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00:00:00.000 This group is Chabad Lubavitch.

00:00:03.660 They even have a special focus on spreading a minimalist and naturalist religion for non-Jews 1.00

00:00:10.140 called the Noahide Laws, and it's uncomfortably close to what is said of the religion of the Antichrist.

00:00:24.040 Hey, did you catch the three-part series I did about the Antichrist

00:00:27.500 and what Catholic authorities tell us to expect from this terrifying figure of evil?

00:00:33.120 At the end of that series, I mentioned that what these authorities say the Antichrist will do

00:00:39.700 and what will prepare the way for his coming are both very uncomfortably close

00:00:47.320 to what some Jewish authorities say about their long-awaited Messiah,

00:00:53.080 awaited in vain, of course, whom they call Mashiach.

00:00:58.260 So, I also mentioned Chabad Lubavitch,

00:01:03.200 a particularly influential Hasidic Jewish organization

00:01:07.380 whose expectations and agenda are very close

00:01:11.440 to what those Catholic authorities actually expect to happen.

00:01:15.900 So, sit back, grab a coffee, and get ready for the first part of another deep, deep dive,

00:01:22.980 this time into the world of Chabad Lubavitch and its apocalyptic, messianic agenda. 1.00

00:01:30.320 Stay tuned.

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00:02:44.620 Let's begin, as we always do, with the sign of the cross.

00:02:48.800 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

00:02:53.600 Amen.

00:02:55.480 So, in that series on the Antichrist, we saw that the best Catholic theologians,

00:03:00.980 saints, fathers, and mystics of the Church were basically agreed that the Antichrist

00:03:07.120 would successfully deceive the Jewish people into accepting him as their Mashiach. 0.94

00:03:14.620 So, many thought that he would rebuild or try to rebuild the Jewish Temple as a way of accomplishing this deception.

00:03:24.320 They all thought that by the end of his reign, he would be imposing a bloody persecution on the Church,

00:03:33.380 and indeed of all religion, and requiring the whole world to worship him,

00:03:39.660 as well as throwing off any pretense of being the Mashiach by that point.

00:03:44.900 Yet, these Catholic authorities thought that before this, the Antichrist would first deceive the world and impose some other religious deception.

00:03:55.640 After all, it doesn't seem very likely that the Jewish people, most of whom are so opposed to the idea of a divine Messiah,

00:04:04.180 will jump straight to worshiping him as a god.

00:04:07.280 That's why some of these great authorities said that he would not only rebuild the Temple,

00:04:13.860 but would also restore and glorify the rights of the old Jewish religion, like animal sacrifice, 1.00

00:04:20.860 and impose other rights, like circumcision.

00:04:25.280 But some of these writers get even more specific.

00:04:29.240 They say that the religious deception brought by the Antichrist will be linked to the Jewish religion,

00:04:35.880 rather than actually being the Jewish religion itself.

00:04:39.520 It would just be linked to it, and this other thing would actually be imposed on the world.

00:04:45.280 So, that makes sense internally for the Jewish religion,

00:04:48.500 because Judaism is generally understood as being for the Jewish people,

00:04:54.220 and while they accept converts, it's not like Christianity,

00:04:58.600 which wants to see the whole wide world adopt the true religion and be subject to Christ the King,

00:05:04.020 whose yoke is easy and burden is light.

00:05:06.880 The Jewish religion is different. 0.56

00:05:09.060 It seems hard to see how the Jewish people would accept a Moshiach, 1.00

00:05:14.120 who wants to take the national religion, in particular to the chosen people,

00:05:19.100 and impose it on the rest of the world.

00:05:21.200 This would not make sense to them.

00:05:22.960 However, that's not all there is to this.

00:05:26.920 Many modern Catholic authorities who have dealt with the topic of Antichrist

00:05:31.700 say that the religion which he will bring at first will be one of naturalism.

00:05:38.340 Naturalism is the setting aside of the objective and truth of the supernatural revelation of Christianity, 0.87

00:05:45.900 particularly the dogmas of the Holy Trinity, the Incarnation,

00:05:49.900 the redemption of man, his sanctification in Christ, and ultimate happiness in heaven.

00:05:56.460 It could either be the rejection of Christ's revelation directly,

00:06:00.580 or treating it as if it doesn't really matter.

00:06:03.340 And it happens on a personal level, and on a societal level, and everything in between.

00:06:09.280 This naturalism is the very essence of Freemasonry,

00:06:15.280 which, at its lower levels anyway,

00:06:18.020 presents itself as a fraternal organization for the moral improvement of everyone,

00:06:23.560 regardless of religion,

00:06:25.220 and in which each person is expected to leave his own religion at the lodge door

00:06:30.780 and collect it on his way out.

00:06:34.000 This can seem like a nice idea.

00:06:36.960 Like it's compatible with each person's religion

00:06:39.900 and gives us a means of uniting around what we have in common.

00:06:44.740 Like belief in God and observance of the moral law.

00:06:48.940 But, my dear friends,

00:06:50.680 this is not compatible with Christianity at all.

00:06:53.680 Jesus said,

00:06:55.300 I am the way, the truth, and the life.

