There's a question that
moves through Christian circles,
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will the temple be rebuilt?
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Join us today on
Back to our Roots
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as we explore that possibility.
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Welcome once again
to Back to our Roots.
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I am your host
Pastor Alex Schlusser,
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this is my
co-host... Rachel Hyman.
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And we are so happy
that you joined us today.
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You know over
previous shows we have dealt
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in small portions with
the temple and the idea.
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But today we're going
to talk about an aspect
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that we haven't
really touched on.
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And it's a real hot
button in Christian circles.
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When will the
temple be rebuilt? Or--
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Will the temple be rebuilt ever?
Will the temple be rebuilt?
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You know Rachel, have
you had any conversations
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with people with regard to that?
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Yeah, definitely you know,
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there's movement
that feels like--
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I'll tell you the most intense
experience that I've had is when
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people come up to me
and say, "You are Jewish?
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What are you doing
living in United States?
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I mean, you need
to go back to Israel
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or else the temple will
not be able to be rebuilt
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unless you are there because
all the Jews needed to be
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back in their homeland
before God has the capability
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of building up the
temple once again."
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And I am like, okay.
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Supposedly I am an
offence to some people
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because I've
chosen to live in America.
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Wow. I haven't had that but
I certainly have had my running
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with people that again, like
I said, it's a really hot topic.
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We're going to explore several
different aspects of it today
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from both the
Jewish perspective,
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from a Christian perspective
and what does the Bible
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more importantly
have to say about
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whether the temple is in
fact going to be rebuilt.
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Before we go any further, let's
bring out our resident scholar.
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All right. Our
friend, our bother, Sasha.
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How are you today
my brother? I am good.
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Good to see you,
Rachel. Good you see you, Sash.
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Good to see you,
Alex. Good to see you to.
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How are you doing? Pretty good.
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You are doing well.
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So, Sasha, our
topic today is the temple
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but more importantly, when
will the temple be rebuilt?
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Sasha, if we were to go back
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and let's just first start
off by talking about a purely
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Jewish
perspective on the temple.
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I know that on my visits
to Israel and to Jerusalem.
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There is a society
that has formed there
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that they are actually
reproducing all the different
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elements that the
Levitical priesthood would need
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once since they believe
the temple will be rebuilt.
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Once it is rebuilt they are
gonna have everything in place.
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What do you think
about that, Sasha?
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Well, yes, I've been
to this temple institute
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and I know very well Rabbi Glick
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who is the
director of this institute.
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I've seen this huge menorah
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which they have built, you know,
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on you know, with the
money of Vadim Rabinovich,
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the president of
Jewish community in Kiev,
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you know, a couple
of million dollars.
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They told me about the
issues they had, you know,
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they couldn't build it
like it says in the Torah
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from the pure gold without
having any metal support for it,
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otherwise it
collapses on itself.
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Then he shared with
me some other issues
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they are having like for example
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they have no idea how
to come up with red heifer.
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Right. Yeah,
I've read about that.
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They keep trying to
have that pure red heifer
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that's required as far
as what the Torah says.
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What are they
trying to make happen here?
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Well, they need a
unmarked red cow. Okay.
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Without any
splotches or anything
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because if you
go back into Torah,
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it was the ashes
of the red heifer
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that were used to purify
the Levitical priesthood.
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Right, in rebuilding the temple
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what are they
trying to make happen?
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Have the Messiah
come back or something?
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Well, this is the
very important thing.
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Well, let's not get
away ahead of ourselves
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because that's
jumping way to the end today.
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Okay. I want to
spend more time about
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what actually is happening
and what they are doing.
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Okay. Yes.
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What's happening is Judaism
is divided in that matter.
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Judaism is strongly divided.
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You have American Judaism
such as reform and conservative.
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They do not believe in
rebuilding of the temple.
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So about 60% of
the Americans Jews,
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reform and
conservative don't believe
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in rebuilding of the temple
because they are rational people
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and they
understand that rebuilding,
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attempt to rebuild
something on a temple mount
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will cause World War III.
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So that's what
their rationality.
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Well, first
people have to understand
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also that the
place where the temple
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would have to be build is right
where the dome of the rock is.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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So that mosque
would have to be removed
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from the temple mount
for the temple to be rebuilt.
