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Jewish Highest Holy Days at the Door!

October 1, 2005

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The highest Jewish Holy Days will begin next week, and congregations have already started to hold preparatory services and sound the shofar every morning.

The Holy Days for which Jews are preparing begin on Monday, October 3 at sundown with the launching of Rosh Hashanah,

and Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) begins at sundown on October 12. Yom Kippur is a Day of Atonement when the Jews ask the Lord for forgiveness through fasting and repentance.

Synagogues hold all day services the eve before Yom Kippur. During the services, confessions and Scripture readings finally end the Holy Day. Many of the Orthodox Jews remain standing during the entire service to show their devotion.

Yom Kippur is the most Holy of all the Jewish holidays. It is the great Sabbath of Sabbaths. On Yom Kippur the Book of Life is closed and sealed.

Those who have repented for their sins are granted a good and happy New Year.

The five prohibitions of Yom Kipper are (1) Eating and drinking, (2) Anointing with perfumes or lotions, (3) Marital relations, (4) Washing, and (5) Wearing leather shoes.

Since Yom Kippur is a time of fasting, this weekend will be a time of much feasting in preparation for the fasting. The blowing of the shofar at sunset on October 3 will mark the beginning of Rosh Hashanah.

Leviticus 25:9 – Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day

of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.

The blowing of the shofar is the only specific commandment for Rosh Hashanah. In the ancient cultures, trumpeters announced the presence of their kings among them. The shofar is is used by the Jews to sound the coronation of King Messiah.

It is blown 100 times.

It is supposed to remind Jews everywhere of the willingness of Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac, to fulfill God’s command.

Genesis 22:10-18 – And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. [11] And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. [12] And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me. [13] And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. [14] And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen. [15] And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, [16] And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: [17] That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; [18] And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

Galatians 3:16,28,29 – Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises

made.

He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

[28] There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

[29] And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Romans 2:28,29 – For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: [29] But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

Where was the Ark of the Covenant Positioned on the Temple Mount?

September 30, 2005

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I have contended since the early 1980’s that the Ark of the Covenant, situated in the Holy of Holie

s, sat on the northwestern corner of today’s Temple Mount, in the rounded circle located under a copula now known as the “Dome of the Spirit,” or the “Dome of the Tablets.” I believe the findings of Asher Kaufman are right on target.

The following article by Susan Goodman, the Jerusalem Post, is an interesting discussion on the assessments made by Kaufman in his book,

titled “The Temple Mount: Where Is the Holy of Holies?” I have stepped off his measurements on the Temple Mount for the groups I have taken to Israel ever since 1985, which are recorded in a live-on-site video “Israel in Tribulation,” which may be found under the Menu Heading “VIDEOS” on the first page of our Web site at http://www.tribulationperiod.com/.

BEGIN JERUSALEM POST ARTICLE

Location, Location, Location

By SUSAN GOODMAN, THE JERUSALEM POST

September 23, 2005

I picked up the large well-bound book at my local bookstore. The gold lettering on the spine and cover read simply The Temple Mount: Where Is The Holy of Holies?

Normally I’d put such a book straight back on the shel

ves, dismissing it as another fanatical quest to identify the site so that someone can cause a great deal of trouble.

So why didn’t it go back on the shelf?

Wrapped around the outside of the book is not a dust jacket but a wide paper strip announcing that the author, Asher Kaufman, was a physicist at the Hebrew University

and had earlier been engaged in work on nuclear fusion in England. In the beginning of my academic life in Oxford I was also a physicist and I believe the subject insists on the highest level of analytical and objective thinking. A physicist working on this problem… now that’s a whole different quest.

This book is a challenging read even if you really enjoy fathoming complex puzzles, but Kaufman does make every effort to carry the reader with him through a labyrinth of hypotheses, esoteric texts and scientific methodology.

The book follows chronologically the path of enquiry pursued by Kaufman himself for the past 35 years, leading you up the same blind alleys as he pursued and through his moments of inspiration – he might prefer to call them revelation – where Divine Providence has guided him.

It is a quest carried out with the devotion and sincerity of a profoundly religious Jew, informed by the highest level of scholarship. His textual sources include the writings of Josephus and Tractate Middot of the Mishna.

He has already published a new edition of Middot based on his studies of manuscripts and early printed texts.

He commits himself to this holy detective work with passion and a meticulous eye for detail.

He has mapped all archeological evidence above ground and intensively studied the reports of the 19th-century digs, uncovering a great deal of unpublished material held at the Palestine Exploration Fund, London.

