A PROPHECY FROM THE YALKUT SHIMONI - THIS IS THE YEAR OF MESHIACH

Definitely thought this was worth posting from a pal on FB.  She is way ahead of me on the goings on in Israel and signs of the times there:

Here is something that happened this week: Saudi Arabia severed diplomatic ties with Iran, since this past Sunday Iran, to protest the execution of a Shiite Muslim cleric named Nimr al-Nimr, overrun the Saudi embassy in Tehran, and as a consequence Saudi Arabia gave Iranian diplomats 48 hours to pack up and leave.Iran. Written over 800 years ago, the Yalkut Shimoni has something extremely relevant to say about today’s headlines. Since the Jewish people think that the Messiah is coming this year Saudi Arabia’s actions are being seen as the fulfillment of a messianic Jewish prophecy found in the ancient Jewish holy book known as the Yalkut Shimoni. ‘The year that Melech HaMoshiach [Messiah the King] will be revealed, all the nations of the world will be provoking each other. The King of Persia (Iran) will provoke the King of Arabia, and the King of Arabia will go to Edom (the West) to take counsel, but the King of Persia will in turn, destroy the entire world. The nations of the world will be outraged and panicked. They will fall on their faces, and they will experience pains like birth pangs. Israel too will be outraged and in a state of panic and ask, where do we go? But say unto them, “My children, do not fear, ‘Higiyah zman geulatchem’ [the time of your redemption has come]. And in the last redemption will be different from the first which was followed by further bondage and pain. After this last redemption, you will not again experience any further pain or subjugation.” As the end of the Hebrew year approaches, this is the advise the Jewish people are given "To this very day,the Arabs excel in prayer which occupies a significant place in their daily ritual. In order to counteract the power of their prayer, we need to improve the concentration and intensity of our own prayers.”

Some more from my knowledgeable buddy, Patty:

talking about the relevant passage in the Yalkut Shimoni, Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam, better known as the Klausenberger Rebbe, said, “Remember these words. Now, perhaps, they are not understood, but in time, they will be, and they will be a source of chizuk (strength) to Am Yisroel (the Jewish people).” The Klausenberger Rebbe was an Orthodox rabbi with thousands of followers in the years prior to World War II. Most of his followers were murdered in the Holocaust. The Klausenberger Rebbe died in Israel in 1994. What was the prophecy of the Yalkut Shimoni that the Klausenberger Rebbe knew would bring comfort and strength to the Jewish people at a future date? The Yalkut Shimoni predicted thatthe year the Messiah would appear the “King of Persia [Iran] will provoke the King of Arabia [Saudi Arabia].” The two main sects in Islam are Sunni and Shia. While they both have much in common, the differences between the two sects in Islam have led to a long history of violent and deadly conflict among Muslims . Many of today’s political and diplomatic conflicts between Iran and other Muslim countries are connected to this Sunni-Shia divide Not surprisingly, Iran and Saudi Arabia do not share the same Muslim sect. Although the vast majority of the Islamic world today is Sunni, Iran, and, to a lesser degree Iraq, are home to the majority of the region’s Shiite Muslims. Saudi Arabia is more than 90 percent Sunni. Iran, by contrast, is 95 percent Shiite.