The third temple - Should Christians support this initiative ?

Carl Emerson said:

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.

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Here’s the problem. There’s no way to determine who is a descendant of Aaron. Records were lost in AD 70.

Carl Emerson said:

Modern Judaism as a religion is anti-Christ.

Yet it seems many believers are drawn towards supporting the building of the third temple, ,

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If believers, is there some common exegesis handling they cite for that support?

Carl Emerson said:

", ,these matters need to be discussed as the implications of misplaced loyalties are very severe if we end up supporting a false religion unwittingly.

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Oh my goodness YES! I suppose the New Testament spirit of support for the unredeemed Jew is on a painfully short leash. Sensitive, but short and guarded. As related to my former query, I thought you may have been referring to the Christ-centered Jew possibly gaining some persuasion among them. Maybe not. The ancient days of the "chosen" remains a bit intense for me. Even though the Jews of NT times,

Israel's "pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone, as it is written:

“See, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling
and a rock of offense;
and the one who believes in Him
will never be put to shame.”

, , has the impression if you will, of both a lot to swallow yet in the simplest of terms. I would fully understand to find Judaism has a very hard time putting this out of their minds. Yet, I have a hard time of finding any significant headway of the Jewish Christians with their unbelieving counterparts?

Christ is the new temple. When He said He would rebuild the temple in three days, He was referring to himself.

I think a third temple is a waste of time. As far as that goes, without wishing to be offensive, Israel has served its purpose.

What we see today is a political entity and it has no theocratic authority. The Jews themselves are divided over which form Judaism should take (so what's new?).

I think what will be will be. I don't think the Jews will be Christianized and then build the Temple. But as a Jewish religion rebuilding the Temple is a central part and will always be aimed for.

The 3rd Temple is suppose to be built before Christ retirns and the ceremonies will once again happen. That may certainly be the case with the present Jews wanting to do exactly this.

Who knows how God works. It may be that the building of the Temple actually leads many Jews back to Christ without many them realising it. It will certainly be a day in our hiostory that the 3rd Temple is built.

But the main problem I see is how they get around the fact that the Muslims occupy the very site for the 3rd Temple. How for example the Dome of the Rock is removed without massive conflict breaking out.

Maybe the present conflict will lead to a change of occupation of the mount. Maybe a deal can be done where both the Muslims and Jews are accommodated. It would not be surprising the way things have changed recently around the world.

If some sort of peace can come to the conflict as was happening with the Abraham Accord where Arab nations were willing to accept Isreal and reject terrorism this could lead to negociations between Jordan and Isreal and others. A central issue to negociations is Jerusalem and the Temple mount.

It may be that a wave of compromise for peace comes over the world for a while after everyone is sick of all the conflicts and people are ready to change things.

No third temple will be built that will mean anything because Jesus fulfilled that by being 'The' Holy Temple destroyed in death but risen in glory by God the Father.

I want to see it and whether I support it or not is irrelevant because it will happen. I like watching prophecy unfold and fear not this Christian won't jump ship because I have truth in my hand.

Laodicean60 said:

I want to see it and whether I support it or not is irrelevant because it will happen. I like watching prophecy unfold and fear not this Christian won't jump ship because I have truth in my hand.

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It’s not prophecy.

Carl Emerson said:

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DNA evidence supports the idea that the Cohen bloodline is descended from Aaron, the first Jewish high priest:

• Genetic markers
  A 1997 study found that a specific Y chromosome marker was present in 98.5% of Cohanim, but in a much lower percentage of non-Cohanim.
  
  
  
• Genetic clustering
  Studies in 2017 and 2021 found that Cohanim from different Jewish communities share a "tight cluster" of Y-chromosomal markers.
  
  
  
• Number of mutations
  Scientists estimate that the Cohens descend from a single man who lived about 3,300 years ago, which matches the time of Aaron's existence.
  
  
  
• Oral tradition
  The genetic evidence supports the idea that the priesthood was established before the Jewish population split into two groups 1,000 years ago, which matches the 3,000-year-old oral tradition.
  

