Continuing the Pre-Messiah Temple Rebuilding Fable
By Trying to Crack the Sacrificial Red Heifer Generic Code
In advance of the Messiah’s arrival may stir evangelical Hearts
But I tell you the Messiah’s Temple must be build after He Arrives
I realize I have placed myself in a definite minority by my July 2 Blog
I made my case from Scriptures, but I know 1.5 Billion Islam Reasons
July 13, 2008
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Forty years ago I could not make up my mind whether or not the temple would be rebuilt BEFORE the Second Advent but, quite frankly, I was more inclined to believe it would be rebuilt. It was not until I studied Greek and Hebrew in the Seminary that I came to believe it would NOT be rebuilt until AFTER the Second Advent of Christ. My reasons for this are carefully articulated in our July 2, 2008 Archive Blog, titled: “Third Temple is the Millennial Temple,” which you may read by the process of “clicking” back to it at the bottom of the blog pages.
The major reason I am concerned about this is that a large majority of prophetic buffs are positive the temple will be rebuilt prior to the return of Jesus. Many think we have a long time to wait for Christ’s coming because the temple building seems to be a distant event. I hope you will consider what I have been teaching for more than thirty years on this as at le
ast a possibility.
Begin 2005 Archive Prophecy Update Number 207
PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 207
January 14, 2005
The Coming Shaking Before the King Builds his House!
An Exposition of Haggai 2:6-9
The current situation in the Middle East, the unstable world economy, the increase in earthquake and volcanic related phenomena, the rapidly declining morality on a worldwide basis, the ever increasing attack on the Bible and its validity, the attempt to remove anything which could be associated with God from public places, and a falling away from the truths once delivered to the first New Testament churches, has convinced me Haggai’s prophecy in Haggai 2:6-9 will soon be fulfilled. Soon the BRANCH, the root, the rod out of David, the man who is the Son
of God, Jesus Christ will return to build the temple of Ezekiel 40 to 48.
HAGGAI 2:6 – For thus saith the Lord of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;
Isaiah 29:6 – Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
Malachi 4:1,2 – For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave
them neither root nor branch.
Matthew 24:21 – For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
HAGGAI 2:7 – And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts.
[7A] “And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come:”
Luke 21:25-28 – And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; [26] Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. [27] And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. [28] And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
Daniel 7:13,14 – I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
[14] And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
[7B] “And I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of Hosts.”
Zechariah 6:12,13 – And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord: [13] Even he shall build the temple of the Lord; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
He will sit on the throne of David as both eternal Ruler and eternal High Priest, thereby combining the two offices that existed in the Old Testament structure of Israel, and he will rule over all the earth.
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.
Christ is the sign that will be set among the nations of the earth at his Second Advent, and they will fill the millennial temple with glory by their obedience and the return of all Israelis to their homeland by whatever is left for transportation after the destruction of the great tribulation period.
Isaiah 66:19-21 – And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles. [20] And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the Lord out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the Lord, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord. [21] And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the Lord.
HAGGAI 2:8 – The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts.
The riches of the Gentile nations will pour into Israel for the 1000 years of his reign. Israel’s priesthood will be reestablished. Delegations from all nations will come to Jerusalem to worship at the feast of tabernacles.
Zechariah 14:14 – And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance.
Isaiah 61:6 – But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
Zechariah 14:16 – And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
HAGGAI 2:9 – The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts.
[9A] “The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of hosts.”
The instructions for the building of this great millennial temple are contained in Ezekiel 40 to 43, and Messiah’s entrance, after its completion, is predicted in Ezekiel 43.
Ezekiel 43:1-7 – Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east: [2] And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory. [3] And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.
[4] And the glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east. [5] So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house. [6] And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me.
[7] And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.
[9B] “And in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of Hosts.”
It will amount to a peace of a thousand years to Israel and all the Gentile nations. Israel will be a blessing to all the Gentile nations.
Isaiah 66:12-14 – For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees. [13] As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
[14] And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the Lord shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.
It would be wise for all believers to worship him today in one of his local churches before his second coming!
I Timothy 3:15 – But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest TO BEHAVE thyself in THE HOUSE OF GOD, WHICH IS THE CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, the pillar and ground of the truth.
Ephesians 2:22 – In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Ephesians 3:21 – Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
Begin Haaretz Article
Speedily rebuild, in our days
By Nadav Shragai, Haaretz Correspondent
July 8, 2008
Once, not many years ago, the people of the Temple Institute planned to import frozen fetuses of a red heifer from a Scandinavian country and implant them in the uterus of an Israeli cow. The aim was to create the rare animal whose burnt ashes served in Temple times to purify those who had become ritually unclean due to contact with the dead and enabled people to enter the Temple compound in a state of purity.