00:06:57.520 No one comes to the Father except by me.

00:07:01.900 There is no being made good without Christ,

00:07:05.520 or without regard to the supernatural order he established.

00:07:10.000 And in any case,

00:07:11.400 the Christian life is not one of good behavior and natural virtue, 1.00

00:07:15.720 and heaven isn't a reward for having good ethics.

00:07:18.560 The Christian life is living in Christ our Lord as members of his body,

00:07:26.020 and in that way being brought into the supernatural life of the Holy Trinity.

00:07:31.860 Heaven is the culmination of that,

00:07:35.620 beginning here,

00:07:37.120 the unfolding of this supernatural work,

00:07:39.660 the growth of the seed of eternal life,

00:07:42.480 which is planted in the soul in baptism.

00:07:45.040 That unfolding doesn't occur simply through the observance of the moral law,

00:07:51.660 but through knowing, loving,

00:07:53.940 and serving the triune God in this life today.

00:07:58.340 In any case,

00:07:59.740 Catholic authorities don't say that the Antichrist

00:08:02.180 will just produce a naturalist religious system

00:08:05.460 out of thin air when he arrives.

00:08:07.660 No.

00:08:08.520 They say that his coming

00:08:10.780 is in fact already being prepared for today

00:08:14.200 by the spread of the system itself

00:08:17.400 through the secularization of society

00:08:19.680 and the relativization

00:08:22.280 of the Christian revelation in modernism

00:08:25.580 and various other anti-Christian,

00:08:28.140 anti-incarnation ideologies.

00:08:30.580 That's what St. Pius X said,

00:08:32.980 Pope St. Pius X,

00:08:34.420 and other great men of the Church said the same,

00:08:36.840 particularly in the 19th and early 20th century.

00:08:39.940 One priest referred to Freemasonry

00:08:42.740 as the forerunner of the Antichrist,

00:08:45.880 just as St. John the Baptist

00:08:47.520 was the forerunner of the true Messiah,

00:08:49.740 Jesus Christ.

00:08:51.440 Now, his whole picture is spookily close

00:08:55.380 to what many Jewish authorities

00:08:57.340 themselves believe about the coming

00:08:59.320 of the supposed Mashiach.

00:09:02.880 So let's be clear.

00:09:04.580 I'm not trying to denigrate the Jewish people

00:09:07.220 or saying they're so evil

00:09:09.240 that they'll even accept the Antichrist.

00:09:11.280 Far from it.

00:09:12.500 After all, I've said that

00:09:14.080 they will be deceived by the Antichrist, 0.73

00:09:16.980 not that they cartoonishly love evil

00:09:19.260 for its own sake.

00:09:20.860 In fact, we have to say these things

00:09:24.360 for the sake of the Jewish people themselves,

00:09:27.060 not least for the many among them

00:09:30.080 who want to follow the true God.

00:09:33.000 The reality is that

00:09:34.880 some of the highest authorities

00:09:37.080 and most influential groups

00:09:39.300 are expecting a Mashiach 1.00

00:09:41.940 who will do precisely

00:09:43.700 what we think the Antichrist will do.

00:09:46.340 Here's just a few examples.

00:09:49.100 Rebuild the temple.

00:09:51.000 Gather in all the Jews to Israel. 1.00

00:09:53.920 Fight and win wars for Israel. 0.92

00:09:57.100 And spread a universal naturalist religion

00:10:00.040 around the world

00:10:00.800 based around a few ethical principles

00:10:03.140 and the denial of Christianity.

00:10:06.460 At the end of that series,

00:10:09.060 I said that there was one particular group

00:10:12.280 with huge international influence

00:10:14.960 that endorses these ideas

00:10:16.660 and is focused on hastening

00:10:19.000 the coming of this Mashiach. 0.97

00:10:22.280 This group is Chabad Lubavitch.

00:10:25.900 They even have a special focus

00:10:27.580 on spreading a minimalist and naturalist religion

00:10:30.740 for non-Jews called the Noahide Laws.

00:10:34.940 And it's uncomfortably close

00:10:36.820 to what is said of the religion of the Antichrist.

00:10:40.820 They openly say that they are spreading it

00:10:43.840 as a means of hastening the Mashiach's coming. 1.00

00:10:48.160 Just as we believe that the spread of naturalism

00:10:51.180 is setting the scene for Antichrist.

00:10:53.100 So even if you think you've never heard of Chabad before,

00:10:57.800 you've definitely heard about them.

00:11:00.440 Back in January, a riot broke out

00:11:02.500 at their headquarters in Crown Heights, New York,

00:11:05.320 over the secret tunnels that were found underneath it.

00:11:09.060 I'm sure you saw those videos on TikTok or YouTube.

00:11:12.720 This was reported as taking place

00:11:15.100 at a New York City synagogue.

00:11:18.060 But that's like calling the Basilica

00:11:19.580 of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception

00:11:21.580 in Washington, D.C.,

00:11:23.340 a Washington, D.C. chapel.

00:11:26.280 The fact that it is Chabad Lubavitch's headquarters 0.92

00:11:29.080 is kind of a big deal.

