A Peaceful Solution To Building The Next
TEMPLE In Yerusalem
To many people today, and especially to our government leaders, speaking about or
quoting from the Holy Scriptures is not the so-called "in thing" to do. In fact,
I have found as I have attempted to set an appointment to speak to a leader of a nation,
that when the BIBLE is mentioned, the door is shut or the phone is hung up--almost
instantly. Nevertheless, the BIBLE has some very real and viable SOLUTIONS
to today's world problems. And, our world leaders would be well advised to study these
solutions and then APPLY THEM in solving today's problems, rather than relying upon
their "own understanding".
Many of the Prophets of Old actually spoke of our day, describing existing problems facing all the nations on this planet. And whether we want to believe it or not: The Prophets of Old were INSPIRED by the Creator, YAHWEH!
Since we will be mostly dealing with the Prophet Yechetzqyah's (Ezekiel's) PROPHECIES in this article, let us put this Prophet to the TEST, so to speak, to see if there is any RELIABILITY in the things that he was inspired to write. And yes, there is significant EVIDENCE available to prove whether or not his proclamations can be relied upon: whether they were written by MEN or were INSPIRED by a Super Intelligence.
In the year 590 b.c.e., the Prophet Yechetzqyah spoke to and prophesied against a city called TYRE.
Tyre was nationally comparable at that time to New York City, U.S.A., today. With sea ports and island harbors, Tyre readily imported a steady stream of supplies through her sea routes. Tyre was also supplied by LAND, but if she were to be cut off from supplies by land, she supposedly could easily survive because of her sea lanes.
The Walls surrounding this city were thought to be of eternal strength. They were built to protect this thriving city against any and all attacks. This city was impregnable, or so it was believed.
Tyre was a Phoenician seaport in what is now Lebanon. Originally an island with two great harbors, the chief trading center of the Mediterranean; it is now a peninsula. Tyre was founded in the 1500's b.c.e.. Tyre resisted siege by Assyrian and Babylonian alike; defied several armies, including that of Nebuchadnezzar, fell (322 b.c.e.) to Alexander the Great after being besieged for seven months. After she fell, 8,000 Tyrians were slaughtered, 2,000 executed, and 3,000 sold into slavery.
The Romans, as well as Cleopatra, cherished Tyre's silken garments.
But the Prophet Yechetzqyah was inspired by the Creator, Whose Name is YAHWEH, to prophesy against this CITY, as great as it was, and to say in the year 590 b.c.e.--"You Will FALL!" And the Holy Scriptures in which this prophecy is written give complete details of Tyre's DESTRUCTION.
No human being can tell you what will take place fifty or one hundred years from now. In fact, no human being can show you what will or will not take place tomorrow, or even in the next hour! Yet, Yechetzqyah, under inspiration of Yahweh, FORETOLD in exact detail how the great city of Tyre would meet her destruction. Tyre was a great and wealthy city, and was, as it were, a "World Trade Center" of her time. Read this for yourself in:
Yechetzqyah (Ezekiel) 27:1-17
1 The word of Yahweh came to me saying;
2 Now son of man, take up lamentation for Tyre,
3 And say to Tyre; O you who are situated at the entry of the sea, a merchant of the people for many isles, this is what Father Yahweh says: O Tyre, you have said; I am of perfect beauty.
4 Your borders are in the midst of the seas, your builders have perfected your beauty.
5 They made your ship boards of fir trees from Senir; they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for you.
6 Of the oaks of Bashan they have made your oars; the company of the Ashurites have made your benches of ivory, brought form the isles of Chittim; Cyprus.
7 Fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt was what you spread for your sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was what covered you.
8 The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your mariners; oarsmen; your wise men, O Tyre, that were your pilots.
9 Elders of Gebal and its wise men were in you to caulk your seams; all the ships of the sea and their oarsmen were in you to deal in your merchandise.
10 Those from Persia, from Lud, and from Phut were in your army, your men of war hung shield and helmet in you; they brought forth your splendor.
11 The men of Arvad, with your army, were upon your walls all around; and the Gammadim were in your towers. They hung their shields upon your walls all around; they have made your beauty perfect.
12 Tarshish; Spain, was your merchant, doing business with you because of your multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead they traded for your wares.
13 Yavan; Greece, Tubal, and Meshech; in the mountainous region between the Black and Caspian Seas, were your merchants; they traded slaves and articles of bronze in your market.
14 Those of the house of Togarmah; Armenia, traded for your wares with chariot horses, cavalry horses, and mules.
15 The men of Dedan; in Arabia, were your merchants. Many Isles were your own markets; they brought you in payment horns of ivory and ebony.
16 Aram; Syria, was your merchant because of the multitude of the wares you made; they traded for your wares with their merchandise: emeralds, purple embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and agate.
17 Yahdah and the land of Israyl, they were your merchants; they traded in your market wheat of Minnith; in Ammon, pannag, honey, oil, and balm.
Although Tyre was a great and wealthy city, Yahweh also inspired Yechetzqyah to write of her DESTRUCTION, saying in:
Yechetzqyah (Ezekiel) 26:1-21
1 In the eleventh year, in the first day of the moon, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, because Tyre has said against Yerusalem: Aha! she is broken! The gate to the people has swung open to me; I will be replenished, now that she is laid waste;
3 This is what FATHER YAHWEH SAYS: Behold, I AM AGAINST YOU, O TYRE and WILL CAUSE MANY NATIONS TO COME AGAINST YOU, just as the SEA causes its WAVES TO COME UP.
4 And they will DESTROY THE WALLS of Tyre, and BREAK DOWN HER TOWERS; I will also SCRAPE HER DUST FROM HER, AND MAKE HER LIKE THE TOP OF A ROCK.
5 It will be a place for the SPREADING OF NETS IN THE MIDST OF THE SEA, for I HAVE SPOKEN, says FATHER YAHWEH: it will become a plunder for the nations.
6 And Tyre's daughters; her cities and villages, which are on the mainland, will be slain by the sword, and they will know that I am Yahweh.
7 For this is what Father Yahweh says; Behold, I will bring NEBUCHADNEZZAR king of Babylon, a king of kings, against Tyre from the north, with horses, with chariots, with horsemen, with an army and many people.
8 He will slay your daughters on the mainland with the sword; he will build up a siege ramp against you, build a wall against you, and raise up the buckler; shields as a defense, against you.
9 He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.
10 By reason of the abundance of his horses, their dust will cover you; your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen, of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he enters into your gates, as men enter a city in which a breach has been made.
11 With the hooves of his horses he will tread down all your streets; he will slay your people by the sword, and your mighty obelisks of godworship will fall to the ground.
12 They will make plunder of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise; they will break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses; then they will lay your circles of Stones Measured off for Desolations, your Sacred Poles, and the rubble from your altars into the midst of the sea.
13 I will put an end to the voice of your songs; the sound of your harps will be heard no more.
14 I will make you like the top of a rock; you will be a place to spread nets upon. You will be rebuilt no more: for I Yahweh, have spoken, says Father Yahweh.
15 This is what Father Yahweh says to Tyre; Will the isles not shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of you?
16 Then all the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones, lay aside their robes, and remove their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit upon the ground, tremble every moment, and be astonished; appalled, at you.
17 They will take up lamentation over you, and say of you: How you are destroyed, O city of renown, inhabited by men of the sea! She was powerful in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who cause their terror to be on all who dwelt in it!
18 Now will the isles tremble in the day of your fall; yes, the isles that are in the sea will be troubled at your departure.
