Introduction
Below
are two articles – a short one and a longer one – describing a new temple the
Israeli Jews (etc.) intend to build at some point in the future (possibly). The issue of live animal sacrifices has not
been determined. As Dr. Jones points out
– this may be the cause of the destruction of Jerusalem as depicted in Jeremiah
19 and Isaiah 29. This will undermine
the blinded doctrines of the Christian Zionist’s that believe the Israeli Jews
comprise all of the 12 tribes of Israel and their confusion concerning the
prophetic separation of the Jews (Judah) and ancient Israel (the northern ten
tribes after their separation following the death of Solomon.
JEWS DEDICATE ALTAR IN
JERUSALEM
Dec
17, 2018 by Dr. Stephen Jones
On
Monday, December 10, 2018, priests of Judaism dedicated an altar for the third
temple in Jerusalem. The dedication took place on the 8th day of
Hannukah in order to coincide with the rededication of the second temple by the
Maccabees in 163 B.C.
Here
is a short video with some interviews. You will note some key statements such
as “The Messiah is a Jew. He is not Jesus.” Also, the old Jew says that he
would rather go back to Auschwitz than to accept Jesus as the Messiah. The
Christian interviewer seems a bit conflicted, since he does not believe in the
effectiveness of animal sacrifices, and yet he believes that there will be
symbolic animal sacrifices in the Age to come.
Here
are photos of the ceremony. Note one of the pictures says that not only did
they burn wood on the altar but they also threw “meat” onto it.
I
have believed for many years that the first time they offer an animal sacrifice
on the altar, they will be committing an abomination that tramples on the blood
of Jesus Christ. It appears that they did this at the dedication ceremony,
although there is another greater abomination coming, when they perform the
burnt offering of the red heifer.
This,
I believe, is the blasphemy which will bring down the city in the end,
fulfilling Jeremiah
19:11. It may be that they have put themselves on Cursed Time and that we
should watch 414 days later (January 27/28, 2020).
So
no matter which side of the fence we are on, it is clear that we have just
crossed a very important threshold.
IN WHICH TEMPLE DO YOU
WORSHIP?
Dec
18, 2018 by Dr. Stephen Jones
On
December 10, 2018 an altar of sacrifice was dedicated at the western wall in
Jerusalem. I posted a video of the ceremony yesterday.
What
I did not realize was that an underground synagogue was dedicated a year ago
today on December 18, 2017. I do not know its precise location, but the video
below gives the impression that it is located within (under) the temple mount
itself. It also gives you a video tour of this synagogue and a virtual tour of
the planned temple.
The
next video, which was posted last January, shows some of the archeological
excavation, which I think is how they built the synagogue itself. The narrator
tells us that the “idol” at the center is located directly under the spot where
the Most Holy Place stood at one time.
What
Does It Mean?
The
narrator believes that these events are fulfilling Bible prophecy. I agree, but
we do have some differences. He understands these events from the
Dispensationalist viewpoint, which developed in the 1850’s. It is the view that
Christ will come at the start of The Tribulation to “rapture” the church to
heaven, at which time an Antichrist will arise as a world leader.
This
Antichrist, they say, will build a temple in Jerusalem and rule from there for
either 7 or perhaps 3½ years. During this time, they say, 144,000 Jewish
Christians will evangelize the world. The problem is that when the Rapture
occurs, the Holy Spirit will be removed from the earth (so they say). So, given
the absence of the Holy Spirit, I don’t see how those Jewish evangelists
themselves could be believers, nor could they be successful in their
evangelism. In my view the Holy Spirit is required for anyone to be drawn to
God.
At
the end of seven years, they say, Christ will return with His saints, and He
will kick the Antichrist out of his temple and take it over. The temple in
Jerusalem, then, will serve as the headquarters for Christ’s Kingdom for the
next thousand years, while Levitical priests make daily animal sacrifices in
the outer court of the temple.
For
many decades, going back at least to the 1950’s, Christians have been donating
funds to build this third temple, hoping to hasten Christ’s coming. They say
that Christ cannot come until these prophecies are fulfilled, so they actually
contribute money to the building of the Antichrist’s house. It seems to me that
they should let the Antichrist fund his own house and that God’s money is
better spent on actual evangelism and Kingdom work.
What I Believe
I
suppose the excuse is that the temple will be Jesus’ house in the end. However,
my understanding of the book of Hebrews tells me that Jesus instituted “better
things,” and that He replaced many features of Old Covenant worship.
We
have a New Covenant, replacing the Old Covenant (Hebrews 8:8,13).
It is a “better covenant” than that which was made at Mount Horeb (Hebrews 7:22).
We
have a better Sacrifice that utilizes the blood of Jesus Himself (Hebrews 9:12),
replacing animal sacrifices which had to be repeated daily because they could
never perfect anyone (Hebrews 10:1, 4),
nor could they ever “take away sins” (Hebrews
10:11). If animal sacrifices could perfect anyone, “would they not have
ceased to be offered?” (Hebrews 10:2).
We
have a new Melchizedek Order (Hebrews 7:12,
16),
replacing the Levitical Order.
We
have an immortal High Priest of this Melchizedek Order (Hebrews 5:6,
10;
7:24),
replacing the mortal high priests who were of Aaron (Hebrews 7:23,
28).
We
have “a more perfect tabernacle” (Hebrews 9:11),
made of living stones (1 Peter 2:5), replacing the temple made of dead stones.
We
have better ceremonies that do not depend on vessels made of gold (Hebrews
9:2-5), for our great High Priest conducts His ceremonies in the temple in
heaven, a “more perfect tabernacles, not made with hands, that is to say,
not of this creation” (Hebrews 9:11).
We
have a heavenly Jerusalem (Galatians 4:25, 26),
replacing the earthly Jerusalem.