00:11:31.920 This event was a curiosity,

00:11:34.820 but there's much more to be said.

00:11:37.240 That's why LifeSite News' Dr. Micah Hickson

00:11:39.920 has been researching this group,

00:11:42.340 its messianic goals,

00:11:43.880 its ideas about the radical differences

00:11:46.320 between Jews and non-Jews,

00:11:48.100 and believe me, there is something

00:11:49.460 really shocking there.

00:11:51.660 As well, their astonishing reach

00:11:54.440 in international politics.

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00:12:54.680 Now, some of you who have encountered people

00:12:59.420 from Chabad might be thinking,

00:13:01.000 well, aren't those the really friendly, pleasant guys?

00:13:04.860 What's the issue there?

00:13:06.440 Well, let me tell you a little bit

00:13:09.060 about Chabad's history

00:13:10.220 and the history of the wider movement

00:13:12.480 it finds itself in.

00:13:15.200 Chabad Lubavitch is a Hasidic denomination

00:13:18.940 and it's one of the biggest in the world.

00:13:22.400 The word Hasid or Chasid,

00:13:24.540 and there's various spellings of these things,

00:13:27.580 means pietist.

00:13:29.420 And you might have seen adherents

00:13:31.040 of the Hasidic movement here and there,

00:13:34.140 usually marked by their distinctive ways of dressing.

00:13:37.940 This movement as a whole

00:13:40.020 might appear to our Western eyes

00:13:42.040 as a very severe and conservative group.

00:13:45.040 And there's truth to that,

00:13:46.800 but it's not the whole story.

00:13:48.080 It began in the 1700s

00:13:50.740 in what we'd call Ukraine

00:13:52.960 by a man known as the Baal Shem Tov,

00:13:56.880 which means the master of the good name.

00:13:59.500 His real name was Israel ben Eleazar.

00:14:02.800 He had been orphaned as a child

00:14:04.380 and as his rabbinic career progressed,

00:14:07.860 he focused, as Chabad puts it,

00:14:10.300 on God's love for every Jew

00:14:12.560 and how much he treasured

00:14:14.420 their every good act.

00:14:16.220 Chabad also mentioned

00:14:18.660 the importance of Ben Eleazar's

00:14:21.100 late father's last words,

00:14:22.940 and I quote,

00:14:24.020 Fear nothing, fear no one,

00:14:26.200 but God himself,

00:14:27.380 and love every Jew

00:14:28.740 as you love yourself, end quote.

00:14:31.920 So two interesting quotes, right?

00:14:34.640 But there's something familiar

00:14:36.080 and yet very jarring about them.

00:14:38.780 It's true that we should have

00:14:40.980 special love for our fellow Christians

00:14:42.980 and indeed our own families.

00:14:45.640 But Christ's message

00:14:47.060 wasn't just love every Christian

00:14:49.640 as yourself.

00:14:51.040 In fact, his message

00:14:52.200 on the Sermon on the Mount

00:14:53.280 was not only that we should

00:14:55.340 love our neighbor as ourselves,

00:14:57.460 by which he meant all men,

00:14:59.980 he also said to love our enemies

00:15:02.440 and said,

00:15:04.060 if you love those,

00:15:05.240 now this is Christ speaking,

00:15:06.540 if you love those that love you,

00:15:08.680 what reward shall you have?

00:15:10.140 Do not even the publicans do this.

00:15:13.000 And if you salute your brethren only,

00:15:16.240 what are you doing more than others?

00:15:18.340 Do not also the heathens this.

00:15:21.500 So by the way,

00:15:23.080 this idea that loving your fellow,

00:15:25.140 as they say it,

00:15:26.260 as yourself,

00:15:27.140 refers to fellow Jews

00:15:28.460 rather than to all men

00:15:29.620 is a key plank of Chabad's ideology,

00:15:33.100 which we'll return to in due course.

00:15:35.800 In the meantime,

00:15:36.980 back to Ben Eleazar,

00:15:38.320 to Baal Shem Tov,

00:15:40.760 as he's called.

00:15:42.120 In the mid-18th century,

00:15:44.060 he became a sensation.

00:15:46.060 Thousands came to listen

00:15:47.720 to his preaching

00:15:48.640 in Medzibuz,

00:15:50.860 now Ukraine,

00:15:52.560 and he preached a new message

00:15:54.340 that every Jew,

00:15:55.700 no matter his standing or ability,

00:15:58.020 could,

00:15:58.480 and I quote Shabbat again,

00:15:59.980 and I quote,

00:16:00.880 connect with God

00:16:02.100 through learning Torah

00:16:03.600 and doing mitzvahs

00:16:05.380 with love,

00:16:06.620 joy,

00:16:07.340 and simple earnest humility.

00:16:09.880 Mitzvahs,

00:16:10.560 or mitzvot,

00:16:11.740 you might remember,

00:16:13.080 a mitzvah is one 1.00

00:16:14.440 of the 613 commandments

00:16:16.920 or ritual actions

00:16:18.920 of the rabbinic Judaism.

