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Purim Prophecy Fulfilled in 1946
Dear friends:
The Jewish observance of Purim celebrates Queen Esther's
courageous act to spare the Jewish people from genocide perpetrated by the evil Haman. Words cannot describe how profound
was her deed and its effect on world history, and eternity. It is about how Esther's prophecy about the ten sons of Haman
pointed to 1946, when ten Nazi war criminals were hanged! http://users.aristotle.net/~bhuie/code10.htm
Book of ESTHER, Chapter 9
11/ On that day the number of those who were killed in Shushan the citadel
was brought to the king.
12/ And the king said to Queen Esther, "The Jews have killed and
destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the citadel, and the ten sons of Haman. What have they done in the rest
of the king's provinces? Now what is your petition? It shall be granted to you. Or what is your further
request? It shall be done."
13/ Then Esther said, "If it pleases the king, let it be granted to the
Jews who are in Shushan to do again tomorrow according to today's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged on the gallows."
14/ So the king commanded this to be done; the decree was
issued in Shushan, and they hanged Haman's ten sons.
In memory of this great Jewish victory over their enemies, the Jews have celebrated the feast of Purim
annually for over 2,000 years.
Esther's request to have the ten sons of Haman hanged seems rather unusual, seeing
that Haman's sons had already been killed. Dr. Moshe Katz addresses this request in his book, Computorah: .
. . The ten sons of Haman had already been killed, why bother to hang them?
In the writings of the Sages and
the commentators, we find several ideas that could clarify this: On the word "tomorrow," in Esther's request,
the Sages comment: "There is a tomorrow that is now, and a tomorrow which is later."
In
other words, Esther was asking that the hanging of Haman's ten sons not remain an isolated episode in history,
but should recur in the future, as well. Yet, if this is the case, surely King Ahasverus was in no position to
acceed to such a request. Only G-d could make and keep such a promise.
An examination of the sources solves
this problem, too. According to the Sages, every time King Ahasverus is mentioned by name in the Book of Esther,
the reference is to him; when the word [hey-mem-lamed-kaph] - the King, appears on its own, it refers to G-d.
Esther
was therefore not addressing her request to Ahasverus, but to G-d - who granted her request: "And the
King commanded it be done." (Esther 9:14) (Computorah, pp. 99-100)
If this request was for
the future as well as for that time, has this prophecy of Esther been fulfilled? Does history record 10 additional "sons
of Haman" who were hanged after trying to exterminate the Jewish people?
Yes, both history and the Bible codes verify
the fufillment of this incredible prophecy!
In Esther 3:1, we are told that Haman
is an Agagite. Agag was the king of Amalek
(1 Sam. 15:8). Therefore, Haman and his sons were Amalekites. Rabbi
Elijah Solomon, a prominent Lithuanian rabbi [Vilna Gaon] of the 18th century known as "the great one of Vilna," held the
tradition that the German nation was descended from Amalek.
During
World War II, the Nazis in Germany tried to wipe the Jewish race from the face of the earth. Six million Jews were killed
by the Germans. After the end of the war, the surviving Nazi leaders were tried at Nuremburg for this and other war
crimes. These trials began on November 20, 1945, for 22 German Nazi leaders.
On October 1, 1946, 12 of the German
defendants were sentenced to death by hanging for their part in the atrocities committed against the Jews and others. One
of those convicted was Martin Bormann, who was sentenced in absentia. A second was Hermann Goering, who
committed suicide in his cell just hours before the executions by taking cyanide poison. The remaining 10 Germans were hanged
to death on October 16, 1946.
Dr. Moshe Katz reveals some incredible information about this event: . . . Since the
trial was conducted by a military tribunal, the sentence handed down should have been death by firing squad, or by electric
chair as practiced in the USA. However, the court specifically prescribed hanging, exactly as in Esther's original
request: ". . . let Haman's ten sons be hanged."
Though doubts may linger about the
connection between the Book of Esther and the Nazi war criminals, the condemned Julius Streicher,
known as the "Beast of Franconia"(see short bio at end below), certainly had none.
Through some
insight, Streicher appears to have grasped this link to Purim, as revealed by his final shout, with the noose about
his neck, mere seconds before he was hanged. . . . With burning hatred in his eyes, Streicher looked down at the witnesses
and shouted: "Purim Fest 1946!" (Computorah, pp. 104-106)
These hangings took place on
October 16, 1946. On the Jewish calendar, October 16, 1946, corresponded to 21 Tishri, 5707. This date was the
seventh day of the Jewish feast of Sukkot, the day called Hoshana Rabba. The Jews believe that this day
represents the coming time when God's verdicts of judgment will be sealed.
