’re not going to do real teshuva, there’s not going to be Moshiach. You can ask for Moshiach all you want, but he’s not going to come until everyone does teshuva. Without real teshuva, we’re just going to suffer and suffer and there is just going to be more blood spilled,” Nachman strongly cautioned Breaking Israel News.

However, he softened the message by adding, “If Hashem sees that you’re going to open a little bit, Hashem reads the heart and He knows how [human hearts] work, then He’s going to start giving us yeshuot (salvations).”

Nachman concluded by adding, “The Rabbi has a very important future message to deliver to the Jews and the world from shamayim (Heaven). They (the three voices) told him, but he cannot say what it is [yet]. He can’t speak about it. The time to say it will be very soon.”

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The Ingathering of the Exiles took on a pastoral twist when a Canadian couple turned to a mystical rabbi to help bring their flock of 130 sheep to the Holy Land. After a year of struggle, suddenly, Jacob’s Sheep seem set to make aliyah.

The rare heirloom breed, originally from the the Middle East, hasn’t been seen in Israel since the sheep went out into the diaspora with their Hebrew owners 2,000 years ago. The sheep spread from ancient Israel to Egypt, where Moorish trades took them to Spain. From Spain, the breed found greener pastures in England, before being taken to Canada.

Their unique speckled appearance and four horns are unmistakeable proof of their Biblical pedigree and, carefully bred by enthusiasts, they retain their unique Biblical traits, including the ability to thrive in arid climes.

Two years ago, with no prior farming experience, Canadians Jenna and Gil Lewinsky decided to adopt a flock of Jacob’s Sheep and bring them home to Israel. They immediately encountered seemingly insurmountable resistance from government agencies. Transferring livestock between countries is strictly regulated by the the World Organization for Animal Health and there are no channels for transferring livestock from Canada to Israel. The complicated process requires a specially outfitted plane to transport the sheep and after the period of quarantine upon arriving, they would need pasture and a barn.

In desperation, they turned to Rabbi Amram Vaknin, a well known mystic from Ashdod. When Rabbi Vaknin saw photographs and videos of the sheep, he was thrilled, noting the Biblical significance of their speckled appearance, conforming to the story in Genesis in which Jacob took the speckled sheep as his wages from Laban.

And the flocks conceived at the sight of the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted. Genesis 30:39

“Rav Vaknin stated that the sheep have a special blessing on them from Jacob in the Bible,” Gil told Breaking Israel News.

The blessing seems to be working, as obstacles that stood in their way for so long have suddenly disappeared. After nearly a year of being turned down by the Israeli Agricultural Ministry, the Israeli Embassy in Canada intervened on behalf of the sheep, and the ministry has decided, for the first time in history, to allow livestock to be imported from Canada.

Israeli airline El-Al has generously decided to subsidize most of the cost of flying the entire herd of 130 sheep from Canada to Israel.

Rabbi Vakhnin insisted on special treatment for the sheep after they arrive in Israel.

“The animals must not be slaughtered for meat enterprise, but must be an animal of blessing. We can use their wool,” Gil related. “The rabbi said that the shofar horn from the Jacob Sheep is the most holy in the whole world.”

Rabbi Vaknin told the Lewinskys that bringing the sheep to Israel will be an essential part of the geula (redemption), so important, in fact, that he personally wants to take part in it.

“He wants to be there to witness and bless the sheep’s arrival,” Gil told Breaking Israel News. “He also wants to bless the field that the sheep will be on in the future Heritage Park.”

Limiting their future income to showcasing the herd led the Lewinskys to the Golan, which, as their ancient birthplace, is uniquely suited for the sheep. According to the Bible, the sheep originated in the fields of Jacob’s father-in-law, Laban. He lived in Padan Aram, Mesopotamia, or what is now Syria, adjacent to the Golan.

Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Lavan thy mother’s brother. Genesis 28:2

“The soil is especially rich in selenium and cobalt,” explained Jenna. “In Canada we needed to give them injections to supplement their food. We won’t need to do that in the Golan.”

The Lewinskys are on a holy mission but struggle with many practical concerns. The sheep must have sufficient fencing and barn facilities and theft of livestock is a serious problem in most parts of Israel. They have begun a crowdfunding campaign to help with the expensive process.

The return of the Jews to the land of Israel has brought about many unexpected changes, making the desert a blooming, high-tech oasis in the Middle East. Jacob’s Sheep, with their undeniably Biblical appearance, are another step in the process of returning the Holy Land to its original condition.

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The 2,000-year saga of the return of Jacob’s sheep to the Holy Land as prophesied by Ezekiel was officially launched with the first of 11 flights that took place last week. The timing of this tremendous occurrence is deeply Biblically significant and may in fact shed light on the fascinating history of the patriarch’s herd.

