Posted on 06/11/2005 1:45:05 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
New 'Sanhedrin' Calls For Architectural Blueprint To Rebuild Jewish Temple
The Israeli rabbinical council involved with re-establishing the Sanhedrin, is calling upon all groups involved in Temple Mount research to prepare detailed architectural plans for the reconstruction of the Jewish Holy Temple.
The Sanhedrin was a 71-man assembly of rabbis that convened adjacent to the Holy Temple before its destruction in 70 AD and outside Jerusalem until about 400 AD.
The move followed the election earlier this week of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz as temporary president of a group aspiring to become Judaism's highest-ranking legal-religious tribunal.
However, although Steinsaltz's involvement with the endeavor adds important rabbinic legitimacy, other major halachic authorities, including Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, the leading haredi Ashkenazi spiritual leader, and Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the premier Sephardi halachic opinion, have refused repeated requests to offer their support.
Nevertheless, the group will establish a forum of architects and engineers to begin plans for rebuilding the Temple – a move fraught with religious and political volatility.
The group, which calls itself the Sanhedrin, is calling on the Jewish people to contribute toward the acquisition of materials for the purpose of rebuilding the Temple – including the gathering and preparation of prefabricated, disassembled portions to be stored and ready for rapid assembly, "in the manner of King David."
Rabbi Hillel Weiss, spokesman for the burgeoning Sanhedrin, said in an official statement that because of "concerns that external pressure would be brought to bear upon individuals not to take part in the establishment of a Sanhedrin, the names of most participants have been withheld up to this point."
"The increasingly anti-Jewish decisions handed down by the Supreme Court prove the need for an alternative legal system based on Jewish sources," said Weiss. "More and more people, including Torah scholars, are beginning to understand this."
The Sanhedrin was reestablished last October in Tiberias, the place of its last meeting 1,600 years ago. Since then, it has met in Jerusalem on a monthly basis.
Yup. Trying to win converts to the Death Cult.
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A temple has to be built during the reign of Antichrist because the Bible says he will enter the Temple and desecrate it by placing an image of himself in the Holy of Holies, and is referred to as the "Abomination of Desolation".
A temple has to be built exist during the reign of Antichrist...
Ezekiel 40-42 (New International Version)
New International Version (NIV)
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society
Ezekiel 40
The New Temple Area
1 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the fall of the city—on that very day the hand of the LORD was upon me and he took me there. 2 In visions of God he took me to the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain, on whose south side were some buildings that looked like a city. 3 He took me there, and I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze; he was standing in the gateway with a linen cord and a measuring rod in his hand. 4 The man said to me, "Son of man, look with your eyes and hear with your ears and pay attention to everything I am going to show you, for that is why you have been brought here. Tell the house of Israel everything you see."
The East Gate to the Outer Court
5 I saw a wall completely surrounding the temple area. The length of the measuring rod in the man's hand was six long cubits, each of which was a cubit [a] and a handbreadth. [b] He measured the wall; it was one measuring rod thick and one rod high.
6 Then he went to the gate facing east. He climbed its steps and measured the threshold of the gate; it was one rod deep. [c] 7 The alcoves for the guards were one rod long and one rod wide, and the projecting walls between the alcoves were five cubits thick. And the threshold of the gate next to the portico facing the temple was one rod deep.
8 Then he measured the portico of the gateway; 9 it [d] was eight cubits deep and its jambs were two cubits thick. The portico of the gateway faced the temple.
10 Inside the east gate were three alcoves on each side; the three had the same measurements, and the faces of the projecting walls on each side had the same measurements. 11 Then he measured the width of the entrance to the gateway; it was ten cubits and its length was thirteen cubits. 12 In front of each alcove was a wall one cubit high, and the alcoves were six cubits square. 13 Then he measured the gateway from the top of the rear wall of one alcove to the top of the opposite one; the distance was twenty-five cubits from one parapet opening to the opposite one. 14 He measured along the faces of the projecting walls all around the inside of the gateway—sixty cubits. The measurement was up to the portico [e] facing the courtyard. [f] 15 The distance from the entrance of the gateway to the far end of its portico was fifty cubits. 16 The alcoves and the projecting walls inside the gateway were surmounted by narrow parapet openings all around, as was the portico; the openings all around faced inward. The faces of the projecting walls were decorated with palm trees.
