He will confirm a covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week
he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering, and on the wing of abominations will
come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed,
is poured out on the one who makes desolate.
Daniel 9:27 Some interpret week as 7 years, after 3.5 years.
'CONFIRM' indicates a covenant already made before - perhaps Oslo, roadmap.
THIRD TEMPLE
Grant Jeffries showed a diagram of temple mount on television, and said the
3rd temple will be built in a section now empty, and not interfere with the
muslim shrines .. the dome DOES NOT need to fall .. indeed . .. cannot.
His book tells scripturally how both will occupy temple mount in the tribulation period.
THIS blip has prompted questions for me to research, and I created a new webpage.
Apparantly the LORD wants His own to KNOW how close the re-building of the
3rd temple is - NOW. Too much information has come to me for mere chance. 
Importance of the Temple Mount
(I asked an orthodox Jew why Temple Mount is so important. No non-Jew can
write this, as the power of it comes only from a Jewish heart.)
I can't think of the importance of the Temple Mount outside the context of the Jew,
for if there were no Jew and no Mount Sinai, the Temple Mount would not be important.
Yes, there is the story of Abraham and Isaac, but without the story being entrusted
to the Jews, the world would not know of it.
I wonder how it is possible for a non-Jew to understand the importance of the
temple mount to the Jew. Three times a day a Jewish man prays for the return of the
service to the temple, for the return of God's presence to Zion, and for the opportunity
to serve God there. And so did his father pray, and his father's father pray,
and his father's father's father prayed.
After every meal with bread, we pray that God would be merciful and restore Zion and the
great and holy house upon which His name is called. After every cookie, we ask that God
would be merciful and restore Zion, the altar, the temple, and the temple mount.
It permeates our very breath as we pray to God. And our breath comes streaming forth
from a heart which longs for complete restoration, for you cannot separate the mouth from
that which comes from the heart. The temple mount is our heart.
It was the very hope of our ancestors throughout the thousands of years of exile as they
wandered through the Middle East, Russia, Europe, and America, enduring pogrom after
pogrom, that we would return and worship God in the temple. Our ancestors, as they
stood in the various four corners of the earth, directed their faces towards Israel when
they prayed, as Solomon instructed. Now that we finally stand in the land, we direct
our faces towards Jerusalem. And those of us in Jerusalem direct our faces to the
temple mount. The temple mount is our focus.
Could you imagine practicing a play every day of your life but never getting to perform the
play? Could you imagine God's highest will for you being something that you are incapable
of fulfilling, because the world isn't set up to allow it? God has made a number of covenants
in history, with Noah, with Abraham, with David, and with the Jews. Unlike the other
covenants, the covenant with the Jews is very detailed and exhaustive. We are to be a
nation through which God can display Himself to the world, now and in the Messianic era.
To set up this nation, God established a constitution with included legislative and judicial
capabilities. This constitution is the covenant of Sinai which found in the Torah.
This covenant includes 613 commands, when a temple exists.
But without a temple, we can only do about a third of those commands. What is our life?
What has happened to us that of this beautiful, loving covenant we are restrained from
fulfilling so much of its requirements? Our every day, our very life, is frustrated by the fact
that we cannot do all that our heart yearns to do. And so what do we do? We do all that
we can of that covenant, although many times it is practicing, practicing so we don't forget
how to do it.
We tithe our vegetables but throw most of it away because we have no temple to bring it to.
We have a beautiful land once again producing fruit now that the Jews have returned.
We long to bring our first fruits as a gift to God. But where is His place?!
In the hands of our enemies! Can this be tolerable to us?! Love longs to fulfill covenant.
Love longs to bring the gifts. We desire to fulfill love, to fulfill covenant, but sadly,
we are restrained. Restore our Temple to us. It is our way of living.
Perhaps you are still confused as to why a place should be so important. Perhaps you
can understand that it represents something to us. I say it is our heart, our focus,
our way of living. Is that not dramatic? Could so much depend on a place? Could so
much depend on a mere representation? No, there is something that overrides all of this.
And it is one word - GLORY. This is the singular permanent place where God manifested
His glory. And the glory of the latter house will be greater. Our heart, our focus, our way
of life revolves around God's manifestation of His glory among us. The temple mount is
important to the Jew. The temple mount is important to the world. Because when the
mount is in the hands of the Jews, and the temple is built for God, the whole world has
the opportunity to witness the very glory and presence of God. END
7 years from 2000 to 2007
WHAT? 7 years, so what! Well, the antichrist will confirm the covenant made already.
