The Unexpected Sign of Mashiach

Taken from a Dvar Torah by Rabbi Avigdor Miller. 

Why are the wicked prospering so much?  

Why are those who pervert justice, fight G-d, and promote the worst abominations given the tools to reshape our entire world to their desires? 

According to the Gemara, in Tractate Chagiga, the wicked are created for the righteous. The more wicked the person, the greater the trials and tests the tzaddik must endure to realize his greatness.  

Less than four hundred years after the flood, the world turned to universal idolatry. One would think that so soon after the entire world was wiped out, people would be afraid to go against Hashem.  

Enter Nimrod.  

He subdued the world and all the inhabitants. He turned man to worship wood and stone.  

Why would such an evil man be given absolute control over all the earth? To give the one person who opposed him the challenge of defeating the all-powerful emperor of the earth.  

Avraham had the opportunities to become Avraham by standing up to Nimrod. His determination and faith would defeat Nimrod and usher in the era of serving the True G-d.  

Only in having to challenge an evil man like Nimrod could Avraham become the tzaddik and father of the Jewish nation. 

The Next World Emperor 

The Pharaoh of Egypt ruled the world. Everyone was his slave. His predecessor had a dream that a famine would strike the earth, so he appointed Joseph HaTzaddik to store grain for seven years. Everyone’s supply ran out, and in return for the only grain available, they sold all their possessions, land, and themselves to Pharaoh.  

The ruler of Egypt had all the wealth, land, and people in his back pocket.  

When he subdued the Jewish People, there was nobody who could stop him.  

Only under these circumstances could a man emerge from the shadows and become a Moshe. Only the greatest prophet of all time could merit Hashem’s redemption on behalf of his people.  

Moshe became Moshe by Pharaoh becoming Pharaoh!

An Even Greater Power 

Even if you enslave everyone and take everything they have, you can’t command their thoughts. You cannot monitor what billions of people are doing every moment of every day.  

Until now.  

Using social media and its 3 billion users, smartphones and their 6 billion owners, and trillions of dollars, a handful of people on earth have seized more power than Nimrod and Pharaoh combined.  

They have turned the earth upside down by making perversion, sodomy, theft, and murder as acceptable. They have convinced us that right is wrong and wrong is right. They have deposed leaders, brainwashed children, and force fed us moral bile that we would have vomited out just a generation ago.  

There is more power concentrated among the few elites than has ever existed in all human history.  

Why? Why has unprecedented power and dominion been given not to a single man, but to a cabal of powerful and seemingly invincible elites? 

Hashem gives the wicked everything they need to enable the righteous to defeat them. The Gemarah dictates that Hashem gives power to evil people so that the righteous can amass more power to conquer them and set the world right.  

If the current evil has more power than Nimrod and Pharaoh, Hashem is preparing the world for a man with the vision of Avraham and the prophecy of Moshe.  

There can be only one man who meets these criteria.  

Hashem is preparing the world for an unprecedented era of good, led by the one man in all human history who can transform everything to the rule of G-d.  

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David Ben Horin lives in Afula with his family, millions of sunflowers, and Matilda, our local camel. David‘s Israeli startup, Center Stage Marketing, is a lean marketing agency for startups and small businesses that creates and promotes SEO optimized ROI-driven to the right audience on LinkedIn to make your business the star of the show.