October 7 Attack Prophesied on Simchat Torah – Torah Codes Warned Us
Chapter Four: October Seventh – The Holiday That Broke the Calendar
I was in the middle of a celebration once—music blasting, people dancing, Torah scrolls held high like trophies. That’s Simchat Torah. The end of Sukkot. The day we wrap the year’s reading and start over, rejoicing like kids at a party. No guards. No walls. Just joy. The air was thick with laughter, the circle unbroken as families passed the scrolls from hand to hand, stomping their feet to the rhythm of ancient songs.
High Holidays
It’s the climax of the High Holidays, the moment when vulnerability meets divine protection—the sukkah’s fragile walls symbolizing our reliance on God alone. But on October 7, 2023, that joy shattered like glass under boots. Hamas poured over the border in a coordinated onslaught. Kibbutzim like Be’er Sheva and Kfar Aza burned, homes turned into infernos.
The Nova music festival, a haven of peace and beats, became a slaughter pen—young people gunned down mid-dance, bodies strewn across the desert sand. Over 1,200 dead in a single day. Hundreds were dragged away as hostages, their screams echoing into the void. The world froze, headlines screaming horror. But Jewish tradition? It didn’t freeze. It had been whispering about this for centuries, embedded in our festivals, our readings, our codes.
Holy Days
Ezekiel 38-39. That’s the haftara—the prophetic reading—for Shabbat Chol HaMoed Sukkot, the intermediate Sabbath during the festival. It’s no coincidence. The passage details Gog and Magog’s invasion: a vast coalition from the north—Magog, Meshech, Tubal—backed by Persia (that’s ancient Iran), descending on Israel like a storm cloud. They come when the people dwell securely, “without walls, having neither bars nor gates” (Ezekiel 38:11).
No defenses up, just peace and prosperity. And God intervenes with fury: fire from heaven, earthquakes, plagues, hailstones, turning the invaders against each other. The Vilna Gaon, that 18th-century sage whose insights pierce like laser beams, pinned it precisely: the war of Gog and Magog starts around Hoshana Rabbah, the seventh day of Sukkot, when we circle the bimah seven times, pleading for salvation.
Other sages, drawing from midrashim and Talmudic hints, suggested it could erupt during the festival itself, when Israel’s guard is spiritually down but divinely up. Zechariah 14 ties it even tighter—after the war, the surviving nations must pilgrimage to Jerusalem for Sukkot every year, or face drought and plague.
And It Shall Come To Pass
“And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles” (Zechariah 14:16). The holiday isn’t random. It’s the vulnerability point. The sukkah’s flimsy roof reminds us: God’s our real shelter. But on October 7—Simchat Torah in Israel—that shelter got tested to its limits.
I watched the videos later, safe in my hot tub, steam blurring the screen like tears I couldn’t shed. Families at breakfast tables in Nir Oz, interrupted by sirens and then gunfire. Festival-goers at Nova running through choking dust, gunfire popping like fireworks gone horribly wrong—pop, pop, pop, each one a life extinguished.
Mothers shielding children in safe rooms that weren’t safe. Fathers rushing to defend with whatever they had—kitchen knives, bare hands. Hamas called it Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, framing it as a holy war over Jerusalem’s sacred sites. But it landed on the day we celebrate the Torah—the same Torah that warned us of such invasions. The irony cuts deep: while Jews danced with the scrolls, embracing the law that promises protection, the enemy struck, fulfilling the very prophecies we read aloud weeks earlier during Sukkot.
The Torah Codes
Rabbi Matityahu Glazerson’s Torah codes sealed it for me. His matrices, drawn from Deuteronomy or Ezekiel, cluster words with eerie precision: “Seventh of October,” “Simchat Torah attack,” “Gog Magog begins,” “Hamas invasion.” Exact date. Exact holiday. He posted videos like “The Seventh of October in Gematria & Bible Code” in March 2025, breaking down the gematria where numbers align like stars—October 7 equaling key phrases in Ezekiel.
Another for the anniversary in October 2025, showing expanded tables with “Iran orchestration” and “multi-front war.” The codes aren’t guesses or parlor tricks. They’re hidden in the text, like the Urim and Thummim glowing for our time, divine letters rearranging to reveal truths for the generation that needs them. Glazerson views them as the modern oracles, straight from the high priest’s breastplate (Exodus 28:30), illuminating end-time events just as the ancients consulted them for war and peace.