19 For this is what Father Yahweh says; When I will make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I will bring up the deep upon you, and great waters will cover you;
20 Then I will bring you down with those who descend into the pit, with the people of ancient times, and will set you in the earth below--in places desolate from antiquity, with those who go down into the pit--so that you will never be inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living.
21 I WILL MAKE YOU A TERROR, and you will be no more, though you are searched for, YET YOU WILL NEVER BE FOUND AGAIN, says Father Yahweh.
Yechetzqyah (Ezekiel) 27:18-27
18 Damascus was your merchant in the multitude of the products you made, because of your great wealth of riches; trading with the wine of Helbon and with white wool.
19 Dan also, and Yavan; Greece, traded with yarn from Uzal; in Arabia, for your wares: wrought iron, cassia, and alamus were traded in your market.
20 Dedan was your merchant in saddle clothes for riding.
21 Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, they traded with you in lambs, rams, and goats; in these they were your merchants.
22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah; in Arabia, were your merchants. They traded for your wares with the choicest spices, with all precious stones, and gold.
23 Haran, Canneh, and Eden; in Mesopotamia, the merchants of Sheba; on the Euphrates, Asshur, and Chilmad; near Bagdad, were your merchants.
24 These were your merchants in choice fabrics, in blue clothes, in embroidered garments, in cedar chests of multicolored apparel, in strong twined cords; in these they traded with you.
25 The ships of Tarshish served as carriers for your merchandise. You were replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.
26 Your rowers have brought you into great waters, but the east wind has broken you in the midst of the seas.
27 Your riches, your wares, your merchandise, your oarsmen, your pilots, your caulkers, the traders of your merchandise, and all your men of war who are in you, with all your company which is in your midst, will FALL INTO THE HEART OF THE SEA IN THE DAY OF YOUR RUIN.
These PROPHECIES came to pass in detail--but NOT UNTIL 258 YEARS HAD PASSED! Yes, Yechetzqyah had prophesied against Tyre in 590 b.c.e., but this prophecy did not come to pass until the year 332 b.c.e.--258 years after he wrote this prophecy against this great city.
I repeat, NO MERE MAN CAN FORETELL FUTURE EVENTS. Many "guess" at them, but are always proven wrong as time goes by. However, Yechetzqyah, being inspired by the Superpower that exists in heaven, was able to do what no mere man, working alone, can do.
This same Creator Who inspired the Prophet Yechetzqyah to write of Tyre's destruction, also INSPIRED a Set of LAWS to be written; LAWS which would assure PEACE for all nations. The leaders of the nations would do well to take heed to these LAWS, and apply THEM to the governments in existence today.
We have a historical record, showing WHEN these LAWS were applied, were taught earnestly, and enforced strictly, the NATION obeying them had PEACE. The Prophet Mosheh (Moses) was inspired to write in:
Alah HaDebarim (Deuteronomy) 4:5-10
5 See, I have taught you STATUTES and JUDGMENTS, just as Yahweh my Father commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land you are entering to take possession of.
6 Therefore, BE CAREFUL TO OBSERVE AND DO THEM; for THIS IS YOUR WISDOM AND YOUR UNDERSTANDING in the sight of the nations who will hear of all these statutes, and say: Surely this nation is a wise and understanding people.
7 What other nation is so great as to have their gods with them the way YAHWEH OUR FATHER IS NEAR US WHENEVER WE PRAY TO HIM?
8 And what other nation is so great as to have such righteous statutes and judgments as are in all this BODY OF LAW which I set in front of you this day?
9 Only take heed to yourself, and diligently keep yourself from forgetting the things your eyes have seen, nor let them depart from your heart all the days of your life. And teach them to your children and to your children's children.
10 Remember the day you stood in front of Yahweh your Father at Horeb, when Yahweh said to me; Gather the people to Me, and I will let them HEAR MY LAWS, so they may LEARN TO REVERENCE ME all the days they live on the earth, and so they may teach their children.
Knowing what a WONDERFUL TREASURE that The LAW of Yahweh is, I can relate to King Yoshiyah when Hilkiyah the Priest found The Book of The Law in The House of Yahweh, and showed it to him, saying in:
Sefer Melakim (II Kings) 22:11, 13
11 As soon as the king heard the words of The Book of The Law, he TORE HIS CLOTHES.
13 Go, INQUIRE OF YAHWEH for me, for the people, and for all Yahdah, about the words of this BOOK that has been found. Great is Yahweh's ANGER that burns against us, because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this BOOK--to Do according to ALL THAT IS WRITTEN concerning us.
I personally fear that YAHWEH'S ANGER BURNS AGAINST US TODAY, as well, since as a righteous people we are far worse today than the Nation of Israyl was at that time. The once HOLY Land is now full of oppression and bloodshed; SIN of all kinds abounds in the Land of Beauty. Because of these things, I fear the dreaded PROPHECY of the great Prophet Yeshayah (Isaiah) is soon coming to pass. We read in:
Yeshayah (Isaiah) 24:1-6
1 Behold, Yahweh makes the EARTH EMPTY and MAKES IT WASTE, perverts the face of it and scatters abroad its inhabitants;
2 And it will be: as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his owner; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with him who takes usury, so with him who gives usury to him:
3 The LAND WILL BE UTTERLY EMPTIED AND UTTERLY PLUNDERED, FOR YAHWEH HAS SPOKEN THIS WORD.
4 The earth mourns and fades away, the haughty people of the earth languish.
5 The earth also IS DEFILED under the inhabitants of it, because they have TRANSGRESSED The Laws, CHANGED The Ordinance, and BROKEN The Everlasting Covenant.
6 Because of this, The Curse has DEVOURED The Earth, and they who dwell therein are DESOLATE; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are BURNED, and FEW MEN LEFT.
Mind you, the Prophet Yeshayah (Isaiah) is not speaking specifically and exclusively to laymen, although each individual is responsible for his conduct before Yahweh; but Yeshayah was inspired by Yahweh to speak to the PRIESTS WHO TURNED FROM YAHWEH'S WAY, WHO ARE PREVENTING THE PEOPLE from the pursuit of RIGHTEOUSNESS AND INSTRUCTION IN HOLINESS! It was these so-called PRIESTS who "changed the ordinances", and they are also responsible for NOT BRINGING YAHWEH'S PEOPLE BACK TO HIS EVERY WORD!
I have heard it said by many of my Israyli friends that OFFICIALS, holding influential offices, who could put into motion the BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE OF YAHWEH, WILL NOT DO SO, because IF the Temple were built, it would become a necessity that the WHOLE LAW be kept--and they RESIST the thought of KEEPING The Laws of Yahweh!
What few Laws they are now mindful of are carried out with about as much love and energy as the Christians show in keeping Sunday. Yes, what few LAWS that are being observed are NOT carried out with the CONVICTION AND THE ZEAL THAT THE PROPHETS OF OLD DISPLAYED! And THIS conviction and zeal in carrying out The Law of Yahweh is what we need to have NOW--since the TROUBLES that we face are far greater at this time than at any other point in human history. We are now at a point when we MUST ATTAIN this conviction and zeal; we are even as in the days of the great Prophet Yeremyah, when he was instructed by Yahweh in:
Yeremyah (Jeremiah) 1:17-19
17 As for you--get yourself ready! STAND UP, AND SPEAK TO THEM ALL THAT I COMMAND YOU. Do not break down because of them, or I will break you down in front of them.
18 For behold, this day I have made you a fortified city, an iron pillar, and the walls of bronze against the whole land--against the kings of Yahdah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.
19 They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you: FOR I AM WITH YOU TO DELIVER YOU, says Yahweh.
The World's Religious and Political LEADERS today are still in opposition to what the RIGHTEOUS Prophet Yeremyah stood up for, just as the LEADERS were in the day that Yeremyah wrote these words.
