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CyrusBiblical Proof # 4 Cyrus by YairDavidiy
Contents:
1. Messiah son of Joseph
2. Was Cyrus an Israelite?
3. Historical Prototypes
4. Rabbi Eliyahu of Vilna
5. President Truman
a) Extract 1. David Koppel: Religious Fright
b) Extract 2 . Michael Polowetzky, Jerusalem Recovered. Conclusion: The
Verdict of History"
6. ISAIAH
The verses in Isaiah concerning Cyrus
7. Conclusion: Only Brit-Am Nations Fit the Biblical Criteria of Joseph
1. Messiah son of Joseph
God says that HE will send HIS messenger before HIM to prepare the way and rebuild the Temple (Malachi 3:1). Rav Saadia
Gaon (b. ca. 890 CE) and Iben Ezra (1080-1164 CE) said that the MESSENGER is the Messiah son of Joseph. The Messiah son of
Joseph, according to the Malbim (1809-1879) and others will be the future head of the Lost Ten Tribes when they return, to
renite with Judah.
2. Was Cyrus an Israelite?
Cyrus was the ruler of Persia.
Heelonged to the Pasargadae who were a small clan that had gained control of Persia. One explanation of the name
Pasargadae is Pasar-Gadaewhich in the Aramaic dialect of that time meant Sons-of-Gad,(Le Comte de Gobineau. "Histoire
Des Perses", Paris 1869).
Groups from the Israelite tribe of Gad were scattered through Persia as well as being prominent amongst the Gutae (Goths)
who at that stages were on the northern borders of Persia. It is therefore more than likely that
the Pasargadae were at least in part originally descended from Gad (Pasar-Gadae). It may be therefore that Cyrus was of
Israelite descent.
Another legend claims that Cyrus was the son of Queen Esther and King Ahaseurus.
3. Historical Prototypes
Isaiah in chapters 43, 44, and 45 spoke of Cyrus and of Israel and of Cush, Egypt, and Saba. It is often conventionally
accepted to assume that on the whole the entire section is referring to Cyrus. This is not so. The verses may be applicable
to a degree to Cyrus but he was not the primary motif intended. We have shown (Biblical Proofs Nos. 31, 32, 33: Egypt, Africa,
and India) that the verses connected with Cyrus are referring to a future age in the end times concerning the Lost Ten Tribes.
Isaiah used the figure of Cyrus as a prototype. Cyrus represents the Messiah son of Joseph who will precede and whose time
will overlap with that of the Messiah son of David. The Messiah son of Joseph will lead the Lost Ten Tribes in the Latter
Days. He will also come to fulfill and epitomize a process that will have already been started by those who preceded him.
Just as Napoleon brought to their highest expression ambitions that had been nurtured by the French Monarchy and then released
by the French Revolution so too will the Messiah son of Joseph represent a
culmination of tendencies, emotions, and spiritual energies that will have begun before his time.
BY EXAMINING WHICH NATIONAL GROUPINGS HAVE BEGUN TO FULFILL AND GIVE EXPRESSION TO CHARACTERISTICS ASSOCIATED WITH THE
MESSIAH SON OF JOSEPH WE MAY FURTHER DISCERN IN WHAT AREAS THE LOST TEN TRIBES WILL BE AT THE END TIMES.
Isaiah switched from Cyrus to Israel in the same verses as may be seen in the text, in the Hebrew original, and according
to the explanation of the sages.
4. Rabbi Eliyahu of Vilna
The historical Cyrus in Isaiah serves as a figure representing the Messiah son of Joseph and the Ten Tribes in general.
This explanation is born out from a work written more than 200 years ago recording the opinion of Eliyahu of Vilna who is
considered one of the greatest Rabbinical sages who ever lived.
The Messiah son of Joseph was linked with Ephraim and with Cyrus in the work, Kol HaTor (Voice of the Turtle Dove) based
on the sayings of Eliyahu of Vilna, 1.8.3:
[Isaiah 60:22] A LITTLE ONE SHALL BECOME A THOUSAND, AND A SMALL ONE A STRONG NATION: I THE LORD WILL HASTEN IT IN HIS
TIME.
This speaks of Ephraim meaning the Messiah son of Joseph, [Isaiah 44:28] [THAT SAITH OF
CYRUS, HE IS MY SHEPHERD, AND] he SHALL PERFORM ALL MY PLEASURE.
Cyrus has the task of the Messiah son of Joseph.