US President G W Bush is going to Israel in January 2008 to confirm the
wicked covenant. What covenant? The agreement which evil Clinton made
with Barak in 2000 to split Jerusalem. This has been kept secret for 7 years.
The New Temple and the Second Coming
BIBLE Prophecy Points to Christ's Return in OUR Generation! I am not excitied about
this because it is a good thing .. its not. I am excited because Earth's people's have
become so vile and the church so apostate, that HE needs to come back and clean it up.
Every year the temple faithful carry the cornerstone to the Temple Mount,
and every year they are turned away again. Jews long for their temple!
Jewish authorities are preparing to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem. Quietly they have
recovered lost artifacts from the ancient Temple and have recreated sacred worship vessels.
The new Sanhedrin, now reconvened in Israel, is training Levite priests to reinstitute animal
sacrifice. These things have far-reaching prophetic significance, and
ZionsCRY NEWS has been reporting them as they happened over the years.
The sacred Temple vessels are recreated, plans for rebuilding the Temple are complete,
the marble is cut, the temple instruments are crafted, and the priests are trained.
Third Temple High Priest's Crown is Ready
December 27, 2007, Hebrew calendar 18 Tevet 5768
The Tzitz, the High Priest's headplate is now ready for use. The tzitz is made of pure
gold and is ready to be worn by the High Priest in the rebuilt Third Holy Temple in
Jerusalem. The words "Holy for GOD" are engraved on the headplate, in accordance
with Exodus 28:36. Until it can actually be used, the tzitz will be on view in the
Institute's permanent exhibition display, together with other vessels and priestly
garments fashioned for use in the Holy Temple. This third temple will soon be
built on the Temple Mount in Israel.
High Priest's Crown is Ready, IsraelNN.com:
Jews demand right to pray on Temple Mount
Dec 25 Israeli law forbids non-Muslim worship while Hamas is broadcasting.
Rabbinic leaders demanded the Israeli government allow Jews to pray on the
Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site. Israeli restrictions forbid Jewish prayer on
the Temple Mount and only allow Jews to ascend for certain hours on some days,
while the Mount is open to Muslims yearlong. Muslim prayer services take place
throughout each day in the mosques there.
Now Rabbis demand the Israeli Government allow Jews freedom of prayer on the
Temple Mount. This will serve as a preliminary step in confirming the Jewish people's
connection with the Temple Mount, location of the Holy Temple, under the sovereignty
of the people of Israel.
The rabbis demanded Olmert allow prayer on the Mount on important Jewish holidays,
including Passover (in spring), Shavuot, Sukkot, Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur (fall),
the first day of Hanukkah (winter) and on the Israeli national holidays of Jerusalem Day
and Israeli Independence Day. Next they will argue over which calendar to use for these
dates. Israeli Independence Day is in May on our calendar, but differs on the
Hebrew calendar used in Israel.
The sanctity of the Temple Mount is structured in concentric circles, the innermost
being the Holy of Holies where GOD dwells. Only the high priest was allowed to enter,
and only once a year on Yom Kippur. The outer layers are less restricted.
Hamas terrorists broadcast incitement against Jews from Temple Mount, therefore Jews
MUST have every right to access! Abraham nearly sacrificed his son Isaac on Temple Mount.
Jews demand right to pray on Temple Mount, wnd:
3rd TEMPLE - Synagog
Dec 15, 2007 Haifa Chief Rabbi Cohen is trying to gather support for a
synagogue on the Temple Mount. Other rabbis have also called for the construction
of a Jewish prayer site on the Temple Mount. Jewish Temple Mount supporters
greeted Rabbi Cohen's announcement with enthusiasm.
Monday Dec 10, 2007 the famous golden Menorah (candelabra suitable
for use in the Holy Temple) was relocated from the Cardo section of the Old City
of Jerusalem to the landing of the wide staircase that leads down from the
Jewish Quarter to the Western Wall.