On November 30, 119 sheep landed in Israel, coincidentally the same day rains at last began to fall in Israel, ending a difficult drought. This was precisely as Ezekiel had prophesied.

I will deliver them out of all places whither they have been scattered in the day of clouds and thick darkness. Ezekiel 34:12

This remarkable story began when Gil and Jenna Lewinsky, a couple that met in Israel and moved to Canada, first set eyes on the unique sheep three years ago. Despite never having farmed, something about the sheep spoke to their souls. They bought a herd of 70 and began a not-for-profit farm. In their hearts, they knew the sheep were destined for greater things than producing wool and milk. Though the breed has its genetic roots in the Holy Land, there are no Jacob’s Sheep in the Middle East today. The Lewinskys changed all that when they decided to bring Jacob’s flock home.

It took three years of wrestling with the bureaucracy of importing livestock, before the actual journey could begin. Since Canada is not listed as a country permitted to export livestock to Israel, the petition was initially rejected in 2015.  

About ready to give up, the Lewinskys received a blessing for the endeavor from Rabbi Amram Vaknin, a well-known mystic from Ashdod. The rabbi was thrilled when he saw photos of the sheep and the undeniable resemblance to their Biblical ancestors.

“Rav Vaknin stated that the sheep have a special blessing on them from Jacob in the Bible,” Gil told Breaking Israel News. “The rabbi said that the shofar horn from the Jacob Sheep is the most holy in the whole world.”

After the intervention of diplomats of the Israeli Embassy in Ottawa, the petition to bring the herd of Jacob’s Sheep was reconsidered and accepted. The actual journey began three months ago when the sheep boarded a truck for a 3,000 mile journey from British Columbia to Toronto. In a distinctly Ezekiel-inspired manner, the journey was accompanied by thunder and lightning. After a stressful four-month quarantine, they prepared to board planes for Israel.

Even this part of the journey was fraught with difficulty. El-Al Airlines had generously agreed to subsidize 90 percent of the flight from Toronto to Israel, the largest airlift of animals in Israeli history, but a strike by the pilots forced the Lewinskys to make other arrangements, costing them an additional $80,000.

That rainy day one week ago, when the first shipment of sheep arrived, was also the 28th day of the Hebrew month of Cheshvan. This was the day, untold thousands of years ago, when Noah, after a similar journey with his menagerie, offered up a sacrifice to God after weathering the storm.

Gil also pointed out that during their arduous journey with 119 sheep, not one sheep died or failed the rigorous tests given by the Department of Agriculture. Normally, about 12 percent of animals fail such tests.

“The number 119 is seven times 17,” explained Gil. “The Gematria (Hebrew numerology) for the Hebrew word for ‘sacrifice’ (זבח) equals 17.” What’s more, “Seven is a complete natural cycle, or perfection,” indicating significance to each number in the equation.

Gil also noted that Psalm 119, which is especially long with 176 verses, ends with a reference to sheep.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek Thy servant; for I have not forgotten Thy commandments. Psalm 119:176

Taking the Biblical implications one step further, this week, Jews in synagogues all over the world will read the Torah portion of Vayetzei (Genesis 28:10 – 32:3), in which Jacob makes a deal with his deceitful uncle Laban to claim the spotted sheep for his own.

And the flocks conceived at the sight of the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted. Genesis 30:39

This verse alone is proves the Biblical heritage of the Lewinskys’ sheep as “They are the only sheep breed in the world to produce spots and speckles in offspring,” Gil explained to Breaking Israel News.

Just as the return of Jacob’s descendants took many years and had many meanderings, so too for his flocks. The group of sheep that arrived last week will be staying in quarantine for the next month near Ofakim and Ein Habasor in the South of Israel, but the Lewinskys are still searching for a permanent home.

According to breed aficionados, the sheep originated in the north of Biblical Israel, and were sold to Egypt. By way of North Africa and Morocco, the sheep made their way to Spain, and finally to Britain, where they were favored by landed gentry for their distinctive spotted appearance and four horns.  

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Renowned Israeli kabbalist Rabbi Amram Vakhnin arrived at the new home of Jacob’s Sheep in Nes Harim on Sunday where he blessed the flock in a deeply moving ceremony.

Rabbi Vakhnin was overcome with joy as he picked up each sheep, held them close and kissed them on the cheeks. The animals clearly enjoyed the attention and were drawn to the rabbi, crowding around the mystic.

After an emotional meeting, a very special ceremony took place. Gil and Jenna Lewinsky, the couple responsible for bringing the ancestral flock home to Israel, gathered all the sheep in front of the rabbi. Spreading a tallit (prayer shawl) over Rabbi Vakhnin, the group held each corner of the sacred garment resembling a wedding canopy.

From underneath the tallit, the rabbi blessed the sheep that in the merit of the patriarch Jacob, the sheep will be fruitful and multiply.