00:16:22.580 Driving through the key

00:16:24.220 Hasidic enclaves 1.00

00:16:25.500 in New York or London,

00:16:27.520 joy might not be

00:16:28.660 the first impression

00:16:29.480 you get on the street,

00:16:30.560 but let's be honest,

00:16:32.380 we Catholics don't walk around

00:16:33.800 laughing and grinning either.

00:16:37.220 Actually,

00:16:38.060 this idea of joy

00:16:39.340 is a key aspect

00:16:40.520 of the Hasidic movement

00:16:42.060 and, as I said,

00:16:43.780 it might well be

00:16:44.620 the first impression

00:16:45.480 we get of people

00:16:46.740 associated with Shabbat.

00:16:49.340 In some ways,

00:16:50.580 we could perhaps

00:16:51.240 draw a parallel here

00:16:52.520 with the Pentecostal movement,

00:16:54.560 with their enthusiastic worship

00:16:56.080 and intensely personal piety.

00:16:58.040 But, while all this

00:17:00.440 might be very pleasant

00:17:01.660 in itself,

00:17:02.820 let's remember

00:17:03.660 that there are

00:17:04.600 some significant problems.

00:17:06.620 The Hasidic movement 0.80

00:17:07.900 is very focused

00:17:09.940 on Kabbalah,

00:17:11.440 a system of Jewish mysticism

00:17:13.160 which we've probably

00:17:14.700 all heard about

00:17:15.700 at least a little bit

00:17:16.580 without actually

00:17:17.620 knowing much about it.

00:17:19.220 The early Hasidic rabbis 0.77

00:17:21.000 popularized this body 0.86

00:17:22.820 of mystical teaching

00:17:24.140 based primarily

00:17:25.580 on the Ari,

00:17:27.100 the 16th century

00:17:28.380 Rabbi Isaac Luria.

00:17:31.740 As an example

00:17:33.000 of the depth

00:17:34.100 of their interest,

00:17:35.660 the website

00:17:36.300 Kabbalah Online

00:17:37.480 is a Chabad project.

00:17:40.100 This Kabbalah mysticism

00:17:41.780 is the justification

00:17:43.140 for a striking doctrine

00:17:44.800 of racial supremacy

00:17:46.660 linked to that idea

00:17:48.340 of loving your fellow Jew

00:17:50.340 as yourself,

00:17:51.420 which we've already seen.

00:17:53.360 And more on that shortly.

00:17:54.600 At different points

00:17:57.360 in the history,

00:17:59.020 different courts

00:18:00.020 would form

00:18:01.040 around certain

00:18:01.780 Hasidic rabbis

00:18:02.860 who came to be called

00:18:04.240 Rebbes

00:18:05.060 and who would form

00:18:06.980 hereditary dynasties.

00:18:09.120 This is the basis

00:18:10.120 for the various

00:18:11.600 Hasidic denominations.

00:18:14.300 Chabad Lubavitch

00:18:15.400 is one such dynasty.

00:18:17.220 It was founded

00:18:18.860 by Rabbi

00:18:20.200 Schnur Zalman

00:18:22.120 of Ledi

00:18:23.400 in Eastern Europe.

00:18:25.400 Zalman

00:18:25.820 was a disciple

00:18:26.780 of the successor

00:18:27.800 of Baal Shem Tov.

00:18:29.820 He's the first 0.98

00:18:31.020 Rebbe

00:18:31.480 of this group

00:18:32.540 and they call him

00:18:33.760 the Alter Rebbe. 0.75

00:18:36.520 Now,

00:18:37.360 Zalman

00:18:37.720 invented

00:18:38.320 a philosophy

00:18:39.460 which attempted

00:18:40.660 to rationalize

00:18:42.080 Kabbalah

00:18:42.760 and Hasidism

00:18:43.740 in a system

00:18:45.380 which he would call

00:18:46.920 Chabad,

00:18:48.160 which is based

00:18:49.060 on an acronym

00:18:49.840 of three Hebrew words.

00:18:51.260 So, following various

00:18:53.060 successions

00:18:53.820 and moves,

00:18:54.860 the sixth

00:18:55.380 Chabad Rebbe 0.84

00:18:56.420 wound up

00:18:57.700 in Brooklyn,

00:18:58.720 New York

00:18:59.140 and he died

00:19:00.140 in 1950

00:19:01.020 and was succeeded

00:19:02.440 by his son-in-law,

00:19:04.680 the descendant

00:19:05.620 of the third

00:19:06.360 Lubavitcher Rebbe,

00:19:08.260 Menachem 0.59

00:19:08.880 Mendel Schneerson.

00:19:11.360 And this,

00:19:12.340 Schneerson,

00:19:13.120 is the man

00:19:13.940 who made

00:19:15.140 this movement

00:19:15.780 what it is today

00:19:16.800 and it's primarily

00:19:18.040 him

00:19:18.620 and his thought

00:19:19.860 that we're going

00:19:20.440 to be looking at

00:19:21.180 here.

00:19:23.220 Schneerson himself

00:19:24.060 was born

00:19:24.680 in what is now

00:19:26.140 Mykolaiv,

00:19:28.020 Ukraine

00:19:28.460 in 1902.

