I viewed a video recently about the upcoming tetrad red moons for the years 2014-2015 which usually herald great upheavals in Israel.
It cannot be denied, things are definitely hotting up in the Middle East around Israel so I decided to read up a little on what could be one of the immediate causes for this.
Please refer to this site for an overview of what I found:
Although YHUH commanded the construction of the first and the reconstruction of the second temple, where in the Bible does it state that man is to build a third temple? The New Jerusalem does not have a Temple! Read the following:
In addition to the above article, I follow the same argument as other people, as follows:
The true temple is to be built by Yahushua, not man!
John 14:2 (KJV) In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
Revelation 21:2: And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from YHUH out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Cross-references for this are:
Isaiah 52:1 Awake, awake, O Zion, clothe yourself with strength. Put on your garments of splendor, O Jerusalem, the holy city. The uncircumcised and defiled will not enter you again.
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Isaiah 61:10 I delight greatly in YHUH; my soul rejoices in my Elohim. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
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Galatians 4:26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.
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Hebrews 11:10 For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is YHUH.
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Hebrews 11:16 Instead, they were longing for a better country--a heavenly one. Therefore YHUH is not ashamed to be called their Elohim, for he has prepared a city for them.
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Hebrews 12:22 But you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living Elohim. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly,
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Revelation 3:12 Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my Elohim. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my Elohim and the name of the city of my Elohim, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my Elohim; and I will also write on him my new name.
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Revelation 11:2 But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles. They will trample on the holy city for 42 months.
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Revelation 19:7 Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready.
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Revelation 21:9 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb."
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Revelation 21:10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from YHUH.
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Revelation 22:17 The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!" Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life.
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Revelation 22:19 And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, YHUH will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.
Still, many Bible believing Christians believe that the Bible says the Jewish people are to build this third temple in Jerusalem. Really?
The Bible makes it perfectly clear that the temple of YHUH on earth today is the body of true believers.
As Paul says in Ephesians
5: 21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of YHUH.
22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Master.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Messiah is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Messiah, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Messiah also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Messiah the church:
30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Messiah and the church.
33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Each true believer is the temple of the Messiah. The temples that were destroyed were a shadow of the true temple in heaven, which is to come down from heaven built by Messiah’s sinless hand. There will be nothing that defiles this temple. No sin is to ever enter this temple. YHUH indwells the body and hearts of the true believers. This temple is made of “living stones” that are built into a spiritual house.” [1 Peter 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to YHUH by Yahushua Messiah.]
YAHUSHUA IS THE CORNER STONE OF THE TRUE TEMPLE
“Yahushua answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Then said the Jews, forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? But He spake of the temple of His body. [John 2:19-21].
“What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have of YHUH, and ye are not your own? [1 Co 6:19].
Temple of his body - note, temple (living church) he raised up but he did not raise his own body from death. His father raised his body and thus the temple (living church) OF his body was raised by him when he physically stood up in the tomb.
Since Messiah is in us the temple also exists here in the spiritual sense. Wherever Yahushua is, the temple is.
The true temple is in heaven, as Yahushua says:
“To him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of My Elohim, and he shall go no more out: and I will right upon him the name of My Elohim, and the name of the city of My Elohim, which is the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my Elohim: and I will write upon him My new name.” [Rev 3:12].
Matthew 21:42-44
"Yahushua saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is YHUH's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of YHUH shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder."
The physical temple that was standing when Yahushua lived on earth was corrupt, Yahushua condemned it as the synagogue of Satan. He prophesied that it would be destroyed, and He never said another should be built. In fact He pointed the people away from the temple made by man’s hands to the heavenly temple made by YHUH.
This new temple is to do away with the blood sacrifice of Yahushua. The Bible makes it perfectly clear there is no other way to salvation except via the blood sacrifice of the Son of YHUH. To show that they don’t believe in the blood sacrifice of Messiah, they will reinstate the slaughter of animals for the atonement of sin. This includes Jews and Gentiles! Just before Yahushua gave up the ghost on the cross, He said it is finished, the price had been paid for the remission of sins. The sinner was purchased with the Holy Blood of Heaven, no higher price could have been paid, nothing is to be added to that.
WHO WANTS THE THIRD TEMPLE BUILT?