“Jacob’s spiritual wealth came from his sheep,” explained Gil. “The more Jacob’s sheep fill the land, the more blessing will come to Israel.”

Rabbi Vakhnin then revealed to the Lewinsky’s that now the sheep are in their ancestral homeland, the couple is permitted by Torah to earn money from their wool and milk. But, warned the rabbi, it is prohibited to sell them for their meat. Further, the couple’s main purpose and God-given task is to increase the herd until the sheep fill the Land of Israel. Gil explained to Breaking Israel News how he understood this.

“The sheep are for the Jews what the buffalo were for the Native Americans, but we forgot this” explained Gil to Breaking Israel News. “Not only do we use their milk and meat for food, but their skin is used to make Torah scrolls, their horns make shofars (horns blown for ritual purposes), and their wool is used to make tzitzit (ritual fringes). When the Torah tells us to bring sheep for a sacrifice in the Temple, these are the [very animals] it is speaking about.”

The Lewinsky’s have been battling bureaucracy, struggling for years to return the sheep and at one point, nearly gave up. On a trip to Israel last year, while searching for a home for their flock they met with Rabbi Vakhnin, a noted kabbalist. The rabbi gave them a blessing for success in their mission and told them the sheep were very dear to him. Gil and Jenna Lewinsky’s dream of returning to their ancestral homeland, reuniting Israel with the ancestral flock, finally came true in early December, and they attribute their improbable success to the kabbalist’s blessing.

Originating in Canada, 119 sheep traveled 2,100 miles in thunder and rain from Vancouver to Toronto by truck, where they sat in quarantine for four months before being allowed to fly to Israel. The first of eleven flights landed six weeks ago, but the sheep still needed to sit in Israeli quarantine. Though this short stopover should have been the easiest part of the journey, it proved to be the most difficult test.

The search for a home became desperate. A former ostrich farm they found in southern Israel had minimal structures for both the flock and its shepherds. Surrounded by the harsh desert, wolves and jackals circled the camp at night, drawn by the smell of the flock. There was barely enough drinking water, and the generator provided just two hours of electricity a day. When the region was hit with fierce rainstorms, the structures collapsed and the sheep, already stressed from travelling around the globe, suffered. Five sheep died, including Solomon, one of the oldest rams.

Luckily, the Lewinsky’s discovered Nes Harim (in English, miracle of the mountains), a community five miles west of Jerusalem. Despite the numerous battles they had to face, the couple expressed their confidence that this must be prophecy come true:

My people hath been lost sheep; their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains; they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting-place. Jeremiah 50:6

The sheep have traveled across the world and back again, searching for their shepherd on two continents. Genetic tests have shown that this breed is originally from the Middle East, and Rabbi Vakhnin told the Lewinsky’s that he knew these sheep were descended from Jacob’s original flock. Jacob’s sheep have returned and it is time for the blessing they bring to be revealed.

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Last Saturday night, a mystic rabbi fell into a trance and received a divine vision that warned of heavenly gates closing, bringing about a period of global suffering. The vision revealed that one gate has been forced open temporarily by Elijah the prophet, but the key to keeping that gate open is in the hands of people.

On Saturday evening, Rabbi Amram Vaknin, a renowned mystical rabbi from Ashdod, arrived at his sister’s house in Ashdod to perform the Havdallah service ending the Sabbath. In the middle of saying the blessings, he fell down in a deep trance. He lay for approximately 20 minutes, occasionally groaning and mumbling. In the middle of his trance, he spoke, giving a clear message for all of Israel.

“Aaah, Jerusalem,” the rabbi groaned. “Pray for Jerusalem.They need to pray because of the painful decrees. How the city is suffering today!”

The rabbi lay in silence for several minutes, groaning occasionally and uttering a few sentences. After about ten minutes, he began to speak..

“The victory is important.They will win,” the rabbi finally said. “They don’t want to pray, even though I asked them several times. What can I say to those who think they are so great?”

At this point, the rabbi had a vision he was conversing with Elijah the prophet. Rabbi Vaknin, who has had several powerful visions of Elijah, frequently prays at the prophet’s cave in Haifa. The prophet appears to him as a spiritual guide in his visions.

Many of the predictions have come true. In October 2015, Rabbi Vaknin had a chilling vision that much Jewish blood was going to be spilled in Israel. Tragically, the vision proved to be accurate. The wave of violence that began just a few weeks before that vision continued with increasing intensity until the summer. In that time, there were almost one thousand stabbing, shooting, and vehicular attacks that injured over 650 Israelis and killed 47.

“Hello, Eliyahu (Elijah) the Prophet,” Rabbi Vaknin continued while in the trance. “Please, Elijah, open one of the five gates for them in Heaven. Just in case they want to do teshuva (atone) and pray, and stop with the lies and the falseness, so that one gate will be open for them. And if they don’t repent, then that gate will also close.”