Support Sought for Temple Mount Synagogue, IsraelNN:
Israel agreed to forfeit Temple Mount in 2000
December 13, 2007 Aaron Klein, Jerusalem
In spite of longstanding denials by top officials here, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
agreed to relinquish the Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site, to the Palestinians in
2000 during U.S.-backed negotiations at Camp David. (ZionsCRY reported this then)
Ehud Barak, then prime minister, agreed sovereignty over the Temple Mount would be
ambiguous. The Palestinians would control the upper sections of the Mount, which houses
the Al Aqsa Mosque and also is the site of the First and Second Jewish Temples.
President Bill Clinton floated a plan that called for the Temple Mount to become Palestinian
sovereign territory, while the Western Wall below and its complex would fall under Israeli
sovereignty. Barak denied he offered the Temple Mount to the Palestinians, but was willing
to compromise. Barak was willing to give up most of the West Bank and split Jerusalem.
The present Prime Minister Ehud Olmert denied talks started at the November 2007
Annapolis summit would lead to Israel giving up its sovereignty over the Temple Mount.
Palestinians claim Israel already agreed to forfeit it to a coalition of Arab countries in 2000.
Olmert agreed to evacuate the Mount but not to turn it over to the Palestinians alone. The
negotiator said both sides agreed, the Temple Mount would be given to joint Egypt,
Jordan and Palestinian Authority control.
Israel agreed to forfeit Temple Mount in 2000, WND Dec 2007:
This is truly the last generation!
I have often wondered what the 'last straw SIN' would be
that would at last bring the Lord Jesus Christ back to Earth.
HE tells us in Isaiah 66
GOD's Opinion of 3rd Temple
Is the Next Temple the Tribulation Temple or the Millennial Kingdom Temple?
The Lord gave specific instructions on the building of the Tabernacle. He said the
workers must be careful to follow the building instructions because it was to be a
COPY of the heavenly Temple. (Exodus 25:9 & 40, 26:30, 27:8, 39:32-43, Hebrews 8:5 )
Isaiah chapter 66 deals with the Tribulation, the Temple and the results of the sin of Israel,
and it gives the reason why the Lord brings judgment upon the people. It also ushers in
the Millennial Kingdom and the regathering of the nation of Israel.
The ultimate holiness of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount is assured.
The Tribulation Temple is a detestable place in His sight, and will only stand long enough
for the man of sin to use it to glorify himself. This Temple will ultimately be destroyed.
The reason for the Tabernacle
It was a meeting place between God and man. "Let them make me a sanctuary that
I may dwell among them." "I will meet with you to speak with you there." Exodus 25:8, 29:4
The Israelites were given instructions through Moses to build the Tabernacle.
Later, Solomon was allowed to build the Temple to house the Tabernacle and its furniture.
I Chronicles 22, 28, 29
Solomon's Temple was destroyed & the sacred furnishings were carried off by the
Babylonians. 2Kings 24:13, 25:8-17 It was later rebuilt by the decree of Cyrus. Ezra 6:3
This rebuilt Temple lacked the Ark of the Covenant, and the Sacred Fire, and in the
courtyard the altar of burnt offering was made of stone. It was this temple that Herod
the Great expanded and reconstructed. It was this temple in which Y'shua taught and
twice drove out the moneychangers and their merchandise. This Temple was destroyed in 70 C.E.
The Dome of the Rock was built on the temple mount near the site of Solomon's Temple
in the 7th century. Ever since Israel has become a nation again in 1948, and recaptured
Jerusalem in 1967, expectation have been high concerning the next Temple.
The Lord has expressed His distaste for the Tribulation Temple in Isaiah 66:1-4
GOD does not need a house to dwell in. Humility, contriteness and respect for
His Word He desires, for us to earn His favor. Without the proper heart attitude,
any sacrifice is in vain. Whoever sacrifices a bull is like one who kills a man,
and whoever offers a lamb, like one who breaks a dog's neck, whoever makes
a grain offering is like one who presents pig's blood, and
whoever burns memorial incense, like one who worships an idol.
Their souls delight in abominations, so I also will choose harsh treatment
for them and bring upon them what they dread.
GOD's Opinion, Lura Maiman, Missionary in Israel:
3rd TEMPLE and the Enemies of Israel
Dec 12 The last day of Chanukah. Olmert, Bush and Rice are trying to force
Israel to give the land to the enemies of God. We will all see in God's time how He
feels about it. You are now seeing once again in the USA the hand of God and His
displeasure with the pressure being put on Israel. The Menorah that has sat in the
Cardo of the Old City has been moved to a location overlooking the Temple Mount.
