"America's Rabbi" Warns: "Enormous, Humanic and Historic Upheaval" Rapidly Approaching

LifeSiteNews ^ | 6/25/07 | John-Henry Westen

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Interview with Rabbi Daniel Lapin on How Today's World Compares to the Days of Noah

By John-Henry Westen

WASHINGTON, DC, June 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The recent death of Mrs. Ruth Graham, the beloved wife of preacher Billy Graham, has caused renewed reflection on her oft quoted comment:  "If God does not judge America soon, he'll have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah."  Indeed, with the culture war raging on abortion and same-sex 'marriage', many a Christian has wondered about a coming purgation - a cleansing as in the time of Noah and the flood.

It may come as a surprise to some, but Orthodox Jews too have a belief in a coming purgation.  As the man popularly known as "America's Rabbi" told LifeSiteNews.com, we are "moving towards some kind of enormous, humanic and historic upheaval."

Nationally acclaimed speaker and best-selling author, Rabbi Daniel Lapin spoke with LifeSiteNews.com about his newly released audio series "The Gathering Storm: Decoding the Secrets of Noah", in which he looks at the similarities between the time of Noah and our present day.

Rabbi Lapin is the founder and leader of Toward Tradition - a ground-breaking coalition of Jews, Christians and other Americans united in fighting secular fundamentalism and promoting traditional, faith-based American principles of constitutional and limited government, the rule of law, representative democracy, free markets, a strong military, and a moral public culture.

Key to interpreting the Bible (the Old Testament) suggests the Rabbi, is the Hebrew language.  In that language, he notes, the Bible tells that in the time just before the flood there were aborted babies.  "Everyone is familiar with that section just before the flood, of giants," said Rabbi Lapin.  "The King James translation refers to these people as giants - one thing, in the Hebrew, it becomes immediately very clear is that what we really are talking about is aborted people, aborted fetuses." 

"In Hebrew," explained the Rabbi there is "one word for giants (and) aborted fetuses." Comparing the time of Noah to the current day, the Rabbi said, "Babies that are aborted eventually bring about a culture of death that destroys society."

Asked if Jews, like some Christians, feel a time of purgation is coming, Rabbi Lapin replied bluntly, "Yes, it is extremely intense." 

The Rabbi stressed however that a Judeo-Christian view of the end of time is a hopeful one, in contrast to the secular view of the end of time which sees only doom and gloom.  "There is a dichotomy here between a secular world view in which the end of time is hopeless," Rabbi Lapin told LifeSiteNews.com. "It is doomed.  It ends in oblivion . . .  Right now it is global warming, a few years ago it was nuclear winter.  Before that it was that we were all going to starve and die naked and cold when Thomas Malthus at the end of the 18th century made his predictions."

"The secular world view will generate an end of time picture of hopelessness and doom and by contrast a Biblical world view of both Jews and Christians shows an end of time picture that, while it may have its turbulent threshold, is a time of some kind of unimaginable solution to all human problems."

Asked, if it would be "a time of renewal of goodness on earth?," the Rabbi replied, "Exactly right. Yes."

As for God having to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah for not acting on America for its sins, Rabbi Lapin suggests God is in fact acting on America.  "God doesn't necessarily act towards every culture in the same way," he said.  "Every culture that adopts abortion and homosexuality as normal is a culture that begins to decline and eventually vanish off the stage of world history - that is God acting."

"That is precisely the point.  It is not that hard to see in many ways the fortunes of the US of A are simply not where they were before these twin scourges became prevalent.  Yes, He is acting - He is not going to have to apologize to Sodom at all.  He is being very consistent.  He may not be burying us in thunderbolts and mountains of salt but the damage that the US of A is enduring is no less fatal."

Rabbi Lapin sees another striking similarity between our day and the time of the Biblical flood.  Noting the political situation in the United States, where the major argumentation seems focussed on abortion and same-sex 'marriage, Rabbi Lapin observes: "Undoubtedly, it was very significant, that never before in a presidential election has there been this much focus on the faith and beliefs of the candidates which again brings us back to this Noah like period in which divisions between people are lining up very clearly on a spiritual level."