After another long pause, the rabbi received an answer.

“Elijah the prophet opened one good gate. But what will be in Jerusalem will be good and bad,” he  said. “They don’t want to pray! They don’t want to stop the lies and evil. I don’t understand. Elijah opened one gate of the five, one gate for good, but where is that good gate?”

Rabbi Vaknin later explained his vision to Gil Nachman, his personal assistant.

“Elijah the Prophet came to give him this message because a difficult time is coming to Jerusalem,” Nachman told Breaking Israel News. “There are five gates that can be used to access heaven’s mercy, but only one is open. Elijah opened that final gate for the sake of Israel. There is about to be a difficult time with much blood being spilled, and two gedolim (great ones) are going to die. ”

The rabbi’s vision might be connected to the five actual gates that entered the First and Second Temple.

“At one point in his vision, Rabbi Vaknin asked Elijah, ‘If it is a good gate that you have opened, then why are so many going to die?’” The rabbi receive a message which explained this seeming contradiction. “He was told that from our perspective it is bad, but from Heaven, it looks good because in the end, there will be a great victory and Eliyahu HaNavi (the prophet) will clearly arrive.

“The gate is open, but whether or not we go through the gate is up to us. He was told that everyone needs to pray and repent right now,” Nachman concluded. “Elijah said ‘from great to small’ needs to pray.”

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In the early hours of Monday, September 28, the last blood moon in the current tetrad (cycle of four moons) will occur during the Jewish festival of Sukkot (Tabernacles). The blood moon, a full lunar eclipse in which the moon appears red, will be visible from the US, beginning shortly after midnight on Sunday, September 27, for approximately one hour and 11 minutes. Even more significantly, the blood moon will also be visible from Israel.

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The current tetrad has high significance for Judaism and Israel. Each blood moon in the tetrad has fallen on a Jewish holiday: Passover of 2014, Sukkot of 2014, Passover of 2015 and now Sukkot of 2015. A tetrad of blood moons all coinciding with Jewish festivals is extremely rare; only three such tetrads have occurred in the past thousand years. This is the fourth cycle. According to many rabbinic scholars, these tetrads always signify turning points in Jewish history. A prophecy in the Book of Joel states that the coming of the Messiah will be preceded by a blood moon.

“I will set wonders in the heavens and the earth: blood and fire and pillars of smoke; the sun will turn to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and awesome Day of God” (Joel 3:3)

Over the course of the current tetrad, Breaking Israel News has done extensive investigations into the Blood Moon phenomenon and its Biblical connections. Find out everything you need to know about blood moons right here on Breaking Israel News with our top blood moon articles and videos.

1. Blood Moons: Are They Absolute “Nonsense”?

Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi, a popular Orthodox lecturer, has pronounced the blood moon phenomenon as absolute “nonsense.” Citing Jeremiah 10:1, Mizrachi further explained to Breaking Israel News that the Bible explicitly warns the Jewish people not to pay attention to, or be upset by, claims of doom via heavenly signs. However, blood moon expert Bob O’Dell has a different take, arguing that the “Blood Moons are a witness to the Jews of God’s eternal covenant to the Jews, and are therefore a cause for celebration, even if the nations are dismayed by them.”

2. Experts Say the Final Blood Moon Will Mark Major “Turning Point in History”

As the fourth blood moon approaches, Breaking Israel News interviewed blood moon experts Bob O’Dell and Gidon Ariel about the historical significance of blood moons throughout the past century. They pointed out positive trends in the Jewish world that had occurred on or around times of past blood moon tetrads and discussed how the last blood moon of the current tetrad might impact Jewish and global history.

3. New Blood Moon Revelation Claims to Reveal Date of Biblical Exodus

Blood Moon expert Bob O’Dell came out with a startling new understanding of the Blood Moon Prophecy. Rather than seeing the blood moons as signs of Divine Judgement, he said, they are actually “bread crumbs in the sky” left by God to remind the Jewish people that He has not forgotten His covenant to restore them to the land of Israel. Thus, they should be a cause for celebration for the Jews, rather than fear. O’Dell used Biblical calculations to propose a theory that the chronology of the Exodus from Egypt fell on the dates of a blood moon tetrad.

4. BLOOD MOONS: What is God Telling Us?

What exactly are Blood Moons? In this short and informative video, Breaking Israel News describes the blood moon phenomenon and looks into the history of blood moon tetrads.

5. Passover Blood Moon Preceded by Exceedingly Rare Solar Eclipse

Last March, before the third blood moon took place over Passover, an extremely rare solar eclipse hid the sun from view for two minutes over the North Pole on the first day of the Biblical calendar year. Blood moon expert Bob O’Dell explained to Breaking Israel News that the solar eclipse in the wilderness of the North Pole, which belongs to no single country or people, on this incredibly significant day demonstrated that the Divine Word belongs to all of humanity, Jews and non-Jews alike.