The spirit behind the building of this temple is anti-Messiah as Yahushua is unwelcome in this temple. The builders of this temple make it abundantly clear that to them Yahushua is not the Son of YHUH, and is not their Messiah. Their Messiah will be a man and not YHUH in the flesh. To this man they build this temple, and he will take his seat on the throne of this temple, and declare himself to be YHUH. Nowhere does Yahushua even enter this temple. So, why are so many "Christians" running to help build a temple where Yahushua is not welcome? The temple will still be called the temple of YHUH because it is patterned after the heavenly temple, and will be built on the spot of the original temple, but it is false and it is "in place of Messiah, ie. anti-Messsiah".
There is agreement in Judaism that the temple will be built, yet there is disagreement as to whether or not it is to be built by human hands. They know that the final temple is to be built by YHUH, not man. The one that is successful in building the third temple on earth will be recognized as the Messiah (falsely). They know the scriptures but they have twisted them so much they don’t realize the one that builds the temple must sit in it as their Elohim. They will not recognize the anti-Messiah when he comes, they will see him as their Messiah. Through the “Ecumenical Movement” many are joining the anti-Messiah in building his temple. Rabbi Chaim Richman is the main power behind the building of this temple. He and his organisation, The Temple Institute [Machon HaMikdash, in Hebrew], is an organization who’s sole purpose is to build this temple and reinstate the ritual of blood sacrifice. The Temple Institute have already produced over ninety items for ritual worship in the temple. One of these items is the “Mizrak” which holds the blood from sacrificed animals.
Revelation 13:3: And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
Lets take look at what Rabbi Chaim Richman had to say about Yahushua:
“Many Christians pose the question, “why don’t you accept Yahushua as the Messiah?” But to us it is not a simple question of ‘accepting’ or not. Now, first of all, before we even get off the ground in our discussion, we must realize that the concept ‘Messiah’ seems to mean different things to us. Jews do not believe that the Messiah is part of YHUH, or divine in any way, more than any other person. No indication of this can be found in the Old Testament, since this is not a Jewish concept. We look only to YHUH for our salvation, and when the time comes for Him to bring the anointed king, then shall it happen…“We do not accept the notion that scripture “foretells” that YHUH would robe Himself in flesh. We believe that this idea is very the embodiment of idolatry, and we must give our very lives to make a stand against it… as indeed we Jews have always done through the ages."
This is from the man that is laying the foundation of the “Third Temple”! Is that anti-Messiah or not? The man said he would give his very life to stand against Yahushua. So, if this man and his organization are successful and you help put him there, then he is your Messiah, the anti-Messiah, he is your Elohim! Many Christians will hear the words of this man and will continue to help him build his temple to himself. Remember the only one who will escape the deception of the last days are those who have a love of the truth. The trick is to make you believe the Jews are YHUH’s people, and any thing they do must be supported by Christians. The Bible says that YHUH came unto His own, and His own received Him not, but, to those who did receive Him, He gave them power to become the sons of YHUH. Notice the only ones to receive this power are the ones that received Him! The other Jews that rejected Him are not his sons. Even though they are of the Jewish race, Yahushua said they are of their father the devil. Yahushua was Jewish, He was also a man, does that make all men sons of YHUH? Yahushua will have a remnant of believing Jews [144000] in Israel, for them we must take a stand, but not for Zionist Israel who worships the anti-Messiah. Their trust is not in YHUH, but in their military might.
“Neither shall he regard the Elohim of his fathers,nor the desire of women, nor regard any elohim. For he shall magnify himself above all: and an elohim whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasing things. [Dan 11:38].
These builders of this Third Temple claim to worship the Elohim of Abraham, but it is not the Elohim of Abraham, if it were they would recognize Yahushua as the one sent from the Father. They would be building that temple in recognition of His coming to take His seat on the throne as King of Kings and Master of Masters.
WHAT ABOUT THE SANHEDRIN?
Rabbi Chaim Richman is also a member of the current effort to revive the Sanhedrin. First of all, it was the Sanhedrin that lied about Yahushua and had Him put to death! The Sanhedrin are haters of Yahushua, they were then, and still are today. The Sanhedrin, and Kabbalists are out to destroy all faith and belief in Messiah, while they enthrone their lord the anti-Messiah. The weird thing is that they are using the followers of the one they hate the most [Yahushua] to help build their temple to their elohim. The Sanhedrin are opposed to Messiah. They opposed Him from the beginning:
“Meanwhile the High Priest and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Yahushua in order to put Him to death.” [Matthew 26:59].