It doesn't take a brilliant person to look around us today and see that all nations are suffering from the RESULTS OF BREAKING THE LAWS that our Creator gave to secure PEACE and JOY for all.
In EVERY nation, including especially the U.S.A. and Israyl, these LAWS are being broken, and millions of people are suffering the consequences. Not only WAR is a result of this LAWBREAKING-- of which there are approximately 60 wars raging in this world as of this writing--but also crime, sickness, and disease.
At this moment, ALL NATIONS have a disease epidemic on their hands which seems, by all information gathered at this time, to be INCURABLE--100% DEADLY, spreading more rapidly than first anticipated. This disease is called AIDS. And from the doctors' reports I have read, this scourge is being spread very rapidly by MILLIONS of people worldwide WHO DO NOT EVEN KNOW they are INFECTED!
But if these people were keeping the LAW OF YAHWEH, this disease would never have had the opportunity to spread. And IF these people would begin to KEEP THE LAW OF YAHWEH today, this disease would never spread to another person.
| 'Safe' sex could backfire By PAUL RAEBURN The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - Can Americans' sexual behaviour be changed quickly enough to avert further spread of the AIDS virus? With federal officials predicting a cumulative total of 270,000 AIDS cases by 1991, the question is of immediate importance. Most future victims are already infected with the aids virus but don't know it. Abilene Reporter-News, Sunday, June 7, 1987 |
We are putting a mere balloon between ouselves and a deadly virus.
- Dr. Theresa Crenshaw 'It's not true that AIDS only affects gay men and IV users...'
|
But, there is yet ANOTHER disease that is being spread in the same way as AIDS, which is killing as many people in a DAY as AIDS kills in a year! This disease is HEPATITIS B--a viral disease whose complications include chronic liver disease and primary liver cancer.
THIS disease is not receiving the publicity that AIDS does, because it does not KILL as quickly. It takes two, three, or sometimes four decades to kill after the initial Hepatitis B Viral (HBV) infection. Nevertheless, this is spreading; it is also taking thousands of lives each year--ALL BECAUSE the LAWS of Yahweh, which, if KEPT, would safeguard anyone from contacting this disease, have been TOTALLY REJECTED!
Even without the Nuclear Bombs that will surely take their toll, all the sexually spread viruses, which are rampant in the world at this time, would soon be the end of civilization.
And as hard as it is to BELIEVE, an estimated 2,000 ISRAYLI women--who are HBV CARRIERS--give birth each year! Many of their infants will become HBV carriers themselves. The estimate for HBV carriers is even higher in other nations.
Isn't it TIME we wake up to the FACT that we NEED to start PUBLISHING THE LAWS OF Yahweh TO ALL Nations? Isn't it TIME TO PROCLAIM these Laws of PREVENTION, in order to STEM the flow of death and suffering that the BREAKING OF THESE LAWS CAUSE? Isn't it TIME to bring these LAWS FORTH, making THEM the first line of defense against these diseases, rather than allowing LAWBREAKERS to teach IGNORANT PEOPLE to "USE CONDOMS"?
Isn't it TIME that we TEACH these Laws of Yahweh DILIGENTLY to our children, worldwide? Isn't THEIR BLOOD UPON OUR HANDS for allowing these deadly diseases and destructive weapons to proliferate, when WE can STOP IT?
The Christians have taken their PAGAN TRADITIONS to all the world, while the People of The Book have SAT BACK, keeping the Laws of Yahweh BOUND UP AMONG OURSELVES --the VERY LAWS that would PREVENT all this suffering and dying! We are content to dwell in the safety of our own little homes, not being willing to rock the boat which is headed directly into a storm of destruction. We have allowed devastation to close in around us, until there is no safety left--not in the synagogue, not in Israyl, not in the world. And unless we are willing to TURN TO YAHWEH soon, in a few short years it will simply be too late to reverse this situation.
Following are news clippings from various papers and news
magazines, showing the THREAT to warfare, and the CONSEQUENCES of warfare.
| Arab States to pursue nuclear arms Saudi warns They won't stop unless Israel scraps its bombs ex-general says FIRM STAND: Prince Khaled bin Sultan tells an audience yesterday that Arab nations can't accept Israel as the dominant player in the Middle East. By GORDAON BARTHOS FOREIGN AFFAIRS WRITER Despite the Mideast peace breakthrough, Arab countries will try to aquire nuclear weapons unless Israel agrees to scrap its own bombs, predicts a former Saudi Arabian general who commanded Arab forces in the Persian Gulf War. |
"The Arabs feel that Israel's nuclear arsenal threatens the national security of
the entire Arab world." So they are "bound...to seek to acquire a deterrent of
their own," he said. Despite pressure, Israel refused to sign the global Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty when it recently came up for review, and is thought to have a stockpile of as many as 200 bombs, plus the missiles and the aircraft to deliver them. June, 13, 1995 |
| Iranian effort to build nuclear bomb reported JERUSALEM - Iran tried to buy centrifuges, heavy water and other components from Argentina to start a nuclear weapons program, a senior Israeli military official said. A diplomat at Argentina's Embassy in Tel Aviv on Wednesday acknowledged that Argentina started negotiations eight to ten years ago to sell some nuclear products to Iran... The Dallas Morning News, March, 2, 1995 |
| Egypt, Syria, Iran and Libya Have 1,000 Missiles Aimed At
Israel Fear They Will Include Chemical Warheads TEL AVIV - A senior defence source has disclosed that the Arab countries have 1,000 missiles of various kinds aimed at Israel. The source told several reporters here that Syria, Iran, Libya and Egypt are trying to manufacture their own missiles and some are close to acheiving the capability. According to a Yediot Achronot report Sunday, the number of these missiles can reach 2,000 by the end of the century. |
Yediot
quotes a senior security source as saying that we are dealing with a long-range, medium
and short-ranged Scud SS21m and Frog missiles. Some security officials have expressed fear that these Arabs are capable of arming the missiles with unconventional warheads. ...Saddam Hussein had that capability and Syria now has that capability... |
| Earthquake Bomb in Development? Underground Nukes Pose Hazard To Earth Are Iran and the Red Chinese working on bombs capable of creating earthquakes? ...a report in the Sunday Times of London...revealed that Soviet scientists had for years conducted underground nuclear tests looking to the possibility of developing a bomb that could be detonated beneath the Earth's surface to create a quake. Soviet scientists have revealed an underground nuclear test...near the Arctic Circle, in 1988 may have caused an earthquake in the then-Soviet Capive Nation of Armenia, 2,000 miles away, which resulted in the deaths of 45,000 people. |
Links have been
established with the republics neighbors, and seismological equipment is being shared with
Iran. Iran is known by Western intelligence agencies to be proceeding aggressively with
the development of a nuclear weapons program. Some scientists speculate disclosure of the Soviet efforts to develop a seismic weapon may have moved Red Chinese scientists to recently resume underground nuclear testing... ...the Red Chinese have been long suspected of aiding Iran in its nuclear development program. The SPOTLIGHT, BY MIKE BLAIR |
| Nuclear War aftermath study released WASHINGTON (AP) - The aftermath of nuclear war would look a lot more like today's famine-blasted Ethiopia than a picture of devastated buildings and radiation-scarred humans, says a scientist who believes starvation would be the No. 1 killer in post-World War III. |
| The Holocaust: Why the Jews? Storm over a new book Of all the enigmas facing historians, none is as dark as the Holocaust. Why did the Nazis decide to murder the Jews of Europe? How did they persuade others to implement the monstrous idea? The very horror deterred serious study for 15 years after the war. And even those who then tackled the sub- ject were stymied by the way the Nazis did things: the secrecy, the unwritten orders, the destruction of records and the innocent-sounding code names for the extermination of the Jews. Perhaps it was inevitable that historians would quarrel over just what happened, why and who should bear responsibility. The newest academic squall is start- ling, though, because of the scholars involved and the venom of accusations. The dispute revolves around princeton professor Arno Mayer, regarded by friends and foes as one of the country's most serious and original diplomatic historians. A popular teacher and avowed leftist, he is also a refugee from Hitler's Europe. He and his family escaped from Luxembourg in 1940; one grandfather died in the concentration camp at Theresienstadt. This makes it all the more striking that Mayer's new book, "Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?" (492 pages, Pantheon, $27.95) is being attacked as perversely tendentious, riddled with mistakes and worse. |