6. Shocking Passover Blood Moon Predictions by Israeli Rabbi [VIDEO]

Well-known mystical rabbinical figure Rabbi Amram Vaknin, who is known for correctly predicting disastrous events in Israel, warned that the Jewish people were facing a time of great judgment and danger as the third blood moon approached in April. He called for Jews to repent and pray for redemption and showed, using gematria, the Hebrew system of numerology, that certain numbers and words related to the blood moon revealed the Jewish significance of the event.

Count down to the last Blood Moon in the tetrad and be a witness to history as the rare eclipse and Jewish holidays coincide!

In another of a series of prophetic-like transmissions, the soul of Rabbi Amram Vaknin, a 76-year-old Israeli mystic, communicated with Heaven after the Jewish Sabbath ended on October 10. The divine message warned of worse things to come in Israel and against the Jewish nation.

Speaking to Breaking Israel News, Gil Nachman, Vaknin’s English-speaking spokesman, reported that there will be an escalation in the attacks on Jews in Israel and that the attacks are going to start coming from groups of Muslims, not just single terrorists.

During the vision, Vaknin reported seeing Elijah the Prophet coming in and going out. According to Jewish tradition, Elijah will announce the Messiah’s arrival. He also saw holy rabbis from previous generations crying.

“The judgement has come. It’s here,” said Nachman.

“We’re in a very crazy situation and Hashem (God) is going to push us to the corner,” he continued. “The world is a filthy place. There are many inner, hidden sins of immorality. God is using the Muslims to wake the Jewish people up from their spiritual slumber.” Vaknin also warns the Jewish people exceedingly sternly against being overly prideful.

Nachman’s wife Miriam told Breaking Israel News that this past March, at a talk in honor of the anniversary of his father’s passing, Vaknin predicted that the time will come when people are going to be afraid to step outside, afraid to walk in the streets of Israel.

Vaknin’s last message from late August of this year warned of imminent war coming to Israel.  Three weeks later, Russia started deploying warplanes to Syria and has since built a coalition of countries – including Syria, Iran, Iraq and China – to fight ISIS that some believe is the beginning of the Final War of Gog and Magog.

In August, Vaknin also predicted that “there are going to be people dying in the streets, thousands of people all over Israel.” A few weeks later, Israel saw a sharp uptick in terror attacks across the country.

The most recent messages from Heaven are darker still.

According to Nachman, Vaknin asserts that the situation with Russia in Syria is the War of Gog and Magog. There is a whole different war going on inside Israel with the Muslims and that war is directed at the Jews.

“Whoever is working with a Muslim is in danger,” Nachman reported Vaknin saying.

Vaknin is praying to God to remove the decree from the Jewish people and he urges everyone to pray, to beg God to cancel out this decree or at least to lessen its harshness. He also urges Jews to use the tools of teshuva (repentance), tefillah (prayer) and tzedaka (acts of charity and kindness) to avert the decree. A public prayer service is being arranged in Israel’s port city of Ashdod.

“In the end,” said Miriam Nachman, “Israel is going to be the safest place.”

Speaking further, Nachman quoted Vaknin as saying, “There is nobody to trust and rely on, only Hashem (God).” Nachman concluded with these words from Vaknin, “The world is in a situation that it’s like a woman who is about to give birth and she’s in a lot of labor pains. That’s the situation.”

Just as the Bible includes two scenarios for the War of Gog and Magog, so too do today’s rabbis have different approaches to events that mark the End of Days.

Two main Biblical prophets – Zechariah and Ezekiel – foretold messages about the War of Gog and Magog, a key event that sets the stage for the imminent arrival of the Messiah.

The prophet Zechariah lived after the destruction of the First Holy Temple in Jerusalem and his prophecy about the War of Gog and Magog is the darker of the two. According to Zechariah, the Jewish people will be the focus of Gog and Magog, with the battle being waged in Jerusalem.

“I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem for war. The city will be captured. The houses will be destroyed and the women violated. Half the city will go out into exile and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.” (Zechariah 14:2)

Zechariah’s approach is similar to the ominous messages from Rabbi Amram Vaknin, an Israeli mystic whose most recent transmission from the Next World relayed that “there will be an escalation in the attacks on Jews in Israel and that the attacks are going to start coming from groups of Muslims, not just single terrorists.”

