(OPINION) BIN – Rabbi Mendel Kessin, messianic era expert, scholar, and international speaker urged the savvy observer to keep close tabs on current news events occurring in three places on the globe because they are all connected to the end of days. He made these comments in a recent talk entitled Why the Redemption Seems to Take So Long. The talk was delivered to a Jewish audience in New York and is available on YouTube.
“Why is it, when you look at the geula, the redemption, why does it seem to go so slow?” he asked. “It looks like it goes forward, then backward, forward, then backward. It seems to creep along very, very slowly.” Kessin explained that redemption which happens miraculously could happen very quickly. He contrasts that with the redemption that happens naturally, which goes much more slowly.
“The redemption itself, which is in progress, is happening very slowly. The question is, ‘What’s the logic of that?’ “If the Jews bring redemption through suffering, then the redemption happens much slower and it happens in a natural way.” This, according to Kessin, is what we are experiencing. Then he outlined what he called “three basic areas” in the messianic advancement. READ MORE