00:19:30.800 He, too,

00:19:31.880 moved around a lot.

00:19:33.560 He and his wife

00:19:34.400 found themselves

00:19:35.260 in Berlin

00:19:35.840 at one point

00:19:36.880 before fleeing

00:19:38.040 and they fled

00:19:39.460 the Nazis 0.71

00:19:40.260 to Paris

00:19:41.120 in 1933.

00:19:43.020 They moved

00:19:43.740 around France

00:19:44.600 as the Nazis' 0.75

00:19:45.440 occupation proceeded

00:19:46.420 before eventually

00:19:47.700 getting to New York

00:19:48.880 in 1941.

00:19:51.180 Let's look at

00:19:52.160 some aspects

00:19:52.980 of what

00:19:53.400 Schneerson

00:19:53.800 achieved.

00:19:55.220 The organization

00:19:55.980 today boasts

00:19:57.140 nearly 5,000

00:19:58.880 shluchim 0.97

00:20:00.100 or couples

00:20:01.140 or families

00:20:02.180 and that's

00:20:03.120 the name

00:20:03.700 for Chabad's

00:20:04.560 elite emissaries

00:20:05.880 as they themselves

00:20:07.300 say

00:20:07.700 who bring

00:20:09.260 Chabad

00:20:09.820 Hasidism 1.00

00:20:11.000 to far-off

00:20:12.140 countries.

00:20:13.800 Chabad has

00:20:14.420 around 3,500

00:20:16.080 centers

00:20:16.620 including

00:20:17.080 at Oxford,

00:20:18.440 Harvard

00:20:18.780 and Washington,

00:20:20.220 D.C.

00:20:21.080 in 100 countries.

00:20:24.140 The actual scale

00:20:25.320 of their influence

00:20:26.080 is difficult

00:20:26.640 to measure

00:20:27.220 but according

00:20:28.180 to a US Pew

00:20:29.400 research study

00:20:30.220 nearly one

00:20:31.460 in five Jews 0.98

00:20:32.460 say they often

00:20:33.560 or sometimes

00:20:34.280 participate

00:20:34.860 in activities

00:20:35.760 or services

00:20:36.360 with Chabad.

00:20:37.800 The numbers

00:20:38.660 even higher

00:20:39.860 among Orthodox Jews

00:20:41.260 at 46%.

00:20:42.980 It's one of

00:20:44.380 the most

00:20:44.920 well-known

00:20:45.620 Jewish organizations

00:20:46.660 in the world.

00:20:48.280 It's not the biggest

00:20:49.240 or most severe

00:20:50.340 Hasidic group

00:20:51.120 and some of the

00:20:51.880 other such groups

00:20:52.740 are even opposed

00:20:54.240 to Chabad.

00:20:55.460 But all this

00:20:56.300 only goes to show

00:20:57.500 how extraordinary

00:20:58.640 the extent

00:20:59.560 of their influence

00:21:00.520 and connections

00:21:01.180 really are.

00:21:02.540 Both in Israel 0.69

00:21:03.760 where so-called

00:21:05.280 Chabadniks 1.00

00:21:06.380 are an important

00:21:07.660 voting bloc

00:21:08.580 and many voting

00:21:09.980 for far-right

00:21:10.740 parties like

00:21:11.580 Ben-Givir's

00:21:12.780 Jewish power

00:21:13.760 and also

00:21:15.440 on the

00:21:15.900 international scene.

00:21:18.080 Unlike some

00:21:18.920 of their other

00:21:19.520 Hasidic denominations

00:21:20.680 it's very

00:21:21.820 outwardly focused

00:21:23.380 at least

00:21:24.300 outwardly

00:21:25.240 toward other Jews.

00:21:27.120 Let's take a look

00:21:27.880 at what the

00:21:28.820 late Jonathan Sachs

00:21:30.420 chief rabbi

00:21:31.360 of Great Britain

00:21:32.180 who owed his

00:21:33.500 vocation

00:21:34.200 to Schneerson

00:21:34.980 by the way

00:21:35.700 said of Schneerson.

00:21:38.100 He was the first 0.93

00:21:38.920 rabbi

00:21:39.180 to become rabbi

00:21:40.140 after the Holocaust 0.82

00:21:41.740 and how can

00:21:43.540 you redeem

00:21:44.260 a world

00:21:45.200 that had

00:21:47.020 witnessed Hitler.

00:21:49.240 And the rabbi

00:21:49.840 did something

00:21:50.660 absolutely

00:21:51.840 extraordinary.

00:21:53.760 He said to

00:21:54.520 himself

00:21:54.980 if the Nazis 0.63

00:21:55.800 search out 0.90

00:21:57.100 every Jew 0.99

00:21:58.300 in hate 0.99

00:21:59.280 we will

00:22:00.240 search out 0.91

00:22:01.040 every Jew

00:22:02.160 in love.