Zechariah’s foreboding prophecy is also similar to messages from Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi, a popular Orthodox rabbi whose weekly lectures are posted to YouTube. In his most recent lecture, The Streets Are Full Of Israeli Blood, Mizrachi echoes Zechariah’s prophetic style when he said, “HaKadosh Baruch Hu (the Holy One, Blessed be He) is sick and tired of us. That’s why he sent us these wild animals everywhere.” He also quotes verses from Leviticus chapter 26 that describe the punishments God will inflict on the Jewish people if His laws are not kept. Mizrachi tells his audience that these punishments “are happening in front of our eyes.”

In contrast to Zechariah, the prophecy of Ezekiel, who lived before the destruction of the First Holy Temple in Jerusalem, has a more positive approach.

“And you will ascend upon My people Israel like a cloud to cover the earth; at the end of days it will be, and I shall bring you upon My land in order that the nations recognize Me when I am sanctified through you before their eyes, O Gog.” (Ezekiel 38:16)

In his book The Ishmaelite Exile, which is all about the times we are currently in, Rabbi Yechiel Weitzman writes, “According to the prophecy of Yechezkel (Ezekiel), the Jewish nation will not be involved at all in the war of Gog, for it will take place only in the mountains of the north.”

Ezekiel’s approach is similar to that of Rabbi Nir Ben Artzi, a rabbi from Southern Israel who is known for his prophetic messages, and Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, better known as the Lubavitcher Rebbe, who both try to strengthen and comfort the Jewish people.

Rabbi Ben Artzi writes a popular weekly column describing world events using a spiritual perspective. In his most recent column, which has been translated into English, Ben Artzi wrote, “People of Israel, do not worry. God is blessing all of Israel with good and is opening the gates for them. There is a cloud of fire protecting the borders of Israel.”

Though he passed away in 1994, Rabbi Schneerson continues to be a powerful and universally respected leader of the worldwide Chabad Lubavitch movement. In 1990, the Rebbe spoke to his disciples about a terrorist threat from the PLO to bomb Jews around the world.

In his talk, the Rebbe called on his followers to increase “Torah study with great depth and diligence. This will uproot all negativity, and even more so, it will transform the darkness into light and foolishness into wisdom.” He further called for people to increase the amount of charity they gave and “also to recite at least three additional Psalms,” including Chapter 150 which contains the verse “Let all souls praise God.”

In this way, during a time of threat, the Rebbe encouraged his followers to acquire additional spiritual merits and strengthened them to have total trust and faith in God. He did not seek to scare them.

Writing about whether Biblical prophecy is more or a prediction or a warning, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, former Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom said, “Precisely because Judaism believes in free will, the human future can never be unfailingly predicted. People are capable of change. God forgives. As we say in our prayers on the High Holy Days: ‘Prayer, penitence and charity avert the evil decree.’ There is no decree that cannot be revoked. A prophet does not foretell. He warns. A prophet does not speak to predict future catastrophe but rather to avert it. If a prediction comes true it has succeeded. If a prophecy comes true it has failed.”

Rabbinic scholar, author and teacher Rabbi Pinchas Winston offers advice on the proper way to orient one’s heart and soul toward Redemption in the face of such contrasting perspectives.

“There are the prophecies, some upbeat, many dismal. There is Jewish history, an ongoing testimony to just how bad it can become for the Jewish people, in the Diaspora and in Israel,” he told Breaking Israel News. “There is now the reality on the ground, becoming increasingly frightening by the day. Finally, there is the individual, wondering what to expect next and how to deal with it. There are also many good people left who share a common desire for peace.”

“We have to work together and look out for each other. We are a people that has, on many occasions, beaten the odds, and we can and must do so again,” Winston explained. “Despair never helps, but being positive and [working on] self-improvement does. The enemy wishes to turn this into a war in their favor. We need to turn into an opportunity in our favor.

“God wants to help. First we have to recognize that we need His help and ask for it.”

Mystical rabbi Rabbi Amram Vaknin, from the port city of Ashdod in Israel’s south, has become known in recent years for receiving a series of prophetic-like messages from Heaven. His most recent message occured this past Thursday evening, November 26, when Rabbi Vaknin was praying with a group at the cave of Elijah the Prophet in northern Israel. According to witness accounts, his soul went up to Heaven and brought back an urgent message concerning the recent terror wave in Israel.

Accompanied by a group of 60 Jewish men and women, Rabbi Vaknin was being wheeled away from the cave when he received the latest prophetic-like transmission. He was in this altered state of consciousness for close to 20 minutes. The event was captured on video.

The core theme of his most recent message is that the Jewish people have the power to stop the spilling of blood on the streets of Israel by coming closer to God. As the world hurtles toward the Messianic process, God is trying to wake up the world to the critical, life-saving importance of repentance.

According to Rabbi Vaknin, the Jewish world is running out of time. The stabbings, car rammings and shootings are very stern warnings to the Jewish people to repent and to return to a state of humility when it comes to their relationship with God and with one another.