“At earliest dawn, after the High Priest had held a consultation with the Elders and Scribes, they and the entire Sanhedrin bound Yahushua and took Him away and handed Him over to Pilate. [Mark 15:1].
“Therefore the High Priest and the Pharisees held a meeting of the Sanhedrin. “What step are we taking?” they asked one another; “for this man is performing a great number of miracles. [John 11:47].
They, therefore, left the Sanhedrin and went their way, rejoicing that they had been deemed worthy to suffer disgrace on behalf of His name. [Acts 5:41].
This is the order the builders of the ‘Third Temple” wish to revive and they don’t hide it from us. They tell us to our face they want nothing to do with our true Elohim, and yet much of the (so-called) Christian world will be responsible for supporting this temple to the anti-Messiah!
CHRISTIANS AND THE SATANIC REPUBLICAN PARTY
“And I John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from YHUH out of Heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold the tabernacle of YHUH is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and YHUH Himself shall be with them, and be their Elohim. [Rev 21:2].
“Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of YHUH; And built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Yahushua Messiah Himself being the chief corner stone; in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto a holy temple in Messiah: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of YHUH through the Spirit. [Eph 2:19-22].
When we hear about the temple being rebuilt we for the most part think of how beautiful it was when first completed by Solomon and how the priests performed their faithful duty before YHUH. What we seem to forget is that beautiful temple became the temple of the occult, the synagogue of Satan! Solomon became an occultist, the house once dedicated to the Elohim of Heaven had become the house of Satan. The occultist had so defiled the temple that YHUH left, never to return again, it had to be destroyed. Some of the vile things that went on in Solomon’s Temple by the apostate Jews are recorded in the pages of the Bible. It is these practices that caused the Jews to repeatedly return to slavery. It is these occult practices that the modern day so-called Jews want to return to. Only this time it won't lead to slavery, but to the ushering in of the anti-Messiah and the end of this world. Let's see what went on in King Solomon’s Temple that made YHUH abandon His Temple:
“And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the six month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Elohim YHUH fell there upon me. Then I beheld, and lo, a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of His loins downward, fire, and from His loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness as the color of amber. He put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of YHUH to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy. And, behold, the glory of the Elohim of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain. Then said He unto me, son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north, so I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. He said furthermore unto me, son of man, seest thou what they do? Even the great abomination that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far of from My sanctuary? But turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations. And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall. Then He said to me, son of man, dig now in the wall. And when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. And He said unto me, go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. So I went in and saw; and behold every from of creeping things and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about. And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up. Then said He unto me, son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chamber of his imagery? For they say, YHUH seeth us not; YHUH hath forsaken the earth. He said also unto me, turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do. Then He brought me to the door of the gate of YHUH's house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. Then said He unto me, hast thou seen this O son of man? Turn thee yet again, and thou shall see greater abominations than these. And He brought me into the inner court of YHUH's house and, behold, at the door of the temple of YHUH, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of YHUH, and their faces toward the east; and they worshiped the sun toward the east. Then He said unto me, hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke Me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose. [Ezekiel 8:1-18].
Among the vile things happening in Solomon's Temple were women crying for the “god” Tammuz.
Tammuz: ancient nature deity worshiped in Babylon. A god of agriculture and flock, he personified the creative power of spring. He was loved by the fertility goddess Ishtar, who, according to one legend, was so grief stricken at his death the she contrived to enter the underworld to get him back. According to another legend, she killed him and later restored him to life. These legends and his festival, commemorating the yearly death and rebirth of vegetation, corresponded to the festivals of the Phoenician and Greek “Adonis” and of the Phrygian “Attis.” The Sumerian name of Tammuz was Dumuzi. In the Bible his disappearance is mourned by the women of Jerusalem. [Yahoo Encyclopedia].
