Dear friends:

The following was found on Jewish Web sites, as indicated.  Remember that the Scriptures indicates that Israel will be deceived and accept a false messiah before they accept the real One.  Also remember that the Jews draw upon non-scriptural writings, which are not the same as Scripture.  Yet I am fascinated by how what they are saying correlates with what we know the Bible does say and current signs.

Jim
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"In recent weeks four Sephardic Rabbis in Israel, including two former Chief Rabbis, have made statements that seem to come astonishingly close to declaring that the coming of Moshiach (Messiah) and the final redemption of the Jewish people is imminent!"  (I can't find my source on this one.)
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The one below talks about "the year sixty-six."  Jewish Year 5766 begins at sunset October 3, 2005 (Rosh HaShanah).  Does it mean the year 5766?  Probably.  Otherwise, it would be another 100 years, and in view of world conditions. I don't think so.
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From Zohar I, Va'era119a, a Kabala source, not Scripture, http://www.israel613.com/GEULA1.htm .

In the year sixty-six (5766: 2005-2006?) the Mashiach will appear in the land of Galilee. A star in the east will swallow seven stars in the north, and a flame of black fire will hang in the heaven for sixty days, and there shall be wars towards the north in which two kings shall perish. Then all the nations shall combine together against the daughter of Yaakov in order to drive her from the world. It is of that time that it is written:

“And it is a time of trouble unto Yaakov, but out of it he shall be saved” (Jer. 30, 7). At that time all the souls in Guph will have been used up, and will need to be recreated. As a mnemonic of this we may use the verse: “All the souls of the house of Yaakov that came into Egypt…all the souls were 66” (Gen. 46, 26). In the year seventy-three (seven years later, in 5773, or AD 2012) all the kings of the world will assemble in the great city of Rome, and the Holy One will shower on them fire and hail and meteoric stones until they are all destroyed, with the exception of those who will not yet have arrived there. These will commence anew to make other wars. From that time the Mashiach will begin to declare himself, and round him there will be gathered many nations and many hosts from the uttermost ends of the earth. And all the children of Israel will assemble in their various places until the completion of the century. The VAV will then join the He, and then “they shall bring all your brethren out of all the nations for an offering unto the Lord” (Is. 56, 20). The Sons of Ishmael will at the same time rouse all the peoples of the world to come up to war against Jerusalem, as it is written, “For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle, etc.” (Zech. 14, 2), also, “The kings of the earth stand up, and the rulers take counsel together, against Hashem, and against his Mashiach” (Ps. 2, 2); and further, “He that sits in heaven laughs, Hashem has them in derision” (Ibid. Ii, 4). Then the lesser VAV will rouse itself to unite (with the He) and renew the souls that had become old, so as to rejuvenate the world, as it is written, “May the glory of Hashem endure for ever, let Hashem rejoice in his works” (Ps. 115, 31). The first part of this verse signifies that Hashem’s glory will attach itself to the world, and the latter half that He will cause souls to descend into the world and make them into new beings, so as to join the world into one. Happy are those who will be left alive at the end of the sixth millennium to enter on the Shabbat. For that is the day set apart by the Holy One on which to effect the union of souls and to cull new souls to join those that are still on earth, as it is written, “And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remains in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written unto life in Jerusalem” (Is 15:3).’