In the very passage of Scripture where
Esther's prophetic request is recorded, we can find the future execution date of these descendants of Haman, both in the surface
text and encoded within it. First, let's look at how the date can be found in the surface text.
Jewish sages
have long believed and taught that every variation of the surface text, whether it be the size of the
letters themselves or a variant spelling of a word, has specific meaning. In some cases, that meaning remains
a mystery. But in the case of Esther's prophecy regarding the hanging of Haman's ten sons, history has finally unveiled
what was plainly there to see for 2,300 years.
In Esther 9:7-9, we find a list of the ten sons of Haman who were killed
by the Jews. Below is the Hebrew text of these verses as it appears in the Tanakh. Remember,
Hebrew reads from right to left.
(Graphic of Hebrew text. Source: http://users.aristotle.net/~bhuie/code10.htm.)
As you can see, the names appear one above the other in the text. About this strange formatting,
the Soncino Commentary states: 7-9. The Massorah prescribes that the names of the ten sons of Haman
be written in a perpendicular column on the right-hand side of the page, with the vav, i.e., and, on the left-hand
side. This is probably derived from the tradition that the ten sons were hanged on a tall gallows, one above the other.
. . . (The Five Megilloth, p. 179)
However, there may be another reason why these names are listed one
above the other. As you can see by looking at the list of names, four letters (the tav in the first name,
the shin and tav in the seventh name, and the zayin in the tenth name) appear smaller
than the other letters.
Starting at the top of the passage, I've highlighted three of these four small letters in
red. In the Hebrew language, letters can also represent numbers. Tav has a numerical value of 400, shin
a numerical value of 300, and zayin a numerical value of 7. The tav, shin,
and zayin, totaled from top to bottom, represent the number 707.
Using the Jewish method of recording
years, the number 707 can represent the year 5707 on the Jewish calendar. Webster's NewWorld Hebrew Dictionary
states: "In practice . . . the thousands are skipped and the Jewish year is referred to by quoting, in Jewish numerical
symbols, the figure from the hundreds down" (Introduction, The Jewish Calender, p. xxiv).
As shown above, 5707 on
the Jewish calendar was the year that the 10 Nazi war criminals were hanged for their crime of attempting to eradicate the
Jewish people. For centuries Jews who read the book of Esther had the future date for the fulfillment of her prophecy
there in plain sight, but it could not be deciphered until the event actually occurred!
In the past several years, historical information has been discovered encoded within the Hebrew text of the
Old Testament using a method called equidistant letter sequencing (ELS). For those of you who aren't familiar with this procedure,
a good introductory article by Dr. Jeffrey B. Satinover explaining the Bible codes (Divine Authorship?) appeared in the October 1995 issue of Bible Review.
Using the Bible codes ELS methodology to discover hidden codes in the ninth chapter of Esther, we can find
another astonishing discovery. The day and month of the execution of the German "sons of Haman" is encoded and hidden
within the text, as shown below!
21 TISHRI (white letters on red background)
The Jewish date "21 Tishri" (kaph-aleph-tav-shin-resh-yod) is encoded at an ELS of 216, beginning in Esther 9:12 and ending in Esther 9:27. This is the date upon which
the 10 Nazi war criminals were hanged. Statistically, the odds of this date occurring in this passage by random chance
are less than one in 1 million!
5707 (blue letters on light blue)
Running diagonally through "21 Tishri" is the Jewish year "5707"
(tav-shin-zayin), which corresponds to 1946. This year is found at an ELS of 442,
beginning in Esther 9:15 and ending in Esther 9:27. It shares the shin with "Tishri."
NAZI (white letters on black)
Beginning underneath "hanged," the Hebrew transliteration of Nazi
(nun-aleph-tsadi-yod) occurs. This word is found at an ELS of -650, beginning in Esther
9:19 and ending in Esther 8:9.
HANGED (yellow letters on dark green)
On the top left part of the matrix, running vertically, the
Hebrew word "hanged" (tav-lamed-vav-yod) appears at an ELS of 432.
It begins in Esther 8:6 and ends in Esther 9:3.
AMALEKITE (yellow letters on black)
Crossing the bottom of "21 Tishri" is the Hebrew word for "Amalekite"
(ayin-mem-lamed-koph-yod). This word is found at an ELS of -7, beginning in Esther
9:27 and ending in Esther 9:26. According to Jewish tradition, the nation of Germany is thought to have descended from
the biblical Amalekites (Exo. 17:8).