See also Kol HaTor 2.130 where it says that Cyrus is Under the command of Messiah son of Joseph and 3.12 where it says
that Cyrus was a prototypefor the Messiah son of Joseph.
5. President Truman
President Truman supported the establishment of the State of Israel and identified himself with Cyrus. He represented
the forces of Joseph in the End Times.
a) Extract 1.
http://www.nationalreview.com/kopel/kopel031803.asp
David Koppel:
Religious Fright:
In the latest issue of Books & Culture, a Christian book review monthly, Gerald McDermott details the role of Truman's
Southern Baptist faith in his Israel policy. While mainline Protestants (with some important exceptions, such as Schlesinger's
friend Reinhold Niebuhr) tended to disparage Zionist hopes for a Jewish state, religious conservatives (a group that included
people like Truman who were not necessarily political conservatives) rejoiced in Zionist aspirations as the fulfillment of
prophecy and the just restoration of the Jewish homeland which God had promised the Jews by sacred covenant.
Only hours after the declaration of the State of Israel, President Truman overrode the objections of the State Department
and the War Department, and made the United States the first nation to grant recognition to Israel.
Truman used American clout to convince the U.N. to recognize Israel, too. When ceasefire lines were being drawn after
the failed Arab war to exterminate the Jews, Truman insisted that Israel have the Negev, which more than doubled Israel's
territory. Israelis believed that without Truman they would not have survived.
As recounted in the Second Book of Chronicles, in the 6th century B.C. the the Jewish kingdom was conquered by the Babylonian
Empire, the Temple was destroyed, and the Jews were carried into Babylonian captivity. Half a century later, the Babylonian
Empire was overthrown by the Persian Empire of Cyrus the Great. Cyrus allowed the Jews to return to their holy land:
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word ofthe LORD spoken by Jeremiah, the LORD moved
the heart of Cyrus king of Persia to make a proclamation throughout his realm and to put it inwriting: "This is what
Cyrus king of Persia says: 'The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me
to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah. Anyone of his people among you may the LORD his God be with him, and let
him go up.'"
Paul Charles Merkley's book, The Politics of Christian Zionism: 1891-1948, describes a meeting in 1949, at the end of
Truman's presidency, between Truman and the chief rabbi of Israel:
The rabbi went on to assert: "God put you in your mother's womb so you would be the instrument to bring about Israel's
rebirth after two thousand years." We are told by a witness that, "On hearing these words, Truman rose from his
chair and, with great emotion, tears glistening in his eyes, he turned to the Chief Rabbi and asked him if his actions for
the sake of the Jewish people were indeed to be interpreted thus and the hand of the Almighty was in the matter."
A few months later, retired President Truman was honored at the Jewish Theological Seminary. One of Truman's friends introduced
him to the professors as "the man who helped create the State of Israel."
Truman said, "What do you mean 'helped to create' (Israel)? I am Cyrus. I am Cyrus."
b) Extract 2.
http://www.hist.net/kieser/mak6/verdict.html
"Conclusion: The Verdict of History"
Polowetzky, Michael, Jerusalem recovered : Victorian intellectuals and the
birth of Modern Zionism, Westport (Conn.): Praeger, 1995,
Moshe Davis has left us record of a visit which Harry Truman made a feonths after the end of his Presidency to the Jewish
heological Seminary,together with Truman's friend, Eddie Jacobson. Jacobson introduced HarryTruman to the professors: 'This
is the man who helped create the State of
Israel', but Truman corrected him: 'What do you mean "helped to create"? Iam Cyrus. I am Cyrus.'
It seems that the analogy to Cyrus had already been suggested to PresidentTruman by the Chief Rabbi of Israel, Isaac Halevi
Herzog, on the occasionof a visit to him in the White House early in 1949. The rabbi went on toassert: 'God put you in your
mother's womb so you would be the instrument
to bring about Israel's rebirth after two thousand years.' We are told by a
witness that, 'On hearing these words, Truman rose from his chair and, with
great emotion, tears glistening in his eyes, he turned to the Chief Rabbi
and asked him if his actions for the sake of the Jewish people were indeed
to be interpreted thus and the hand of the Almighty was in the matter'.
These words of Truman's - 'I am Cyrus' - were uttered neither casually nor
ironically. We must take them with the fullest seriousness, and when we do,
we will have the key to understanding Truman's constant pro-Zionism.
