The Third Temple
Israel National News (August 31, 2008)
- Rabbi Shlomo Riskin appeared so elated it seemed as if he
would jump from his stationary standing position and sing praise to
the Almighty right then and there. And all for the seemingly simple
act of being fitted by a... tailor. Yet, the "tailor" wasn't just
any tailor, but Rabbi Yisrael Ariel of the Temple Institute in
Jerusalem.
Rabbi Ariel and his colleagues carefully took the measurements
of Rabbi Riskin and several other rabbis, all kohanim, to eventually
outfit them with the priestly garments according to the exact
specifications in the Torah. Yehuda Glick, the Temple Institute's
Director, beamed, "Today, in this room, kohanim are being measured
for the first time in 2,000 years for the type of garments they will
be wearing in a rebuilt Temple."
Jewish Temple Will "Complicate" Peace Deal - Moroccan King
Nasdaq
(October 27, 2008) - King Mohammed VI
of Morocco Monday urged Israel not to press ahead with plans to build a
Jewish temple in the Muslim area of east Jerusalem. The King warned the
building of a synagogue next to the Al-Aqsa mosque could have
"detrimental consequences" on Israel's peace talks with the
Palestinians. "What has been started in this district will certainly
complicate the peace deal and could have to detrimental consequences,"
he said in a statement aimed at Pope Benedict XVI and the U.N. Al-Aqsa
mosque - on Islam's third holiest site - has been a flashpoint in the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The site saw the outbreak of the latest
Palestinian uprising, or intifada, in 2000. Jews believe the compound
including the mosque was the site of the Second Temple, Judaism's
holiest site, which was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD. East Jerusalem
is home to Jews, Muslims and Christians. Palestinians want the district
as the capital of any future Palestinian state.
Police
Arrest Temple Institute Director
Israel National News
(October 19, 2008) - While waiting in line to
visit the Temple Mount early Sunday afternoon, Temple Institute Director
Yehuda Glick was suddenly singled out and arrested. A police spokesman
said he would look into the incident. Glick was standing together with
hundreds of others, many of whom had been denied entry in the first
round of Temple Mount visiting hours on Sunday morning and were told to
return at 12:30 PM. The Moslem Waqf [Islamic Trust] is very strict about
enforcing the Mount's visiting hours for Jews, and closes the gates
sharply at 10 AM, opens them again at 12:30 PM, and closes them for the
day an hour later.
Rabbi Tendler to Rabbis: Permit Temple Mount Visits!
Israel National News
(September
10, 2008) - Rabbi Moshe David Tendler, a prominent Torah scholar
and lecturer in Yeshiva University in New York, and a Ph.D. in
microbiology, says that the recent renewal by top rabbis of a ban on
entry to the Temple Mount is either based on wrong information or guided
by the government's political considerations. "The citation of Jewish
Law that is being spouted to prohibit Jewish entry to the Temple Mount
is sometimes embarrassing," Rabbi Tendler told IsraelNationalRadio's
Yishai Fleisher this week. He said the Chief Rabbinate must exercise its
authority for the sake of the entire Nation of Israel.
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Ban Last month, Rabbi Shalom Elyashiv,
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, and former Sephardic chief rabbi Rabbi Ovadia
Yosef - all renowned rabbis of the hareidi non-nationalist religious
sector -
sent a letter asking that the ban on Jewish entry to the Temple
Mount be re-issued. The letter was sent to Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovich, the
Rabbi of the Holy Sites on behalf of the government of Israel. The
rabbis' letter is based on the grave Biblical prohibition on setting
foot, while in the present impure state, on certain parts of the Temple
Mount - and the lack of clarity as to where those parts might be. "As
time passed," the letter states, "we have lost knowledge of the precise
location of the Temple, and anyone entering the Temple Mount is liable
to unwittingly enter the area of the Temple and the Holy of Holies.
Entrance to the Temple Mount, and the defilement of the Holy of Holies,
is more severe than any of the violations in the Torah." more...