While Rabbi Lapin rejects any attempt to fix a date on the coming upheaval, he does say that it is rapidly approaching.  "What is unquestionably crystal clear is that time and history is accelerating.  Things happen more quickly now than ever before so it is moving rapidly towards this event, whatever it will look like."

[Paisan]

This is the hallmark of prophetic interpretation. As one gets closer to the fulfillment of the prophecy, the prophecy becomes easier to understand

America, IMHO, is going to be brought down. How, I don’t know.

I would check out Ezekiel 37

[doug from upland]

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[Myrddin]

And no one ever drowned for putting on his life jacket too soon.

Don't do it in a sinking helicopter. You certainly will die as the life jacket pins you inside.

[GOPJ]

"Undoubtedly, it was very significant, that never before in a presidential election has there been this much focus on the faith and beliefs of the candidates which again brings us back to this Noah like period in which divisions between people are lining up very clearly on a spiritual level."

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[stephenjohnbanker]

B U M P

[stephenjohnbanker]

B U M P

[1000 silverlings]

I know Roy Masters. He has an amazing mind. I think he’s a creative genius

[Fiddlstix]

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[Nik Naym]

Are you familiar with metaphors?

[Quix]

I fear we are heading to one heck of a crash. God have mercy.

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All the more reliable evidence sure slants that way, to me.

[AnalogReigns]

The ancient Hebrew for the word translated as “giants” usually in English bibles (”Nephilim”) is a unique word—and not fully understood. The rabbi could well be right—but I think it’s something Hebrew scholars debate about.

[Myrddin]

Are you familiar with metaphors?

Certainly. Sometimes they are dead wrong. As an embedded systems programmer I tend to be very meticulous about finding flaws in logic that would cause a crash.

[Constantine XIII]

Look, wide-spread homosexuality is not the disease, it is a symptom. Ranting and raving against TEH EVIL GAYZ!!!!11 and trying to impose morality via the law will solve nothing. It is like giving someone painkillers to fix a broken leg.

The only thing that will mend the broken heart of this nation is for each of us to go out individually and as the church of God to spread His word. If they can understand the love and sacrifice of the death and resurrection of Christ, all of these other things will fall away.

[M. Espinola]

"And society is divided into three categories on this: those who want to stop it, those who refuse to see it and those who are promoting our destruction."

Perfectly stated.

[OKSooner]

After the first flood, God said there wouldn’t be a second one. When this world is destroyed, it will be destroyed by “some other means”.

[Deut28]

The Greek word for nephilim in the Septuagint was “gigantes” so when the OT was translated to English, it became giants in some translations.

The issue the Rabbi brings up is due to division over the Hebrew root for nephilim. Some claim the root is “nephal” or fallen ones. This is the more common view today. The other possibility is “nephel” which translates roughly to miscarriage.

So the confusion is deeper than a Hebrew to English translation. There’s conflicts within Hebrew, between Hebrew and Greek, and between Greek and English.

This is why many translations leave the word untranslated, simply as Nephilim.

[Quix]

Try

by fire . . . as I understand it.

[ShadowAce]

Look, wide-spread homosexuality is not the disease, it is a symptom.

I agree 100%. I've come to the conclusion that there is only one sin that everyone commits. Everything else is merely a symptom of how that sin plays out individually.

That sin is Pride. Satan suffers from it, and we all suffer from it. Everything else we do stems from that.

That is why there is only one punishment for those who do not accept Jesus--there is only one crime.

[Zionist Conspirator]

"In Hebrew," explained the Rabbi there is "one word for giants (and) aborted fetuses."

Oh my! I hadn't even thought about this! They're both called nefilim ("fallen ones"). So are miscarriages.

I hope and pray the coming purgation will be the arrival of Mashiach HaMelekh and that it is soon!

[OB1kNOb]

I can only find two scriptural uses of the Hebrew word nĕphiyl (H5303) (Gen 6:4 and Num 13:33). Strong's and Gesenius' Lexicon's do not seem to reference aborted fetuses in their definition. They do refer to the root word naphal (H5307) which does refer "to fall down, to lie prostrate, caste down, rot", etc. but again no specific reference to connect it with unborn children. Anyone have any specific Scripture references where nĕphiyl or nephal are used in specific reference to the aborted unborn? Thanks - OB1