The Outer Court
17 Then he brought me into the outer court. There I saw some rooms and a pavement that had been constructed all around the court; there were thirty rooms along the pavement. 18 It abutted the sides of the gateways and was as wide as they were long; this was the lower pavement. 19 Then he measured the distance from the inside of the lower gateway to the outside of the inner court; it was a hundred cubits on the east side as well as on the north.
The North Gate
20 Then he measured the length and width of the gate facing north, leading into the outer court. 21 Its alcoves—three on each side—its projecting walls and its portico had the same measurements as those of the first gateway. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. 22 Its openings, its portico and its palm tree decorations had the same measurements as those of the gate facing east. Seven steps led up to it, with its portico opposite them. 23 There was a gate to the inner court facing the north gate, just as there was on the east. He measured from one gate to the opposite one; it was a hundred cubits.
The South Gate
24 Then he led me to the south side and I saw a gate facing south. He measured its jambs and its portico, and they had the same measurements as the others. 25 The gateway and its portico had narrow openings all around, like the openings of the others. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. 26 Seven steps led up to it, with its portico opposite them; it had palm tree decorations on the faces of the projecting walls on each side. 27 The inner court also had a gate facing south, and he measured from this gate to the outer gate on the south side; it was a hundred cubits.
Gates to the Inner Court
28 Then he brought me into the inner court through the south gate, and he measured the south gate; it had the same measurements as the others. 29 Its alcoves, its projecting walls and its portico had the same measurements as the others. The gateway and its portico had openings all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. 30 (The porticoes of the gateways around the inner court were twenty-five cubits wide and five cubits deep.) 31 Its portico faced the outer court; palm trees decorated its jambs, and eight steps led up to it.
32 Then he brought me to the inner court on the east side, and he measured the gateway; it had the same measurements as the others. 33 Its alcoves, its projecting walls and its portico had the same measurements as the others. The gateway and its portico had openings all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. 34 Its portico faced the outer court; palm trees decorated the jambs on either side, and eight steps led up to it.
35 Then he brought me to the north gate and measured it. It had the same measurements as the others, 36 as did its alcoves, its projecting walls and its portico, and it had openings all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. 37 Its portico [g] faced the outer court; palm trees decorated the jambs on either side, and eight steps led up to it.
The Rooms for Preparing Sacrifices
38 A room with a doorway was by the portico in each of the inner gateways, where the burnt offerings were washed. 39 In the portico of the gateway were two tables on each side, on which the burnt offerings, sin offerings and guilt offerings were slaughtered. 40 By the outside wall of the portico of the gateway, near the steps at the entrance to the north gateway were two tables, and on the other side of the steps were two tables. 41 So there were four tables on one side of the gateway and four on the other—eight tables in all—on which the sacrifices were slaughtered. 42 There were also four tables of dressed stone for the burnt offerings, each a cubit and a half long, a cubit and a half wide and a cubit high. On them were placed the utensils for slaughtering the burnt offerings and the other sacrifices. 43 And double-pronged hooks, each a handbreadth long, were attached to the wall all around. The tables were for the flesh of the offerings.
Rooms for the Priests
44 Outside the inner gate, within the inner court, were two rooms, one [h] at the side of the north gate and facing south, and another at the side of the south [i] gate and facing north. 45 He said to me, "The room facing south is for the priests who have charge of the temple, 46 and the room facing north is for the priests who have charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, who are the only Levites who may draw near to the LORD to minister before him."
