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Three Trends

in world history

1. Evil keeps surging and intensifying.
2. Torah also surges and intensifies.
3. But personal ability constantly shrinks.

These Slides

explain:

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• The Three trends, and
• What will ultimately come of each one

Evil

• Evil was always around.
• It’s part of Creation.
• But not always manifest on the surface,
• And by the same token, will not always remain hidden underneath…

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On the Surface

• “On the surface” = what we see.
• In the world – what we hear in the news.
• In ourselves – what we think, talk, and do.
• Can be measured.  
• Can be dealt with.  
• That’s what we need to work on.

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Under the Surface

• The sub-conscious.
• Example: What alarms you when someone is staring at you from behind.
• And similarly in the world at large – the real moving force behind world events.
• There’s powerful stuff under the surface.
• The bad powers of which are called “Deep Evil”.
• No control over these powers.
• Too hard to fix.

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Surging of New Evils

• But life is dynamic.
• The stuff from the sub-conscious makes its way to the consciousness of the person, and the world, over time.
• These are the new evils we see pop up throughout history, 
• Typically dressed as the “modern culture” of the time.

For example:

• Idol worshipping (Up to destruction of First Temple)
• Hellenism (During Second Temple, circa 200 BCE)
• Secular Enlightenment (1800s CE)

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Why Evils Surface

• The world needs to be cleaned up in preparation for the End Times.
• That includes underneath the surface as well.
• How do we get down there?  We don’t:
• As each type/level of evil is dealt with on the surface, a deeper level/layer gets exposed –
• That will be the next challenge.
• We only clean the surface – the “dirt” that we find there at the time.

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Friendship Becoming Shaky

Example:

• Two good friends whom you’d think it’s impossible to separate – start fighting!
• Why?  
• A deeper, new evil popped up in their hearts,
• Trying to divide & conquer.
• It’s for the purpose of overcoming and putting it to bed.
• The friendship will thus become even healthier.

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It's (only) Looking Bad

• Like someone who’s cleaning up his garage
• Throwing all the stuff he doesn’t want outside 
• It's looking very messy on the front lawn…
• … until the garbage truck comes.
• It’s good that all the rubbish is piled up outside. That’s how it’ll be easily collected and removed.
• Before, all the rubbish was inside, hidden, mixed up with other precious items.
• So looks can be deceiving.

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A boorish man does not know, neither does a fool understand this. When the wicked flourish like grass, and all workers of violence blossom – only to be destroyed for ever.

Psalms 90:7-8

…surfacing to disappear. 

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The Deeper - the Stronger

• You work hard.
• You move up in life.
• There’s always a bigger challenge to take on.
• Same thing with cleaning up the world: 
• As we progress in time and achieve new milestones, the evils that come our way get more intense.

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The Surging of Evil

Historical Overview

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Evil's Destiny

• With advent of Moshiach, we have to deal with the worst evils.
• These are the very “ Signs” of Moshiach we find in the Prophets and Talmud.
• (Analysed on AboutMoshiach.com, G-d willing)
• But once these worst evils are dealt with, there’s no more evil to fight.
• Evil meets its end.

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Summary

• The evils that we can see are what we can (and must) deal with and remove.
• Deeper evils will surface when it’s time to deal with them.
• Looks bad on the surface while evil is being dealt with, but underneath it’s getting better.
• Evil is worst just before Coming of Moshiach.
• Once worst evils cleaned up – Evil forever gone.

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Question is:

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How to deal with these surging Evils?