Late last week, on the eve of the Shabbat in week the Torah portion Hukkat is read, in which the red heifer is mentioned, it became clear that the people associated with the Temple Institute, who for 25 years have been researching the Temple and its rituals, creating vessels for future use in the Temple and maintaining contact with scientists and research institutes worldwide, believe they have cracked the genetic code that will make it possible to clone a red heifer.
The “recreation” of the red heifer is likely to have a far-reaching effect on the view of rabbis who at present forbid the entry of Jews to the Temple Mount, partly because of the latter’s status as “tamei met.” This status describes any Jew who has ever come into contact with a human corpse or with people or objects that have touched a corpse. In terms of halakha (Jewish religious law), we are all in effect tamei met.
Will the people of the Temple Institute therefore begin to clone the red heifer now?
The answer is no. Not because they don’t want to do so, but because according to halakha the red heifer can only be handled by priests who themselves are in a state of purity.
Because there are no ashes of a red heifer with which to purify priests, the only solution would be to find priestly families who are willing to give up their children immediately after their birth for a special mission: to have them raised and prepared in conditions of isolation and purity for at least 13 years, so that they can handle the next red heifer, if and when it returns.
The community of Mitzpeh Yeriho has expressed a willingness to allocate land for a compound for this purpose, but it should come as no surprise that few families have volunteered to hand over their children and have them raised in relative isolation for such a long time.
Until the dream of the red heifer can be realized and the compound built, the Temple Institute is making do with more modest initiatives. A few days ago a workshop for priestly garments, under the aegis of the Temple Institute, was dedicated on Ma’amadot Yisrael Street in Jerusalem’s Old City.
According to the institute?s director, Yehuda Glick, by the intermediate days of the Sukkot holiday, in October, 120 sets of priestly garments will have been completed. The team of tailors, working under designer Aviad Jerufi, whose specializes in ancient clothing, will personally measure and fit, for each of the 120 lucky men, a set of priestly garments that includes a tunic, turban, belt and pants.
The project is being funded by a wealthy Jew from Kiev, the Ukraine.
The fabrics are ready. They were woven in accordance with the halakhic requirement for “bigdei shesh” from a six-ply linen thread. The linen was spun in India and then sent to a plant in Gedera for threading onto spindles for the looms.
The material was woven in a textile workshop in Tel Aviv and sent for finishing washing and softening; in a plant in Rishon Letzion. At the dedication ceremony for the Jerusalem tailoring workshop Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, who is a kohen (of priestly descent), the rabbi of the community of Efrat and the head of the Or Torah Institutes, volunteered to try on one of the sets of garments.
Each year about 100,000 people visit the Temple Institute, located in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem?s Old City. Half are Christians, the rest are ma inly Israeli students and soldiers
in organized groups. They view the various displays, watch presentations and receive explanations from docents. The annual budget of the institute is NIS 10 million.
Most comes from donations, and a small percentage is paid by the state: NIS 200,000 from the Ministry of Education and NIS 100,000 from the Ministry of Culture.
For several years now a golden menorah (candelabrum) weighing about half a ton has been standing in the heart of the Cardo, in the Jewish Quarter.
It contains about 45 kilograms of 24-karat gold, and its value is estimated at about $3 million. The menorah is a copy of the gold menorah in the Temple. It was the product of many years of work by Temple Institute researchers, based on ancient rabbinic sources, Maimonides, the description by contemporary historian Josephus Flavius and on drawings that survive from Temple times.
The institute, which has recreated many other Temple vessels, was founded by Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, and among members of the Temple Mount movements his philosophy is perhaps the clearest: There is no mitzvah in the Torah to mourn the Temple, wrote Ariel recently in a letter to the public.
“We have to go out to a quarry, bring stones and build.”
The Temple will not descend readymade from heaven, but will be built by human beings. “The people of the Second Temple,” says Rabbi Ariel, “did not develop a ritual of weeping over the Temple.
Instead of weeping on the 9th of Av (the day commemorating the destruction of the Temple) they worked hard.
They carried stones to build the altar and renewed the rituals…. The 9th of Av is approaching…. We will sit on the ground…. We will hear the reading of the book of Lamentations from a brokenhearted old man…. Is the cantor serious about his lamentation…. During all the days of the year he looks quite happy, and if the destruction of the Temple really bothers him, why doesn’t he do something concrete to build it.”
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