47 Then he measured the court: It was square—a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide. And the altar was in front of the temple.
The Temple
48 He brought me to the portico of the temple and measured the jambs of the portico; they were five cubits wide on either side. The width of the entrance was fourteen cubits and its projecting walls were [j] three cubits wide on either side. 49 The portico was twenty cubits wide, and twelve [k] cubits from front to back. It was reached by a flight of stairs, [l] and there were pillars on each side of the jambs.
Ezekiel 41
1 Then the man brought me to the outer sanctuary and measured the jambs; the width of the jambs was six cubits [m] on each side. [n] 2 The entrance was ten cubits wide, and the projecting walls on each side of it were five cubits wide. He also measured the outer sanctuary; it was forty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.
3 Then he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the jambs of the entrance; each was two cubits wide. The entrance was six cubits wide, and the projecting walls on each side of it were seven cubits wide. 4 And he measured the length of the inner sanctuary; it was twenty cubits, and its width was twenty cubits across the end of the outer sanctuary. He said to me, "This is the Most Holy Place."
5 Then he measured the wall of the temple; it was six cubits thick, and each side room around the temple was four cubits wide. 6 The side rooms were on three levels, one above another, thirty on each level. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports were not inserted into the wall of the temple. 7 The side rooms all around the temple were wider at each successive level. The structure surrounding the temple was built in ascending stages, so that the rooms widened as one went upward. A stairway went up from the lowest floor to the top floor through the middle floor.
8 I saw that the temple had a raised base all around it, forming the foundation of the side rooms. It was the length of the rod, six long cubits. 9 The outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick. The open area between the side rooms of the temple 10 and the priests' rooms was twenty cubits wide all around the temple. 11 There were entrances to the side rooms from the open area, one on the north and another on the south; and the base adjoining the open area was five cubits wide all around.
12 The building facing the temple courtyard on the west side was seventy cubits wide. The wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length was ninety cubits.
13 Then he measured the temple; it was a hundred cubits long, and the temple courtyard and the building with its walls were also a hundred cubits long. 14 The width of the temple courtyard on the east, including the front of the temple, was a hundred cubits.
15 Then he measured the length of the building facing the courtyard at the rear of the temple, including its galleries on each side; it was a hundred cubits.
The outer sanctuary, the inner sanctuary and the portico facing the court, 16 as well as the thresholds and the narrow windows and galleries around the three of them—everything beyond and including the threshold was covered with wood. The floor, the wall up to the windows, and the windows were covered. 17 In the space above the outside of the entrance to the inner sanctuary and on the walls at regular intervals all around the inner and outer sanctuary 18 were carved cherubim and palm trees. Palm trees alternated with cherubim. Each cherub had two faces: 19 the face of a man toward the palm tree on one side and the face of a lion toward the palm tree on the other. They were carved all around the whole temple. 20 From the floor to the area above the entrance, cherubim and palm trees were carved on the wall of the outer sanctuary.
21 The outer sanctuary had a rectangular doorframe, and the one at the front of the Most Holy Place was similar. 22 There was a wooden altar three cubits high and two cubits square [o] ; its corners, its base [p] and its sides were of wood. The man said to me, "This is the table that is before the LORD." 23 Both the outer sanctuary and the Most Holy Place had double doors. 24 Each door had two leaves—two hinged leaves for each door. 25 And on the doors of the outer sanctuary were carved cherubim and palm trees like those carved on the walls, and there was a wooden overhang on the front of the portico. 26 On the sidewalls of the portico were narrow windows with palm trees carved on each side. The side rooms of the temple also had overhangs.