Harry Truman frequently turned over the name of 'Cyrus the Great' as he
rehearsed the names of the 'Great Men of History'- a mental exercise which
he performed regularly, as a concert pianist performs scales. The American
democratic process, he knew, had put him in the place where Cyrus redivivus
was expected. His awareness of all this is what explains the consistency of
his refusal to allow himself to be worn down by the emotional and sometimes
brutal arguments of the Zionists, fully as much as it explains his serenity in the face of the arguments from anti-Zionist
Jews, the pro-Arab blandishments coming from the State Department, the 'realistic' military
judgments coming from George Marshall and George Kennan, and the economic-geopolitical arguments of James w Forrestal.
To doubt his personal fitness for this great role would have been the same
as to doubt the fitness of the American political system which had put him
in place. To set his own name at the end of that long catalogue of the
Great Men (in which Cyrus always figured) was not, he believed, an act of
vanity, but a requirement of fidelity to received religion and to his own
self-confidence as a student of history.
Isaiah 43;1: BUT NOW SO SAYS THE LORD THAT CREATED YOU, O JACOB, AND HE
THAT FORMED YOU, O ISRAEL, FEAR NOT; FOR I HAVE REDEEMED YOU, I HAVE CALLED
YOU BY YOUR NAME; YOU ARE MINE.
6. ISAIAH
The verses in Isaiah concerning Cyrus
[Isaiah 44:28] THAT SAITH OF CYRUS, HE IS MY SHEPHERD, AND SHALL PERFORM
ALL MY PLEASURE: EVEN SAYING TO JERUSALEM, THOU SHALT BE BUILT; AND TO THE
TEMPLE, THY FOUNDATION SHALL BE LAID.
This concerns the rebuilding of Jerusalem and of the Temple.
[Isaiah 43:27] THY FIRST FATHER HATH SINNED, AND THY TEACHERS HAVERANSGRESSED AGAINST ME.
[Isaiah 43:28] THEREFORE I HAVE PROFANED THE PRINCES OF THE SANCTUARY, ANDHAVE GIVEN JACOB TO THE CURSE, AND ISRAEL TO
REPROACHES.
[Isaiah 44:1] YET NOW HEAR, O JACOB MY SERVANT; AND ISRAEL, WHOM I HAVECHOSEN:
[Isaiah 44:2] THUS SAITH THE LORD THAT MADE THEE, AND FORMED THEE FROM
THE WOMB, WHICH WILL HELP THEE; FEAR NOT, O JACOB, MY SERVANT; AND THOU,
JESURUN, WHOM I HAVE CHOSEN.
[Isaiah 44:3] FOR I WILL POUR WATER UPON HIM THAT IS THIRSTY, AND FLOODS
UPON THE DRY GROUND: I WILL POUR MY SPIRIT UPON THY SEED, AND MY BLESSING
UPON THINE OFFSPRING:
[Isaiah 44:4] AND THEY SHALL SPRING UP AS AMONG THE GRASS, AS WILLOWS BY
THE WATER COURSES.
[Isaiah 44:5] ONE SHALL SAY, I AM THE LORD'S; AND ANOTHER SHALL CALL
HIMSELF BY THE NAME OF JACOB; AND ANOTHER SHALL SUBSCRIBE WITH HIS HAND
UNTO THE LORD, AND SURNAME HIMSELF BY THE NAME OF ISRAEL.
They will return and reclaim their heritance and acknowledge their
Israelite descent.
[Isaiah 44:6] THUS SAITH THE LORD THE KING OF ISRAEL, AND HIS REDEEMER
THE LORD OF HOSTS; I AM THE FIRST, AND I AM THE LAST; AND BESIDE ME THEREIS NO GOD.
[Isaiah 44:7] AND WHO, AS I, SHALL CALL, AND SHALL DECLARE IT, AND SET IT
IN ORDER FOR ME, SINCE I APPOINTED THE ANCIENT PEOPLE? AND THE THINGS THAT
ARE COMING, AND SHALL COME, LET THEM SHEW UNTO THEM.
[Isaiah 44:8] FEAR YE NOT, NEITHER BE AFRAID: HAVE NOT I TOLD THEE FROM
THAT TIME, AND HAVE DECLARED IT? YE ARE EVEN MY WITNESSES. IS THERE A GOD
BESIDE ME? YEA, THERE IS NO GOD; I KNOW NOT ANY.
Isaiah (44:9-20 ) continues to condemn the practice of idolatry.