00:22:04.760 In part

00:22:05.340 because of this

00:22:06.360 extraordinarily

00:22:07.320 successful mission

00:22:08.700 of reaching out

00:22:09.780 to Jews

00:22:10.260 across the world

00:22:11.220 and affirming

00:22:12.340 them in their

00:22:12.940 Jewishness

00:22:13.640 a sizable

00:22:14.780 proportion

00:22:15.460 of Schneerson's

00:22:16.700 followers

00:22:17.020 believed that

00:22:18.180 he himself

00:22:19.200 was the promised

00:22:20.700 Moshiach.

00:22:22.480 And despite

00:22:23.420 his death

00:22:24.160 many actually

00:22:24.980 still believe

00:22:25.840 he's the Moshiach. 0.82

00:22:27.500 The faction

00:22:28.280 that thought

00:22:29.500 he was the Moshiach 0.97

00:22:30.820 was obviously

00:22:32.640 disappointed

00:22:33.260 when he died

00:22:33.980 in 1994

00:22:34.800 and some

00:22:36.720 think that

00:22:37.400 he is either

00:22:38.220 still alive

00:22:39.120 in hiding

00:22:39.740 or that he will

00:22:40.840 come back

00:22:41.260 from the dead

00:22:41.900 in due course.

00:22:43.860 This is one

00:22:45.060 reason why

00:22:45.680 other Hasidic

00:22:46.800 or Haredi

00:22:48.320 groups

00:22:48.700 are quite

00:22:49.640 opposed to

00:22:50.280 Chabad.

00:22:51.180 They think

00:22:51.980 they've adopted

00:22:52.720 some kind of

00:22:53.480 Christian idea 0.96

00:22:54.360 of a resurrected

00:22:55.540 Messiah

00:22:56.060 and applied

00:22:56.940 that to

00:22:57.540 Schneerson.

00:22:57.940 According to

00:22:59.900 a Harvard

00:23:00.680 publication

00:23:01.300 in 2021

00:23:02.160 actually most

00:23:03.460 of Chabad's

00:23:04.360 followers think

00:23:05.200 that Schneerson

00:23:06.480 was the Moshiach 0.78

00:23:07.860 and it's

00:23:09.400 certainly

00:23:09.740 very common

00:23:11.080 to see

00:23:11.700 posters

00:23:12.240 and stickers

00:23:13.260 in Crown Heights

00:23:14.520 in New York

00:23:15.300 proclaiming

00:23:16.480 that he

00:23:17.400 was the Moshiach.

00:23:19.620 His grave

00:23:21.040 is now

00:23:21.640 a pilgrimage

00:23:22.300 site for Jews

00:23:23.340 and non-Jews

00:23:24.180 alike

00:23:24.540 including

00:23:25.320 for several

00:23:26.180 world leaders

00:23:27.080 as we'll

00:23:28.060 see later

00:23:28.720 in this

00:23:29.200 series.

00:23:30.280 The dispute

00:23:31.460 over the

00:23:32.220 synagogue tunnels

00:23:33.220 which I

00:23:33.920 mentioned already

00:23:34.760 well that

00:23:35.860 was between

00:23:36.440 factions

00:23:37.040 with different

00:23:38.660 views over

00:23:39.720 whether or not

00:23:40.860 Schneerson

00:23:41.320 was the Moshiach 0.78

00:23:42.840 and you can

00:23:44.120 see the

00:23:44.740 yellow crown

00:23:45.540 Moshiach

00:23:46.280 flag amidst

00:23:47.660 the riot

00:23:48.300 too.

00:23:49.340 That's the

00:23:49.880 flag of their

00:23:51.180 faction.

00:23:52.600 Whether they

00:23:53.500 want to think

00:23:54.380 that Schneerson

00:23:55.220 was or is

00:23:56.460 the supposed

00:23:57.160 Moshiach

00:23:57.900 is an internal

00:23:59.100 Chabad debate

00:24:00.020 but both

00:24:01.120 factions agree

00:24:02.120 that something

00:24:03.160 more is needed

00:24:04.200 before the

00:24:05.160 messianic era

00:24:06.200 definitively

00:24:07.800 arrives.

00:24:08.920 In fact

00:24:09.520 there are

00:24:10.620 various rumors

00:24:11.720 even reported

00:24:13.120 respectfully by

00:24:14.600 the Israeli

00:24:15.800 press

00:24:16.580 that Schneerson

00:24:17.860 said that

00:24:19.040 Benjamin Netanyahu

00:24:20.800 Israel's prime 0.94

00:24:22.580 minister

00:24:22.900 is himself

00:24:24.260 the forerunner

00:24:25.900 to the

00:24:27.380 Moshiach

00:24:27.860 and therefore

00:24:29.360 forerunner to

00:24:30.260 the Antichrist

00:24:30.920 and I kid you

00:24:31.560 not.

