Posted on 04/23/2014 10:12:27 AM PDT by Fennie
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has been stepping up its libel that Israel is "destroying" the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the temple mount in Jerusalem, in order to build the "alleged" Temple.
The highest PA religious authority, Mufti Muhammad Hussein, asserted in late March that Israel was making an "attempt... at laying hands on the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque... and in addition to the threat of destroying the Al-Aqsa Mosque to establish the alleged Temple on its ruins."
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
Oh my, Thank you!
Onedoug, in all seriousness, G-d loves a barbecue.
We’ve gotta have the Ezekiel War though before that false peace starts. This year? Next?
Thanks Fennie.
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*sigh* If only.
Took a peek at the ending, and yes, that’s the way the book ends.
Palestinian Prophesy.
Good.
Not a bad metaphor for this fallen world.
God gave this mountain, Holy and pure.
5000 years later we’ve turned it into a dung heap that’s ready to collapse.
It’s speculative. But there have been rumors that they’ve been digging underneath to destroy archeological evidence. In the past, I’ve read reports of problems with the building’s foundation. Then I’ve read reports denying that. Don’t know if any of it is true. Could this be a lead-up to it’s impending collapse and then blame it on the Jews to cover their own culpability? That’s as tinny as I dare get on this.
Lol! Don't hold back GladesGuru, tell us how you really feel.
The Muslims believe that God (the real one) is either incapable or unwilling to unleash his wrath on them for their pigheaded hatred and horrific violence against God's chosen people for the last 1,500 years.
They are 100% in error.
"You are storing up wrath for yourself because of your stubbornness and your heart that refuses to change. God's just judgment will be revealed on the day of wrath."
Romans 2:5
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The Jewish Temple is a popular FR topic.
Here’s an examination of the *actual* problems connected with rebuilding the Temple from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs:
http://jcpa.org/jpsr/s99-yc.htm
Several years ago, I researched the location of the original Jewish temple on the temple mount and it was not where that mosque is - this is not secret information but the Arabs insist their mosque is over the spot because they want it to have been built there. The mosque will undoubtedly be thrown down but the temple was more in the middle of the mount. The Temple Mount Faithful know the original location. God will make sure it gets built in the right place. Portions of the temple have already been made and are in waiting for the building of it. The ceremonial robes are also made and the various instruments required to be in the temple. Most important is the cornerstone of the temple is ready to put in place.
Wile E. Coyote work accident. Not hard to envision at all.
When the said temple descends from On High and squishes their mosque flat, spitting out Muslims like watermelon seeds, and makes the golden dome into a golden floor, there will be nothing ‘alleged’ about it.
Yes.
First, consider that what we're really talking about here is a cow. Now bulls were sacrificed to cover the sins of a whole nation, so why a cow here? Possibly because a bull is naturally more aggressive, and this ritual requires a peaceful sacrifice.
Why does it have to be red? Possibly to symbolize that the ultimate sacrifice would become completely bloody rather than simply have its throat slit as is normal for the sacrifices.
Unlike most sacrifices, this one was not sacrificed in the Temple. It had to be taken outside of the city, just as Yeshua was.
The whole heifer was burned with ceder wood (used to build the temple; possibly also the type of wood used in the cross), a scarlet thread (which keeps appearing in the Messianic line, as when Rahab used it to mark her house when Jericho fell), and hyssop (used in the Passover; also used to cleanse lepers). So the sacrifice was connected to the temple, as Yeshua refered to His body as a temple (housing the Word of God), is connected to the Davidic line, and is connected to Passover, when Yeshua was sacrificed.
Both the one conducting the sacrifice and the one gathering the ashes were made unclean. The priests involved were certainly morally unclean, and Joseph of Aramathea and Nicodemus would have become ritually unclean when they gathered the body of Yeshua for honorable burial.
The ashes had to be stored in a clean place. Yeshua was set in a tomb that had never been used, and therefore was ritually clean.
The ashes are the only thing that can purify from the ritual uncleanness of contact with death. Yeshua is the only one who can purify us from the uncleanness of the sin which leads to death.
The cleansing ritual involves two immersions in water treated with the ashes, one on the third day, and one on the seventh. Yeshua rose on the third day, showing that the sacrifice had been accepted. The seventh day could be in reference to the cosmic sabbath (the seventh millennium) or else simply to the complete purification that we will enjoy in the World-to-Come.
There's probably more, but I'd have to go get my notes to check.
Note that none of the above takes away from the importance of having an actual red heifer before the temple can be rebuilt, which is itself a pre-requisite to Messiah's return. As you stated, God is also using the very specific nature of the red heifer as a fail-safe to keep the timing of the third temple on His own schedule.
Shalom
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