The author simultaneously diminishes the reality of the Holy of Holies and the claims by LDS inc to have established such locations on earth. It was not just the Hebrews who believed God came into the Temple, into the Holy of Holies, the heathen around the area when confronting the Hebrews came to believe it also, and to place great wonder upon the single piece of 'furniture' in the Holy of Holies. So great was their wonderment that they took that piece of the Temple when they defeated the Israelites. But they bit off more than they could ever swallow and tried to send it back on an ox cart.
There is ONLY one Melchizedek High Priest at a time. If one reads what Paul explained in his letter to the Hebrews, Jesus Christ is the ONLY Melchizedek High Priest and because He is alive forever more, He is the last of the Melchizedek High Priest line and He functions in the Heavenlies as OUR Great High Priest forever more, standing in the Holy of Holies making intercession for those trusting in Him alone for redemption. Could someone who claims to be a high priest in the same office as Jesus afford to 'see the truth' of what making such a claim means?
The author of the article Jeff so admires is implying that 'the Jews believed', as if that is their personal testimoy but of little importance to her personally. And of equal value in her mind is the claim that the LDS inc make regarding their pagan temples being 'holy places'. THE Holy Place is now in the Heavenies, where The Great High Priest stands as our Redeemer having entered into the Holy of Hlies by His own blood shed for us.
Claiming a Mormon Temple is anything even remotely similar is blasphemous. And to assert a similarity of the Jewish Temple and Holy of Holies where God absolutely came in His timing, to the pagan temples of LDS inc built around the world and functioning for pagan, blasphemous rituals founded by a peepstone sexual predator of married women, well, the author is too dead in soul to realize she is committing blasphemy against The ONLY High Priest standing in the True Holy of Holies.
Brilliantly stated.