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, who reviewed it for
The New Replublic, sees "a pattern of falsification and distortion." Historian
Lucy Dawidowicz calls it "a very dishonest book." Mayer's argument is, in essence, that there was no deliberate policy to murder all the Jews of Europe. Do Mayer's arguments add up to a dimunition of the Holocasust? He suggests that the mass killing was a product of circumstances & man- slaughter, as it were, rather than murder. He plays down the hideous, aggravationg racial motivation. And by emphasizing "natural causes," he seems to say that most Jew's deaths were crimes of omission rather than commission. Mayer utterly rejects the idea that this excupates the Nazis: by blaming the anti-Bolshevism of many Germans, he is, he says, "holding a lot more people responsible than those who fixate on Hitler." What's, more he points out passionately, "my own grandfater was deported to Theresienstadt," where he died of "natural" causes. That cannot, says Mayer, "be construed as anything less terrible or less intentional." In the end, every reader will have to judge the question of moral responsibility for himself. The issue will not be resolved by historians, but goes to the core of what we learn from the Holocaust. TAMAR JACOBY, |
| SHOULD WE START PACKING? Jews in Germany are asking themselves the question one more time: Is the latest wave of anti-Semitism a passing phase, or is it time to leave? By Mimi Halberstam Germany is burning. Riots night after night in all parts of the country have been reported for the last three months... Skinheads have beaten people to death, and youngsters torched cars while onlookers cheered and clapped. ...recently, Jewish institutions also have been attacked. Graveyards have been desecrated...; a memorial commemorating the deportation of the Berlin Jews was attacked in an attempt to blow it up... "There have always been antisemitic tendecies. That did not stop in 1945. It's not as if in 1945, after Hitler's death, all of a sudden there were 70 million different Germans. The people remained the |
same; there is no new German people, the
people were not exchanged." ...racism and antisemitism are on the upsurge throughout Europe, and that the potential of the extreme right is equally strong in the other European countries... ...the danger is not to be underesti- mated. Earlier this year, the prominent political magazine Der Spiegel conduct- ed a survey that disclosed troubling results. According to the poll, 13 percent of Germans have antisemitism attitudes, and 32 percent claim it is the Jews' own fault if they are persecuted... |
| CLINTON PLANS FOR MIDEAST WAR - Pressure
by Israel One thing a sitting president can count on to boost his popularity is a "good war" EXCLUSIVE TO THE SPOTLIGHT BY WARREN HOUGH The SPOTLIGHT, June 12, 1995 Beset by scandal and politically adrift, the Clinton administration is making back-room plans for a bangup comeback. With a series of secret directives to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the White House has started setting the stage for a second Gulf War, this time targeted at Iran, The SPOTLIGHT has learned from highly placed diplomatic and intelligence sources. Iran, already under harsh economic sanctions and accused of fomenting "terrorism" while purportedly shop- ping for nuclear weapons, will be hit by "graduated military reprisal:" that is, U.S. air and sea attacks leading to full scale war this summer, these sources confirmed. In an address to the american Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the major Israeli lobby in Washington, visiting Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin called for war last month with a furious denunciation of Iran. |
Rabin lashed out
at the militant Muslim gulf nation as "the worst terrorists in the world...the one
country that uses influence and terrorism to disrupt the (Middle Eastern) peace process."
Iran was trying to acquire nuclear weapons, Rabin claimed, and demanded "military elimination of this threat." But Washington national security analysts privately dismissed Rabin's inflammatory speech as "demagoguery." They noted that Iran has tried to improve its relation with the U.S. in recent months, awarding a coveted petroleum contract to an American energy consortium... "What really worries Rabin is not Iranian terrorism, but just the opposite: He fears that the Islamic fundamen- talists may get a friendlier hearing in Washington this year",explained Dr. Jonathan Barber, a political scientist specializing in Middle Eastern affairs... |
All nations' leaders have always "talked peace"--while they have "prepared for war". But, the time has come that such awesome weapons have been developed due to modern technology, that the WAR WAGED with them has the capability of completely destroying the human race--especially in the tiny nation of Israyl.
I fear the day when the prophecies which the Prophet Yahyl (Joel) spoke against Israyl will come to pass. These PROPHECIES will come to pass! They are as certain to come to pass as all the other PROPHECIES of Yahweh--which have already taken place.
As human beings, we tend to think that we are SAFE in the particular nation in which we live--until we learn the shocking fact that even our enemies in what we may like to think of as 'small' nations have the technology and expertise to manufacture 20 MEGATON and larger WARHEADS. And with guided missiles to carry these NUCLEAR WEAPONS, these 'small' nations could destroy Israyl tomorrow. Or even the U.S.A.
If a 20 Megaton Nuclear Missile was dropped on the Hebrew University in Yerusalem, in less than one-millionth of a second classroom temperatures would rise to 150 million degrees Fahrenheit-- more than four times the temperature of the center of the Sun. The college would be vaporized, leaving a crater 600 feet deep and nearly a mile and a half in diameter.
To a distance of five miles from the college, nothing would be left. Those who saw the flash of light would be vaporized, houses would explode into raging flames, concrete surfaces would disintegrate, and glass would melt. Within 18 seconds, the shockwave, traveling at 300 m.p.h., would suffocate those who had managed to find shelter below ground level. Ten seconds later, the wind reverses would generate a firestorm which would devastate an area of about one million acres.
Seven to eight miles away, aluminum siding on houses would evaporate, concrete surfaces would explode under thermal stress, clothing would ignite, and people would be charred beyond recognition.
Ten to twelve miles away, glass fragments would hurtle through the air at 135 m.p.h., all the trees would be burning and then be uprooted by the shock wave, bridges would collapse, cars would be smashed, and wooden buildings would burn. Within half an hour those still surviving below ground level would be suffocated by the firestorm.
At a distance of 16 miles, lawns and leaves would ignite, paint would evaporate, people would be blinded and their skin charred, and cars would collide as their tires and their upholstery burst into flames. The shock wave would tear the roofs off houses and blow the walls in.
At a distance of 20 miles from the center of the blast, exposed skin would suffer third-degree burns, and combustible material would burst into flames. When the mushroom cloud had stabilized, covering an area of about 40 miles in all directions, radioactive particles would begin to settle to earth, raising the radiation level to an excess of 4,000 to 5,000 rads/hour, and delivering a lethal dose within seven to eight minutes.
These calculations are NOT MINE: they are from the Veterans for Peace, Inc. But these calculations coincide with calculations from other branches of the U.S. Government. Please note, however, that these calculations are only based upon a 20 MEGATON Nuclear Blast--which is a very SMALL blast, compared to the arsenal of Nuclear Weapons owned by the United States and Republic of Russia.