The priests had brought to the temple images of their false gods, which the Bible called the image of jealousy:
Image of Jealousy definition= an idolatrous object, seen in vision by Ezekiel [Ezek 8:3-5, which stood in the priests’ or inner court of the temple. Probably identical with the statue of Astarte (2 Kings 21:70. [Bible Dictionary]
They had become sun worshipers, they had turned their backs to the temple of YHUH, and were facing and worshipping the sun. Ezekiel 8:16: And he brought me into the inner court of YHUH's house, and, behold, at the door of the temple YHUH, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple YHUH, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
The people had turned away from YHUH to such an extent that YHUH allowed the Ark to be taken from the Temple. The term “Ichabod” is found in two places in the Bible, 1 Samuel 14:3 and 4:21. Ichabod was the son of Phinehas and the grandson of Eli, the “priest of the LORD in Shiloh.” The sad story of Eli and his two wayward sons, Phinehas and Hophni, is found in 1 Samuel, chapters 2 and 4. Hophni and Phinehas died in battle with the Philistines who captured the Ark of the Covenant and took it away from Israel. Upon hearing this terrible news, Eli fell backward off his chair and broke his neck and died. Phinehas’s pregnant wife went into labor and bore a son.
“And she named the child Ichabod, saying, ‘The glory has departed from Israel!’ because the ark of YHUH had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband. And she said, ‘The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of YHUH has been captured’” (1Samuel 4:21-22).
The word Ichabod means literally “inglorious” or “there is no glory,” and in her pain and despair, the woman (who is unnamed in Scripture) lamented over the loss of the glory of YHUH from Israel. YHUH was not welcome there, He was replaced with the gods of their choosing. It is for these very gods that the Jews are building this third temple.
Another of the major powers behind the building the “third temple” is Freemasonry. They must have the temple to enthrone their messiah [the anti-Messiah]. Freemasonry has a special interest in building this “third temple.” The very life blood of Freemasonry depends on it’s identification with the Temple of Solomon. Freemasons follow Solomon's example. He built the temple but also built altars to pagan gods due to his many wives' influence. The main players behind this New Age Occult Movement are Freemasonry, Kabbalahist, and Talmud Jews. They all hate the thought of Yahushua’s return, they believe in a messiah appearing, just not in the true Messiah. They are all looking for their man the anti-Messiah and they know they must build his house for him to come and take his place as their messiah.
WILL THE "TIME BOMB" OVER THE TEMPLE MOUNT IGNITE?
Can it be diffused? Or will the Middle East explode in war?
Known by Muslims as the Haram esh-Sharif or Noble Enclosure since A.D. 638, these fortress walls guard Islam's third holiest site, the golden "Dome of the Rock" and Al-Aqsa Mosque. Despite thirteen centuries of Islamic heritage, Jews today consider the Haram as their Temple Mount. Tradition calls it "the navel of the world ... situated in the center of the world."
The Temple Mount, thought to be the site of the First and Second Jewish temples, abuts the Haram's "Western Wall"—-considered by Jews to be the only stones left intact from the Roman sacking of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. The outcropping under the Dome of the Rock is thought to be the crest of Mount Moriah where Abraham nearly sacrificed his son.
Increasingly, zealous Jews in Israel and End-Time Christians in America are calling for the rebuilding of a "Third Temple" where the Dome of the Rock stands.
In his book, Arabs and Jews: Wounded Spirits In A Promised Land, New York Times journalist David Shipler reports, "During my five years in Jerusalem, the idea of building a Third Temple in place of Al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock evolved from a wild notion held by a very few fringe militants into a goal embraced and legitimized by parts of the established right wing." Shipler continues, "Some groups had a letterhead printed with a composite aerial photograph of the Old City as it is today and the Temple Mount as they wish it to be tomorrow: clear of mosques and dominated by a huge temple."
In a recent book, The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount," Israeli journalist, Gershon Gorenberg writes, "The Temple Mount beckons seductively to believers eager to restart redemption." Although journalists or theologians often mock them, Gorenberg claims governments need to take their apocalyptic schemes seriously. According to messianic groups in Jerusalem such as the Temple Mount Faithful, three events must take place before the Jewish messiah comes: the reconstitution of Israel, the return of the Jews to their homeland; and the construction of a Third Temple.
