This, if I am reading you accurately, takes us into the apocalyptic calendar. I understand you to be saying, in both English and Hebrew, "blessed is he," as if that time were now, but what about the other character in the drama, the one who is expected to
"come in his own name," and whom Jews, according to Christian scriptures,
"will accept?"
Isn't he going to cause all the world to take a
"mark" on their right hand or forehead and exclude those who refuse to do so from the economic system? I'm not even a Christian, except sort of vestigially and culturally, but I have no intention of taking that mark. As I see it, and unless I start canning and storing some peaches and building a solar-powered homestead soon, that means I can expect to starve to death when he arrives. Even if only out of base motives of self-preservation, doesn't it make sense, then, that if I don't want to see the emergence of a so called "Antichrist," I would oppose the conditions which are necessary to make his arrival possible
(the question is open to everybody, for general discussion)?