Showing posts with label Temple Mount. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Temple Mount. Show all posts

Friday, September 2, 2016

Sanhedrin Recomends High Priest





Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Pope Francis to be Tried by Sanhedrin - Israel News

A very intriguing article!  The Trial date is set for near the end of the Shmita year.  Are things coming to a head for September of 2015?



Pope Francis to be Tried by Sanhedrin - Israel News

Monday, March 16, 2015

Major Prophetic Announcement! - Holy Altar Constructed For Third Jewish Temple


The following article was posted at Prophecy In The News, written by Leo Holman.

  • Major Prophetic Announcement! - Holy Altar Constructed For Third Jewish Temple

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End-times prophecy watchers are marveling over a news report out of Jerusalem this week that the Altar of the Lord has been reconstructed by the Temple Institute.

The Institute, based in the Old City of Jerusalem, announced it has finished building an altar that is essentially “ready for use” in sacrificial services.

The altar is the most ambitious project to date toward the goal of rebuilding the Jewish Temple. The massive outdoor altar, which took several years to build, can be operational at little more than a moment’s notice, reported the Israeli magazine Matzav Haruach.

The altar is the last major component needed for the long-obstructed sacrifices to resume in a future Jewish temple.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews pray daily for its reconstruction atop the holy hill known as Mount Moriah or the Temple Mount.

Bible scholars say the rebuilding of the ancient temple is predicted throughout scripture, starting with Daniel’s vision in Daniel 9:27. Jesus echoed Daniel’s warning about an abomination standing in “the holy place” in the last days in Matthew 24:15, followed by the Apostle John’s vision of the Temple in Revelation 11:1-2. Paul mentioned it in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4.

Most people don’t realize the temple had two altars — the altar of burnt offering and the altar of incense. The largest was the altar of burnt offering, placed in the outer court of the priests. Designing and building it to exact biblical specifications required quite an undertaking.

It was approximately 5 meters (16 feet) tall and 16 meters (52.5 feet) wide, with four “horns” or raised corners, and a ramp.

The altar is the central focus of the sacrificial services that were halted with the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans in 70 A.D.

The Temple Institute has prepared all the priestly garments and sacred vessels for the rebuilt temple, which can be viewed on its website. It even trains members of the priestly family to be ready to serve as soon as the Temple is constructed.

Carl Gallups, a Baptist pastor in Florida, Bible prophecy expert and author of “Final Warning: Understanding the Trumpet Days of Revelation,” told WND the announcement about the altar will be seen by many Christians as a huge step toward fulfillment of Bible prophecy.

“This announcement will surely excite prophecy watchers around the world,” he said. “Regardless of one’s eschatological leanings, every sincere student of the Word of God knows there are at least hints, if not clear declarations, of something happening just before the return of the Lord that involves altar sacrifices and the distinct possibility of a rebuilt temple on the Temple Mount.”

Jonathan Cahn, author of “The Harbinger” and “The Mystery of the Shemitah” also sees the announcement as significant.

“We know that end-time prophecy cannot be fulfilled without the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem,” Cahn, a Messianic Jewish rabbi in New Jersey, told WND. “The abomination desolation prophesied in Daniel and in the Gospels, must take place within the Temple precincts. So, too, the apostle Paul speaks of the ‘man of sin,’ or the Antichrist, sitting in the Temple of God. What many people don’t realize is that along with the Holy of Holies, the altar of the Temple is the most central and critical part of the Temple.”

Cahn said it is the altar that is the center of the abomination causing desolation.

“It was specifically the altar of the Temple that was desecrated by Antiochus Epiphanes in the days of the Maccabees that comprised the first abomination desolation and the foreshadowing of what will take place in the end-times,” he said. “So any progress made toward the rebuilding of the altar is worthy of our attention.”

Mark Biltz, author of “Blood Moons: Decoding the Imminent Heavenly Signs” and pastor of El Shaddai Ministries, says prophecy watchers should not forget, however, that the Temple Mount is under the control of the Muslims for a reason.

“Religiously, you have the Temple Institute and they are ready to rebuilt it,” he said.

In previous years, there have been attempts to sacrifice a goat on the Temple Mount at Passover, something that enrages Muslims who consider the hilltop the third most sacred spot in Islam.

“They could actually do sacrifices without a temple, some sacrifices. And Passover is one of them. There’s always been a drive to sacrifice a lamb on the Temple Mount,” Biltz said. “They would do it in a heartbeat. But it’s just like here in America where the ACLU wants nothing to do with religion or religious groups. So it’s the same there. The Israeli government doesn’t want to cause any uproar among the various religious factions, especially with elections coming up.”