This attack wove seamlessly into the broader Zohar sequence we explored in earlier chapters. The Star of Jacob comet in 2024 signaled the shaking, but October 7 was the spark—the opening volley in the Gog wars. The Zohar (III 212b) speaks of Ishmael’s decline after the star, with wars erupting and blood flowing. Palvanov connects it: the comet’s seventy days build on the multi-front chaos ignited on Simchat Torah. Iran, as Persia, is pulling strings behind Hamas.
Russia (often seen as Magog in rabbinic thought) is providing arms and alliances: Yemen’s Houthis, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Syria’s remnants—all firing in unison. And look where it led: Nasrallah down under collapsing buildings (Amos 1:4); Assad fled into exile; Damascus a heap of political ruins (Isaiah 17:1). The sequence our sages mapped out centuries ago, from Vilna Gaon to the Zohar, unfolding as a scroll unrolled. Christian and Messianic interpretations? They often point to Matthew 24’s wars and rumors of wars, or Revelation’s beasts rising. But those are broad brushes, not pinpoint prophecies.
They Retrofit The Whole Bible
Christians and Messianics? They retrofitted it after the fact. Psalm 83 for a conspiracy of enemies. Joel 3 for armies gathering in the Valley of Jehoshaphat. Revelation’s seals are cracking open, perhaps the fourth horse of death. But no one flagged the holiday. No one said Sukkot. No one said Simchat Torah—the day of rejoicing over the law—turns into the spark of Gog. You celebrate Tabernacles too, waving branches, building booths, calling it a feast of ingathering. But why?
You never connected it to Gog’s start in the haftara, read every year during the festival. We knew the tie-in; our liturgy embeds it. You guessed it, overlaying New Testament lenses that blur the original context. Some even claim October 7 as a “birth pang” leading to the rapture, but without the Jewish calendar’s precision, it’s just speculation. Perry Stone or other prophecy teachers might link it to end-time coalitions, but they miss the Tishrei timing, the sukkah symbolism, and the codes that spell “seventh of October” hidden in Torah letters.
This Was Not Random
This wasn’t random terror. It was the opening shot in a prophesied war. Iran orchestrated—Paras in Ezekiel, funding Hamas with millions, coordinating with Hezbollah’s rocket barrages. Russia ties noted in analyses: arms shipments, diplomatic cover, and even Wagner Group mercenaries rumored to be in the mix. Multi-front: Lebanon firing north, Yemen’s drones south, Syria’s borders porous.
The attack killed the illusion of security, just as Ezekiel described. And the fallout? Over 250 hostages taken, many still languishing in Gaza tunnels by 2026. Israel’s response—Operation Iron Swords—razed Hamas strongholds, but the war dragged on, claiming thousands more lives. Yet Jewish sources saw the redemptive arc: the Zohar promises the Messiah’s revelation after such upheavals, with Ishmael’s wild donkey (Genesis 16:12) tamed. Palvanov, in his Gog and Magog lectures, frames October 7 as the prelude, leading to Assad’s fall and Iran’s weakening—exactly as we’re witnessing.
On MyJourney Home
On my journey, this chapter resonated deeply. Raised Christian, I pored over their prophecies, seeing Jesus in every shadow—Isaac’s binding as resurrection foreshadowing, Passover lamb as crucifixion. But Deuteronomy commanded otherwise: “If there arises among you a prophet… you shall not listen to him” (Deuteronomy 13:2-6). Ask your elders, your family (Deuteronomy 4:9). I did. They opened the scroll, showed me the haftara for Sukkot, the codes in Glazerson’s videos, the tie to Tishrei—the month of creation, judgment, and redemption.
No resurrection story shoehorned in. No second coming delay to explain unfulfilled peace. Just the war beginning on the day we dance, vulnerability turning to victory. The elders reminded me: we’re no better than the nations—Ezekiel 16:3 calls our origins Amorite and Hittite, chosen by grace alone. Humility, not hubris.
My Christian friend, my Messianic brother: October 7 happened on your watch too. But where was the warning? Why was there no comet countdown before? No buildings falling on cue? Ours had it all. Step by step. Visuals included—codes clustering dates, haftarahs reading invasions during festivals. This is the call—come see the album we didn’t lend. The one with the real tracks, playing out in blood and fire, leading to the peace Zechariah promises.
Next chapter: The wild donkey falls. Zechariah 9 waits, humble king on the horizon.
Hazan Gavriel ben David
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