00:24:31.980 Also one

00:24:32.980 non-Chabad 0.92

00:24:33.920 rabbi

00:24:34.520 Levi Sudri

00:24:36.060 made this

00:24:37.080 claim

00:24:37.460 saying and I

00:24:38.340 quote

00:24:38.620 it is very

00:24:40.220 clear that

00:24:40.920 we see

00:24:41.600 in

00:24:42.060 prime minister

00:24:42.860 Benjamin

00:24:43.440 Netanyahu

00:24:44.180 that he

00:24:45.080 is fulfilling

00:24:45.840 his destiny

00:24:46.660 as Moshiach

00:24:47.760 ben Yosef

00:24:48.560 that is to

00:24:49.240 say

00:24:49.540 the reincarnation

00:24:51.180 of Jonathan.

00:24:52.980 In his

00:24:53.300 argument

00:24:53.780 for this

00:24:54.980 idea

00:24:55.460 Sudri

00:24:56.200 referred to

00:24:57.160 Schneerson

00:24:57.600 I quote

00:24:58.580 Rabbi 0.96

00:24:59.780 Schneerson

00:25:00.360 told

00:25:01.020 Netanyahu

00:25:01.800 that he

00:25:02.860 would give

00:25:03.600 the scepter

00:25:04.360 to the

00:25:05.160 Melek

00:25:05.620 ha-Moshiach 0.98

00:25:07.120 Messianic

00:25:08.180 king

00:25:08.500 that is

00:25:08.960 the

00:25:09.440 Moshiach

00:25:10.140 ben David

00:25:10.820 the Netanyahu 0.72

00:25:12.900 aligned

00:25:13.440 Israel

00:25:14.060 today

00:25:14.560 also reported

00:25:15.940 this claim

00:25:16.560 without citing

00:25:17.780 Sudri

00:25:18.340 or any

00:25:18.800 other source

00:25:19.440 in a

00:25:19.980 somewhat

00:25:20.260 different

00:25:20.760 form

00:25:21.200 and I'll

00:25:22.220 quote from

00:25:22.660 them

00:25:22.920 about 30

00:25:24.680 years ago

00:25:25.420 the late

00:25:26.200 Lubavitcher

00:25:27.200 Rebbe

00:25:27.500 told a

00:25:28.680 young

00:25:29.040 Netanyahu

00:25:29.720 that he

00:25:31.000 Benjamin

00:25:31.540 Netanyahu

00:25:32.260 will be

00:25:32.840 Israel's 0.75

00:25:33.340 prime minister

00:25:33.940 who will

00:25:34.720 pass the

00:25:35.440 scepter

00:25:35.860 to the

00:25:36.400 Messiah

00:25:36.860 end quote

00:25:38.200 the

00:25:39.020 Lubavitcher

00:25:39.820 Rebbe

00:25:40.100 said this

00:25:41.260 during the

00:25:42.000 election campaign

00:25:42.920 in the

00:25:43.740 1990s

00:25:44.540 before

00:25:44.900 Netanyahu's 0.69

00:25:45.640 first term

00:25:46.300 in office

00:25:46.800 this claim

00:25:48.560 does not

00:25:49.120 appear in

00:25:50.040 the English

00:25:50.760 language material

00:25:51.660 on the

00:25:52.120 Chabad

00:25:52.420 website

00:25:52.880 but it

00:25:53.600 does

00:25:54.040 suggest

00:25:54.540 that at

00:25:55.400 least

00:25:55.880 some

00:25:56.400 people

00:25:56.740 believe

00:25:57.200 that there

00:25:57.760 is a

00:25:58.180 messianic

00:25:58.700 connection

00:25:59.100 between

00:25:59.580 Netanyahu

00:26:00.260 and

00:26:01.120 Schneerson

00:26:01.600 and

00:26:02.480 that

00:26:02.820 Netanyahu

00:26:03.460 has a

00:26:04.160 quasi-prophetic

00:26:05.060 role to

00:26:05.560 play

00:26:05.860 in the

00:26:06.880 eschatological

00:26:07.680 history

00:26:08.500 of Israel

00:26:09.320 Chabad

00:26:10.900 tolerates

00:26:11.960 a lot

00:26:12.820 of different

00:26:13.500 ideas

00:26:14.060 and so

00:26:14.640 it can

00:26:15.000 sometimes

00:26:15.440 be difficult

00:26:16.020 to pin

00:26:16.840 it down

00:26:17.420 to a

00:26:18.120 Chabad

00:26:18.620 position

00:26:19.200 if you

00:26:19.520 will

00:26:19.720 but

00:26:20.720 his idea

00:26:22.500 of bringing

00:26:23.500 the

00:26:23.880 Mashiach

00:26:24.580 really seems

00:26:25.500 to be

00:26:25.920 key

00:26:26.400 to

00:26:27.080 understanding

00:26:27.900 everything

00:26:28.560 about

00:26:29.060 Chabad

00:26:29.520 back

00:26:30.720 in the

00:26:31.000 2015

00:26:31.700 Israeli

00:26:32.500 elections

00:26:33.080 the

00:26:34.000 Israeli

00:26:34.600 body

00:26:35.040 connecting

00:26:35.680 Chabad

00:26:36.180 rabbis 0.81