The Temple Institute represents the views of the Ultra-Orthodox community, which makes up a small percentage of Israel’s population, about 4 percent.

“They would love a temple but the broader population wants to keep church and state separate, and there is a lot of animosity toward the Ultra Orthodox,” Biltz said. “But they don’t need some big elaborate temple, they could start to do the sacrifices with a tent or some sort of makeshift tabernacle. It’s all very interesting and it’s all coming to a head. I believe you’re going to see a major war first, which would redraw alignments and allegiances.”

This explains the reaction of former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan as he observed rabbis rushing to pray at the Temple Mount following the Israeli Army’s reclaiming of the landmark in the 1967 Six-Day War.

“What is this?” Dayan, a secular Jew, reportedly mused. “The Vatican?”

“One of the first things he did was give it back to the Muslims,” Biltz said. “They didn’t want the religious right telling the government what to do. They would rather have the Muslims have it. So there is a bigger fight among the Jews, an even bigger fight over whether to build a temple, than the fight with the Muslims. There are two huge fights going on. ”

There is an interesting foreshadowing of this end-time rebuilding event in the book of Ezra, who gave an account of the Jewish exiles returning from captivity in Persia.

“In rebuilding the temple destroyed under the Babylonian occupation, the first act of those returnees was to rebuild an altar and offer sacrifices upon it to the Lord,” Gallups said.

They did this at the site of the ruined temple. The altar was constructed under the leadership of a high priest named, of all things, Yehoshua (Joshua, or Jesus in the New Testament Greek).

The returning Jews, according to Ezra, rebuilt this holy altar despite fears of attack from surrounding enemies. After the altar was rebuilt, and regular sacrifices reinstated, the returnees celebrated their first festival — the Feast of Tabernacles.

That feast occurs in autumn. This year it will occur during the season of the rare tetrad of four blood moons and the seven-year Shemitah cycle described in Cahn’s book.

Ezra, chapter three, says that after the altar was rebuilt and sacrifices resumed, and when the temple had been rebuilt – the people shouted with joy, praised the Lord and wept aloud. “And the sound (of the celebration) was heard far away.”

“Now, in 2015, we have the news that once again the altar of sacrifice has been rebuilt and is ready for use,” Gallups said. “We also know of a very serious plan to rebuild the ancient temple of God upon the Temple Mount. The days of Ezra and Yehoshua appear to be upon us again. In the midst of the celebration of these facts, the sound of that celebration is once again ‘being heard far away.’ And through the modern technology of the Internet the sound is being heard around the world. These are certainly prophetic times in which we are living.”

Biltz sees the timing of the altar announcement as prophetic.

“Tomorrow, (Saturday) every Jew in synagogues around the world is reading the Torah portion from Exodus about the construction of the tabernacle,” he said. “It’s the last chapter of Exodus about the glory falling, Moses coming out and blessing the people and the glory falling on the tabernacle.

“Not only that but this next week, historically, is the very day the dedication of the tabernacle happened, on Nisan 1, that is read in the Torah portion. This year, being Saturday, March 21. It actually begins at sundown on Friday, March 20.”

As an expert in the Hebrew roots of the Christian faith, Biltz is always looking at current events in light of the times and the seasons according to the Hebrew calendar. And there is something else special this year about Nisan 1, which arrives at sundown March 20.

“Amazingly, there is also a total solar eclipse occurring at the beginning of the religious calendar on March 20. A total solar eclipse speaks of judgment coming on the nations. This is followed two weeks later by a total lunar eclipse or blood moon on Passover.”

So the fact that a remnant of Jews has prepared an altar and the sacred vessels for temple services, even if the politics are still such that constructing the temple is currently impossible, is exciting, Biltz said.

Most of the sacred vessels needed for the temple sacrificial system have been recreated by Israeli artisans – the cups, the chalices, the incense altar and incense shovel, the table of showbread, the high-priest’s crown, the golden menorah, the three-pronged fork and so on. All of these items are being planned now by the Temple Institute, even though the political obstacles to rebuilding the temple in Jerusalem remain huge.

“They even have the high priest’s crown. They have everything ready to go,” Biltz said. “They’ve even had the Levites come in and be fitted for the priestly garments, everything is ready.”