It is the 7 branch Menorah and said to have been made to be placed in the Temple
on the Temple Mount when the Temple will be built.
Enemies of Israel, jerry golden:
Jerry Golden wrote Dec 12, 2007
On the way to the Western Wall of the Temple Mount I noticed the Menorah that had sat
in the Cardo of the Old City has been moved to a location over looking the Temple Mount.
It is the 7 branch Menorah and said to have been made to be placed in the Temple on the
Temple Mount when the Temple will be built. It now sits at the top of the stairs that
lead out of the Jewish Quarter.
ZionsCRY emailed to ask others about the temple and when Menorah was moved.
Lura Maiman in Israel wrote Dec 2007
I believe the 3rd temple will be built alongside (north of) the Dome of the Rock.
There is a big open plaza there, and the only thing in that plaza is the Dome of the Spirit.
That is where the original Temple stood and the dome of the spirit was built over the
Holy of Holies. The Muslims are afraid to step inside the little cupola. It's just big
enough for one person. The orthodox will agree to split Jerusalem so they can
build their temple. God's opinion of this temple - Isaiah 66.
Missionary in Israel:
Sanhedrin Rebuild the Temple
June 6, 2005 The Sanhedrin call upon all groups who work in the area of Temple Mount
to prepare detailed architectural plans for the construction of the Holy Temple, to its
establishment in its proper place. The Sanhedrin will establish a forum of architects
and engineers whose goal will be to implement this decision, so that detailed working
plans are effectively brought to an operational stage.
The Sanhedrin call on the Jewish people to contribute towards the acquisition of materials
for the purpose of rebuilding the Holy Temple, the gathering and preparation of prefabricated,
disassembled portions of this building to be stored and ready for rapid assembly,
in the manner of King David, for the purpose of the construction of the Temple.
Sanhedrin Rabbis
January 2005 The 71 rabbis seeking to fulfill the Biblical commandment of renewing the
Sanhedrin continue to meet regularly. They discussed renewing the Passover sacrifice.
The rabbis held a ceremony October 13, 2004 inaugurating the Sanhedrin as Judaism's
supreme legal body.
A religious-legal assembly of 71 Sages that convened in the Holy Temple and for several
centuries after its destruction, the Sanhedrin was the highest Jewish judicial tribunal in
the Land of Israel. Meeting in Jerusalem's Old City, the Sanhedrin consists of
representatives of all stripes of religious Jewish society. Hareidi-religious, Hassidic,
national-religious, Ashkenazi, Sephardic, modern Orthodox and university professors
sit side by side in a semi-circle, seeking to re-establish Jewish legal tradition
after 2,000 years of exile.
Revelation 11 (excerpted, READ the chapters)
I measured for the temple of God and the altar, and those who worship in it.
GOD said to leave out the court which is outside the temple and do not measure it,
for it has been given to the nations, and they will tread under foot the holy city
Jerusalem for 42 months. I think this is where Grant Jeffry and others believe
the 3rd temple will stand with the Dome of the Rock.
Revelation 13 (excerpted)
And the dragon stood on the sand of the seashore. Then I saw a beast coming up
out of the sea (UN?), having 10 horns and 7 heads, and on his horns were 10 diadems,
and on his heads were blasphemous names. And the dragon (Satan) gave him his
power and his throne and great authority.
FAKE DEATH
I saw one of his heads as if it had been slain, and his fatal wound was healed.
And the whole earth was amazed and followed after the beast. They
worshiped the dragon and the beast. They said, who can wage war with him?
He was given authority to act for 42 months.
He spoke blasphemies against God, His name and His tabernacle, that is,
those who dwell in heaven. He waged war with the saints and overcame them.
If anyone is destined for captivity, to captivity he goes. If anyone kills with the sword,
with the sword he must be killed. Here is the perseverance and the faith of the saints.
666
Then I saw another beast with 2 horns like a lamb and he spoke as a dragon.
He makes the people of earth worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed.
He deceives people with signs. All who do not worship the image of the beast are killed.
Everyone on earth will be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead,
and no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark,
either the name of the beast or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast,
for the number is that of a man, and his number is six hundred and sixty-six.
A New Chanukah
by Gary Cooperberg in Hebron, ISRAEL December 3, 2007
(Edited by ZionsCRY. I love this!)