We are no longer facing Goliath with a sword and spear, we are facing world troubles at their WORST. We are now facing what the Prophet Yahyl (Joel) proclaimed that we would face, saying in:
Yahyl (Joel) 2:2-3, 31
2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, like the morning clouds spread upon the mountains. A great people, and a strong; there has not ever been the like, nor will there be any more after it, to the years of many generations.
3 A FIRE DEVOURS in front of them, and behind them a FLAME BURNS. The land is like the garden of Eden in front of them, but behind them a DESOLATE WILDERNESS; yes, and nothing will escape them.
31 The sun will be turned into DARKNESS, and the moon into BLOOD, BEFORE the great and terrible Day of Yahweh comes.
There is no use in deceiving ourselves: We are at the point where the PROPHETS SAID WE WOULD BE IN THIS GENERATION! And the longer we refuse to seek the help of our Creator, the WORSE our situation will become!
The governmental and religious leaders of ALL NATIONS need to make a combined effort to DO as the Prophet Chagyah was inspired to relate, saying in:
Chagyah (Haggai) 1:5-9
5 Now therefore, this is what Yahweh of hosts says: Consider your ways!
6 You have sown much, but bring in little; you eat, but do not have enough; you drink, but you are not filled with drink; you clothe yourselves, but there is none warm; and he who earns wages, earns wages just to put into a bag with holes.
7 This is what Yahweh of hosts says: Consider your ways!
8 Go up to the mountains, and bring timber, and BUILD THE HOUSE, so that I may take pleasure in it and BE GLORIFIED, says Yahweh.
9 You looked for much, but, lo it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew upon it. Why? says Yahweh of hosts; Because of MY HOUSE WHICH LIES WASTE, while each man is busy with his own house.
There is an absolutely amazing prophecy; a PROPHECY which Yechetzqyah was inspired by Yahweh to write. In it, he gives the MEASUREMENTS OF THE THIRD TEMPLE! These measurements have never been used before, in the manner in which Yechetzqyah gave them. The FIRST Temple was built under Solomon; the SECOND Temple was rebuilt under Zerubbabel; which was later refurbished by Herod. But what makes this prophecy AMAZING is the fact that this prophecy REVEALS that Yechetzqyah saw the Temple Mount in OUR DAY, WITH A BUILDING which sits upon it at the present time.
Not only this, Yechetzqyah's prophecies show us a DEFINITE way to PEACE, with a PEACEFUL SOLUTION to the PROBLEMS now existing between the Yahdaim (Jews) and the Arabs. Please notice carefully as this GREAT PROPHECY unfolds in the following pages. As you read, please keep in mind that Yechetzqyah's Prophecies were INSPIRED by Yahweh. Therefore, Yechetzqyah's PROPHECY written on the following pages will be just as sure to come to pass as the PROPHECY which Yechetzqyah wrote about the city of Tyre.
Yes, when studying Yechetzqyah's PROPHECIES, it becomes very clear that they were INSPIRED by a Superior Being! No human being could make prophecies such as those in Yechetzqyah Chapter 26, concerning a powerful city to be doomed to destruction, and then bring it to pass over 250 years later--in detail!
We should be able to see that Yechetzqyah was INSPIRED BY YAHWEH Himself to write these PROPHECIES. And therefore, we should think no less of the measurements of the TEMPLE Yahweh inspired to be written, also found in Yechetzqyah's prophecies. Through the Scriptures, we know:
In the past few years I and three other Engineers have traveled to Israyl in order to study the DESIGN OF THIS TEMPLE; the design that Yechetzqyah gives in this magnificent PROPHECY.
Many scholars have thought that Yechetzqyah made a 'mistake' as he wrote down some of the measurements; that he was just 'going by memory', trying to remember the measurement of Solomons's Temple, and therefore, memory failing him, he wrote the measurements 'wrong'. But this is NOT the case at all! First, we can see from the magnificent PROPHECY that Yechetzqyah wrote, that it is just that: A PROPHECY to take place at a later date. And more than that: It is a PROPHECY FOR OUR DAY!
Yes! Yechetzqyah shows us the Temple Mount as it appears AT THIS DAY--NOT his day! That is, when he was alive. Yechetzqyah 40:1-5, shows that Yechetzqyah was brought to the Temple Mount in OUR DAY, in OUR GENERATION! And the measurements that Yechetzqyah wrote have never been used before, but ARE TO BE USED NOW--by THIS GENERATION!
Yechetzqyah (Ezekiel) 40:1-5
1 In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the moon, in the fourteenth year after the city had fallen; in the selfsame day the hand of Yahweh was upon me, and He took me there.
2 In the VISIONS OF YAHWEH, He brought me into the land of Israyl, and set me upon the GREATLY EXALTED MOUNTAIN; and ON IT, like a BUILDING OF A CITY on the south.
3 When he took me there, then behold, a being; man-like, whose appearance resembled bronze. With a line of flax and a measuring reed in his hand, he stood in the clearing, or opening.
4 Then the being said to me; Son of man, look with your eyes and hear with your ears, and fix your mind upon everything that I show you; for the purpose that I show this to you, were you brought here. DECLARE all that you see to the HOUSE OF ISRAYL.
5 And behold, there was an ADJOINING SEPARATION: dividing structure, around a TEMPLE. In the being's hand was a measuring reed six long cubits; about 10 1/2 feet--each cubit; about 18 inches, with a handbreadth; plus about 3 inches. So he measured the separation's width TO THE STRUCTURE, one reed; about 10 1/2 feet, and the height; rise, one reed.
Yechetzqyah is NOW COMING, as it were, to the Whole House of Israyl, as Yahweh ordered him to do--NOT in 585 b.c.e. when he wrote this prophecy, but the TIME in which this was intended: FOR NOW!
It is possible for THIS GENERATION to actually bring in the Kingdom of Yahweh, and bring to a STOP the senseless bloodshed, oppression, and starvation which is rampant in this world. Even sickness and disease can be wiped off the face of the earth by THIS GENERATION, as the Prophets of Old clearly show.
The Prophets of Old show that THIS GENERATION has the greatest opportunity ever offered to mankind. The Prophets of Old show that WHAT WE ARE TO DO in This Generation will be so GREAT, it will be spoken of above the EXODUS which was lead by Mosheh! We read in:
Yeremyah (Jeremiah) 23:6-11
6 In His days Yahdah will be saved, and Israyl will dwell safely; and this is the Name that He will proclaim to them--Yahweh Tsidkenu: YAHWEH OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
7 Therefore behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that they will NO LONGER SAY; AS SURELY AS YAHWEH LIVES WHO BROUGHT UP THE CHILDREN OF ISRAYL OUT OF EGYPT;
8 But THEY WILL SAY; AS SURELY AS YAHWEH LIVES WHO BROUGHT UP AND LED THE SEED OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAYL OUT OF THE PROTECTED PLACE, and from all countries where I had driven them; and they will dwell in their own land.
9 My heart is broken within me because of the prophets; all my bones shake. I am like a drunken man; like a man whom wine has overcome, because of Yahweh, and because of His holy words; the Law and the Prophets.
10 For the land is full of adulterers; those who turn from following Yahweh to follow the gods (elohim). Because of this curse the land mourns; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up. Their conduct is evil, whose might is not right--
11 For both prophet and priest are profane! Yes, even in My own House I have found their wickedness! says Yahweh.
The great Prophet Yeremyah (Jeremiah) was speaking to US--IN THIS GENERATION; speaking of the things which YAHWEH is making possible for US TO DO!
The Nation of Israyl has not dwelt safely since the days of Solomon. Neither has "Yahdah been saved", because, as the Prophet Yeremyah has shown, our land is now FULL OF THE WORSHIP OF GODS!--FULL of our turning our BACKS ON YAHWEH! This Prophecy is for OUR GENERATION, and OUR GENERATION can change this and fulfill these Prophecies for our days.