But what are his conclusions

? Where is the Holy of Holies?

Dr Kaufman’s answer is simple and he has drawn its location “to within a few centimeters,” he insists. Basically, he contends, the Holy of Holies lies north of the Dome

of the Rock.

And although the Waqf, the Muslim authority responsible for the Muslim holy places, has never allowed scientific excavations of the Temple area, it has from time to time dug trenches in the area for laying water pipes and electricity cables. Kaufman has visited these diggings on over 200 occasions and has written detailed reports on what was uncovered.

He has on some occasions been accompanied by a photographer.

His findings, which he maintains support his theories, will be presented in a series of articles and a new book.

But it is not that simple. Kaufman’s theories stand in opposition to other ideas. The other two main contenders for the site of the Holy of Holies are the “traditional location” at the site of the Dome of the Rock and south of the Dome of the Rock as proposed by architect Tuvia Sagiv.

But how can a layperson possibly assess the validity of Kaufman’s conclusions?

Inevitably one must look at what other experts in the field have to say about his research – even though, understandably, archeologists are a little touchy about other professionals encroaching on areas where they feel their expertise is pre-eminent.

That aside, a review of Kaufman’s book was recently published in the Biblical Archaeological Review by Prof.

Joshua Schwartz of Bar-Ilan University. Although Schwartz presents significant criticisms of some of Kaufman’s results, Kaufman feels that he can refute them all.

And while it seems that archeologists have generally not accepted the new theory, Schwartz does conclude, “Asher Kaufman is one of the foremost scholars of the Jerusalem Temple…. While we may disagree with him at times, his ongoing contribution to Temple Mount scholarship cannot be denied.”
This is hardly damning criticism, so Kaufman’s research should definitely be taken seriously.

And one can’t help but be impressed by the rigor of much of his methodology.

I contacted Kaufman and he kindly offered to meet me in t

he quiet order of his home in the Beit Hakerem neighborhood. His soft Edinburgh accent, gentle manner and reasoned arguments are hard to reconcile with the final “proposals” he outlines at the end of his book.

The building of the Third Temple, he says, will be “something wonderful for the Jewish People, and for the world as a whole” – although he does not believe that ritual sacrifice will be reinstated.

Since he locates the Holy of Holies north of the Dome of the Rock, he believes the whole area of the Temple Mount could be divided into a Jewish and Muslim area, Al-Aksa Mosque being within the Moslem area.

The Dome of the Rock would be within the court

of the Temple. “In ancient times, strangers other than of the Jewish faith were permitted entry into this court…. This means that there would be free access to the Dome of the Rock.

It could be administered by the Muslims without any change.”

He accepts that most of us will find this naive but he is happy to record his “vision for the future.”

END JERUSALEM POST ARTICLE

If you would like to know WHEN I believe the temple will be rebuilt, see Archive Prophecy Updates 52, 76D, 79, & 121B.

An Israeli Pre-Messiah Gleaning!

Part of a Final Gleaning of Israel Before Messiah Arrives!

Old Testament Kingdoms of Israel and Judah Now One!

September 29, 2004

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The quote from Aaron Klein, which follows comments and Scriptures, was taken from the World Net Daily New Service.

Long ago, Ezekiel indicated there would be an initial gathering before Messiah returned, and an even greater one after he was crowned as King of Israel.

It appears we are now in the final stages of the initial gathering prior to Messiah’s return.

Joseph had two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, and Ephraim was often used in the Old Testament to represent the Northern Kingdom of Israel, while Judah, one of Joseph’s brothers from the man Jacob, was used to represent the Southern Kingdom of Judah.

The Assyrians carried most of the population of the 10 Northern Kingdom tribes far away into the eastern part of the Assyrian Empire during the time of the writings of the Old Testament Prophet Isaiah.

However, some 100 years later the Prophet Ezekiel prophesied the 10 tribes would return to be part of a single United Kingdom before the coming of Messiah.

The two sticks of Judah and Ephraim would once again be a single Kingdom, as in the days of David and Solomon.

But after Messiah returned, a much more massive gathering of Tribulation Period surviving Jews, from all over the earth, was to be gathered back to Israel to become a part of the reign of Messiah.

THE INITIAL RE-GATHERING BEFORE MESSIAH

Ezekiel 37:19-22 – Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and

will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand. [20] And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.

[21] And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: [22] And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:

THE FINAL RE-GATHERING AFTER MESSIAH’S RETURN

Ezekiel 39:23-29 – And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.

