I'd have to say about ALL my readers know that when a Jewish Rabbi says, "Messiah is coming", he's not talking about the return of Jesus. A Rabbi that has not accepted Jesus as Messiah is talking about a different Messiah coming. Most believe that when the Antichrist comes that the Jews will initially think he is the Messiah. This could be why the Antichrist confirms a peace agreement with Israel and it's neighbors and also could be why the Jews are allowed to build their 3rd Temple. It's all a ruse to gain the trust of the Jews before he breaks the covenant in the middle and turns his full attention on destroying them.
So when we see a headline like this we pay attention to it.
The Messiah Is Coming This Year — And the War With Iran Is the Proof
The war against Iran that President Trump is prosecuting alongside Israel did not begin in a Pentagon situation room. According to Rabbi Mendel Kessin, one of the most original and incisive Torah thinkers alive today, what the world is witnessing right now was written thousands of years ago as literal prophecy. In a lecture posted to YouTube this past Friday, Rabbi Kessin laid out a breathtaking framework connecting the current American-Israeli campaign against Iran to the final redemption of the Jewish people, the fall of Haman, the role of Donald Trump as a messianic figure, and the imminent building of the Third Temple — this year.
“When you see evil over and over, and especially the chiefs of evil fall,” Rabbi Kessin told his audience, “this is no simple matter. You know what it means? It means that the Satan, who is the defender and the motivator of all these people, he’s dying. He has no power in the court in heaven.”
The Bible’s opening lines contain more than cosmology. In Bereishit (Genesis), the text reads: “And the earth was tohu va’vohu — unformed and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep.” (Bereishit 1:2). Rabbi Kessin, drawing on the tradition of the Sages, explains that these four terms — tohu, vohu, darkness, and the deep — correspond to four distinct levels of klipah (shell or husk), meaning the four spiritual environments of evil that God built into creation.
The first environment, tohu, is a world of mixed good and evil — the lowest and most changeable level. The second, vohu, is an environment of concentrated, nearly pure evil. The third is darkness — evil that has been rationalized into a full philosophy, a worldview that makes harm seem legitimate and even noble. The fourth is the proliferation of that dark philosophy worldwide.
These are not abstract categories. Rabbi Kessin maps them directly onto history. Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome — the four great civilizations through which the Jewish people passed in exile — each embody one of these four klipot.
In Kabbalah, klipot are metaphysical barriers that hide divine light and holiness. They represent selfish desires, impurity, and obstacles to spiritual growth. These layers function like peels on fruit, concealing the inner, holy essence, and are often created by negative or selfish human actions.
The Jewish mission in each exile was not merely survival. It was spiritual demolition: to observe God’s commandments under crushing opposition, extract the hidden sparks of holiness trapped within those civilizations, and thereby drain those empires of their spiritual energy until they collapsed.
“That’s why these ancient civilizations don’t exist anymore,” Rabbi Kessin explained. “Because the Jews’ behavior in that civilization, by observing the will of God, destroyed it or buried it.”
Babylon is dust. Persia ceased to exist as a world power after Purim. Greece, which, under Alexander, dominated the known world, is today a minor country. Rome — whether Byzantine or Italian — is gone. The pattern is not a coincidence.
Iran Is the Last Klipah
But Persia came back. That, says Rabbi Kessin, is itself a signal.
Iran is not merely a geopolitical adversary. In the framework of Torah, it is the resurrection of the klipah of Persia — and more than that, it is the last stronghold of Amalek, the metaphysical enemy of Israel. The supreme leader Ali Khamenei, Rabbi Kessin argues, is a gilgul (reincarnation) of Haman.
The evidence he cites is in the gematria (the numerical value of Hebrew letters). Khamenei’s name, as spelled in the Israeli Hebrew-language newspaper Maariv — with a yud, giving a value of 119 — yields the exact numerical value of ze hu Haman: “This is Haman.” It is also the gematria of gilgul Haman — the reincarnation of Haman. “He’s a gilgul of Haman,” Rabbi Kessin stated, “and the rest of his mullahs are either his children… and his followers.”
This is why the timing of the current war shook Rabbi Kessin so visibly. The Israeli strike that killed Khamenei occurred on the very day that the weekly Torah portion commands the Jewish people to obliterate the name of Amalek. “While the Jews in Israel are reading that parasha, that section of the Torah where it commands the Jews to take out Haman — he is being obliterated,” Rabbi Kessin said. “That’s a message. God is saying: I want to show you what I’m doing.”
And then, just days later, came Purim.