As religious Jews tell it, the first two events came about through the founding of the Jewish State in 1948. They believe the third has become possible due to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Israel found herself capturing the West Bank and East Jerusalem. "The Temple Mount is in our hands," proclaimed Motta Gur, the Israeli commander. But on the fourth day of occupation, then Defense-minister Moshe Dayan decided to return control of the Haram compound to clerics from the Islamic Trust or Waqf. Despite the control of the Haram by the Waqf, the continued occupation of the Old City of Jerusalem by Israel has transformed the rebuilding of the Temple for extreme Jews from a divine prophecy into an attainable human endeavor. Palestinians have always felt the goal of Jewish Zionism is, as its name implies, control of the Temple Mount and the construction of the Third Temple. In 1995, an Arab editorial declared, "The weeping of the Jews by the Wailing Wall and their kisses do not come of their love for the wall itself, but from their secret desire to win control of the Haram al-Sharif, as everyone knows."
Palestinian uneasiness about Jewish extremism is understandable. On more than one hundred occasions since 1967, members of the "Jewish underground" have initiated plots to siege or destroy the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa mosque, acts that would have rendered peace with the Arab world unattainable. The rhetoric about the Temple Mount has inflamed passions on all sides. Indeed, it was a principal factor, if not the key factor, in derailing the U.S. brokered Camp David peace talks in 2000. Israelis insisted on dual ownership of the Haram, something Arafat said no Arab leader could accept. Making matters worse, Israeli hard-liner Ariel Sharon entered the Haram several weeks later with an armed security force of 1,000 Israeli soldiers, provoking a new round of violence in which nearly 500 people have died, largely Palestinians.
Amidst these fears, a new film was released in Israel. By December, Hahesder, or "Time of Favor," became a hit movie. The film revolves around a plot by ultra-religious Jews to blow up Islamic holy places on the Temple Mount. The Israeli Shin Bet followed up the movie's release with warnings about the possible eruption of Jewish violence centered on the Temple Mount. One Israeli security official told the BBC, "To harm the mosque, it means a global war between the Arab world and the Islamic world against Israel, and no doubt that it could be a war that may bring destruction to the state of Israel."
Israeli academics have been equally alarmed by "Third Temple" ideas. In January, Keshev—the Center for the Protection of Democracy in Tel Aviv issued a 12-page report entitled, "Targeting the Temple Mount," which examined current threats to the Temple Mount from extreme militant and messianic groups. The report said, "Threats to the Temple Mount have reached a critical stage." The danger, the report said, comes from some ten organizations who influence tens of thousands of people and who are acting to re-institute Temple practices and rituals.
The secular research continued, "In the event of damage to the holy sites, all the blame will be placed on Israel and apocalyptically destructive forces may be unleashed." It urged the Israeli government "to stop all support and funding of Temple lovers' organizations and institutions" and "publicly disassociate themselves from rabbinical calls to ‘destroy the mosques.' Our lives depend on it."
THE BATTLE FOR JERUSALEM
Historically, following Bar Kochba's revolt in A.D. 135, the idea of rebuilding the Jewish Temple was disavowed by Judaism. Only the Messiah, it was believed, was capable of rebuilding the Temple. This idea has been challenged in our time by more than a century of Jewish Zionism. What is surprising about this extreme brand of messianic Judaism and its fixation on the Temple Mount is that its greatest sector of support now is coming from apocalyptic Christians in America. Fifteen years ago the radical Jewish "Temple Mount Faithful" had practically disappeared in Jerusalem. Then it made connections with End-Time churches in the U.S. Since then, its founder, Gershon Salomon, has been promoted by Pat Robinson's Christian Broadcasting Network and cash flow has been steady. Gorenberg feels that the alliance between End-Time Jews and Christians is an ironic one, for evangelicals see the creation of Israel and the re-establishment of the Temple as pre-requisites for the End of Days when, according to apocalyptic scenarios, two-thirds of all Jews will die in the battle of Armageddon. Still, the rebuilding of a "Third Temple" is almost axiomatic amongst today's Christians, as witnessed in Bible prophecy books such as The Coming Last Days Temple by Randall Price.
FULFILLED PROPHECY
Most people are totally unaware that Jerusalem in Yahushua's day was one of the biggest cities between Alexandria and Damascus. Herod the Great had restored the Temple as a world-renowned wonder. It was a prosperous metropolitan city of more than 80,000 people, with two or three times that many visiting during festival seasons.