Ezekiel 42
Rooms for the Priests
1 Then the man led me northward into the outer court and brought me to the rooms opposite the temple courtyard and opposite the outer wall on the north side. 2 The building whose door faced north was a hundred cubits [q] long and fifty cubits wide. 3 Both in the section twenty cubits from the inner court and in the section opposite the pavement of the outer court, gallery faced gallery at the three levels. 4 In front of the rooms was an inner passageway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits [r] long. Their doors were on the north. 5 Now the upper rooms were narrower, for the galleries took more space from them than from the rooms on the lower and middle floors of the building. 6 The rooms on the third floor had no pillars, as the courts had; so they were smaller in floor space than those on the lower and middle floors. 7 There was an outer wall parallel to the rooms and the outer court; it extended in front of the rooms for fifty cubits. 8 While the row of rooms on the side next to the outer court was fifty cubits long, the row on the side nearest the sanctuary was a hundred cubits long. 9 The lower rooms had an entrance on the east side as one enters them from the outer court.
10 On the south side [s] along the length of the wall of the outer court, adjoining the temple courtyard and opposite the outer wall, were rooms 11 with a passageway in front of them. These were like the rooms on the north; they had the same length and width, with similar exits and dimensions. Similar to the doorways on the north 12 were the doorways of the rooms on the south. There was a doorway at the beginning of the passageway that was parallel to the corresponding wall extending eastward, by which one enters the rooms.
13 Then he said to me, "The north and south rooms facing the temple courtyard are the priests' rooms, where the priests who approach the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. There they will put the most holy offerings—the grain offerings, the sin offerings and the guilt offerings—for the place is holy. 14 Once the priests enter the holy precincts, they are not to go into the outer court until they leave behind the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. They are to put on other clothes before they go near the places that are for the people."
15 When he had finished measuring what was inside the temple area, he led me out by the east gate and measured the area all around: 16 He measured the east side with the measuring rod; it was five hundred cubits. [t] 17 He measured the north side; it was five hundred cubits [u] by the measuring rod. 18 He measured the south side; it was five hundred cubits by the measuring rod. 19 Then he turned to the west side and measured; it was five hundred cubits by the measuring rod. 20 So he measured the area on all four sides. It had a wall around it, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide, to separate the holy from the common.
Footnotes:
Ezekiel 40:5 The common cubit was about 1 1/2 feet (about 0.5 meter).
Ezekiel 40:5 That is, about 3 inches (about 8 centimeters)
Ezekiel 40:6 Septuagint; Hebrew deep, the first threshold, one rod deep
Ezekiel 40:9 Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts gateway facing the temple; it was one rod deep. 9 Then he measured the portico of the gateway; it
Ezekiel 40:14 Septuagint; Hebrew projecting wall
Ezekiel 40:14 The meaning of the Hebrew for this verse is uncertain.
Ezekiel 40:37 Septuagint (see also verses 31 and 34 Hebrew jambs
Ezekiel 40:44 Septuagint; Hebrew were rooms for singers, which were
Ezekiel 40:44 Septuagint; Hebrew east
Ezekiel 40:48 Septuagint; Hebrew entrance was
Ezekiel 40:49 Septuagint; Hebrew eleven
Ezekiel 40:49 Hebrew; Septuagint Ten steps led up to it
Ezekiel 41:1 The common cubit was about 1 1/2 feet (about 0.5 meter).
Ezekiel 41:1 One Hebrew manuscript and Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts side, the width of the tent
Ezekiel 41:22 Septuagint; Hebrew long
Ezekiel 41:22 Septuagint; Hebrew length
Ezekiel 42:2 The common cubit was about 1 1/2 feet (about 0.5 meter).
Ezekiel 42:4 Septuagint and Syriac; Hebrew and one cubit
Ezekiel 42:10 Septuagint; Hebrew Eastward
Ezekiel 42:16 See Septuagint of verse 17; Hebrew rods ; also in verses 18 and 19.
Ezekiel 42:17 Septuagint; Hebrew rods
According the Book of Acts, what happened on the day of Pentecost was a sign (referencing the book of Joel) that the last days were here, unless Peter was wrong on this one. As far as the Temple, it was raised up in 3 days just as Jesus said. Would you rather have Him sitting in a building in Jerusalem that you have to travel to or would you rather He reside in your heart no matter where you go?
