upgraded January 20, 200
7
Daily Sacrifice Must First Be Re-established
On
Mount Moriah, Jerusalem, In Order For The Antichrist To Stop Daily Sacrifice
When God created Adam and Eve, they were very good.
Genesis 1:27, 31a (NIV) So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he
created him; male and female he created them.…31a God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.
God placed man in the Garden of Eden.
Genesis 2:8,9 (NIV) Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and
there he
put the man he had formed. And the Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground--trees that were pleasing
to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and
the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil.
When God created man, man had a free will to love and obey God, or to not love and
obey God. In order to effectively give man his free will, God had to give man a law to
comply with. If man had no law to comply with, and therefore no way to commit sin, man could not have sinned, and consequently man
would not have had a free will. The law that God gave man was a command to
"not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil."
Genesis 2:16,17 (NIV) And the Lord God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from
any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat
of it you will surely die."
"Adam was but human - this explains it all.
He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was
forbidden." - Mark Twain 1835-1910
Adam and Eve committed the very first human sin by eating
"from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil."
Genesis 3:6-7 (NIV) When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree
was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom,
she took
some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so
they
sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
After Adam and Eve committed the first human sin by
eating "from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil," they
gained knowledge of good and evil and realized that they were naked. When
they realized that they were naked, they attempted to clothe their nakedness in
fig leaves. (To those who ignorantly believe that man is just another
animal, consider that no animal in history has ever sinned. Consequently,
no animal in history has ever attempted to clothe their nakedness.)
"Nothing wears clothes, but Man; nothing
doth need But he to wear them." - George Herbert 1593-1633
At that point in time, Adam and Eve were no longer
"very good", as they had been referenced above in Genesis 1:31.
The sin of Adam and Eve separated their soul from God, and
twisted, distorted, and
crippled their spirit. Adam and Eve's descendants thereafter were born
with a sinful spirit. Through no personal fault of their own, Adam's descendants could not abstain from sinning
every day in "word, thought and deed."
The payment for sin is always death. "For the wages of sin is death"
- Romans 6:23a (NIV) The just punishment for sin is death. When a
person sins, they deserve to die. Because of their sin, Adam and Eve
deserved to die. God's perfect justice required a blood
sacrifice for atonement for man's sin. When
man sinned, something living had to die as punishment for atonement for that
sin. Hebrews 9:22 referencing Leviticus 17:11 demands a blood sacrifice for
atonement for sins.
Hebrews 9:22 (NIV) In fact, the law requires that nearly everything
be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
Leviticus 17:11 (NIV) For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I
have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that
makes atonement for one's life.
God's Love provided a way of balancing God's perfect justice.
2 Samuel 14:14 (NIV) Like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered,
so we must die. But God does not take away life; instead, he devises ways so that a banished person may
not remain estranged from him.
God's Love immediately revealed a system of
substitution-sacrifice-justice, in order to compensate for an individual's sin
and allow atonement with God. Atonement means at-one-ment;
to become one with God, or reconciled to God. God's redemptive
justice plan was put into effect immediately after the sin of
Adam, when God clothed Adam and Eve with animal skins.
Genesis 3:21 (NIV) The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and
his wife and clothed them.
The fig leaves that Adam and Eve clothed themselves with were
not adequate. The Lord God took animal skins and clothed Adam and Eve. An animal had to
die to cover the nakedness that became apparent to Adam and Eve after they sinned.
The Lord God (Jesus) was functioning in His capacity as High Priest when He
sacrificed the animals in order to acquire their skin.
God's redemptive plan was further revealed
when God accepted Abel's sacrifice, but rejected Cain's sacrifice. Cain, Adam and Eve's first born son, offered a sacrifice of grain
as atonement for sin, but Able
offered a sacrifice of meat. Cain's sacrifice of grain was not accepted by God.
Abel's sacrifice of meat was accepted. (An animal had to die as punishment to
atone for Abel's sin.)
Genesis 4:2b-5 (NIV) Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.
3 In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the
LORD. 4 But Abel brought fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The LORD
looked with favor on Abel and his offering, 5 but on Cain and his offering he did not look
with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.
Animals were created with the
breath of life and blood, but without a soul. "For the life of a creature is in the
blood" - Leviticus 17:11a (NIV) Part of the purpose for the creation of animals is that
they would die as an atoning substitute for man, until the atoning substitution and death
of Jesus Christ. God created animals without a soul, in order that something living - that
had the breath of life in it - that had blood in it - could die as a substitution for the
punishment that man deserved, because man had sinned. The animals did suffer and did die as
punishment for a man's sin, but the animals do not live forever as man does, and
consequently the suffering and punishment for sin was horrible but was temporal.