I wonder how many realize the significance of the holiday of Chanukah. This is one
holiday that is shared by both religious and non-religious Jews. Chanukah is the Jewish
answer to Christmas. We light the candles, recite blessings and exchange gifts.
But the festival of lights has a far deeper and meaningful significance. The Jews were
living in Israel under Greek occupation. (read Maccabees) The Greeks wanted us to
give up our belief in the One G-d, and offered us equal rights were we to accept their
deities and live as they did. Many Jews saw this as a reasonable option. After all the
Greeks were clearly stronger than we were and there was no hope that we could defeat them.
A handful of religious fanatics, led by the former high priest, Mattityahu, rebelled against
the Greeks. When a Greek officer came to Modiin and set up a statue of an idol and called
upon Jews to bow to it in order to be accepted as equal citizens, a line formed to do so.
As the first Jew went to bow down, Mattityahu stabbed him to death and shouted to his
brothers, "All who stand with the Living G-d of Israel follow me!"
They fled to the hills and conducted a guerrilla war against the Greeks.
The Maccabees tiny group was prepared to die rather than turn against their G-d,
and actually defeated the overwhelming might of their enemies and returned Jewish
sovereignty to our homeland. They DID NOT accomplish this by compromising upon
Jewish Law. They accomplished the impossible by standing with their G-d,
and He intervened and enabled the few to overcome the many.
2007
Today our leaders have become the Hellenists of our time and seek to compromise our
beliefs in order to live in 'peace' with our enemies. The basic difference between then and
now is that our enemies want to destroy us. It is we who labor under the self-delusion that
our enemies want peace. So we throw our brothers out of their homes, give away large
chunks of our homeland, release terrorists from prison and turn them loose in our homeland
to continue their efforts to destroy us, and fund our enemies and give them weapons.
At least in those days we knew who are enemies were. Today we call them "peace partners".
Never in the history of Mankind has any nation worked so hard to destroy itself as has the
modern nation of Israel. Yet, in spite of our lost leaders, the faith of the Jewish People
continues. Although the media gives the false impression that the Jewish People agree with
the stupidity of our leaders, this is simply not true. We are locked into a false democracy
which has enabled the political system to override the will of the people. It is a system
doomed to self destruction, but one which continues to bring needless tragedy to our country.
As in the original Chanukah, our victory was not possible, but it happened anyway.
So too will be the coming Redemption, may it be swift and glorious.
ZC - This article uses the Jewish celebration of Hannukka to bless Christians to also
STAND in our Faith! This attack against Israel in the natural is also being waged
in the spirit, and we who are filled with His spirit are called to wage this battle in the spirit.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Ephesians 6:12
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ZionsCRY ARCHIVE of past issues:
Triumphant Return book by Grant R Jeffrey
and Pastor Robert McLaughlin of Grace Bible Church ( gbible.org ), 802 Riverside Avenue, Somerset, MA 02726
Grace Bible church, MA:
Bible Prophecies about the End Times:
WARNING! Grant Jeffrey teaches a pre-tribulation RAPTURE.
Grant Jeffrey (WARNING, rapture site) - grantjeffrey.com
Christ's Return in our Generation:
Grant Jeffrey site:
Controversy over Rebuilding the Temple on Temple Mount:
There is NO Pre-Tribulation RAPTURE ESCAPE!
Christians are being persecuted EVERYWHERE
The Bible nowhere says that Believers will leave Earth for 7 years or even 3.5 years.
The Pre-tribulation Rapture is not a sound and unassailable theological position.
Michael Boldea, Dumitru Duduman's grandson has prophetic dreams
4 HORSES DREAM of Michael Boldea October 2007:
New war coming, Boldea prophecy:
Great California Earthquake coming, Boldea dream:
RAPTURE:
The REAL RAPTURE, Second Coming:
RAPTURE, Not So Fast, John Clark:
Michael Boldea Handofhelp site:
APOCALYPSE, Revelation by Michael Boldea - MUST READ:
ISRAEL NEWS Links
Arutz 7, ISRAEL National NEWS IsraelNN.com:
Missionaries in Arad, Israel need help:
What will happen to America, Jerry Golden vision:
Jerry Golden reports from Jerusalem:
Roots of Evil in Jerusalem, Jerry Golden:
LARGE, CLEAR MAP of ISRAEL-LEBANON-SYRIA-Jordan:
Prophecy newswatch Index page, good links:
Hashemite Dynasty, The Kingdom of Jordan:
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