Condi pulls a Solomon: Split Jerusalem in 2
WorldNet Daily
(August
28, 2008) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, completing a
visit to the region today, has been pressing Israel to sign a document
by the end of the year that would divide Jerusalem by offering the
Palestinians a state in Israel's capital city as well as in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip, according to top diplomatic sources involved in the
talks. The Israeli team, led by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, has been
negotiating the division of Jerusalem – despite claims to the contrary –
but would rather conclude an agreement on paper by the end of the year
that would give the Palestinians a state in the West Bank, Gaza and some
Israeli territory, leaving conclusions on Jerusalem for a later date,
the informed diplomatic sources told WND. The sources said the
Palestinian team has been pushing to conclude a deal by January on all
core issues, including Jerusalem, and has been petitioning the U.S. to
pressure Israel into signing an agreement on paper that offers the
Palestinians eastern Jerusalem. Rice, the sources said, has asked
Israeli leaders to bend to what the U.S. refers to as a "compromise
position," concluding an Israeli-Palestinian agreement by the end of the
year that guarantees sections of Jerusalem to the Palestinians. But
Israel would not be required to withdraw from Jerusalem for a period of
one to five years. The diplomatic sources said the plan is that once an
Israeli-Palestinian deal is reached on paper by January, Bush would
issue an official letter guaranteeing that the U.S. supports the
conclusions of the document. Any Israeli-Palestinian paper agreement is
to finalize a process that began at last November's U.S. backed
Annapolis conference, which seeks to create a Palestinian state, at
least on paper, before Bush leaves office. One Palestinian negotiator
speaking to WND described as "crazy" the intensity and frequency of
Israeli-Palestinian talks in recent weeks, saying both sides have been
meeting on a daily basis, usually at the highest levels. The negotiator
said Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Chief Palestinian Negotiator Ahmed
Queri have been leading the talks. The negotiator said Jerusalem is
being discussed by both sides and that the two teams are "closer than
ever" on coming to an agreement on the status of the city. This claim
was verified to WND by other diplomatic sources involved in the
negotiations. The Palestinian negotiator said Jerusalem would be divided
along the framework of the 2000 U.S.-brokered Camp David accords. He
said the general philosophy for dividing Jerusalem would be "Arab for
Arab and Jew for Jew," meaning that most Arab-majority eastern sections
of Jerusalem would be granted to the Palestinian Authority while Israel
would retain Western, Jewish-majority sections. Israel recaptured
eastern Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount – Judaism's holiest site –
during the 1967 Six Day War. The Palestinians have claimed eastern
Jerusalem as a future capital. About 244,000 Arabs live in Jerusalem,
mostly in eastern neighborhoods. Jerusalem has an estimated total
population of 724,000, the majority Jewish. A number of Arab-majority
eastern Jerusalem neighborhoods widely regarded as slated for a
Palestinian state include large numbers of Arabs who live on
Jewish-owned land illegally. The Jewish National Fund, a U.S.-based
nonprofit, owns hundred of acres of eastern Jerusalem land in which tens
of thousands of Arabs illegally constructed homes the past few decades.
Arabs are now the majority on the Jewish-owned land in question. Asked
by WND whether Jerusalem is currently being negotiated, Mark Regev,
Olmert's spokesman, simply stated, "No." Olmert has several times denied
Jerusalem is being negotiated. Members of his government coalition have
promised to bolt his government and precipitate new elections if
Jerusalem is discussed in talks. Olmert, facing several criminal
investigations described as "serious," recently announced he will resign
after his Kadima party holds primaries next month to chose a new leader.
That leader is widely expected to continue Israeli-Palestinian talks,
especially if frontrunner Livni takes Olmert's place.
The diplomatic situation in Israel is such that many commentators
believe Olmert has an interest in concluding some sort of agreement
quickly. Many believe he would like his input in an Israeli-Palestinian
agreement to be among his final "achievements."
WND
first exclusively reported Aug. 1 that Olmert told the PA he intends
to accelerate negotiations to reach some understanding on paper as soon
as September. Over the weekend, the Israeli media quoted officials close
to Olmert stating the prime minister is working for an interim document
as soon as next month to be presented to the United Nations. The
document likely will not be the conclusion of negotiations but an
outline of some of the breakthroughs regarding the West Bank and Gaza.