ARYAN (purple letters on yellow)
Right above the top of "21 Tishri" is the Hebrew word "Aryan"
(aleph-resh-yod). It appears at an ELS of 1 in Esther 9:8. Hitler's objective
in eradicating the Jews was to have a pure Aryan race.
HAMAN (white letters on blue)
At the top of the matrix, at an ELS of 1, the name "Haman"
(hey-mem-nun) appears in Esther 8:3.
TEN (black letters on light blue)
Underneath "Haman," the Hebrew word "ten"
(ayin-shin-resh-hey) appears at an ELS of 1 in Esther 8:12.
SONS (white letters on maroon)
Underneath "ten," at an ELS of 20, the Hebrew word "sons"
(beth-nun-yod) appears. It begins in Esther 8:15 and ends in Esther 8:16.
The information in the surface text, as well as, that encoded underneath the apparent text, is incredible!
Only God, in His infinite power, could have inspired these things to be recorded in the book of Esther and then cause them
to come to pass more than 2 millennia later. Yet He tells us that He can do this in His word.
ISAIAH 46:9 . . . For I am God, and there is no other; I am God,
and there is none like Me, 10 declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done, saying,
"My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure" (NKJV)
The Eternal God is certainly awesome! Baruch Hashem!
~ By Bryan T. Huie ~
Short Bio - Julius Streicher:
[Julius Streicher/Nickname: The Beast of Franconia ]
He was the only Nazi hanged in Nuremberg on 16th October 1946 who shouted "Heil Hitler!" while entering
the gallows.
A totally execrable man, he was loathed even by his fellow Nazis (who were less than sterling
judges of character), and was expelled from the party shortly before the end of the war on charges of profiteering.
Rightfully known as the "Beast of Franconia" for his intolerable, sadistic
and loathsome conduct towards both Jewish and gentile inhabitants of Nuremburg. This included forcing Jews to scrub
down the main streets of Nuremburg as he and his brown-shirted thugs continually trod on the newly-scrubbed areas and then
beat those scrubbing the streets with truncheons for "missing spots."
Editor of the pornographic scandal sheet "Der Stuermer" which contributed in many ways to
the climate of hatred and anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany. He wrote and published on 25th December, 1941 [Ed., a statement
in which he commits the "unpardonable sin" of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit by attributing
to Satan that which is God's]:
"If the danger of the reproduction of that curse of God in the Jewish blood is to finally come to an end,
then there is only one way--the extermination of that people whose father is the devil."
And in February, 1944, his own article stated:
"Whoever does what a Jew does is a scoundrel, a criminal. And he who repeats and wishes to copy
him deserves the same fate, annihilation, death."
[Ed., God turned that last judgmental statement around on Streicher.]
"The Jewish newspaper, "Israelitisches Wochenblatt," which Streicher received and read, carried in each
issue accounts of Jewish atrocities in the East, and gave figures on the number of Jews who had been deported and killed.
For example, issues appearing in the summer and fall of 1942 reported the death of 72,729 Jews in Warsaw, 17,542 in
Lodz, 18,000 in Croatia, 125,000 in Rumania, 14,000 in Latvia, 85,000 in Yugoslavia, 700,000 in all of Poland.
In November, 1943, Streicher quoted verbatim an article from the "Israelitisches Wochenblatt" which stated that the
Jews had virtually disappeared from Europe, and commented "This is not a Jewish lie."
In December, 1942, referring to an article in the "London Times" about the atrocities, aiming at extermination,
Streicher said that Hitler had given warning that the second World War would lead to the destruction of Jewry. In January,
1943, he wrote and published an article which said that Hitler's prophecy was being fulfilled, that world Jewry was being
extirpated, and that it was wonderful to know that Hitler was freeing the world of its Jewish tormentors.
"Streicher's incitement to murder and extermination at the time when Jews in the East were being killed
under the most horrible conditions clearly constitutes persecution on political. and racial grounds in connection with war
crimes, as defined by the Charter, and constitutes a crime against humanity.
Conclusion
"The Tribunal finds that Streicher is not guilty of Count One, but that he is guilty on Count Four."
http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/Streicher2.htm
Source: Judgment of the International Military Tribunal for the Trial of the German Major
War Criminals, Nuremberg, 30th September and 1st October, 1946. London: HMSO, Cmd. 6964, Reprinted 1966, pp. 100-102
Streicher, Nuremberg Charges
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