The Cohanim are a Jewish priestly class whose men can trace their descent from a single male ancestor. The priestly status has been passed down from father to son since Moses anointed Aaron as the first high priest

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They can make stuff up. I’m not denying that.

Carl Emerson said:

Are you claiming they did in this case???

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I am. All family records were destroyed with the temple.

Bob Crowley said:

I think a third temple is a waste of time. As far as that goes, without wishing to be offensive, Israel has served its purpose.

What we see today is a political entity and it has no theocratic authority. The Jews themselves are divided over which form Judaism should take (so what's new?).

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This is not what the Scripture teaches.

Paul says this about Jews in Romans 11 28 'As regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sake. But as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers.' The Jews are belowed by God.

Israel became God's wife when God made a covenant with them on mount Horeb. Yes, it is true that God has dicorced His wife Israel, but He will take her back. Hosea 2 14 “Therefore, behold, I will allure her,
and bring her into the wilderness,
and speak tenderly to her.
15 And there I will give her her vineyards
and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope.
And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth,
as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.

16 “And in that day, declares the Lord, you will call me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer will you call me ‘My Baal.’ 17 For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more. 18 And I will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground. And I will abolish[f] the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety. 19 And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. 20 I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall know the Lord.

21 “And in that day I will answer, declares the Lord,
I will answer the heavens,
and they shall answer the earth,
22 and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil,
and they shall answer Jezreel,[g]
23 and I will sow her for myself in the land.
And I will have mercy on No Mercy,[h]
and I will say to Not My People,‘You are my people’;
and he shall say, ‘You are my God.’”

Another text where we see God's plan with Israel is in Jeremiah 31 31 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. 33 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

35 Thus says the Lord,
who gives the sun for light by day
and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night,
who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—
the Lord of hosts is his name:
36 “If this fixed order departs
from before me, declares the Lord,
then shall the offspring of Israel cease
from being a nation before me forever.”

37 Thus says the Lord:
“If the heavens above can be measured,
and the foundations of the earth below can be explored,
then I will cast off all the offspring of Israel
for all that they have done,
declares the Lord.”

38 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when the city shall be rebuilt for the Lord from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate. 39 And the measuring line shall go out farther, straight to the hill Gareb, and shall then turn to Goah. 40 The whole valley of the dead bodies and the ashes, and all the fields as far as the brook Kidron, to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, shall be sacred to the Lord. It shall not be plucked up or overthrown anymore forever.”

I never seen a nation, especially this small, be attacked by it's enemies and yet survived. Look what happened in 1948 after Israel was established again. They got attacked by their enemies straight away, despite having almost no army, weak soldiers who just returned from Holocaust, 2 planes and 5 tanks and they then defeated a larger enemy so many times. Even today, they are blessed by God, because He is with them.

The ignorance of some Christians of God's plan for Israel is astonishing. I hear nonsense such as Church replaces Israel all the time. Or rhe Israel today has nothing to do with OT Israel. Nonsense. Jews are supposed to envy Christians. Telling them nonsense like this will never make them envy us, and they will never be interested in the Gospel.

Carl Emerson said:

So the science of DNA is not credible ???

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It’s credible. But they can’t know which tribe is which, let alone a particular family within a tribe.

Carl Emerson said:

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.

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A true Bible-believing Christian knows that the 3rd Temple will be defiled by the AntiChrist.
According to the prophecy of an early saint - Hippolytus - the 3rd Temple will be the AntiChrist's gift to the Jewish people.

These are the end times and, as such, we should be praying for more time so that more people will have an opportunity to be saved and not be eager to see the 3rd Temple built.

Carl Emerson said:

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.

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A couple points.

Everything is anti-Christ that is not pro,-Christ. Judaism is not a standalone in this category. Just wanted to point this out.

Also, Arabs will regain control over the Temple Mount. That is the only way to keep peace with the Arabs, at least for now.

I do not claim to know what the future holds but no current leader will do this. Not Trump or Netanyahu anyway, the Temple Mount is a completely separate issue from whether Hamas, the PA, or Fatah regains their power over the Arabs living in Palestine.

I disagree with all physical temple building (horrifying heresy), and stand against any efforts. I agree with you here. We should be outspoken against such a blasphemy.