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Like Sasha said
for that to happen,
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it would be World War III.
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You know it's crazy, Sasha,
is I remember many years ago
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when the scud missiles
were being launched at Israel
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there was this
running joke going around
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that one of the scud
missiles was going to hit
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the dome of the
rock and that's how God
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was going to
clear the temple mount.
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Of course we know that
that's not what happened.
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Right. That didn't happened.
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You know what's interesting
other things about this,
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Israeli government
could do it back in 1967.
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Moshe Dayan was
there at the temple mount
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with Israeli paratroopers and
he consulted Israeli government
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and Israeli government
consulted the Rabbinate
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and because they said,
what are we going to do.
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We kicked everybody out there,
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should we blow it
up and clear the place?
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And Israeli government
consulted the Rabbinate
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and the Rabbinate said,
no way you are doing that.
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The Rabbis forbade
this for two reasons.
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Number one, first of all
if you go beyond the wall
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of the temple mount on
the-- towards the Olive Mountain
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what you see is a
big, big cemetery.
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Right, an Arab cemetery.
Yeah. A Muslim cemetery.
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So if they blow it up
and start building it,
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from the
perspective of Levitical law
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which they have
to literally fulfill
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they will all be impure.
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Right because you can't
dig back up the dead like that.
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Now, I had heard,
Sasha, is this true
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that one of the reasons that,
that cemetery was placed there
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in the first
place was the belief
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that Messiah had to
enter through those gates
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that Jews believe that and
that this cemetery was put there
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so that that wouldn't happen.
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Actually, Muslims,
well, it is not a problem.
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It was put
specifically by Muslims.
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Muslims knew that
trick, they wanted the cemetery
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right there to
the temple mountain
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specifically to
prevent rebuilding.
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What the Orthodox
Jews, they do believe
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in restoration of the
temple but the Orthodox Jews,
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they believe that they
cannot do it on their own.
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Even the people at
the temple institute
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who know the blueprint and
things like this, you know,
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there's enough brave people
among the religious Zionist
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in Israel who could
attack this temple mount
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and do whatever they want to.
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It's not the lack of bravery.
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It's the clear understanding
from the perspective of Judaism
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that the Messiah
has to come first.
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Messiah has to clear those dead
graveyards with dead bodies,
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purify the area and
that would be a sign,
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a command for them to move in
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with building
equipment and start building.
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Now remember, we
are speaking right now
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in terms of a
Jewish perspective.
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Yeah, that's
how Judaism believes
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and Christianity doesn't--
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Christians really
are not aware about this.
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Right. We'll get to
the Christian perspective
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in just a few minutes.
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Is it also true Sasha,
that there are quite a few
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in the orthodox community,
I am talking about in Israel
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that really reject the
statehood of Israel saying that
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it was formed by man and the
state has to be formed by God?
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Oh, absolutely. Some
ultra-orthodox specific Jews,
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they do not accept
the state of Israel.
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Even though they
live there. Yeah.
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You know they have lived
there even before it was created
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but they've lived there
for totally different reason.
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They moved in there
maybe late 18 century
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and when modern Zionist movement
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which is by the way
absolutely secular moved in,
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they opposed them and they
oppose them until even now.
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So let's talk a little bit about
the Christian perspective, okay.
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Within the evangelical community
this is a big, big topic.
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It's based on a
dispensational view.
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And it's based on the idea that
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God is going to
at some point in time
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is going to remove
all the Christians,
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this is the idea of the-- some
would call it the secret rapture
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but it's going to remove
all the true believers, okay,
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before the
tribulation takes place
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and then He's going to turn
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to the Jewish people
and whoever the antichrist
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is going to come on to
the scene at this point.
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And based on
wrong interpretations
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I would say I
believe of the Bible,
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the whole idea of the
three and half year pact
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its gonna be made
and it's during that time
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that the evangelicals believe
that the temple is going to be
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rebuilt and that the antichrist,
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whatever position
he is in will allow,
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will orchestrate
things in such a way
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that the sacrificial
system would be reinstated.
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And then at the end of
that three and a half years
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he's going to
break the pact with them
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and is going to
defile the temple
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and then these big wars take
place and it's at the very end
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when it looks like
there's no hope left
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and the world is
going to come to an end
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that the Jews cry out and
Jesus comes and saves them.