[24] According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.

[25] Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name; [26] After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid. [27] When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations; [28] Then shall they know that I am the Lord their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there. [29] Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord God.

BEGIN WORLD NET DAILY EXTRACT

From WorldNetDaily.com Jerusalem Bureau

Rabbis Convert ‘Lost Tribe of Israel’

Recognize 200 Members of Group Believing Descent from Joseph

By Aaron Klein

September 26, 2005

“An official delegation of Israeli rabbis arrived in India last week and began converting to Judaism members of a group that believes it is one of the ten “lost tribes” of Israel, jump starting a process many hope will bring the tribe’s remaining 7,000 members to the Jewish state.

The Bnei Menashe say they are the descendants of Manasseh, one of biblical patriarch Joseph’s two sons, and a grandson of Jacob.

They live in the two Indian states of Mizoram and Manipur, to which they claim to have been exiled from Israel over 2,700 years ago by the Assyrian Empire, and have been trying the past fifty years to return to Israel.”

END WORLD NET DAILY EXTRACT

THE FORCE BE WITH IDF FOR FORCED FALSE PEACE!

IDF OPERATION NOT LIMITED IN TIME OR INTENSITY!

September 28, 2005

The extract which follows was taken from a September 28 Article by Ariel O’Sullivan and the JPost Staff. It confirms the previous BLOGS we h ave issued on the future oper

ational path Israel intends to follow from now until the arrival of a false peace.

The following quotes from Israeli OC Operations Directorate, Major General Yisrael Ziv, make it quite clear what operational path Israel has chosen to follow.

BEGIN JERUSALEM POST EXTRACT

Ziv emphasized that the military operation begun four days ago was not limited in time or intensity, and would continue until

the Palestinian Authority assumed proper responsibility over its territory.

Ziv believed that Israel’s security would improve over the long range.

On the Philadelphi route, he said,

there was already a significant change.

He noted that Egypt had thus far prevented three incidents of arms smuggling along the Philadelphi Route.

On Wednesday morning, IDF forces raided 15 offices linked to the Hamas and Islamic Jihad throughout the West Bank.

According to the army, the offices belonged to the “Dawah” charity organization, which was outlawed by Israel for funneling money towards terror organizations and giving financial rewards to families of suicide bombers

and terrorists.

Troops sealed off the organizations’ offices in Tulkarm, Bethlehem, Hebron, Ramallah and Kalkilya and confiscated documents and computers.

Shots were fired at the soldiers as they entered one of the offices in Kalkilya, IDF officials said.

Overnight Tuesday, 24 Hamas and Islamic Jihad members were arrested throughout West Bank for links to terror activity.

In the past few days the IDF has arrested some 400 fugitives in the West Bank.

END JERUSALEM POST EXTRACT

OPERATION FIRST RAIN GETS TERRORIST’S ATTENTION!

EYE FOR EYE – TOOTH FOR

TOOTH THEY UNDERSTAND!

September 28, 2005

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Operation First Rain, a tooth for tooth initiated permanent program by the Israeli IDF and IAF, which we discussed in previous BLOGS, got the terrorist groups attention.

Both Hamas and the Islamic Jihad have now indicated

they are calling a halt to the rocket attacks, after having launched 50 Kassams against Israel over the weekend.

Rest assured that this tooth for tooth, eye for eye, type of operation will continue by the Israelis on a permanent basis, even after they complete the security barrier around the West Bank, and secure the Palestinians and their terror groups behind it.

Once completed, the security barrier will give the Israelis a false sense of “peace and safety,” because they will believe they can maintain it by their expertise and power.

But what they will obtain is a temporary false peace of very short duration, which will be broken by a massive Jihad onslaught from within and without by the forces of Islam.

Destruction will come upon Israel like the birth pains of a woman delivering a child, and some two-thirds will not be able to escape

into the Negev wilderness, but will perish in the Jihad.

I Thessalonians 5:3,4 – For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. [4] But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

Zechariah 13:8 – And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.

Revelation 12:6 – And the wom an fled into the wilderness, where she h

ath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

Zechariah 13:9 – And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.

Zechariah 14:9 – And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon won a very narrow victory over Binyamin Netanyahu in the Likud party on Monday.

Out of nearly 3000 votes, he managed to get 104 more than Netanyahu.

This means new elections will not be held before April of 2006. Had Netanyahu won the elections they would have been moved up to this November.

Sharon will make a concerted effort to finish the security barrier before the elections, but it is possible it might not be completed until early 2007.