When a man dies and is
punished for his own sin, then it is horrible and eternal! The animals who
died would cease to exist because they have no soul, in order to keep man who has a soul
from an eternal death and hell.
In God's perfect substitution-justice system,
the suffering and punishment of the animals was
temporal. Because the animals had no chance for eternal suffering as the animals do not have a soul,
the forgiveness that the animal sacrifice afforded was also temporal. Consequently, animal sacrifice was required year after year. As Jesus
has a soul, and will live forever, the substitution punishment sacrifice of Jesus the
man perfectly balanced the scales of God's justice, and consequently, the atonement is
eternal.
The substitution sacrifice of Jesus replaced the substitution sacrifice of
animals. Now the only avenue to God is through
the substitution sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
John 14:6 (NIV) Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through me.
If a person does not avail themselves of
the Blood Sacrifice of Jesus, God's
only avenue of atonement, they will pay the full price that God's justice demands for their
sin.
The Blood Sacrifice of Jesus was rejected by the Jews.
For two thousand years, there has been no blood sacrifice accepted by the Jews.
There has been no Temple in which to sacrifice.
Matthew 24:1-2 (NIV) Jesus left the temple and was walking away when
his disciples came up to him to call his attention to its buildings. 2
"Do you see
all these things?" he asked. "I tell you the truth, not one
stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down."
In 70 A.D. the Romans under Titus conquered Jerusalem. Tradition says
that Titus thought there was gold hidden in the Temple walls, hence, in his search,
"not one stone here will be left on another." - Matthew
24:2c (NIV). The Temple
was totally destroyed.
For two thousand years,
there has been no accepted
atonement for sin by the Jews. The Jews have not had king or prince, sacrifice
or sacred stones, ephod or idol.
Hosea 3:4-5 (NIV) For the Israelites will live many
days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones, without
ephod or idol. 5 Afterward the Israelites will return and seek the LORD their God
and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to his blessings in the
last days.
The Orthodox Jewish people recognize that
there has been no atonement.
There will be the reinstitution of daily sacrifice by the
Jewish people. The problem is that the place where tradition states that daily sacrifice
must be re-established is on Mount Moriah,
Jerusalem, and is occupied by "The Dome of the
Rock," a Moslem Mosque. Mount Moriah is the most important piece of real estate in the
world. The significance of Jerusalem and Mount Moriah has been recorded throughout
history. It was on Mount Moriah where Abraham first
gave tithes to Melchizedek, the King of Salem (JeruSalem). Hebrew tradition
holds that Melchizedek was Shem, son of Noah. Melchizedek was a fore glimpse of Jesus
Christ the true priest of God Most High, and King of Jerusalem.
Genesis 14:18-20 (NIV) Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out
bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High, 19 and he blessed Abram, saying,
"Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth. 20 And blessed be
God Most High, who delivered your enemies into your hand." Then Abram gave him a
tenth of everything.
Hebrews 5:6-10 (NIV) And he says in another place, "You are a
priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek." 7 During the days of Jesus' life on
earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the one who could
save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. 8 Although he
was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered 9 and, once made perfect, he became
the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him 10 and was designated by God to be
high priest in the order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 6:20 (NIV) where Jesus, who went before us, has entered on our
behalf. He has become a high priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 7:1-10 (NIV) This Melchizedek was king of Salem and priest of
God Most High. He met Abraham returning from the defeat of the kings and blessed him, 2
and Abraham gave him a tenth of everything. First, his name means "king of
righteousness"; then also, "king of Salem" means "king of peace."
3 Without father or mother, without genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life,
like the Son of God he remains a priest forever. 4 Just think how great he was: Even the
patriarch Abraham gave him a tenth of the plunder! 5 Now the law requires the descendants
of Levi who become priests to collect a tenth from the people--that is, their
brothers--even though their brothers are descended from Abraham. 6 This man, however, did
not trace his descent from Levi, yet he collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed him who
had the promises. 7 And without doubt the lesser person is blessed by the greater. 8 In
the one case, the tenth is collected by men who die; but in the other case, by him who is
declared to be living. 9 One might even say that Levi, who collects the tenth, paid the
tenth through Abraham, 10 because when Melchizedek met Abraham, Levi was still in the body
of his ancestor.
Psalms 110:4 (NIV) The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind:
"You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek."
Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac on Mount Moriah
referenced in Genesis chapter 22 is a fore-glimpse of Jesus and the Crucifixion:
· Isaac was stated as his fathers only son
(Genesis 22:2).
