The Third Temple…

This is NOT a photo of the Kohen on the Temple Mount. This represents their holy attire.

I know an internationally known pastor, one of the celebrity pastors who actually gets visibly annoyed on the pulpit with regard to the Third Temple. He’s in denial. Oh, he is correct in stating that true believers, Christ followers do not need a Third Temple as Jesus is our Temple, but he gets visibly agitated when it is clear that at some point in the recent past, someone either wrote to him or spoke to him about a Third Temple being built in Jerusalem.

To the Jew, a physical Third Temple is required. It’s also required to fulfill Bible prophecy.

The inerrant Holy Bible clearly states a Third Temple will be built, and news of such in the works is available to anyone in the world just desiring to be a little aware.

The Third Temple is where the Antichrist will stand and declare himself God.

The world-famous pastor rarely, if ever preached about current times. Events in Israel. Bible prophecy. Or the Biblical times in which we all live.

And he is idolized and adored. Known the world over. Revered. Even worshipped by many. Though they might deny that it is clear in their behavior and words that they do worship the man.

While he becomes visibly, audibly annoyed, and refuses to acknowledge a Third Temple in Jerusalem is going to be built.

Imagine that…

Because, well, it’s in the Holy Bible and such a revered, well-known pastor would know such a matter, right, and not appear so troubled at having to speak of the reality of such things, right?

You would think…

I also know a pastor, a graduate of a theology school because we live in the age wherein no one can take a pulpit and preach unless having graduated from a Bible college, a seminary, or a theology school, right, as they all teach so well and turn out such men of God, right? And this pastor, in one of his sermons said, “Yeah, the Jews had this box they carried around with them, it had stuff and things in it that were kind of holy to them,” as he was attempting to teach those assembled before him of the Ark of the Covenant. Yeah, just some box for some Jews “kind of holy stuff,” trinkets, some holy stuff, you know.

Is it any wonder the Church is in the anemic sick condition it is, malnourished in the meat of the Word, in the whole truth, and nothing but the truth of the Word of God?

The Church, those seeking to know and hear the whole Word of God don’t need fearful weak pastors, nor hipster pastors attempting to please and appease and dumb down those in front of them. Because they are not well equipped or sound in the Word.

Not ever what people and the Church have needed. Not then. Certainly not now.

Ahh, my wife and I do not attend the churches where those pastors are installed and preach.

Read on…

Ken Pullen, Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024

“And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.”

Exodus 28:2

Full-Dress Kohen Sighted on Temple Mount

October 18, 2024

By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz

Reprinted from Israel 365 News

The Temple Institute announced a remarkable development that brought Israel one step closer to the Third Temple. For the first time since the Temple stood in Jerusalem 2,000 years ago, a kohen (male descendant of Biblical Aaron the High Priest) ascended to the Temple Mount wearing the Biblically mandated Kohanic garments. While on the mount, the Kohen joined in a prayer quorum and gave the priestly blessing to those gathered.

The Temple Institute prepared the garments in preparation for the return of the Temple service.

This impressive feat was accomplished despite the numerous extra-legal restrictions placed on Jews at the site.  There is no law preventing Jews from praying on the Temple Mount, and the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Jewish prayer several times. Jews do pray at the site in inconspicuous manners and out of sight from the Arabs, but the police frequently prevent this from happening. On Tuesday, Jews prayed freely in minyanim (quorums of ten).

On the first day of Rosh Hashanah, a group of Jews smuggled shofarot (ritual rams’ horns) onto the Temple Mount and, despite police efforts to stop them, blew all of the requisite shofar blasts for the holiday. Jews have recently begun performing the commandment of prostrating themselves on the stones of the Temple. In June, a Jewish man wore tefillin (phylacteries) at the site.

In August, the Biden State Department issued a statement condemning Jewish prayer at the site.

There are, in fact, three types of priestly garments:

An ordinary priest (known in Hebrew as Kohen Hedyot) wore four garments:

• Ketonet: A long linen tunic that reached until the heels.
• Avnet: A long sash made of linen and red, purple and blue wool, worn over the heart.
• Migbaat: A linen turban wound around the head.
• Michnesayim: Knee-length, linen trousers.

In addition to the four garments worn by every priest, the Kohen Gadol (High Priest) wore four more of his own.

• Choshen: Often referred to as a “breastplate,” it was a rectangular piece of cloth, folded and hung on the chest of the High Priest. Nestled within the fold was the Urim V’Tumim, through which G‑d would communicate. The choshen was decorated with 12 stones, each engraved with the name of one of the 12 Tribes.
• Ephod: Resembling a backward apron, the ephod was made from blue, purple, and crimson wool; linen; and fabric spun of gold.
• The choshen was suspended from the ephod’s shoulder straps, each holding a stone with the names of six tribes.
• Me’il: This was a blue wool robe worn under the ephod. A special mitzvah required that the neckline of the email not be torn. Its hem was decorated with alternating bells and “pomegranates” made from blue, purple, and crimson wool.
• Tzitz: The High Priest’s turban, called the migbaat, was slightly different from the cone shaped headgear of his colleagues. On it was affixed the tzitz, a golden plate engraved with the words: “holy to God”.

The High Priest wears these  “golden garments” all year. The High Priest had  two tunics, which he wore on the Day of Atonement; one for the morning, and the other in the evening (Exodus 28:4).

Five different materials were used to create the priestly garments:

• gold
• techelet, sky-blue wool
• dark-red wool
• crimson wool
• twisted linen