Yechetzqyah was among the captives being physically held in Babylon, just as Yechetzqyah 1:1 says, but in the VISIONS OF YAHWEH he was brought to Israyl and set on the Temple Mount, as it is SEEN TODAY!
There is no evidence that Yechetzqyah ever PHYSICALLY returned to Israyl during the remainder of his life, but in the VISIONS from Yahweh he returned to the Temple Mount in OUR DAY--when ANOTHER BUILDING would be BUILT, sitting on the Temple Mount, SOUTH of where the Temple of Yahweh once stood! We see that a "City Building" or a "Public Building" is standing there in:
Yechetzqyah (Ezekiel) 40:2
2 In the VISIONS OF YAHWEH, He brought me into the land of Israyl, and set me upon the GREATLY EXALTED MOUNTAIN; and ON IT, like a BUILDING OF A CITY on the SOUTH.
This was not a 'CITY' that Yechetzqyah saw, this was ONE SINGLE BUILDING--a CITY building: a PUBLIC building!
Yechetzqyah was set on the Temple Mount--and sitting on the Temple Mount was the MOSLEM MOSQUE at the SOUTH of the Temple! This is all he could see, and that is exactly what he did see.
Yechetzqyah was not speaking about the "CITY" of Yerusalem; there would be no need to tell them about seeing "part of the city" to the south.
NO! This was ONE SINGLE BUILDING, which was, in fact, strange to Yechetzqyah, and rightly so--because he had NOT SEEN this BUILDING before, not ever. No PUBLIC BUILDING had ever stood there before, but in Yechetzqyah's VISION--a PUBLIC BUILDING was sitting there, SOUTH OF THE TEMPLE!
This BUILDING that Yechetzqyah saw was none other than The Dome of the Rock Mosque, which is sitting there at this time! This MOSQUE is to REMAIN in its same location, with a DIVIDING WALL separating it from the REBUILT TEMPLE!
This is a PEACEFUL SOLUTION to building the Temple in This Generation! This is a VIABLE PLAN whereby both faiths; Moslems and Jews, can worship side by side IN PRIVACY. Notice there is a WALL TO SEPARATE the Temple from the mosque, WRITTEN IN PROPHECY! We read in:
Yechetzqyah (Ezekiel) 40:5
5 And behold, there was an adjoining SEPARATION; DIVIDING STRUCTURE, AROUND A TEMPLE...
In Yechetzqyah's PROPHECY, the Outer Court is NOT REBUILT when the Temple IS REBUILT! Yes, the Rebuilt Temple sits right beside the Dome of the Rock Mosque, with only a dividing wall separating the Dome of the Rock Mosque from the INNER COURT. These measurements given by Yechetzqyah, show that this Dividing Wall separating this Mosque from the Inner Court serves NO MILITARY PURPOSE--it only serves as a privacy fence.
Never before in this history of the Temple has the Temple been built WITHOUT its Outer Court, but never before has there been a MOSQUE sitting on the Temple Mount!
Yahweh shows us that we do NOT NEED to harm the Arabs; we do NOT NEED TO FIGHT over the Temple Mount! Yahweh is showing us that we can and we SHOULD BUILD THIS TEMPLE on the VACANT LAND where the TEMPLE STOOD BEFORE, and that we should build a DIVIDING WALL TO SEPARATE the Arab worshipers from the Jewish worshipers!
This can be the salvation of Israyl and Yahdah! We are facing a time when only a Super Power can save us, and PROPHECY SHOWS US that this Super Power will save us--if we ACT NOW, by OBEYING the Laws, and fulfilling these SIMPLE PROPHECIES.
The troubles which are centered around the Middle East currently involve ALL nations. Any day now, these troubles could flare up beyond containment, risking national security everywhere.
We are not merely facing the possibility of war from the nations which surround us, but are facing the reality that all the world's major powers will be involved as well.
It is also every living being on the EARTH against the MIGHTY Nuclear Arsenal, stockpiled by nearly every nation on this planet. National leaders are FOOLS to rely upon the 'strength' of their ARMIES any longer.
Every day brings destruction one step closer. We need YAHWEH on our side now, and the WAY to have Yahweh on our side is to TURN TO the great Laws of Yahweh; then we will have PEACE! We read in:
Sefer Mishlei (Proverbs) 16:6-7
6 By mercy and truth INIQUITY IS PURGED; by REVERENCE FOR YAHWEH, men depart from evil.
7 When a man's ways PLEASE YAHWEH, He makes even his enemies be at PEACE with him.
We then read in:
Nachumyah (Nahum) 1:15
15 Behold, upon the mountains the feet of him who BRINGS GLAD TIDINGS, who PUBLISHES PEACE! O Yahdah, keep your appointed Feasts; perform your vows. Then the wicked will no longer invade you; HE WILL BE UTTERLY CUT OFF.
If we FAIL to do this simple task now, we can only expect Zecharyah's PROPHECY to be fulfilled in us, which says:
Zecharyah 7:12-13
12 Yes, they made their hearts like a hard adamant stone, in order NOT TO HEAR THE LAW AND THE WORDS, which Yahweh of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the FORMER PROPHETS. Therefore, GREAT WRATH came from Yahweh of hosts.
13 Just as I called, and THEY would not hear, so THEY CALLED, and I WOULD NOT HEAR, says Yahweh of hosts!
I said earlier that the measurements given by Yechetzqyah have never been used in any Temple previously. I do not believe we should insult an Inspired Prophet of Yahweh, many of whose prophecies have been fulfilled in detail, by saying that: Yechetzqyah made a mistake. We should realize these MEASUREMENTS were not used before, because they were WRITTEN FOR OUR GENERATION--and then WE SHOULD USE THEM NOW, IN OUR GENERATION!
In the past few years I have visited Israyl many times to work on these measurements, and working with me on this project are three experts in the fields of engineering and construction, who have visited Israyl for this same purpose. These men have spent hundreds of hours working to lay out the exact pattern of the next Temple according to the exact measurements of the Temple prophesied by Yechetzqyah.
Yahweh HIMSELF gave us these MEASUREMENTS; yes, Yahweh INSPIRED THESE MEN to see what He Himself had inspired to be written; who then saw YAHWEH'S MEASUREMENTS, and put them on paper for all the world to see.
I now want YOU to see that these MEASUREMENTS EXACTLY fit the area of vacant ground lying NORTH of The Dome of the Rock Mosque, ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
In the March/April 1983 issue of the Biblical Archaeology
Review, Vol. IX, NO. 2, Dr. Asher S. Kaufman--in his article on pages 40-58: Where
the Ancient Temple of Jerusalem Stood; extant 'Foundation Stone' for the Ark of the
Covenant Is Identified--has PROVEN that the First and Second Temples sat EXACTLY
IN LINE with the Golden Gate: the EAST GATE. Following is a diagram of
the "First and Second Temples superimposed on Temple Mount Platform", found on
page 57 of this article, showing a straight line running FROM the Golden Gate on
the EAST, directly TO the 'Dome of the Tablets', which now sits NORTHWEST
of the Dome of the Rock. The DOME OF THE TABLETS, as Dr. Kaufman has
also proven, is THE FOUNDATION STONE upon which the Ark of the Covenant
rested INSIDE the Holy of Holies!
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Yes, as Dr. Kaufman has proven in this article, the Original Temple Site is approximately 330 Feet (100 Meters) NORTHWEST of the Dome of the Rock. The Dome of the Rock was built SOUTH of it!