The purpose of the Temple was to make atonement for Israel and atonement for the nations of the world before the Creator, whom all mankind should desire to draw near, Biltz said.

“If the nations had only understood this back then, they would have never destroyed the temple but placed their armies around it to protect it,” he said. “If the nations understood that today, they would realize rather than dividing Jerusalem it should be united with a Temple to Hashem bringing His presence back into our world. This is the only true path to world peace.”

Read more at http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/March16/161.html#LgKBQR2VSsMtc1JZ.99

Sunday, November 23, 2014

The Dome of the Rock was Built for Jews - Inside Israel - News - Arutz Sheva

The Dome of the Rock was Built for Jews - Inside Israel - News - Arutz Sheva


Did you know the Dome of the Rock was really built in reply to a request from the Jews?

Monday, April 14, 2014

Rabbis Unite in Call for Rebuilding the Jewish Temple


This artlicle came out recently on Israel National News:

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Among the rabbis are those considered religiously “conservative” and who have avoided making public calls for prayers on the Temple Mount until now – including Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu – as well as those considered more “liberal,” including Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, Rabbi She'ar Yashuv-Cohen, Rabbi Menachem Borstein, and Rabbi Daniel Shilo. Many of the latter have also avoided calling for prayers on the Mount as well.

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The letter was also signed by many professors, educators, and professionals; it was authored and delivered by the Amutat Yishai organization, which advocates building a synagogue on an area of the Temple Mount that many rabbis agree Jews are allowed to ascend to.

for more on the article, read here.

Saturday, February 1, 2014

Israel : Israeli Housing Minister calls for Third Temple to replace al-A...







Truly, we are on the verge of the Temple being built, and the reign of the Antichrist, so that 2 Thessalonians is fulfilled, where antichrist opposes all that is called God and declares himself God, and  requires all to take his mark and bow to him in worship.



To all my college professors who taught in class that the Bible is wrong... it's not seeming so far off now is it?



2 Thess. 2:3 Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God. Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these things?

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Proposal to Manage Temple Mount for Both Jews and Arabs - Latest News Briefs - Israel National News

Proposal to Manage Temple Mount for Both Jews and Arabs - Latest News Briefs - Israel National News


In order for the Man of Sin to declare himself God, he must have access to the Jewish Temple.  How is he going to do that?  Believe it or not, the Vatican has been working for some time (yes, again, centuries after the Crusades), on managing, or gaining control of Jerusalem.

In 2011:  The Israeli government and the Vatican are deadlocked in discussions over the status of the religious sites. Vatican officials are now reiterating their demand for control over the religious sites in the ancient and holy city founded by King David as the capital of ancient Israel and now the capital of the reestablished Jewish state.  


Satan always tries to copy what God does, and in his vain imaginations, he tries to pull it off better.  Islam is Satan's mockery of Christianity, and their end-time beliefs are  near photo-copy negative of what scripture teaches.  They believe that their Madhi is returning (instead of the true Messiah), that he will be accompanied by a prophet, the Muslim Jesus, who will point all people to the Madhi (false prophet?).  They even believe the Madhi will be killed after 7 years, by the antichrist (the Bible says this is when Yeshua returns on his white horse with his heavenly army)!

My wife and I believe that the "Jesus Christ" who accompanies Mahdi/Maitreya/World Teacher, etc. will be none other than the progressive "Vicar of Christ" who holds sway of millions throughout the world.  And if you haven't heard it yet, St. Malachy gave a prophecy that says the current Pope is the final one, and that the great Judge will return at the end of that Pope's reign


If you don't know Jesus as your Savior and Lord, and want to escape eternal damnation in a lake of fire, ask God to forgive you of your sins (for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God-Rom. 3:23), and turn from those sins in your thinking!  Ask Jesus to come into your life to be your LORD and Savior, and He sill save you (Rom. 10:9-10, 13)!

Friday, September 20, 2013

Temple Institute Draws Up Plans To Mix Modern Technology With Rebuilt Temple

Seems the Jews are going to rebuild the Temple, when it's rebuilt, with a little of what a rabbi calls a "modern miracle."  Yes, the Temple is going to be replete with modern technology...

Temple Institute Draws Up Plans To Mix Modern Technology With Rebuilt Temple

Rabbi Chaim Richman shows me into a darkened room, strokes his beard and pulls out his smartphone. He has a specially designed app that works the lights. 

The room illuminates. He taps the screen again, and a heavy curtain slides open. There, resplendent in brilliant gold – and rather smaller than I expected – lies the Ark of the Covenant. 

