Posted on 01/07/2024 5:17:32 PM PST by nickcarraway
A group of Palestinian rioters vandalized Joshua’s Altar in the West Bank, a site revered by millions of Jews and Christians.
The altar, which is located at Mount Ebal, was damaged after the rioters burned tires on its remains and spray-painted Palestinian flags and Arabic inscriptions on the stones last week, according to a report in the Jerusalem Post.
According to a report from TPS, the site is under joint control with the Palestinian Authority and has been the target of vandalism on numerous occasions, part of a larger problem of attacks on Israeli archaeological sites under Palestinian control. “Unfortunately, Jewish and Christian holy places are repeatedly targeted by Muslim settlers, such as the Tomb of Rachel near Bethlehem, the Tombs of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Sarah, Lea, and Rebecca in Hebron, the Tomb of Josef in Shechem (Nablus) and many others,” Rev. Petra Heldt, a leading Christian scholar who has lived in Israel for 40 years, told Fox News Digital.
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Like Sean Connery said “When Capone puts one of yours in the hospital you put one of his in the f’ing morgue!’’.
The proper temple has already been rebuilt. There is no other.
John 2:19-22
Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”
They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?”
But the temple he had spoken of was his body.
After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.
Even though Lord Jesus, come quickly.✝️
They should like Joshua. He did something you could call “jihaad”.
Time to permanently remove them from any control or access to these sites. Israel takes its responsibility toward non-Jewish religious sites very seriously, and if the Arabs cannot, then they need to be relieved of that responsibility.
For Jews, your statement is simply not true. The Final Redeemer (“Moschiach” in Hebrew, “Messiah” in English) will build the 3rd Temple…and before you start in with him “coming back,” two things: 1) according to your own scriptures, he already came back (so you’re really waiting for the 3rd coming)…oh, and in that 2nd swing at life, he didn’t build the 3rd Temple, didn’t ingather all of the Jewish exiles, didn’t create universal peace (in fact the century after he died was among the most brutal and war-filled in human history), and didn’t teach the entire world to accept the God if Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (even to this day, NO ONE has done that) - so he failed every important test to be the Final Redeemer; 2) if you’re going to argue for a 2nd at bat (or a third), then ANYONE could be the Final Redeemer. This contention is utterly unverifiable, and thus cannot be valid.
Besides, when the guy you worship was around, the 2nd Temple was standing, and continued to do so for approximately 40 years after he was gone. It simply wasn’t destroyed, for him to be able to rebuild.
He did bring about world peace. The peace He spoke of was the peace that one feels upon accepting Him. (Yes, that's how my Catholic Study Bible interprets the "peace" that Christ brought.)
As for the "in gathering" of all the Tribes -- it's safe to say that among the Jews who accepted Christ were members of all 12 tribes. So that's done.
Christ saved a Remnant of Israel from all 12 Tribes -- the Jews who followed Him. Scripture makes plain that not all Jews will be part of the Remnant.
Everything you mention is a very stretched interpretation, at best, and made-up nonsense, at worst.
When the Prophets spoke of rebuilding the destroyed Temple, this requires: 1) that the prior Temple to no longer be in existence, which was not the case until about 40 years after the historical Jesus (not the one created by Paul, the early Church fathers and Constantine) died; and 2) that an actual physical rebuilding of the Temple occur so that sacrifices can once again be made (for unintentional sins, since the Messiah will educate the world to wholly accept God the Creator and Ruler of the Universe, and the will be no intentional sins) - oh, and even the Messiah will make such sacrifices for himself and his family, specifically indicating that he is NOT divine).
Isaiah 2:3 says:
“And many peoples shall go, and they shall say, “Come, let us go up to the Lord’s mount, to the house of the God of Jacob, and let Him teach us of His ways, and we will go in His paths,” for out of Zion shall the Torah come forth, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.”
The “house of the God of Jacob” is the literal Third Temple, not the body of some guy who has been dead for 2,000 years.
Ingathering means that, literally - Jews descended from all tribes will physically return from the nearest and furthest places on Earth to Israel.
Deuteronomy 30: 3-5 says:
“3 then, the Lord, your God, will bring back your exiles, and He will have mercy upon you. He will once again gather you from all the nations, where the Lord, your God, had dispersed you.
4 Even if your exiles are at the end of the heavens, the Lord, your God, will gather you from there, and He will take you from there.
5 And the Lord, your God, will bring you to the land which your forefathers possessed, and you [too] will take possession of it, and He will do good to you, and He will make you more numerous than your forefathers.”
World peace means that, literally - Isaiah 2:4 says:
“And he shall judge between the nations and reprove many peoples, and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift the sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.”
That’s isn’t the BS of how one “feels” upon accepting a person as divine (which is blasphemy, and shouldn’t result in a peaceful feeling), it is ACTUAL world peace, something that hasn’t existed in any year since Jesus was born, let alone since he died. But it will happen someday, and be accomplished by a non-divine human being doing God’s will, and without the need for a do-over (or 2).
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