One PA negotiator told WND of the planned paper: "Papers are very
important. It puts limits on the new prime minister. For example, the
weak point of Israeli-Syrian negotiations are papers signed by former
prime ministers that now must be abided during current negotiations."
Regarding the division of Jerusalem, top diplomatic sources said both
sides are close to agreements on specific issues. One PA negotiator
claimed the U.S. has guaranteed the Palestinians that sensitive areas in
eastern Jerusalem in which what he termed "extremist Jews" are
purchasing real estate would be handed to the Palestinians. "The
Israelis had no problem with this," the PA negotiator claimed. "We were
also told not to worry too much about scattered Jewish properties in
Arab neighborhoods, or yeshivas (Jewish seminaries) in the Old City."
The PA negotiator's claim could not be verified by sources in Jerusalem.
The initial stage also calls for the PA to operate Jerusalem municipal
institutions, such as offices to oversee trash collection and
maintenance of roads. After five years, if both sides keep specific
commitments called for in a larger principal agreement, according to the
U.S. plan the PA would be given full sovereignty over agreed upon
eastern Jerusalem neighborhoods and discussions would be held regarding
an arrangement for the Temple Mount. The plan doesn't specify which
parts of the Temple Mount could be forfeited to the Palestinians or
whether an international force may be involved. The PA also could deploy
official security forces in Jerusalem separate from a non-defined basic
force after the five year period and could also open major governmental
institutions, such as a president's office, and offices for the finance
and foreign ministries. The U.S. plan leaves Israel and the PA to
negotiate which Jerusalem neighborhoods would become Palestinian.
According to diplomatic sources familiar with the plan, while specific
neighborhoods were not officially listed, American officials recommended
sections of Jerusalem's Old City as well as certain largely Arab
Jerusalem neighborhoods such as Jabal mukabar, Beit Hanina, Abu Dis, and
Abu Tur become part of the Palestinian side. Also recommended were the
Jerusalem neighborhoods of Shoafat, Kfar Akev and Qalandiya. more...
Jews
in the Temple Area: A "Mount"-ing Controversy
Israel National News
(August
24, 2008) - Several of Israel’s leading rabbis have fired the
latest shot in one of modern Israel’s longest-running halachic
disputes—whether a Jew may enter the Temple Mount nowadays. Rabbis
Ovadia Yosef, Shalom Elyashiv and Chaim Kanievsky recently sent a letter
to Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovich, the rabbi in charge of the Western Wall
area, asking him to repeat a 40-year-old decree prohibiting Jews from
entering the Temple Mount. The decree was originally signed by most
leading rabbis upon the Mount’s capture by Israel in the 1967 Six Day
War. The Temple Mount is the area upon which both Holy Temples stood, in
which the priests offered sacrifices, and where thrice-yearly
convocations of the whole nation of Israel took place during the
festivals of Pesach (Passover), Shavuot (Weeks) and Sukkot
(Tabernacles). In the center of the Temple complex stood a Holy of
Holies that guarded the Holy Ark—once containing the original Tablets of
the Law given to Moses by G-d at Mt. Sinai—and the Foundation Stone for
the creation of the universe. That spot is the holiest point in the
world and the place that the High Priest entered only once a year to
offer the most important atonement sacrifice of the year. The modern
debate centers on whether or not there is enough information from
classical rabbinical sources to identify the location of the Holy of
Holies, as well as the layout of the Temple, which articulated specific
areas accessible to different categories of Jews. The biblical
prohibition against a person entering an area in the Temple complex
forbidden to him carries with it the severe Divine penalty of karet.
