ELECTION PREDICTIONS and NOAM'S WITHDRAWAL

15 Elul 5779

I was saving this for tomorrow, but in light of the very disappointing news that NOAM has withdrawn from the elections, it seems it needs to be addressed now...

A very short time ago, NOAM supporters were notified via WhatsApp that while NOAM could count on 70,000 committed votes with an additional 250,000 possibles, the rabbis made the decision to withdraw from the election and use the momentum they have started to work on these issues dear to our hearts from outside the Knesset.

Like I said before, this was all about seeing how many people were really ready to follow Mashiach.  That was its only purpose, it was never going to wield a great influence from inside the Knesset, even if it squeaked in.

Here is what I had written for publication tomorrow had NOAM not withdrawn today.  My prediction of possible scenarios..

Best-case scenario:  The formation of a government will fail yet again, and the vision of Mashiach taking it over before they can try a third time comes to pass.

Worst-case scenario #1:  Netanyahu manages to form a coalition and "immediately after the election" the Trump Peace Plan is adopted.  If implemented, it will send the country on a downward spiral to becoming a nation like all other nations - no more possibility of a JEWISH state.

Worst-case scenario #2:  Gantz-Lapid are given the task of forming the next government and succeed, after which they go to war against the Torah sending the country on a downward spiral to becoming a nation like all other nations - no more possibility of a JEWISH state.  (There's also nothing to say that they would not also implement the Peace Plan.)

All of these secular leaders will dance to the tune of those holding the power above them and I don't mean Hashem, since they do not recognize Him.  As I've tried to express many times and in many different ways, "THEY" are trying to destroy Torah and its bearers from the world.

So, in the end, it doesn't really matter whether Noam or Otzma get in or how many seats UTJ gets, there is only one way to stop this inevitable "death" spiral:  1) Mashiach arrives and takes over, or 2)  the God-fearing public (from Chiloni to Hareidi - everyone who wants to remain a Jew) will have to rise up and overthrow this evil regime.

Since I don't really see the latter as a realistic possibility right now, I think we may have reached our Yam Suf moment when all we can do is scream to Heaven to save us.  My vote for NOAM is my pitifully poor cry to HKB"H.  Please Hashem bring us Mashiach Tzidkeinu, and we will follow him through the Sea to the other side and on to conquer Eretz Yisrael.

If Mashiach continues to delay, I fear many more Jewish lives will be lost needlessly before the people will have finally woken up to the fact that this is all part of a plan for our ultimate annihilation.  And no party, no election is going to change any of that.  All the dice are loaded.  We can't win by playing their game and by their rules.

In everything, we have to have two things in mind: 1)  HKB"H is orchestrating it all, so "THEY" won't win in the end, and 2) a lot still depends on us.  What we will be called upon to do with or without Mashiach will be the most challenging test of our faith that we have ever faced.

Our Sages have told us that the final redemption will be very much like the first redemption from Egypt.  In that instance, 4/5ths of the Jews did not even leave Egypt; of the rest, all the men but two died in the wilderness.  

Although the final end is assured, our place in it is not.  That depends on our deeds. Ever since signing onto the covenant at Har Sinai, there was no longer any question of whether we would fulfill its conditions or not.  From that moment on, the only choice left to us was whether we would do it the short, easy way or the long, hard way.  And that's the choice we have to make today, regardless of how this election turns out.

It may very well be that a Leftist/Anti-Torah government could be seen as a hidden blessing as the only difference between the right and left is perception.  With a Leftist/Anti-Torah government, God-fearing Jews will understand immediately that a fight with the assistance of Heaven is necessary; however, with a supposedly Right-Wing/Religious government, the illusion of safety, security and wholeness could continue on for a much longer time before people fully understand the damage that has been inflicted.

May Hashem look upon His children who put all their faith and trust in Him with favor and with mercy during this special time of Elul.  May He give us a sign for good with another failed government.  May it signal the end of the Erev Rav regime's power over us and may He speedily reveal our righteous Mashiach and bring him to the head of a truly JEWISH/TORAH government in Eretz Yisrael.  May the Kingdom of Israel arise today and for all time to come. AMEN!

UPDATE:  I'm seriously considering transferring my vote to Otzma Yehudit.  I voted for them in the past.  The reason I abstained last election when Eli Yishai's Yachad also withdrew was because they had formed an alliance with Jewish Home which I cannot support.  It is to their (and our) advantage that they are running on their own now.

ANTI-GAY NOAM PARTY DROPS OUT OF ELECTION

PS: Maybe NOAM will form a sort of government-in-waiting outside the Knesset to assist MBY when he arrives.  (Maybe that was the idea all along?) Had they continued to run and votes were "thrown away," the cost in lost public support for their vision would have been great.  Something to think about.