Posted on 04/21/2009 10:05:25 PM PDT by forkinsocket
Moshe Feiglin, head of Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership Movement) said last week that if he was elected prime minister, he would try to rebuild the destroyed Temple in Jerusalem.
"I don't know if I will have the merit of doing something that is the aspiration of every Jew," said Feiglin. "But if I become prime minister I will take away control over the Temple Mount from the Wakf [the Islamic trust] and reinstate Jewish sovereignty over the entire mount and, hopefully, rebuild the Temple."
Feiglin said that rebuilding the Temple and all that it symbolized was the essence of a Jewish state.
Feiglin made the comments during the second annual Ramle Conference, sponsored by the religious Zionist settler movement Komemiut and a small group of young rabbis who are involved in outreach in Ramle.
The subject of the conference was "Between Israel and the Nations of the World."
Speakers who included Rabbi of Safed Shmuel Eliyahu and Rabbi of Hebron-Kiryat Arba Dov Lior managed to draw only a few dozen people to the event. The conference, which took place at Ramle's community center, was also broadcast on Arutz 7's Internet site.
Feiglin said that Israel's political leadership since 1967 had missed the chance to "realize every Jew's aspiration."
"I am not saying that I will fulfill this dream, but I am saying that if I get the chance I will do my utmost to bring our hopes in line with reality. It may seem altogether disconnected from reality to talk about rebuilding the Temple, but imagine how an Auschwitz survivor would have responded if he were told in 1945 that the Jewish people would have a state of their own with a Jewish army," he said.
In December of last year, ahead of national elections, Feiglin, who was number 20 on Likud's list, was sidelined by Likud chairman Binyamin Netanyahu. In an internal party decision, Feiglin was bumped down to the number 36 slot, leaving him out of the present Knesset.
However, Feiglin, who spoke with The Jerusalem Post Sunday, said he still harbored ambitions of replacing Netanyahu and becoming Israel's next prime minister.
Meanwhile, Rabbi Zalman Melamed, a leading spiritual leader of the settlement movement and rabbi of Beit El, envisioned a time when a majority of Israelis would be religious.
"There is a steady process unfolding in which the state is gradually becoming more religious," said Melamed.
"Haredim and families from our crowd have large families. Also, there are growing numbers of newly religious families. There is a deep feeling that people want the redemption to arrive already. And part of that process will be the rebuilding of the Temple."
TONS OF SCRIPTURES EXHORT:
FEAR NOT! FEAR NOT! FEAR NOT!
TRUST IN GOD!
GOD HAS PROMISED TO BE WITH THOSE WHO LOVE AND TRUST IN HIM UPPERMOST.
Whether we live, or die—we are to be with HIM.
That’s not fearsome!
As I read this, it seems to describe a nuclear attack and the attempts to defend against it.
Laying on face, head toward blast, arms tucked beneath is how soldiers are taught to react to a nuclear burst.
Burned at distance, blinded, and the great exhale and inhale are the thermal and blast effects of a nuke weapon.
Where did this come from? When was it written?
Some half-breed american out on white sands wrote it, and I found it under a rock.
I was a bit worried that it was some obscure prophecy from the apocrypha or something.
Nah, what would a half-breed American on a missile range know about such things?
Just a delusional vision, I am sure.
I suspect since the rabbis dont recognize New Testament prophecy, they dont see it as hastening Armegeddon. they see it as ushering in the reign of Messiah. Then again, Christian pastors that support the Red Heifer search likely see it as hastening the return of Christ, recognizing that Armegeddon is an unavoidable consequence of Christs return. JMO.
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Bingo! We have a winner.
Jews are still looking for the Messiah. They missed Him.
I have a “beef” (pun intended) with Christian groups who are supporting this. God’s time is not our time. We cannot rush Christ’s return. He will return when he returns. Armageddon will not be pretty.
Although, the signs are getting more and more clear every day.
Sorry, that was supposed to be: The Tribulation and Armageddon will not be pretty.
bttt
Yes, it is, and when that happens, watch for the second coming of Christ.
The sacrifice has been made.
If God has ordained him to build the Temple, he will build the Temple.
"Haredim and families from our crowd have large families. Also, there are growing numbers of newly religious families. There is a deep feeling that people want the redemption to arrive already. And part of that process will be the rebuilding of the Temple."
This is the most significant part of the article! When God's chosen Israel cries out for the Lord in unity, then He will come.
Baruch Ha Ba B'Shem Adonai! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!!! What an amazing time to be alive and see the redemption and returning of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Wow.
Oh, I am sitting on a nuclear bomb, and the Lord has told me to pull the pin.
Now.
The heck with the consequences, just pull the pin!
Only, I suspect it is not the Lord talking.
It is some idiot trying to rebuild the temple.
IT DID OVER 2000 YEARS AGO!
Hebrews 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. Hebrews 9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Feiglin is way unlikely to be PM, but we do know that the temple WILL be rebuilt, and yes, virtually every pre-tribber I know believes that the rebuilding of the temple will almost certainly be inextricably linked to the endtimes.
My personal belief is that this is the most plausible scenario: In the immediate aftermath of the Rapture, AntiChrist will emerge as the great world leader who's going to restore order and peace out of the post-Rapture chaos. And one of his first acts, probably the seminal act that positively identifies him as AntiChrist, will be the negotiation of a peace treaty between Israel and her enemies, a treaty that will include Israel's right to rebuild the temple. This will be the beginning of the seven years of tribulation, during which God's judgments will be poured out on the earth, beginning with the seal judgments.
That's just my personal take, but I believe it to be a plausible scenario.
MM (in TX)
Not saying it will necessarily be him but the temple will be rebuilt. God says so.
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