00:26:36.700 wrote

00:26:36.980 this

00:26:37.380 I

00:26:37.700 quote

00:26:37.980 the

00:26:39.200 Rebbe

00:26:39.540 stated

00:26:40.100 Chabad

00:26:40.780 is not

00:26:41.640 a

00:26:41.920 party

00:26:42.360 and

00:26:42.860 it's

00:26:43.040 not

00:26:43.220 affiliated

00:26:43.760 with

00:26:44.200 any

00:26:44.400 political

00:26:44.780 party

00:26:45.220 our

00:26:46.140 mission

00:26:46.540 is

00:26:46.940 to

00:26:47.120 work

00:26:47.560 to

00:26:48.100 prepare

00:26:48.620 for

00:26:48.860 the

00:26:49.020 coming

00:26:49.420 of

00:26:49.800 Mashiach

00:26:50.680 how

00:26:52.560 does

00:26:52.800 Chabad

00:26:53.240 then

00:26:53.600 following

00:26:54.200 Schneerson

00:26:54.740 think

00:26:55.280 that

00:26:55.500 they

00:26:55.640 are

00:26:55.760 going

00:26:56.020 to

00:26:56.240 do

00:26:56.440 that

00:26:56.820 and

00:26:58.120 that

00:26:58.480 is

00:26:58.780 going

00:26:59.000 to

00:26:59.180 be

00:26:59.300 the

00:26:59.480 subject

00:26:59.740 of

00:27:00.160 the

00:27:00.300 next

00:27:00.560 part

00:27:00.900 of

00:27:01.140 this

00:27:01.320 report

00:27:01.700 and

00:27:02.560 let

00:27:02.700 me

00:27:02.800 tell

00:27:03.000 you

00:27:03.220 these

00:27:03.900 ideas

00:27:04.420 are

00:27:04.960 apocalyptic

00:27:05.660 indeed

00:27:06.320 and

00:27:06.920 apparently

00:27:07.420 very

00:27:08.660 near

00:27:09.620 apocalyptic

00:27:10.740 predictions

00:27:11.660 especially

00:27:12.340 if they're

00:27:12.700 saying

00:27:13.100 that

00:27:13.460 Netanyahu

00:27:14.420 is

00:27:14.740 the

00:27:15.120 forerunner

00:27:15.700 we're

00:27:16.800 going

00:27:16.920 to

00:27:17.020 take

00:27:17.220 a

00:27:17.420 deeper

00:27:17.700 look

00:27:18.120 at

00:27:18.620 what

00:27:18.920 Schneerson

00:27:19.400 and

00:27:20.020 Chabad

00:27:20.480 really

00:27:20.840 think

00:27:21.280 about

00:27:21.920 how

00:27:22.300 to

00:27:22.440 bring

00:27:22.680 the

00:27:23.180 Messiah

00:27:23.580 or

00:27:23.960 Mashiach

00:27:24.860 along

00:27:25.400 with

00:27:25.660 some

00:27:25.900 massively

00:27:26.400 controversial

00:27:27.040 subjects

00:27:27.580 like

00:27:27.960 the

00:27:28.800 spread

00:27:29.200 of

00:27:29.500 an

00:27:29.600 obligatory

00:27:30.400 new

00:27:31.240 religion

00:27:31.660 of

00:27:31.900 non-Jews

00:27:32.740 the

00:27:33.400 rebuilding

00:27:33.920 of

00:27:34.340 the

00:27:34.460 Jerusalem

00:27:35.020 Temple

00:27:35.520 the

00:27:36.460 return

00:27:36.920 of

00:27:37.240 all

00:27:37.500 the

00:27:37.660 Jews

00:27:37.900 to

00:27:38.260 Israel

00:27:38.680 and

00:27:39.120 how

00:27:39.520 all

00:27:40.200 of

00:27:40.340 this

00:27:40.500 could

00:27:40.680 spark

00:27:41.060 an

00:27:41.280 amazing

00:27:42.000 apocalyptic

00:27:42.760 level

00:27:43.240 conflict

00:27:43.880 and

00:27:45.220 how

00:27:45.800 a

00:27:46.120 great

00:27:46.500 war

00:27:46.980 like

00:27:47.460 this

00:27:47.800 could

00:27:48.220 well

00:27:48.580 be

00:27:48.840 a

00:27:49.120 key

00:27:49.560 part

00:27:50.100 of

00:27:50.700 the

00:27:50.880 messianic

00:27:51.460 doctrine

00:27:51.880 as

00:27:52.140 well

00:27:52.400 you're

00:27:53.660 not

00:27:53.940 going

00:27:54.220 to

00:27:54.420 want

00:27:54.740 to

00:27:55.000 miss

00:27:55.240 that

00:27:55.600 for

00:27:56.600 Life State

00:27:56.940 News

00:27:57.140 this is

00:27:57.500 John Henry

00:27:57.840 Weston

00:27:58.240 may God

00:27:59.220 bless you

00:27:59.600 go

00:28:00.800 to

00:28:03.800 you

00:28:04.400 to

00:28:05.860 that

00:28:07.400 you

00:28:07.980 happen

00:28:10.200 Thank you.

The John-Henry Westen Show - June 20, 2024

‘New World Order,’ Jerusalem Temple – Two Key Goals For This Religious Group Hastening ‘Messiah’

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