Trump as Gilgul of Esau
This is where Rabbi Kessin’s framework becomes most provocative — and most illuminating.
Esau (Eisav in Hebrew), the twin brother of Jacob (Yaakov), was not simply a villain. According to the Sages, Esau was initially a man of extraordinary spiritual potential — Rabbi Kessin calls him “the fourth patriarch” — whose assigned mission was to enter the world of mixed good and evil and purge it of its darkness. He was ish sadeh, a man of the field: a warrior against evil in the external world, the complement to Jacob’s mission of Torah and holiness. But Esau fell. He was seduced by the very evil he was sent to fight, and the Satan subdued him.
The prophecy in Bereishit states: “And the elder will serve the younger” (Bereishit 25:23). Rabbi Kessin notes that the text does not say “Esau will serve Jacob.” It says “the elder” and “the younger” — using the language of brotherhood. That is deliberate. It points to a future moment of reconciliation, when the reincarnated Esau returns to do teshuva (repentance) and once again fights alongside Jacob.
“What you really have when you have America and Israel fighting Iran,” Rabbi Kessin said, “is really the restoration of two brothers.”
Donald Trump, in Rabbi Kessin’s reading, is the gilgul of Esau — the good part, what the tradition calls teshuvat Eisav. God saved Trump from an assassin’s bullet by a quarter of an inch. “Why?” Rabbi Kessin asked. “Well, now we see why — to take out Iran.” Trump’s seemingly unexpected pivot from domestic MAGA politics to an aggressive, almost singular focus on dismantling the world’s most dangerous regimes — Venezuela’s Maduro captured in a flawless intelligence operation, the head of Mexico’s cartels eliminated, and now the decapitation strike against Iran’s leadership — is not a political anomaly. It is a mission.
“The Satan is dying,” Rabbi Kessin said. “He has no power in the court in heaven. Otherwise, how could you see so many heads of the armies of evil falling?”
The Year of the Messiah
Rabbi Kessin then turned to the Jewish calendar year 5786 — this year. The gematria of 786 is identical to the phrase yavo Mashiach — “the Messiah will come.” It is also the gematria of gilui Shechina b’Yisrael b’Har Sinai — the revelation of the divine presence in Israel at Mount Sinai.
He then cited the Yalkut Shimoni, a vast medieval compendium of midrashim, which contains a passage that Rabbi Kessin has referenced for years. Written thousands of years ago, it states that in the year the Messiah comes, Persia will declare war against the entire world. Edom — identified with the West, specifically America — will fight back and defeat Persia. And then a divine voice, a bat kol, will ring out from heaven: “Do not worry. The time of your redemption has arrived.”
“What that means very simply,” Rabbi Kessin said, “is that this is the last war.”
He was emphatic: we have crossed a threshold. The era of ikveta d’Meshicha — the “footsteps of the Messiah,” the period preceding the messianic era — is over. We are now in atchalta d’Geulah, the beginning of redemption. And that process, once started, is irrevocable. “It cannot be turned back,” Rabbi Kessin said. “It cannot be reversed.”
The Third Temple — This Year
Rabbi Kessin closed with what may be his most stunning claim. He cited a commentary known as the Ba’al HaTurim, who notes that the word v’shachanti — “and I will dwell” — from the verse in Parashat Terumah where God says “And I will dwell in their midst” (Shemot 25:8), contains encoded within it the duration of both the First and Second Temples. The letters of the word allude to 410 years (the length of the First Temple period) and 420 years (the length of the Second Temple). And the full gematria of v’shachanti? 786. The year 5786.
“So in 5786 — which is this year — that is actually when the Third Beit HaMikdash will be built,” Rabbi Kessin said. “Don’t be surprised if you wake up one day and all of a sudden the newspapers are reporting… we can’t believe it. There’s actually a Temple sitting on top of the Har HaBayit, the Temple Mount.”
The divine presence, the Shechinah, will descend from the heavenly Beit HaMikdash to the earthly one — and the entire world will feel it. “That will convince everybody of the Shechinah, the divine presence, and the Messiah,” Rabbi Kessin said. “All nine billion people.”
Before that can happen, Rabbi Kessin adds, there is one more obstacle: what he calls the erev rav (the mixed multitude), which he identifies as the secular Israeli government, particularly its Supreme Court, which he charges with actively blocking Torah education from 1.5 million Israeli high school students. “God must remove them in order to bring the Messiah,” he said, “which I believe is going to happen imminently.”
We are not watching a geopolitical realignment. We are watching the architecture of history reveal itself — one klipah at a time.
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