These are the words of Rabbi Tevia, regarding the trials and afflictions of the evil ones on the chosen in the Northeastern portions of the world.
Behold, I have received these words from Heaven and submit them to you as the true and worthy testament of the things God has planned for His people in the times yet to arrive. I have been taken and shown that which concerns both the righteous and the unrighteous. Bear witness and heed these words that they may offer hope to the afflicted, but a warning of what is to come to the evildoers of this age!
As I was praying and fasting during the Weeks of Booths, behold, an angel came to me during my sleep to deliver a message of the Lord. The angel took me up to a high mountain and opened my eyes to the invisible things of this world. I looked and saw many Heavenly creatures moving quickly all around me doing the business of the Lord. Many of them were too busy to even glance at my existence on that place, but twelve stood as in a choir declaring the Holiness of the Lord in truth and in spirit. When they had finished their chorus, they spoke to me as one voice which was like seven thousand voices impressing upon me to heed the things which they were to show and say to me.
“Thus says the Lord,” they began. “Tell your people that I have watched their sufferings. Tell them I have constantly interceded to make their way straight and have allowed a certain amount of discomfort in this time to draw them back to me. But because of their disobedience to my covenants, there will be an even greater time of tribulation ahead. Do not be fooled, oh Tevia, each of these things must and will happen, each in its own time!
“First, I allowed the dispersion of my children over the northeastern world. While they appeared to keep my laws, indeed, I saw that their hearts were far from me. While appearing to keep themselves separate, they adopted the customs of their neighbors. They perverted my perfect order with transactions and agreements with the foreigner.”
At this time I was shown a vision of four breads. The first was of a soft challah with a beautiful golden crust which was doughy on the inside. The next was of a dense pumpernickel; covered in seeds which could not grow, and tasted bitter but was still filling. The third, a hard piece of matza, and the last was a crust like rock; too hard to even break with the strongest jaw. Eventually, the crust was smashed into crumbs of an uncountable multitude, and a great rain came washing them away never to be seen again. Through all of this, behind all the breads was a beautiful field being harvested and tended by the happiest of workers. And I asked, “What is the meaning of all these things?”
The Angel replied in the words of Hashem, “While waiting for them to see the error of such alliances, I was gentle. I gave to them a series of leaders who appeared as kings and even queens, but who were not overly concerned with my people. These rulers saw the people and would consider them a threat, and move them. However, this was a golden age of the first bread. The challah weave shows the work in the field of my people as they honored me with their labors. The golden crust is the nourishment and happiness I gave them through my festivals and in keeping my word to provide.
The next describes a period of unrest. My people will become enamored with ideas not in keeping with my laws. They will worship philosophical ideas and listen to foreigners who rail against the leaders I placed. So, I will give in to their evil desires in wanting this kind of leadership. This is the second bread. Through it, I would hope a prophetic message would be heeded of the bitterness in following this direction, but heed it they will not. My people will sadly persist in gleaning knowledge of this philosophy while ignoring true understanding. The seeds are the other temporary leaders put in place. However, these seeds are incapable of growing and will fall off of the loaf. They are completely useless and will be cast off by the next bread.
“The third bread is the matza. The matza is the situation they will experience when a dynamic leader will come. He will promise a simple utopia. He will appear to be offering hope to the discomforts they had been experiencing before. He will even be a part of the season of the pumpernickel. But they should not be fooled! Though they will be. It is he who will smash the entire interim government in one blow! In one day all will be undone by him and a new regime will begin. Afterward, there will be a horrible and bloody war between the righteous and the unrighteous, but the evil leader will prevail. There will be famine as he implements his rule. Many of the righteous will perish, and others will barely receive the sustenance they need to even breath any breath of life at all. There will be sickness, but no medicines. There will come help from other nations, but it will not be enough. Families who try to keep what they need to support God’s people will only receive death. Then he will perish, but another will come after him.
“Beware the crust coming after. It will be like eating metal – impossible. The last of the leaders. His reign will be one of absolute terror. No one will be safe from the death he will wield. Even those whom he appears to love will suffer at his hands. Many, many times over again. But it is this evil one who will at last be brought down by my hand.”
