Hi folks

Reading the Jerusalem Post article "Temple time?" linked" in Nancy's

23 Feb "Just months to rebuild Temple" and re-posted  by Gabri Don, I

saw repeated reference to the term "Third Temple". Article here:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?apage=1&cid=1222017549115&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Was not the First Temple a Tabernacle which was a Tent that was to

Gods specification?

1st Temple - Tent (God's specification)

2nd Temple - Masonry (David's specification)

3rd Temple - Masonry (Hezekiah's  specification)

4th Temple - Masonry (Temple Institutes specification)

Any new Temple would make it the "Fourth Temple".

The Temple Institute is going to great pains to assemble Temple

utensils that were God's specification for use in the Tabernacle. If

they were to be totally consistent in their approach they would be

re-building the Temple to replicate the Tabernacle (Tent) to God's

specification.

Is this new Temple a Temple of God or of man? Or, is the distinction

becoming blurred?

To quote Rabbi Chaim Rickman: "The hallmark of the Third Temple is

unparalleled peace and harmony," and again, the holy Temple is: "the

vehicle that builds up reconciliation between God and man… not just

Jewish people."

Temple Institute Director Yehuda Glick contends that: "We must

understand that 'heavenly' doesn't automatically mean mystical,

superficial (supernatural?) magic. During the Six Day War, the people

of Israel were facing a major catastrophe and, in human eyes, we had

no chance - we were to be wiped out. In six days we overcame enemies

from every border and reunited Jerusalem as the capital of the State

of Israel. That is no less a miracle,"

Glick says "we", he does not entertain the notion that God muddled the

thinking of the Egyptian Commanders when they took their column out

from under SAM II protection. There were Egyptian Officers who were

dismayed by the woolly thinking. Look for a similar thing to happen in

the coming aggression against Israel.

The stance of the faction opposing the re-building of the Temple is

outlined by Rabbi David Forman: "the reconstruction of the Temple

would thrust us back to a time where the expression of worship for God

was exercised through sacrifice. According to our tradition, when the

Temple was destroyed, the notion of sacrifice went by the wayside, and

instead, in the rabbinic period, a new form of worship came into being

- prayer - which seems to be a far more civilized way of asking,

praising, thanking and praying to God".

There is a little understood aspect to the faction that is pushing to

re-build the temple and Christians are being deceived by this: "some

100,000 visitors, about half of them Christian, visit the institute

each year to learn about the First and Second Temples and preparations

for the Third Temple". This aspect is at the centre of Kabbalism (and

New Ageism, Freemasonry etc) and it is encapsulated in the Star of the

flag of Isreal.

Please read my letter to Merianne 27 Feb:

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/feb2009/richardc227-1.htm

From that letter

The meaning of the Star symbol is very subtle and at the root of the

apostate falling away. It is best to think of it as two opposing

forces or arrows meeting at the points

with man's soul in the middle. The bottom arrow being man's lower

nature and the top arrow being man's higher nature. If man pursues his

lower nature the arrows reduce to nothing. If man pursues his higher

nature the arrows merge or equalize to form the star and man becomes

self-exalted god or goddess.

There is much more to this so please take the time to read the letter

to Merianne.

I am convinced that this new "Third Temple" is being pushed (by

conspiracy) for the express purpose of joining Judaism to the apostate

religion of man as God (the deception of Satan).

Do not be deceived

Richard