Jesus is His Fathers only
son.
· God provided a ram as a
substitution sacrifice instead of Isaac.
God provided Jesus
as the substitution sacrifice to pay for the sins of mankind. Jesus was
also substituted for the Passover lamb. The Passover lamb is a portent of
Jesus.
· There was an actual sacrifice.
Jesus was actually
sacrificed.
· Historians have stated that Isaac was 33
years old.
Jesus was 33 years old at
His crucifixion.
· Isaac was 3 days dead in his fathers
mind.
Jesus was 3 days dead.
· Isaac carried the wood on which he was to
be sacrificed.
Jesus carried His own cross.
Genesis 22:1-19 (NIV) Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to
him, "Abraham!" "Here I am," he replied. 2 Then God said, "Take
your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of
Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I
will tell you about." 3 Early the next morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey.
He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for
the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. 4 On the third day
Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. 5 He said to his servants, "Stay
here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will
come back to you." 6 Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on
his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on
together, 7 Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, "Father?" "Yes,
my son?" Abraham replied. "The fire and wood are here," Isaac said,
"but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?" 8 Abraham answered, "God
himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." And the two of them
went on together. 9 When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an
altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar,
on top of the wood. 10 Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. 11
But the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, "Abraham! Abraham!"
"Here I am," he replied. 12 "Do not lay a hand on the boy," he said.
"Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not
withheld from me your son, your only son." 13 Abraham looked up and there in a
thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it
as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 So Abraham called that place The LORD Will
Provide. And to this day it is said, "On the mountain of the LORD it will be
provided." 15 The angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time 16
and said, "I swear by myself, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and
have not withheld your son, your only son, 17 I will surely bless you and make your
descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your
descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, 18 and through your
offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me." 19 Then
Abraham returned to his servants, and they set off together for Beersheba. And Abraham
stayed in Beersheba.
Hebrews 11:17-19 (NIV) By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered
Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had received the promises was about to sacrifice his one and
only son, 18 even though God had said to him, "It is through Isaac that your
offspring will be reckoned." 19 Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and
figuratively speaking, he did receive Isaac back from death.
Jacob's dream, according to Rabbinic Scholars, was on Mount
Moriah.
Genesis 28:10-22 (NIV) Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.
11 When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set.
Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. 12 He had
a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven,
and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. 13 There above it stood the
LORD, and he said: "I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of
Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying. 14 Your
descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to
the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you
and your offspring. 15 I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will
bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised
you." 16 When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, "Surely the LORD is in
this place, and I was not aware of it." 17 He was afraid and said, "How awesome
is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven."
18 Early the next morning Jacob took the stone he had placed under his head and set it up
as a pillar and poured oil on top of it. 19 He called that place Bethel, though the city
used to be called Luz. 20 Then Jacob made a vow, saying, "If God will be with me and
will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give me food to eat and clothes to
wear 21 so that I return safely to my father's house, then the LORD will be my God 22 and
this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God's house, and of all that you give me
I will give you a tenth."
God had instructed Moses on a Temple to come.
Deuteronomy 12:5 (NIV) But you are to seek the place
the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to put his Name there for his
dwelling. To that place you must go;
2 Chronicles 7:11-12 (NIV) When Solomon had finished the temple of the
LORD and the royal palace, and had succeeded in carrying out all he had in mind to do in
the temple of the LORD and in his own palace, 12 the LORD appeared to him at night and
said: "I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself
as a temple for sacrifices.
840 B.C. - Solomon built the First Temple
on Mount Moriah, Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 3:1 (NIV) Then Solomon began to build the temple of the
LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared
to his father David. It was on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, the place
provided by David.
Mount Moriah is the same location where the
Lord God appeared to Solomon's father David.
1 Chronicles 21 (NIV) Satan rose up against Israel and incited David
to take a census of Israel. 2 So David said to Joab and the commanders of the troops,
"Go and count the Israelites from Beersheba to Dan. Then report back to me so that I
may know how many there are." 3 But Joab replied, "May the LORD multiply his
troops a hundred times over. My lord the king, are they not all my lord's subjects? Why
does my lord want to do this? Why should he bring guilt on Israel?" 4 The king's
word, however, overruled Joab; so Joab left and went throughout Israel and then came back
to Jerusalem. 5 Joab reported the number of the fighting men to David: In all Israel there
were one million one hundred thousand men who could handle a sword, including four hundred
and seventy thousand in Judah. 6 But Joab did not include Levi and Benjamin in the
numbering, because the king's command was repulsive to him. 7 This command was also evil
in the sight of God; so he punished Israel. 8 Then David said to God, "I have sinned
greatly by doing this. Now, I beg you, take away the guilt of your servant. I have done a
very foolish thing." 9 The LORD said to Gad, David's seer, 10 "Go and tell
David, 'This is what the LORD says: I am giving you three options. Choose one of them for
me to carry out against you.'" 11 So Gad went to David and said to him, "This is
what the LORD says: 'Take your choice: 12 three years of famine, three months of being
swept away before your enemies, with their swords overtaking you, or three days of the
sword of the LORD--days of plague in the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every
part of Israel.' Now then, decide how I should answer the one who sent me." 13 David
said to Gad, "I am in deep distress. Let me fall into the hands of the LORD, for his
mercy is very great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men." 14 So the LORD
sent a plague on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead. 15 And God sent an
angel to destroy Jerusalem. But as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and was grieved
because of the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, "Enough!