If the temple were rebuilt, and the sacrifices offered again, would God accept them? For He has said the law and the sacrifices were only a shadow of what was better to come. (read Hebrews 10). Suppose this, what if in 2000 someone had called you and told you they had heard the Supreme Court would rule the Florida law on Elections was valid, (Bush wins) and then later when that turned out to happen, would you want to go back to it being a future event, or would you rather live in the reality of it? The truth is THE final sacrifice has been made, once, and for all. All of the laws, the sacrifices, the promises, and the foretelling was about one thing, not Israel, but Jesus. He has come and he's better than the foreshadowing that once was all men knew. I'd rather live in Him than just the promises that one day He'd be here
You should have bought it on credit then. ;)
AND so too, the 4TH TEMPLE, which shall be the everlasting Temple, and Y'shua ha Mashiach will reign from there for a 1000 years!!! MARA NATHA!!!
Uh....actually both names are used pretty equally in the Old Testament. Most scholars agree that there are at least 4 writers of the first five books of the Old Testament. The "J" writer (from Judah) used YHWH as the name for God. The "E" writer(from Israel) called God El or Elohim (plural).
"For the LORD Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, and with the voice of the Arch-Angel and with the Trump of GOD. And the dead in Christ shall rise first, then we which are alive and remain shall be caught together with them in the clouds to meet the LORD in the air. Then so shall we ever be with the LORD. Therefore, comfort ye one another with these words." 1 THESSALONIANS 4:16-18 This is a description of the "Rapture" which will take place BEFORE the reign of antichrist.
Please define "altar." Is it a physical structure that has been ordained of God that one must go to to meet him?
I think this can is true of every denomination, even Southern Baptists.
Usually it's a table in the front of the church. There are variations on this. Catholics are big time on altars.
:)...that reminds me of at least one source of religious history claimed that the "altar" as we know it in most Christian Churches came about during the Medieval period. The Host was left on the Communion table so that pilgrims could partake at any convenient time. There was a problem with dogs getting in the Cathedrals and eating the Communion. So the good fathers would build a "fence" around the table. Thus the fence-like altars we see today. True? Who knows?
Could maybe that have happened in 70AD when the leader of Rome came and sacrificed a pig there? And the admonition to flee that scriptures say, why that just maybe was talking about that 67-70AD period when the temple, Jerusalem, and all the records of lineage were destroyed. Which raises an interesting problem. How will the sacrifices in a new temple be carried out if no one knows who the descendants of Levi are
WHAT? Which Bible did you get that misinformation from, The Islamic Version? Of course the 2nd Temple was built EXACTLY where Solomon's Temple was built.
You have to be careful here since you have one of the oldest of the Charismatic groups in the Apostolic Charismatic Church of the First Born.
They date their earliest presence in North America to old New Sweden colony in Delaware, and to a whaling settlement in South Texas in 1703.
When you examine their theology close enough you see that this figure you and I might call Santa Claus is actually "Little Red Man". They do not celebrate Christmas Day (much like many other Scandinavian groups otherwise in the Laestidian wing of belief), but you can still find congregations that not only reject doctors, they reject dentists, so when the peyote they use loosens their teeth, they just fall right out.
Some of them have a Christian doctrine pasted on top of their shamanism and this does lead some to confusion, particularly if such a congregation affiliates loosely with one of the Church of God organizations.
I don't count COTFB as being Christian although their adroit use of Little Red Man did popularize Christmas as something for Protestants to "celebrate", much like Catholics.
The "fence" in any major cathedral is quite tall and has a gate with a lock. I'd thought it was to protect the vessels, particularly if they were silver or gold.
The Levites have a special "cohinem" gene on the Y Chromosome. It's real easy to find them. There are, in fact, more than enough!
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