[Isaiah 44:21] REMEMBER THESE, O JACOB AND ISRAEL; FOR THOU ART MY SERVANT:
I HAVE FORMED THEE; THOU ART MY SERVANT: O ISRAEL, THOU SHALT NOT BEFORGOTTEN OF ME.
Isaiah (44:22-25 )speaks of the forgiveness of the sins of Israel.
[Isaiah 44:26] THAT CONFIRMETH THE WORD OF HIS SERVANT, AND PERFORMETH THE
COUNSEL OF HIS MESSENGERS; THAT SAITH TO JERUSALEM, THOU SHALT BE
INHABITED; AND TO THE CITIES OF JUDAH, YE SHALL BE BUILT, AND I WILL RAISE
UP THE DECAYED PLACES THEREOF:
Rebuilding of the Land centered on Jerusalem (Meaning the present state of
Israel) is emphasized.
[Isaiah 44:28] THAT SAITH OF CYRUS, HE IS MY SHEPHERD, AND SHALL PERFORM
ALL MY PLEASURE: EVEN SAYING TO JERUSALEM, THOU SHALT BE BUILT; AND TO THE
TEMPLE, THY FOUNDATION SHALL BE LAID.
[Isaiah 45:1] THUS SAITH THE LORD TO HIS ANOINTED, TO CYRUS, WHOSE RIGHT
HAND I HAVE HOLDEN, TO SUBDUE NATIONS BEFORE HIM; AND I WILL LOOSE THE
LOINS OF KINGS, TO OPEN BEFORE HIM THE TWO LEAVED GATES; AND THE GATES
SHALL NOT BE SHUT;
Cyrus (Isaiah 45:2-13 ) is promised help from the Almighty, power and great
riches. Cyrusis taken to embody all the Lost Tribes of Israel who have not known the Almighty yet nevcertheless they fulfill
His hisotical will.
[Isaiah 45:14] THUS SAITH THE LORD, THE LABOUR OF EGYPT, AND MERCHANDISE OF
ETHIOPIA AND OF THE SABEANS, MEN OF STATURE, SHALL COME OVER UNTO THEE, AND THEY SHALL BE THINE: THEY SHALL COME AFTER
THEE; IN CHAINS THEY SHALL COME OVER, AND THEY SHALL FALL DOWN UNTO THEE, THEY SHALL
MAKE SUPPLICATION UNTO THEE, SAYING, SURELY GOD IS IN THEE; AND THERE IS
NONE ELSE, THERE IS NO GOD.
As we explained elsewhere the above verse can be explained to say: That
which comes to Egypt [via the Suez Canal], the trade of India [Cush], and
of the Sabeans [of negro Africa], shall come over [the sea] unto you. They
will be yours, in chains they will come unto you&.
This was fulfilled by the British and Americans.
[Isaiah 45:15] VERILY THOU ART A GOD THAT HIDEST THYSELF, O GOD OF ISRAEL, THE SAVIOUR. The Lost tribes in Britain were
linked with a god who hides Himself as explained in our work Ephraim.
Isaiah (45:16-18) continues to condemn the practitioners of idolatry, apparently speaking of the End Times
[Isaiah 45:19] I HAVE NOT SPOKEN INSECRET, IN A DARK PLACE OF THE EARTH: I
SAID NOT UNTO THE SEED OF JACOB, SEEK YE ME IN VAIN: I THE LORD SPEAK
RIGHTEOUSNESS, I DECLARE THINGS THAT ARE RIGHT.
It is worth reading all the rest of Isaiah chapter 45 and chapter 46 since
they continue the same theme.
7. Conclusion:
Only Brit-Am Nations Fit the Biblical Criteria of Joseph
Whether you accept the idea of the Messiah son of Joseph and of Cyrus as
being his prototype or not, the verses surrounding the mention of Cyrus in
the Bible definitely are speaking of the end times. They definitely concern
Israel in the future and they correlate with all other passages in the
Bible dealing with the Lost Ten Tribes in the End Times. We see from these
and other verses that the forces of Josephwill be involved in the
ingathering of Judah centered on Jerusalem and the rebuilding of the cities
and settlements of Judah. This is spoken of as a blessing, a promise, and a
duty. They are also connected with the building of the future Temple. These
activities will PRECEDE the redemption and ingathering of the Lost Ten
Tribes themselves.
We are entering the End Times and the ONLY nations that have supported the
Jews and helped enable the State of Israel to exist are those identified by
Brit-Am as containing significant numbers of Lost Israelites from the Ten
Tribes.
Brit-Am is also beginning the way please help us in this task.
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