For Christians, Dr. Ernest L. Martin, a forty-year historian on Jerusalem's reconstruction, solves the quandary of Yahushua's prophecy repeated four times in the gospel, that "not one stone would be left upon another" (Mark 13:1-2, Matt. 24:1-3, Luke 19:43-44, 21:5-6).
Martin, who takes the words of Yahushua literally, argues that the total removal of the Second Temple down to its foundations in A.D. 70 is in accord with Yahushua's statements. Both Yahushua and the prophet Daniel foretold not only its destruction, which was effected by the Romans under Titus, but its final ruin and desolation.While Cyril was Bishop of Jerusalem, the apostate emperor Julian resolved to defy the words of Our Lord (Luke21:6) by rebuilding the ancient temple of Jerusalem. He employed the power and resources of a Roman emperor; the Jews thronged enthusiastically to him and gave munificently. But Cyril was unmoved. Relying on the infallible truth of the scripture prophecies: as, that the desolation of the Jewish Temple should last till the end; and that one stone should not be left on another, Cyril wrote:
“The word of YHUH abides,” he said; “one stone shall not be laid on another.”
The Jews of both sexes bore a share in the labor of rebuilding the Temple. Women helping to dig the ground carried out the rubbish in their aprons and skirts of their gowns. At this time, the Temple foundations and some ruins of the walls of the Temple still stood. Both Cyril and Eusebius say the inhabitants carried away the foundation and ruins stones for their private buildings. These ruins the Jews first demolished with their own hands, thus concurring with Yahushua's prophecy. Then many thousands of Jews began to dig the new foundation. When the Jews tried to rebuild the Temple, history records that the combination of an earthquake in Jerusalem, Julian's death, and opposition from the rabbis (who were now the Jews' spiritual leaders in place of the former temple priesthood) put an end to the project shortly after work on it had begun.
Perhaps the same thing will happen now in modern times - all we need to know is not to support this Third Temple abomination as true followers of Yahushua.
Daniel 9:27: And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
**UPDATE 15 July 2022
I am quoting from info@biblesforisrael.com:
"The Moon Will Turn Blood-Red
“The sun will darken, the moon turn blood-red, before the day of the Lord arrives, that great and terrible day.” (Joel 2:31)
In his third and last chapter, Joel mentions a blood moon in connection with the Day of the Lord.
Two of these blood moons occurred in 2014 on Passover and Sukkot, two of God’s appointed feasts that celebrate redemption and the Exodus from slavery in Egypt to freedom in Israel.
The next two occurred, once again on Passover and Sukkot in 2015, making a total of four Blood Moons—eclipsed moons that reflect the earth’s light and give the appearance of a red glow.
While these four blood moons (known as Blood Moon Tetrad) may not be linked to that great judgment day that Joel prophesies, history has recorded tetrads shortly before and after momentous events in the history of the Jewish People.
In the midst of the last tetrad (2014–2015), war broke out between Gaza and Israel, resulting in a worldwide movement to cite Israel for war crimes and boycott Israeli products. Terrorism heightened on the streets of Israel. ISIS moved into Israel’s backyard at the Sinai, as well as in Syria, followed by Russia and Iran, who remain in Syria to this day.
More importantly, perhaps, on September 25, 2015, two days before the last of the blood moons, Pope Francis addressed the United Nations and endorsed a major step toward a new world order:
“The adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the World Summit, which opens today, is an important sign of hope,” he told the General Assembly.
This United Nations' Agenda plans to bring worldwide peace, prosperity and more to the world by 2030, three years before another blood moon tetrad.
While these goals prepared by the United Nations appear noble, there is a one-world agenda, and the UN and the WHO are vying for control of it during these days of Covid-19.
The United Nations 17 primary goals set on a fast track for achievement by 2030.
Now eight years since the Blood Moons prophetically appeared in the sky on Biblical Jewish Holy Days, the greatest sign exposing the reality of birth pangs of Messiah’s return in these last days is Covid-19.
Along with Covid we now have inflation, Russia's war with Ukraine, and the LGBT liberal push to normalize gay marriage as well as confusing children to choose what gender they want to be; enticing them to take hormones and have surgeries turning them into looking like the opposite sex.
All of this has brought fear, chaos, and confusion throughout the world."
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