Withdraw your hand." The angel of the LORD was then standing at the threshing floor
of Araunah the Jebusite. 16 David looked up and saw the angel of the LORD standing between
heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand extended over Jerusalem. Then David and
the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown. 17 David said to God, "Was it not I
who ordered the fighting men to be counted? I am the one who has sinned and done wrong.
These are but sheep. What have they done? O LORD my God, let your hand fall upon me and my
family, but do not let this plague remain on your people." 18 Then the angel of the
LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing
floor of Araunah the Jebusite. 19 So David went up in obedience to the word that Gad had
spoken in the name of the LORD. 20 While Araunah was threshing wheat, he turned and saw
the angel; his four sons who were with him hid themselves. 21 Then David approached, and
when Araunah looked and saw him, he left the threshing floor and bowed down before David
with his face to the ground. 22 David said to him, "Let me have the site of your
threshing floor so I can build an altar to the LORD, that the plague on the people may be
stopped. Sell it to me at the full price." 23 Araunah said to David, "Take it!
Let my lord the king do whatever pleases him. Look, I will give the oxen for the burnt
offerings, the threshing sledges for the wood, and the wheat for the grain offering. I
will give all this." 24 But King David replied to Araunah, "No, I insist on
paying the full price. I will not take for the LORD what is yours, or sacrifice a burnt
offering that costs me nothing." 25 So David paid Araunah six hundred shekels of gold
for the site. 26 David built an altar to the LORD there and sacrificed burnt offerings and
fellowship offerings. He called on the LORD, and the LORD answered him with fire from
heaven on the altar of burnt offering. 27 Then the LORD spoke to the angel, and he put his
sword back into its sheath. 28 At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him
on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, he offered sacrifices there. 29 The
tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses had made in the desert, and the altar of burnt
offering were at that time on the high place at Gibeon. 30 But David could not go before
it to inquire of God, because he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the LORD.
1 Chronicles 22:1 (NIV) Then David said, "The house of the LORD
God is to be here, and also the altar of burnt offering for Israel."
586 B.C. - Solomon's Temple on Mount Moriah,
Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzer.
2 Kings 25:8-17 (NIV) On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the
nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial
guard, an official of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. 9 He set fire to the temple
of the LORD, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he
burned down. 10 The whole Babylonian army, under the commander of the imperial guard,
broke down the walls around Jerusalem. 11 Nebuzaradan the commander of the guard carried
into exile the people who remained in the city, along with the rest of the populace and
those who had gone over to the king of Babylon. 12 But the commander left behind some of
the poorest people of the land to work the vineyards and fields. 13 The Babylonians broke
up the bronze pillars, the movable stands and the bronze Sea that were at the temple of
the LORD and they carried the bronze to Babylon. 14 They also took away the pots, shovels,
wick trimmers, dishes and all the bronze articles used in the temple service. 15 The
commander of the imperial guard took away the censers and sprinkling bowls--all that were
made of pure gold or silver. 16 The bronze from the two pillars, the Sea and the movable
stands, which Solomon had made for the temple of the LORD, was more than could be weighed.
17 Each pillar was twenty-seven feet high. The bronze capital on top of one pillar was
four and a half feet high and was decorated with a network and pomegranates of bronze all
around. The other pillar, with its network, was similar.
2 Chronicles 36:17-19 (NIV) He brought up against them the king of the
Babylonians, who killed their young men with the sword in the sanctuary, and spared
neither young man nor young woman, old man or aged. God handed all of them over to
Nebuchadnezzar. 18 He carried to Babylon all the articles from the temple of God, both
large and small, and the treasures of the Lord's temple and the treasures of the king and
his officials. 19 They set fire to God's temple and broke down the wall of Jerusalem; they
burned all the palaces and destroyed everything of value there.