These
are things which every genuine Christian ought to know. It astounds me that so
many would so easily return to the types and shadows and imperfect forms of
worship that were set forth under the Old Covenant. Somehow they think that
they can have both at the same time, as if the two covenants existed side by
side.
In
my view there is only one (successful) way of salvation, and that is through
the New Covenant. The Old Covenant was based on man’s promise to God and his
ability to keep his word. The New Covenant is based upon better promises,
because God Himself has promised and is faithful to fulfill His word (Hebrews
10:23).
With
this New Covenant comes many other changes (listed above). One cannot merely
add the New Covenant to an Old Covenant system of worship. To do so is to
reject the Mediator of the New Covenant. The book of Hebrews was written
specifically to call Jews out of Judaism into the form of worship that is
submitted to the new High Priest, Jesus Christ. Hence, the appeal is made in Hebrews
13:12-14,
12 Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people through His
own blood, suffered outside the gate. 13 Hence, let us go out to Him
outside the camp, bearing His reproach. 14 For here we do not have a
lasting city, but we are seeking the city which is to come.
Those
who refuse to follow Jesus “outside the camp” show that they still believe that
the earthly Jerusalem is the true city of God. But Scripture says, “here we
do not have a lasting city.” In other words, Jerusalem is not “the eternal
city,” that so many believe it to be. Even Abraham himself sought a “a
better country, that is a heavenly one… for He has prepared a city for them”
(Hebrews
11:16).
In
other words, Abraham did not seek an earthly country (Canaan), nor did he seek
an earthly Jerusalem. He sought for something better, says the author of
Hebrews. We too ought to seek a better inheritance. It is the heavenly
Jerusalem, not the earthly city.
Yet
when Jews and even Christians think that the earthly Jerusalem will be the
capital of the Kingdom of Christ, they show that they have refused to go
outside the camp, bearing the cross of Christ with Him. Their faith is
misplaced, and their vision is limited to fleshly things. If they seek an
inheritance in the earthly city, they will suffer its fate as well, for they
will later discover that it is “not a lasting city.”
The
prophets told us Jerusalem’s fate. Though the earthly city was given the
opportunity to fulfill the promises of men and to be the holy city, it failed
in the end to achieve righteousness. So Isaiah 29:1,
2, 3, 4, 5, 6
prophesies utter destruction in terms that suggest a nuclear blast. God Himself
will lay siege to the city, the prophet says.
Jeremiah 19:1
compares Jerusalem to an old “earthenware jar” which was to be smashed in the
valley of Ben-hinnom (Greek: Gehenna). Jeremiah
19:10, 11 says,
10 Then you are to break the jar in the sight of the men who
accompany you 11 and say to them, “Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘Just
so shall I break this people and this city, even as one breaks a
potter’s vessel, which cannot again be repaired; and they will bury in
Topheth because there is no other place for burial’.”
This
is a clear prophecy that explains the phrase “no lasting city.” The
earthly Jerusalem was the temporary abode of God, the place where He placed His
name after leaving Shiloh (Jeremiah 7:12, 13, 14).
Just as He left Shiloh, He again left Jerusalem, and now His Name or presence
is in a new temple described in Revelation
22:4, “His name shall be on their foreheads.”
To
put it another way, we are children of the heavenly Jerusalem, called “Sarah” (Galatians
4:26). To consider the earthly Jerusalem to be the mother of the Kingdom is
to claim “Hagar” as our mother (Galatians
4:25). Such a viewpoint lays claim to the Old Covenant and all of its
consequences. Paul was telling us that to remain in Judaism and to have faith
in the Old Covenant is to be a child of Hagar, the bond woman.
Casting out the Bondwoman
The
solution, according to the apostle Paul, is given in Galatians
4:30, 31,
30 But what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the bondwoman and her son,
for the son of the bondwoman shall not be an heir with the son of the free
woman.” 31 So then, brethren, we are not children of a bondwoman,
but of the free woman.
We
are fast approaching the end when it will become very important to know who you
are. Whose son are you? You cannot claim to be the son of Sarah while yet
adhering to Hagar, the earthly Jerusalem. Neither can you claim to be a New
Covenant believer while having faith that you can fulfill your own promise to
God. Neither can you claim the blood of Jesus while thinking that animal
sacrifices will again be instituted in the age to come. The cross of Christ was
not a temporary feature that God gave by grace to the church until the Old
Covenant system is re-established for the age to come.
With
the dedication of the new synagogue last year and the altar of sacrifice this
year, we have come to the crossroad, the crisis point in Christianity itself.
This is where one’s belief is all important, for it will affect your life and
may even affect your very salvation that is rooted in the blood of Jesus.
I
did not learn of the altar dedication until yesterday, but some of us were
already receiving relevant revelation in the past week. Last Saturday we were
led to convene a Divine Council meeting here at my office and expel all former
Council members who had been disqualified, as well as all who presently falsely
claim to be Council members.
In
the time of Christ, the Council was the Sanhedrin. A new Sanhedrin has been
appointed in recent years in Jerusalem, as the videos show. All of those
members reject Jesus Christ, unless perchance some are secret believers in
Jesus while denying Him in public. Either way, they are NOT genuine members of
the Divine Council. Any decrees or judgments that they make are null and void.
In
the New Testament, Jesus chose 70 as His Divine Council members (Luke 10:1).
The Sanhedrin at that time did not recognize those that Jesus appointed, for
they did not appear to be worthy, nor were they prominent rabbis. The two
groups of 70 were in competition. It is no different today. God knows who the
70 are today, even as He knows who the 12 “princes” of the tribes are
(correlating with the 12 disciples).
I
believe we are entering into a climactic time, where the stage has been set for
the final drama on the stage of world history.
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