The next thing one must understand is the fact that Yahweh has established "A PATTERN" of HOW to build. And this SAME PATTERN has always been followed: whether the Tent of Meeting set up by Mosheh; the First Temple built under Solomon; the Second Temple built by Zerubbabel; or Herod's refurbishing of this Second Temple. And the Scriptural Dimensions have been given to us in These Last Days, through the Prophet Yechetzqyah, for the REBUILDING of Yahweh's Temple according to this SAME PATTERN!
When Yechetzqyah was given this Vision of Yahweh for the Temple of These Last Days, Yechetzqyah SAW THIS TEMPLE just as it would BE SET UP IN THESE LAST DAYS! And one of the first things which was confirmed to him was the "measure" which would be used for this Temple: the "long cubit"--a cubit plus a handbreadth. We read in:
Yechetzqyah (Ezekiel) 40:3, 5
3 When he took me there, then behold, a being; man like, whose appearance resembled bronze. With a line of flax and a MEASURING REED in his hand, he stood in the clearing, or opening.
5 And behold, there was an adjoining separation; dividing structure, around a temple. In the being's hand was a MEASURING REED SIX LONG CUBITS; about 10 1/2 feet--EACH CUBIT; about 18 inches, WITH A HANDBREADTH; plus 3 inches: about 21 inches.
Yechetzqyah (Ezekiel) 43:13
13 And these are the measurements of the altar in the LONG CUBITS; about 21 inches, the LONG CUBIT being a CUBIT; about 18 inches, WITH A HANDBREADTH; plus 3 inches: about 21 inches, And the gutter was a cubit deep, and a cubit wide, with a border of one span; a rim about 9 inches wide next to the edge of it all around; and this was the top of the altar.
In Dr. Kaufman's article, he ESTABLISHED the length of the CUBIT used in the construction of the Second Temple as that of the MEDIAN CUBIT; which was divided into Six Hand-breadths--a measure totaling 43.7 centimeters, a length of approximately 17.480 inches.
However, The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, Abington Press, Nashville, TN., Vol. 4, pp. 837: Weights and Measures, gives us this information about Yechetzqyah's cubit, saying:
The measuring reed of Ezekiel's escort in his visions extended in length "six long cubits, each being a cubit and a handbreadth in length (Ezek. 40:5). The word "long" (RSV) is not in the Hebrew, but clearly the text implies that there was a short cubit, the more common one, and that Ezekiel's cubit was this short one plus a handbreadth. The length of this cubit again is specified in Ezek. 43:13. If we take the common cubit, like the short Egyptian cubit, to consist of six palms, Ezekiel's cubit would be, like the long Egyptian cubit, seven palms, so that the six-cubit measuring reed would be seven ordinary cubits long. This would be, according to the foregoing calculation, 51.829 centimeters or 20.405 inches.
Therefore, the PATTERN used in building Yechetzqyah's Temple would be the SAME PATTERN which was established in the beginning by Yahweh for His House--only the LENGTH of each cubit would be EXTENDED by ONE HANDBREADTH, thereby making THIS TEMPLE a LARGER structure.
Digressing here, I would like to inform you that the LAWS of the Temple have already been established by Yahweh.
Zecharyah 4:9
9 The hands of Zerubbabel have LAID THE FOUNDATION of this House...
Yes, the ELEVATIONS and the LAND CONTOURING have already been prepared by Yahweh! All that remains is MINIMAL EXCAVATION of the existing courts to reach the FOUNDATION, which has ALREADY BEEN LAID!
The Foundation is UNDER the existing Platform of the Temple Mount, waiting for the construction to begin!
Measure The Pattern
We read in:
Yechetzqyah (Ezekiel) 43:10
10 Son of man, show the HOUSE to the House of Israyl, so that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them MEASURE THE PATTERN.
The word translated pattern in the King James Version, translated plan in the New International Version, is word #8508 in Strong's Exhaustive Concordance Hebrew Dictionary, and means:
The definition of consummation, from Webster's New World Dictionary, Second College Edition, Prentice Hall Press, Simon & Schuster, N.Y., 1986, pp. 306, is:
The definition of the word "pattern", from this same dictionary, pp. 1042, shows:
Therefore, Yechetzqyah's Temple will have specific dimensions in FULFILLMENT of the PLAN which Yahweh has given through Prophecy!
Following is the diagram of Yechetzqyah's PATTERN; his PLAN which Yahweh gave to him, superimposed on the Temple Mount Platform over Kaufman's First and Second Temple diagrams. As you can see, Yechetzqyah's Temple is a LARGER STRUCTURE than the first and second temples, due to the fact that Yechetzqyah's CUBIT is a larger cubit. But as you can also SEE, Yechetzqyah's TEMPLE MEASUREMENTS fit this area perfectly!
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Then, we come to the most conclusive evidence presented in the scriptures that Yechetzqyah was standing on the Temple Mount IN OUR DAY. This EVIDENCE is the FACT that the Outer Court of the Original Temple is NOT REBUILT in its ENTIRETY at the time Yechetzqyah's Temple is rebuilt!
Before we begin going through the Scriptures themselves. I must inform you that Yechetzqyah was being LED through this Temple Complex by a BEING, who measured with the reed of six long cubits, and who admonished Yechetzqyah to write what he saw as they WALKED ALONG.
Now, the first place they STOOD was on the Temple Mount, but the first place they BEGAN MEASURING was on the SOUTH. We find in:
Yechetzqyah (Ezekiel) 40:2, 5
2 In the visions of Yahweh, He brought me into the land of Israyl, and SET ME upon the greatly exalted mountain; and ON IT, like a BUILDING OF A CITY on the SOUTH.
5 ...So he MEASURED the separation's width TO THE STRUCTURE (To The Dome of the Rock), one reed; about 10 1/2 feet, and the height, one reed.
Yes, to the SOUTH of the inner court of the Temple, where they were standing, was the MOSLEM MOSQUE called The Dome of the Rock! And the Separation's WIDTH to this structure --to THIS MOSQUE--was one reed.
After they measured this 'separation' to this structure, Yechetzqyah and the being walked to the East Gate: the Golden Gate, and began its detailed measurements, as you may read in Yechetzqyah (Ezekiel) 40:6-16.
After this, they proceeded to the OUTER COURT Area of this Temple. We read in:
Yechetzqyah (Ezekiel) 40:17-19
17 Then the being brought me towards an OUTER COURT AREA. And behold, rooms; dwellings, and a PAVEMENT being constructed by the court all around; thirty rooms facing the pavement.
18 Now the pavement next to the inner gates, was the same as the length to the gates of the lower pavement.
19 Then he measured the width from the forefront of the lower gate to the outer front of the inner court, AT THE SEPARATION, a hundred cubits to the EAST; and to the NORTH, a hundred cubits.
The Temple Mount from the air. March/April 1983 issue of the Biblical Archaeology Review, Vol. IX, NO.2, p. 44
Viewing the Temple Mount from the air clarifies some of the features discussed in this article. We are looking south. The southern perimeter of the Temple Mount is on a line with the domed end of the El-Aksa Mosque (top center); the western edge of the Temple Mount is marked by distinctive walls with open arched entrances along much of its length. The eastern and northern edges of the Mount are just outside the area of the photo to the left and on the bottom. The Dome of the Rock on its platform dominates the Temple Mount. the Dome of the Tablets (circled in black) is an unassuming structure in the northwestern corner of the platform. The perimeter of the Dome of the Rock platform is clearly indicated by vegetation on the east (left) and north (bottom). On the west (right), vegetation marks half of the perimeter and the line continues to the southwestern corner where a small domed structure is located, Two archways interrupting vegetation accent the southern line of the platform on which the Dome of the Rock is located. These free-standing arches and others are at the top of stairways leading the platform from the lower levels of the surrounding Temple Mount. Although it cannot be seen in this view, the Golden Gate, in the eastern wall of the Temple Mount, is found on a line drawn to the east from the Dome of the Tablets.
