Modern Judaism as a religion is anti-Christ.
Yet it seems many believers are drawn towards supporting the building of the third temple as if it will hasten the coming of Jesus.
I am guessing that when it is built, believers will not only support it but there will be those who will convert to Judaism, failing to discern the true spirit behind it.
Future temple priests (in regalia) who are descendants of Aaron, recently went to the temple mount and prayed blessing in the Stone which supported the Arc of the Covenant.
With the likely expulsion of an Arab presence on the mount during the present war, plans for the temple, which are well advanced, will be rapidly implemented.
Comments welcome.
Jesus is our King and His temple is now believers who are indwelled by Him.
- Maybe in the future there will be a massive repentance among Jews but this has not yet happened. Meantime to support unredeemed Zionism is a big mistake. Not that in ethical terms, Israel is the worst player in the present conflict, but we are seeing a proud unrepentant people with plenty of human wisdom, and God given talent, refusing Jesus as King and trying to recreate a covenant that God terminated at the Cross.
Please understand that I have a deep love for Jewish people and the return to the land is part of God's plan, but resurrecting Judaism with the sacrificial system which was a shadow, and still refusing the light is spiritually evil, deceptive and dangerous.
The Late Arthur Katz used to say that given these circumstances the Jews may need to be expelled from the land before finding repentance, may be so, but maybe the two witnesses will bring them to their senses and repentance will come without that needing to take place?
I am musing and have no authority to say how things will pan out, but I think these matters need to be discussed as the implications of misplaced loyalties are very severe if we end up supporting a false religion unwittingly.
Readers be warned.
Well your comments are indeed simple musings.
I await the 3rd temple merely because it is declared in Scripture. It does not mean that god will accept the Mosaic sacrificial system of offerings again, but it is merely reporting it will be rebuilt and operating when Antichrist enters the temple.
We must remember that Israel is still gods covenanted people and the land is their covenanted land.
God is bringing Jews back as prophesied to do the following:
Ezekiel 20:33-38
King James Version
33 As I live, saith the Lord God, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you:
34 And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.
35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.
36 Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord God.
37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant:
38 And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
Zechariah 13:8-9
King James Version
8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
Jeremiah 31:33-37
King James Version
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
35 Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The Lord of hosts is his name:
36 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
37 Thus saith the Lord; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the Lord.
Romans 11:25-27
King James Version
25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
Romans 10:19
But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to
jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.
Romans 11:11
I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to
jealousy.
Zechariah 2:8
For thus saith the Lord
of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the
apple of his eye.
Jews are still being saved. god has not forgotten or revoked His covenant with all of Israel. He is working His plan according to His will.
Yes Judaism is the shadows and Jesus is the reality, but we are to pray for the peace of Jerusalem as the psalmist wrote and pray for the Jews- they still are gods only covenanted people.
We gentiles are merely the fuflilment of OT prophesy that God would call us out of the gentile peoples to be a people for His name (Jesus)
John 6:37
All that
the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
John 6:39
And this is
the Father's will which hath sent me, that of
all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at
the last day.
John 10:29
My
Father, which gave
them me, is greater than
all; and no man is able to pluck
them out of my
Father's hand.
We saved gentiles in a very real sense are gift to Jesus from God the Father.