[blasater1960]

Maybe we are getting closer...

Baruch Hashem

[KoRn]

May interest you.

[YoungAmerican84]

I hope they use plenty of pigs...

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

If this sick psychopath lusts for blood so much, why doesn't he go mutilate himself. Or maybe slice off his own head, or offer himself to a Jihadist or whatever.

[DrewsDad]

"Seventy 'sevens' are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy.

"Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven 'sevens,' and sixty-two 'sevens.' It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble. After the sixty-two 'sevens,' the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed. He will confirm a covenant with many for one 'seven.' In the middle of the 'seven' he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing of the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him." Daniel 9:24-27

[Old_Mil]

This has some pretty profound geopolitical implications, and it is the the first time that I've heard such a public call for it.

[Quix]

Closer and closer

[familyop]

Is that the outfit associated with Root and Branch? If so, they're very controversial. Are they the ones who Orthodox rabbis are calling the "Insanehedrin?"

[Piranha]

I'm fully behind them. I hope that it happens soon.

[GOPPachyderm]

ping

[ColdSteelTalon]

The Bible does say that the sacrifice and oblation will resume at some point.

[Kevmo]

revelation chapt 13 bump

[Raycpa]

Many comments about sin and redemption on this topic that attempt to compare Christian and Jewish understanding of sin fail to appreciate an important distinction.

Christianity is based on the individual accepting Christ to receive God's unconditional promise.

Judaism is based on God's promise to the Hebrew nation which in turn agreed to be obedient to God.

When individuals sinned in the OT, the result was separation from the community. Further, sins of others brought corporate responsibility and corporate need to atone for sin. The Mosaic covenant was with the entire nation.

When individuals sin in the NT, avoidance of separation from God depends on the individual accepting Jesus's redemptive act. God's covenant in Christianity is with the individual.

Direct comparisons in doctrine on sin, redemption, hell etc that do not consider the distinction between the individual and the nation will fail.

[SJackson]

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[Zionist Conspirator]

The people we're arguing with here are for the most part good, well intentioned, and pious people. But they have never known a TaNa"KH without a "new testament" tacked onto it and they seem absolutely incapable of reading the TaNa"KH without straining it through Paul.

The most maddening and heartbreaking aspect of the unexamined intensity of their belief is that they think they can "prove" their point by merely quoting the "new testament." This assumes that the person they're arguing with accepts what the "new testament" has to say on the subject.

But there's a reason for this. In Fundamentalist Protestantism all chr*stians are adult converts (they don't baptize their babies). Even children brought up from birth to believe chr*stian dogmas must be "converted" by having the "new birth" experience. This is usually brought on by quoting "new testament" passages, which the not-yet-converted cradle Fundamentalist already believes. Hence they tend to project this onto other people, assuming that quoting the "new testament" will cause their opponents to be stricken with conviction.

And btw, this projection of one's own frame of reference onto others is something that most people do.

[NeoCaveman]

PETA will be upset :)

[windcliff]

ping

[Just another Joe]

I thought the Temple had to be rebuilt before sacrifices could be made.

On another note, wait till PETA hears about this.

[Star Traveler]

You said -- "Baruch Hashem"

Are you advertising for Baruch Hashem Synagogue in Dallas, Texas? ;-)

http://www.baruchhashem.com/

I was wondering since I just visited there last Saturday...

Regards,
Star Traveler

[GiovannaNicoletta]

The prophecies are being fulfilled so quickly now that if I don't see something occurring in the news that is something God said would happen before He returns I am actually surprised.

This is wonderful news to those of us who are yearning for Christ to come soon. Thanks for posting!

[cgk]

Ping.