And as I looked, I saw the crust as it lay on the hard and barren ground of this last kingdom. In the heavens were the angels. Out from the ground came the multitude of the martyrs from each of these eras. They cried out for justice, they cried out for the anguish they had endured. The blood of those who had endured slaughter stained their clothes and those who had starved stood in their skeletal forms.
But then there came one as a great warrior. Riding a great white bull, wielding a sword of gleaming steel and charging toward the martyrs. He waved his great sword over them and they became whole and healthy again; in new bodies with pure white robes and glowing faces. They beamed and joined the chorus of angels in praises of the Lord. They sang:
Oh, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God almighty.
He makes right the ways of the world,
He created it from the beginnings and foundations of the universe.
He delivered to us the law of his perfect order.
Now he comes to vanquish the evil one and reestablish His kingdom.
Praise be to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob!
Forever, Amen! (Selah)
And the mighty warrior went down to do battle with the crust. The crust stood, confident of its massive strength, but the warrior first punctured it with his sword causing a mold to form. It grew and broke the bread in two making it useless to even stand. Then, the great warrior of the Lord raised his sword two more times and smashed each piece so it became only a pile of useless crumbs. Then, he commanded the purifying rains come to wash away the abomination so the whole land may be made whole and beautiful again.
Then, once all was accomplished, the fields and forests of the land became healthy and golden again. A throne appeared in the mountains of the south of the land-which had been the original home of the crust-for the holy warrior to reign and oversee this new kingdom of the Lord’s. And it was perfect. The martyrs rejoined the living and they all happily tended the fields harvesting much grain and producing aromatic and healthy breads such as only the Lord can provide.
Then the angel said to me, “Tevia, write all of these things down and keep them for a season to be revealed at the right time. Know that the Lord is the Lord and knows what is best for His people, Amen!” After, the angel brought me down from the mountain back to my booth where I woke up and ate and thought about these things. Amen.
AUTHORS NOTE – the History and setting of this Apocalypse
This is the ex-eventu tale of the fall of the Tsar and then the Soviet Union up to the time of Stalin. It is pseudopigraphic and is attributed to the character Tevia from “Fiddler on the Roof” (late 1800s). The four “breads” are four governments. First, the Tsars who were difficult, but often just let the Jewish communities live in little pockets. Ivan the Terrible made things more difficult for peasants and eventually a serfdom of sorts was set up in more ancient Russian culture, but except for occasional pogroms or relocations (both pretty awful) they were left alone.
The second bread is that of the interim government. After the “Bloody Sunday” massacre, a dumas was set up by Alexander II and the “October Manifesto” was created granting certain human liberties. However, all the changes were discontinued within a year. After the murder of the Tsar and his family, the Dumas (parliament) was re-established and working on a new constitution to be ratified.
The third bread is Vladimir Lenin. In a one day coup just before the ratification, he cut off all communication and travel, the Dumas were murdered and the Red Russians took over. There was an horrific civil war between the Reds and the White Russians. Once Lenin’s government prevailed, there was a devastating famine (1921). Any family who kept any grain at all was considered a traitor and shot. The United States and other countries aided the newly formed Soviet Union, but the famine persisted.
After Lenin’s death, Joseph Stalin came to power. This is the “crust”. It is as hard as “metal” because Stalin had changed his name from Djugashvili to Stalin and was known as the “Man of Steel” for both his massive work in developing the Soviet Union into an industrial power and because of his hard, cold nature. In his paranoia, it is well established that he would get help eliminating his enemies by those close to him, and then he would have his friends murdered because they knew too much. This was a horrid cycle that continued for quite some time. But, it wasn’t too long before his wrath was issued against the people. Stalin eventually died from a brain aneurism. This is the mold.
The warrior is a messiah figure. This is the part where the ex-eventu ends and the “prophesy” begins. After doing battle and defeating Stalin (the crust) a beautiful new world of great sustenance arrives (which is fitting as they were dealing with great stresses and starvation). Finally, the throne of the new king – or great warrior- is in the south because Stalin was from the Caucasus mountains noting a complete usurpation of the reign of evil.
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