520-515 B.C. - The Temple was rebuilt on Mount Moriah,
Jerusalem under Zerubbabel.
Haggai 1 (NIV) In the second year of King Darius, on the first day
of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel son
of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest: 2 This
is what the LORD Almighty says: "These people say, 'The time has not yet come for the
Lord's house to be built.'" 3 Then the word of the LORD came through the prophet
Haggai: 4 "Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while
this house remains a ruin?" 5 Now this is what the LORD Almighty says: "Give
careful thought to your ways. 6 You have planted much, but have harvested little. You eat,
but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are
not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it." 7 This is
what the LORD Almighty says: "Give careful thought to your ways. 8 Go up into the
mountains and bring down timber and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and
be honored," says the LORD. 9 "You expected much, but see, it turned out to be
little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?" declares the LORD Almighty.
"Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with his own
house. 10 Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its
crops. 11 I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new
wine, the oil and whatever the ground produces, on men and cattle, and on the labor of
your hands." 12 Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high
priest, and the whole remnant of the people obeyed the voice of the LORD their God and the
message of the prophet Haggai, because the LORD their God had sent him. And the people
feared the LORD. 13 Then Haggai, the Lord's messenger, gave this message of the LORD to
the people: "I am with you," declares the LORD. 14 So the LORD stirred up the
spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of
Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of the whole remnant of the people. They came
and began to work on the house of the LORD Almighty, their God, 15 on the twenty-fourth
day of the sixth month in the second year of King Darius.
Jesus Christ was Crucified on Golgotha,
which is adjacent to Mount Moriah. (Matthew 27:33, Mark
15:22, Luke 23:33, John 19:17)
In 37 B.C., Herod the Great added to
Zerubbabel's Temple
located on Mount Moriah to such an extent that this Temple
became known as "Herod's Temple." This was the Temple of Jesus' day. In 70 A.D.,
the Romans under Titus destroyed "Herod's Temple."
The "Wailing Wall," or "Western Wall" is the walled
enclosure that was around "Herod's Temple," and is not actually a wall of
Herod's
Temple building proper.
"The Dome of the Rock" on Mount Moriah
is a Moslem Mosque that tradition says is built over the spot where:
(1) Isaac was to be sacrificed
(2) Jacob's dream occurred
(3) The Lord God appeared to David
(4) The Holy of Holies of Solomon's Temple was
located
(5) The Holy of Holies of Herod's Temple was located
(6) Mohammed left the earth
Three world religions revere Father Abraham,
Jerusalem, and Mount Moriah as holy:
| 1. Judaism |
2. Christianity |
3. Islam |
Ishmael, the slave son of Abraham is the father of the Arab nations,
where Islam is so prevalent. God's Word in Genesis 17:20, and Genesis 16:12, has certainly
been fulfilled.
Genesis 17:20 (NIV) And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will
surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will
be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.
Genesis 16:12 (NIV) He will be a wild donkey of a
man; his hand will be
against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and
he will live in hostility toward all
his brothers."
Genesis 25:18 (NIV) His descendants settled in the area from Havilah to
Shur, near the border of Egypt, as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility
toward all their brothers.
The Antichrist will be Islamic, as only a Muslim would be able to allow
the Jews to re-establish daily sacrifice on Mount Moriah.
If any person other than a Muslim attempted to allow the Jews to re-establish
daily sacrifice on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, there would be "Jihad" by the
Muslims.
When the peace deal comes that permits the reconstruction of the Jewish Temple
in Jerusalem, most of the Jews will be deceived into believing that God is
blessing the Jews with His presence. At that time, when the Jews believe
that that are being blessed by God, we can know that
the Jews are being deceived because Jesus told the Jews that they would not
see God again until they accepted Jesus Christ as Lord.
Luke 13:34-35 (NIV) "O
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you,
how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers
her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! 35
Look, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see
me again until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.'"
The temple that the Spirit of God dwells in following the crucifixion of Jesus
Christ is the temple of the human body.
1 Corinthians 3:16-17 (NIV) Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that
God's Spirit lives in you? 17 If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is sacred,
and you are that temple.
It is the desire of the devil to rebuild the Jewish
Temple in Jerusalem!
The devil wants the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem rebuilt so that he can steal
it!
The devil will then possess the body of the Antichrist, and set himself up in the
Temple claiming that he is god, in order to deceive the nations into thinking
that the Antichrist is god.
Because the devil wants the Jewish Temple rebuilt in
Jerusalem; it will be simple for the devil to gain the support of the Islamic
world, whom the devil controls, for the Temple reconstruction project.