“This isn’t the real lost ark,” he says. “The real one is hidden about a kilometre from here, in underground chambers created during the time of Solomon.” I look at him askance. “It’s true,” he says. 


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But, before you accuse Richman and his colleagues of being old-fashioned, the Temple Institute has drawn up plans for the new temple that include two very contemporary features: a monorail, to transport visitors right to the door, and a 6ft-high computerised water dispenser with 12 taps so that an entire shift of priests can wash their hands at once.

Read more athttp://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2013/September19/191.html#WOk4fAm2FSE41rdT.99



Sunday, March 10, 2013

Vatican Moves on Temple Mount

Vatican Moves on Temple Mount

This post on Niklaus Arthurs blog covers this most important event, the Vatican gaining control over the holy sites in Jerusalem! 

*A quick update, on an earlier post i wrote, I mentioned with the final pope in office, the head of what many believe scriptures declare as the mystery harlot, who sits on many waters (Rev. 17:1).  Rev. 17:15 tell us that the many waters are many peoples.  The Roman Catholic church is found in every nation throughout the earth.

Micah 5:5-7 tells us of an Assyrian who will trample the land of Israel.

Micah 5:5-7
5 This One will be our peace. When the Assyrian invades our land, When he tramples on our citadels, Then we will raise against him Seven shepherds and eight leaders of men. 6 They will shepherd the land of Assyria with the sword, The land of Nimrod at its entrances; And He will deliver us from the Assyrian When he attacks our land And when he tramples our territory. 
 
There is an Assyrian, or Syrian, raising up today.  He is a Muslim, and so the goal end of his religion is the annihilation of Israel.    But he comes in the name of peace, seeking to bring an end to fighting in Syria, and the Middle East.  But scripture also tell us that the lawless one, the wicked, the anti-christ, as he is better known, will come in the name of peace (Dan. 9:27, 7:24, 25).
 
Does Micah 5 tell us of a war which this "peace bringer" intiates against the land of Israel?  Does it tell us that Israel will set up a guard, at least along the Syrian border.  And is Micah speaking of the Messiah delivering Israel from the hand of the Assyrian.  If so, we may know the identity of the antichrist.  Or, this man may play another role in the unfolding of God's plan.
 
Do you understand why I've placed this update here?  Because with the Vatican gaining control of the holy sites in Jerusalem, and the pope uniting with Islam, bringing the apostate protestant Chrislam to a whole new level, this will secure the man of lawlessness a place to come in and take his seat at the Temple, where Yahweh Saboath chose for His name to dwell.
 
 
But in verse seven of Micah five, the prophet, inspired by the Spirit of G_d, tells us the outcome for Israel.
 
7 Then the remnant of Jacob Will be among many peoples Like dew from the LORD, Like showers on vegetation which do not wait for man or delay for the sons of men.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

On the Rising of the Antichrist

Speaking about the Antichrist, in Daniel 8, the prophet says:

Daniel 8:8-14 8 Then the male goat magnified himself exceedingly. But as soon as he was mighty, the large horn was broken; and in its place there came up four conspicuous horns toward the four winds of heaven. 9 Out of one of them came forth a rather small horn which grew exceedingly great toward the south, toward the east, and toward the Beautiful Land. 10 It grew up to the host of heaven and caused some of the host and some of the stars to fall to the earth, and it trampled them down. 11 It even magnified itself to be equal with the Commander of the host; and it removed the regular sacrifice from Him, and the place of His sanctuary was thrown down. 12 And on account of transgression the host will be given over to the horn along with the regular sacrifice; and it will fling truth to the ground and perform its will and prosper. 13 Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to that particular one who was speaking, "How long will the vision about the regular sacrifice apply, while the transgression causes horror, so as to allow both the holy place and the host to be trampled?" 14 He said to me, "For 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the holy place will be properly restored."

The male goat is the Grecian empire, which went to four of Alexander's generals, so the Antichrist will emerge out of one of the former domains of the ancient Greek empire, and wiil grow "great" towards Egypt and Iraq/Iran. Interesting to note.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

The Eastern Gate: The Gate to Prophecy

To read about another outstanding Bible Prophecy that is being on track to being fulfilled, as the rest of the Middle East and Russia grow more and more hostile to Jerusalem, one aspect awaits quietly upon the Temple Mount. Click the link to read an intriguing article and a beautiful poem.

Articles - Prophecy - General - The Gate to Prophecy