Rabbi Yosef is regarded as Israel’s foremost Sephardic authority on
Torah law, Rabbi Elyashiv is considered to be the leader of the hareidi-religious
community, and Rabbi Kanievsky is a world-renowned rabbi and authority
on Torah law. The letter sent by the rabbis follows a firestorm of
controversy that erupted last month when a prominent rabbi, Rabbi Moshe
Tendler, was photographed ascending the Mount. Rabbi Tendler is the
son-in-law of the late Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, considered the leading
halachic (Torah law) authority in America in his time. Rabbi Tendler
climbed to the plaza in the center of the Mount, upon which the Muslims
built the Dome of the Rock, considered by many to be the location of the
Inner Temple itself. In recent years several other prominent rabbis have
ascended the Mount, keeping the flames of the dispute burning. In the
latest letter, the three rabbis demand a complete ban on Jews entering
any part of the Temple Mount on the grounds that the ritual purity of
the area might be violated. "A time passed, we have lost knowledge of
the precise location of the Temple, and anyone entering the Temple Mount
is liable to unwittingly enter the area of the Temple and the Holy of
Holies,” the three wrote in the letter. Is Temple Mount God's time bomb? WorldNet Daily (August 14, 2008) - Was the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem more than a place of worship? Was it, indeed, a roadmap to future events – a kind of prophetic landmark whose significance is only now revealed through the development of satellite imagery? That is the contention of an explosive new book, "Temple at the Center of Time: Newton's Bible Codex Deciphered and the Year 2012," by David Flynn, a book that has risen dramatically to No. 1 among unexplained mysteries, No. 1 in world history and 73 overall on Amazon.com. The book asserts it has "deciphered Isaac Newton’s greatest paradox: None other than 'the unified field theory' of Bible prophecy." Sir Isaac Newton was not only a great thinker in physics, the book explains, but had extensive knowledge of the Scriptures with a special interest in prophecy. Newton believed there was a hidden code, a type of time-encrypted language. He believed the key to deciphering this code was the Temple of Solomon. He wrote extensively on the length measurements of the Temple and suggested it intersected time and dimension, serving as a prophetic and supernatural structure. According to Flynn, although Newton never cracked this code, he was on the right track and was limited only by the lack of sophisticated satellite technology. "The description of Jerusalem as a terrestrial center point, situated in the center of the world, is found in Philo's Legatio and Gaium," Flynn notes. "The world is like a human eyeball. The white of the eye is the ocean surrounding the world, the iris is this continent, the pupil is Jerusalem, and the image in the pupil is the Holy Temple." To make his case, Flynn starts by illustrating what the reader soon learns is the first of numerous extraordinary time-distance anomalies. The prisca sapentia framework of Newton suggests that the distance between the temple of Jerusalem and the capital city of any nation historically effecting the chronicles of Jerusalem would be supernaturally connected. This relationship would be significant with respect to units of time, expressing meaning in line with God's divine plan as recorded in the word of his prophets. For instance, if a measurement is made from the point of the temple of Jerusalem's foundation stone to the palace of Balthazar – the political center of Babylon and the exact location where the writing on the wall occurred – the distance should relate to the period in which Babylon most influenced Jerusalem. Such a relationship exists and is the important distance of 539.86 statute miles. What makes this measurement unusual is that Babylon, which played such a significant role in Hebrew antiquity, was measured and numbered in its relationship to Jewish history in Daniel chapter five during the famous handwriting on the wall. When the prophet interpreted the manifestation, he proclaimed in verses 25-28: Daniel 5:25-28 That very night King Belshazzar was slain, and Darius
the Mede became king. Babylon fell to the Medes and Persians on the 16th
day of Tishri of the Jewish calendar, which correlates to Oct. 12, 539
B.C. Curiously, the number 539 is also the distance in statute miles
between the temple of Jerusalem's foundation stone to the palace of
Balthazar, as confirmed by modern satellite measurement. more...