I want to draw your attention to Yechetzqyah 40:19--to the FACT that there
are PAVEMENTS measuring 100 cubits; about 175 feet, in this OUTER COURT
which ONLY EXTEND to the EAST and to the NORTH!
In other words: There is NO PAVEMENT extending 100 cubits to the SOUTH, because that is WHERE Yechetzqyah saw the MOSLEM MOSQUE STANDING!
The following diagram shows this SEPARATION-PAVEMENT extending to the EAST and to the NORTH (Yechetzqyah 40:19), WITH the SEPARATION-RETAINING WALL one reed from THE STRUCTURE (Dome of the Rock) on the SOUTH (Yechetzqyah 40:2, 5).
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Digressing here, and to CORROBORATE the fact that the rock under the present day Dome of the Rock sat SOUTH of the inner court of the Temple in the outer court area (soreg) and the Mishnah [Middot 2:1] shows that the outer court area (soreg) was on the north of the Temple Mount and that the GREATER PART of the TEMPLE MOUNT outside the outer court area was on the SOUTH the next largest area on the east; then on the north and the smallest on the west!.
"The Temple enclosure [soreg1 on the Temple Mount] was 500 cubits by 500 cubits; it [the Temple Mount2 outside the soreg] was largest on the south; next largest on the east; then on the north; smallest on the west. The place where there was most measurement there was also most service."
1The Temple Mount of Herod had the 500 by 500 cubit soreg designating the outer court area. "At the end of the court was a soreg (a stone lattice work) which surrounded the consecrated area the Temple Mount proper in the narrow mishnaic sense, i.e., the "500 cubits by 500 cubits" (Mid. 2:1) ...to which were attached plaques written in Greek and Latin forbidding gentiles to pass that point on pain of death. Remains of these inscriptions bearing the Greek text (one complete plaque and one partly preserved) have been discovered in Jerusalem (in 1870 and 1936)." [Encyclopaedia Judaica, TEMPLE, STRUCTURE, The Temple Square]
2This is speaking of the Temple Mount not the soreg because it is written: "All who entered the Temple inclosure entered by the right, and turned and went out by the left" [Mishnah, Middot 2:2] Speaking of the south Temple Mount entrance and exit gates. "From the Mishna we also know that "the two Hulda Gates in the south that served for coming in and going out" were the main gates to the Temple Mount. ... The two gates in the southern wall are about 70 meters apart and served the pattern for entry and exit: "Whoever it was that entered the Temple Mount came in on the right and went around and come out on the left..." [IN THE SHADOW OF THE TEMPLE, The discovery of Ancient Jerusalem, The Gates of the Temple Mount, Meir Ben-Dov p. 135]
In Yechetzqyah's Temple vision, THIS AREA within the soreg to the SOUTH of the inner court of the Temple only extends ONE REED--about 10 1/2 feet!
Do you realize what this means?
This MEANS that The Dome of the Rock was Built on the
North of the Temple Mount on what is known as the SOUTH Outer Court
Area!
All of these MEASUREMENTS have been checked by us, over and over, And WE
DO HAVE these exact MEASUREMENTS of Yechetzqyah's temple: The Excavations; the Gates; the
Courts; The House of Yahweh with the Vestibule, the Holy Place, and the Most Holy
Place--ALL ACCORDING to this Prophecy inspired by Yahweh, and according to its EXACT
Scriptural dimensions.
Yahweh has GIVEN US these MEASUREMENTS! We, The House of Yahweh, have these MEASUREMENTS. They are READY and at your disposal! Let us BEGIN this momentous task to REBUILD The Temple of Yahweh for These Last Days!
An Urgent Plea To Leaders Of All Nations
In this article YOU have seen the plain, simple PLAN to bring PEACE, not just for Israyl, but in all the world. This PLAN, although written thousands of years ago, is viable for our time--a SIMPLE SOLUTION for PEACE; for a United Peace Plan for THIS GENERATION.
Chagyah (Haggai), the same Prophet who urged the people to REBUILD the Temple, was inspired to write for These Last Days, saying in:
Chagyah (Haggai) 2:6-9
6 For this is what Yahweh of hosts says: Once again, in a little while, I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land;
7 And I will shake all nations, and the most desired things of all the heathen will come; and I WILL FILL THIS HOUSE WITH GLORY, says Yahweh of hosts.
8 The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine, says Yahweh of hosts.
9 The glory of this latter House will be greater that the glory of the former, says Yahweh of hosts;
AND IN THIS PLACE I WILL GIVE PEACE, SAYS YAHWEH OF HOSTS.
I urge each of you to do your part to bring about the FULFILLMENT of this
PROPHECY! Quoting from the Jerusalem Talmud (Yoma 1:10) the
highly esteemed late Rabbi Pinchas Peli, writing the "Torah Today" column for The
Jerusalem Post, cover dated February 11, 1989, URGED THE REBUILDING OF THE
TEMPLE, saying:
"'Every generation in which the Temple has not been built is as if the Temple were destroyed in it'...Is ours perhaps such a generation?"
This Generation can be the one to BRING PEACE to this planet! And you, as a
leader, can be the historical figure who does the WILL of YAHWEH in bringing back the
Holy Temple! This could be the biggest PEACE PROJECT ever ventured in the
history of mankind, simply because of the magnitude of the WAR which all nations
now face. Yes, the most likely probability in the Nuclear War which lies ahead, is the
fact that there will be FEW SURVIVORS.
I urge you, as a leader, to DO YOUR PART in promoting the Rebuilding
of this NEXT TEMPLE; The Temple Yahweh inspired through Yechetzqyah, in the peaceful
manner which Yahweh has revealed to us, and to bring PEACE to Israyl and to the world.
Following is the Architectural Design of Yechetzqyah's Temple, as it would look sitting
NORTH of the Dome of the Rock Mosque ON the Temple Mount in These Last Days.
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Below: The Temple--Bayit Yahweh (House of Yahweh) Northeast View of Inner Court
and Temple
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The House of Yahweh, Abilene, Texas holds the following
Design Patents for the measurements of the
Third Temple Prophesied by Yechetzqyah: United States Patent #360951; Israeli
Design Registration #23078
The Alignment of the Temple and the
East (Golden) Gate
In the March/April 1983 issue of the Biblical Archaeology Review, Vol. IX, NO.2, Dr. Asher S. Kaufman--in his article on pages 40-58: Where the Ancient Temple of Jerusalem Stood; extant 'Foundation Stone' for the Ark of the Covenant Is Identified--has PROVEN that the First and Second Temples sat EXACTLY IN LINE with the Golden Gate: the EAST GATE.
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The Inner Court, Altar and Temple fit perfectly on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old
City next to the Dome of the Rock--just as it is written in the book of Yechetzqyah
(Ezekiel)!
East Gate
All inquiries concerning the rebuilding of the Temple can be addressed to Elder Hawkins at:
The House of Yahweh
Dept. I-Net
P.O. Box 2498
Abilene, TX. 79604
U.S.A.
E-Mail: hoy@bitstreet.com
Phone: 915.672.5420
Phone: 915.676.YHWH (9494)
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The House of Yahweh, Abilene, Texas holds the following Design Patents
for the measurements of the Third Temple Prophesied by Yechetzqyah:
United States Patent #D360,951; Israeli Design
Registration #23078
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