Gil Nachman, who accompanies Rabbi Vaknin at his prayer gatherings and who is his English-language spokesperson, told Breaking Israel News, “These decrees that are coming are because we have to repent, mostly from the inner, hidden sins. People have to say to Hashem (God) ‘I want to look good in Your eyes.’ We have to purify the inside first.”

Responding to Vaknin’s critics, Nachman addressed the frightening nature of the current and previous warnings. “Leaders are telling people not to scare Am Yisrael (the Jewish people). The things that are happening now are not scary enough for people? Whatever he [Rabbi Vaknin] said, happened. He never had the intention to scare the crowd,” he told Breaking Israel News.  

“Some people come to Hashem with love and some with fear. Now the way we see things, it looks like Hashem wants to scare us,” Nachman continued. “There are people who won’t do teshuva (repentance) unless they get scared. The time of doing teshuva from love is past. Now there’s no time! So Hashem is bringing us to to do teshuva from fear.”

In his interview with Breaking Israel News, Nachman emphasized that the situation is turning critical. Time is very short and the violent events in Israel and around the world are going to increase in frequency and intensity as the Messiah’s appearance gets closer. He urged everyone, including the leaders of the Jewish people, to take the warnings of Rabbi Vaknin to heart and to work diligently on repairing their relationship with God and His laws. As Nachman explained, true repentance is the only way to avoid more bloodshed.

Improving our relationships with God at this precarious time is urgent. This message is even being sent through the mouths of our enemies,  “When the Muslims say Allahu Akbar [God is the greatest] before they commit an act of terror, they are reminding us of God. To wake us up,” Nachman explained. The Jewish people must pray for God to have mercy. “People have to demand Moshiach, demand the kingdom of David and the Third Temple,” he clarified.

Gil Nachman’s wife Miriam has been in Rabbi Vaknin’s presence during previous revelations. She told Breaking Israel News that, in a previous message from Heaven, it was revealed that, “He’s a person but he’s not a person. He eats and breaths like a person but he’s not a person. He’s on a very a high level in Shamayim (Heaven).”

Each time the soul of Rabbi Vaknin ascends to Heaven, he brings back prophetic messages for Israel. On October 12, Breaking Israel News reported the Rabbi’s message that Jewish blood was going to be being spilled in Israel. Sadly, his warning turned out to be accurate.

The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that, according Magen David Adom, 22 people were murdered and 211 were wounded, including 21 seriously wounded, on the streets of Israel since mid-September. The latest data available from the Israel Defense Forces shows that, as of November 29, there have been 80 stabbings, 29 shootings and 10 car rammings.

Two Bible Code videos, both released on October 26, 2015, suggest that certain times are particularly auspicious for the arrival of the Messiah. Two of those potential times are the upcoming Jewish holidays of Hanukkah, which begins at sunset on December 6, and Purim, which takes place in March 2016.

A critically important message of many of the Bible Code videos, including this one from Sukkot, is that the timing of the Messiah’s arrival is dependent on the Jews fulfilling the word of God, by keeping God’s Biblical commandments.

In other words, whenever Bible Codes refer to a possible date for the coming of the Messiah, it isn’t a prophecy. Its occurrence is very much dependant on repentance and on the Jewish people strengthening their belief in God.

The call for repentance in preparation for the Messiah is being heard from an increasing number of sources in the Jewish world. For example, repentance is the central theme of every Heavenly message received by Rabbi Amram Vaknin, including the most recent one reported by Breaking Israel News. Another voice calling for repentance is Rabbi Alon Anava, a former Jewish atheist who came close to God and became an Orthodox rabbi after he had a near death experience.

The urgency of messages calling for repentance is based partially on the Jewish belief that once the Messiah arrives, the option to repent will cease to exist. Thus, as the Messiah’s appearance draws closer, the window of opportunity to repent begins to close.

Repentance and Hanukkah

In the longer of the two videos that suggest auspicious dates for the Messiah to arrive, Rabbi Mattityahu Glazerson, an international expert on Bible Codes, reviews a table that includes Bible Codes embedded in the Books of Numbers and Deuteronomy. Glazerson points out where the words Moshiach (Messiah) and Hanukkah appear together. Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights, occurs in the winter, close to the winter solstice, when the days are short.

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When speaking about the possibility of Messiah at Hanukkah time, Glazerson emphasizes the importance of the code b’teshuva (with repentance) which is spelled out by counting every eighth letter. Like Vaknin and Anava, Glazerson dwells on the necessity for repentance extensively in this video, quoting Maimonides, the eminent 12th century Jewish philosopher and Torah scholar.

“And Israel will only be redeemed [from their current exile] through repentance.” – Maimonides, Laws of Understanding

In the video, Glazerson points out the Hebrew letters that stand for 5776, which is the current year in the Hebrew calendar, and the words “Ben Yishai” (Son of Jesse) and David, both clear references to “Moshiach ben David” (Messiah, son of David).