Jews
Inch Towards Their Temple
Jerusalem Newswire (July
2, 2008) - Another step on the long road towards the restoration
of Temple Worship in Jerusalem was reportedly taken Monday with the
opening of a new workshop in which robes will be manufactured for
practicing priests. According to a report in The Jerusalem Post
Wednesday, a number of Kohanim, (Jews in the Cohen family line who trace
their ancestry back to Aaron, the first High Priest) have already had
measurements taken for the biblically-described vestments. One of them
is the well-known chief rabbi of Efrat Shlomo Riskin. For the new
garments, special flaxen thread is being imported from India, and worms
from which just the right color crimson dye is obtained are being
brought in from Istanbul, according to the report. The new workshop was
inaugurated by the Temple Institute which is situated in Jerusalem's old
City, just a stone's throw from the Temple Mount - the site of the first
and second temples and the place where, according to the Bible, the
Third Temple will be built to welcome the Messiah. Over the years the
institute has worked to create - in strict accordance with the biblical
pattern - many of the implements required for Temple worship, including
the golden seven-branched Menorah, the Table for the Show Bread, and the
Breast-Plate, Crown and Robe for the High Priest. Fully one-third of all
the commandments handed down to the Jews through Moses cannot be kept
without a functioning Temple, said the Post. more... Links Between Daniel 9:27, the 70th Week and the ENP Natural News (June 5, 2008) - I want to thank Ted Montgomery for allowing me to publish this excellent article. Like him I also do agree that the warning must get out at all cost. This article can be downloaded as an easy to print Word document HERE. And for those of you who wonder; my views is 100% the same as Ted’s. Here’s ted:
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Jewish group to slaughter lamb in Passover sacrifice rehearsal
Israel Today
(April 6, 2008) - A Bible-adherent
Jewish group on Sunday ritually slaughtered a young lamb in what is
called a "rehearsal" for the renewal of the Passover sacrifice once the
Jerusalem temple is rebuilt. The Temple Movement won approval to carry
out the practice sacrifice from Israel's High Court on Friday after
animal rights groups asserted that the lamb would be put through
inhumane suffering. In its legal response, the Temple Movement explained
that the slaughter would be carried out according to biblical standards,
which is the same method used to slaughter lambs at kosher
slaughterhouses around the country. The sacrifice and accompanying
religious ceremonies were performed at a prominent yeshiva overlooking
Jerusalem's Temple Mount, which is still occupied by several Muslim
shrines.
Earthquake Damages Temple Mount and Shechem
Unsealed Prophecy
(February 17,
2008) - An earthquake shook Israel at 12:37 PM Friday. The only
damage reported in Israel was on the Temple Mount and near Shechem (Nablus).The
earthquake measured 5.3 on the Richter scale; its epicenter was located
in northeastern Lebanon. Earlier last week an earthquake measuring 4.1
was felt in northern Israel, also originating from Lebanon, near its
northern city of Tyre.A large hole opened up on the Temple Mount during
Friday’s earthquake, which was soon covered by officials from the Wakf
Islamic Authority that administers the mosques built atop Judaism’s
holiest site. The only other reported damage in the Holy Land was
incurred between Palestinian Authority-controlled Shechem (Nablus) and
Jenin, where an old home collapsed, blocking the main road to the
village of Khufin. The village is not far from the site of the Biblical
Joseph’s Tomb, which was
set ablaze by Muslim vandals last week. At least five people were
injured and two homes were destroyed in southern Lebanon as a result of
Friday’s quake. Wakf officials tried to blame Israel for the 6-foot by
5-foot hole, which is about three feet deep, claiming it was caused by
Israel, which it accuses of tunneling beneath the Temple Mount. They
demanded an end to all Israeli excavations in the area. Though several
excavation projects are taking place around the Western Wall Plaza, none
of them entail tunneling past the wall itself and beneath the mount. The
Wakf’s official position is that there was never a Jewish Temple on the
Temple Mount and has gone to great efforts to erase archaeological
evidence of Judaism’s historical ties to the site. Western Wall Rabbi
Shmuel Rabinowitz issued a statement rejecting the Muslim claims. “These
are mendacious reports without a grain of truth,” he said, adding that
work in the Temple Mount compound would be contrary to Jewish law. “Such
claims are a desecration and cause hatred and incitement for no reason
whatsoever,” Rabbi Rabinowitz said. He stressed that work on the Rambam
(Mughrabi) Gate ramp to the Temple Mount is vital for the safety of
those who visit the Western Wall and called on the authorities to finish
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