At the end of the first video, Glazerson reiterates the need for the Jewish people to keep all the commandments of the Torah. Speaking to Breaking Israel News, Glazerson explained, “These [dates that are found in Bible Codes] are dates destined for Mashiach (Messiah), but if the condition of repentance is missing, it [his arrival] will be delayed to another appropriate date.”

The Purim Messiah?

The second, shorter Bible Codes video mentions the Jewish holiday of Purim as another possible date for the arrival of the Messiah. Purim celebrates the salvation of the Jewish people from Haman, who planned to kill all the Jews in ancient Persia, as told in the Biblical Book of Esther

Although, as mentioned, Glazerson routinely emphasizes the importance of repentance as a condition of the Messiah coming on any date mentioned in Bible Codes, the Purim Messiah table is different. Intriguingly, he remarked to Breaking Israel News that, in the Purim table, there is no clear mention of repentance. “Maybe this time, things will bring [us] to a situation that Mashiach will come [regardless of our behavior],” he said.

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The Purim video opens with a quote from Rabbi Shimon Dahan, an Israeli expert in Judaism’s mystical tradition. Glazerson quotes Dahan as saying, “Something great and joyful is going to happen on Purim.”

The most significant finding in this second table are the words HaMoshiach Purim (the Messiah  Purim) appearing in a column together. This Bible Code, linking the Messiah and Purim, was found by counting every 5776th letter. This is meaningful because 5776 is the current year in the Hebrew calendar.

To strengthen the connection, the letters that spell out 5776 in Hebrew also appear in this table near the HaMoshiach Purim column. The Hebrew word that means “this is the time” also appears, to the right of the HaMoshiach Purim column.

As described In the Book of Esther, Queen Esther led the Jewish people in repentance. It was this repentance that saved them from the genocidal plotting of Haman. The Hebrew word for salvation also appears in this table in two different grammatical forms, again connecting repentance to salvation.

Finally, Glazerson points out the similar sound of Haman, the villain of the Book of Esther who is ultimately defeated by the Jews and Khamenei, the current Ayatollah of Iran, who has publicly threatened Israel’s future.

Last week, Rabbi Amram Vaknin of Ashdod, Israel, who has become well-known for receiving spiritual messages from Heaven, was given a strong warning for the Jewish people.

Rabbi Vaknin routinely prays for the safety and security of the Jewish people with a group of his followers in holy places throughout Israel. Last week’s prayer gathering, the thirty-first the group has undertaken, was held at the cave of Elijah the Prophet in Haifa in northern Israel.

Gil Nachman, Rabbi Vaknin’s English spokesperson, described the rabbi “screaming to Eliyahu haNavi (Elijah the prophet) to ask Hashem (God) to have mercy on the Jewish people.

“After we finished our prayers, we were on our way out. The Rav (Rabbi) said, ‘There’s somebody calling me.’”

After being called back by voices from Heaven, Nachman told Breaking Israel News that it looked as if Rabbi Vaknin was speaking the way people speak face-to-face. Only the rabbi was able to see and interact with what Nachman confirmed were three voices.

Rabbi Vaknin was told that the fact that people are getting stabbed and dying is connected to a harsh decree from Heaven, intended to arouse the entire Jewish people to teshuva (repentance). This call for teshuva is echoed by many other rabbis who speak about the arrival of Moshiach (Messiah).

According to what Rabbi Vaknin was told, there are two particular mitzvot (Biblical commandments) on which the Jewish people must concentrate their efforts. One is kibud av v’em (honoring one’s mother and father).

Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which Hashem thy God giveth thee. (Exodus 20:11)

The other mitzvah which the Jewish people are warned to keep are the laws of family purity. These laws are based on Chapter 15 of the Book of Leviticus, which explains that a husband and a wife are not permitted to have sexual relations during a woman’s menstrual period.

Although these two mitzvot were singled out in the message Rabbi Vaknin received, Nachman emphasized that everyone, “from the leaders to the middle to the lowest” among the Jewish people, must repent for the sins they do in private as well as in public.

“If we’re not going to do real teshuva, there’s not going to be Moshiach. You can ask for Moshiach all you want, but he’s not going to come until everyone does teshuva. Without real teshuva, we’re just going to suffer and suffer and there is just going to be more blood spilled,” Nachman strongly cautioned Breaking Israel News.

However, he softened the message by adding, “If Hashem sees that you’re going to open a little bit, Hashem reads the heart and He knows how [human hearts] work, then He’s going to start giving us yeshuot (salvations).”

Nachman concluded by adding, “The Rabbi has a very important future message to deliver to the Jews and the world from shamayim (Heaven). They (the three voices) told him, but he cannot say what it is [yet]. He can’t speak about it. The time to say it will be very soon.”