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Okay, this is that
dispensational view.
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But as you mentioned at
the beginning of the program,
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it's really
predicated, one on the idea
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that all of the Jews
are going to be rounded up
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and are going to
be brought to Israel.
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And some people feel,
some people believe that
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if the Jews are not in Israel--
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Messiah won't be back.
The Messiah won't be back.
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Well, I have always
found that a little ludicrous
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that God is
dependant on what we do.
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Relying on us, yeah.
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That you know, the plan,
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His plan and that the return
of Messiah is based on it.
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Sasha, what do you
think about that whole thing?
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Well, obviously we
don't agree with that,
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that line of thinking.
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And we're going to talk
about in just a few minutes
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what the Bible has to say
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and what we believe
the Bible has to say.
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But what are
your thoughts on that,
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on that Christian perspective,
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evangelical
Christian perspective?
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You know this, this
Christian perspective
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is absolutely so
far from the reality
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and it has no
biblical foundation.
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So maybe we should
let start talking about--
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What does the Bible actually say
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when it comes to the
temple being rebuilt or not.
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Well, the best text from
the Bible I mean we do have text
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and we have to discuss
this, a large prophecy,
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large vision of
Ezekiel but look at Matthew 24.
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Matthew 24 is very specific.
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They come to-- the
disciple show to Jesus
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the buildings of the
temple and Jesus says,
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there won't be stone upon
stone on this-- at this place.
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Everything will be destroyed.
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I won't take it
you know, too far.
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Some people say that this,
the destruction of the temple
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is the punishment for the Jews
but it is not any punishment.
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The destruction of the temple
is in fact the signification
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of the end of the ritual system
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that pointed out to
what is happening today
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in the heavenly temple
and what happened on Calvary.
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And it also signifies to I
think, Jesus is saying that
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with the complete and
utter destruction of the temple
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we will never, you'll
never be able to go back to it.
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Exactly. Jesus is very clear.
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And Paul is very
clear about this.
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He discusses this under the
umbrella of the old covenant
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and he clearly says that
the old covenant has to be,
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you know, has to be done away.
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And the heart
of the old covenant
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is the sanctuary,
the earthly sanctuary
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to open the way to
the heavenly sanctuary.
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So when the evangelicals
who are so staunch defendants
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of the new
covenant talking about
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the restoration of the temple,
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what, is this
return to the old covenant?
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Are we reversing the
history of salvation?
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What are they
missing? Everything.
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Well, let's talk specifically,
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I want to spend a little bit
time with Ezekiel's prophecy.
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Why don't you talk
some about that to us?
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Yeah, that's the
foundation which is used.
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Although I have to say
and we'll deal with this.
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The real foundation is the
text found in 2 Thessalonians
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where it says
that the man of sin,
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son of perdition will
sit in the temple of God.
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And so--or if he has to
sit in the temple of God,
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then we have to
find that temple.
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So Jews has to come
back and rebuild the temple.
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And so let's find
where the temple--
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the prophecy Ezekiel 40-48,
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that's the
prophecy which is chosen
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for the
restoration of the temple.
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And indeed you have
here, Ezekiel has a vision
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but where, he's
shown the new temple
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and what needs to be done.
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He sees this
heavenly being walking
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with the measuring
rod, measuring everything.
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So it's basically a blueprint,
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it's basically like
Moses saw the tabernacle,
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Ezekiel sees this
magnanimous temple.
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To be honest if you
look at the Jerusalem today,
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the old city and everything,
to actually place this temple
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you have to really
destroy half of the old city,
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mostly the Muslim
quarter and that's the war.
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And to me it always
be like how can this be.
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Evangelical Christianity
is always emphasizing,
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you know, non-combatantcy,
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peacefulness
and things like that
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and now what they
are saying is hey,
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Jewish boys, go to
Israel and go to war.
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It's kind of nice, isn't it?
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You know they are not
sending their children
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to fight with Muslims
you know, they are precious,
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they are sending
our children to do this.
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And what I am saying
is this is not my opinion,
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this is what the
rabbis are saying
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when they discuss
this evangelical position.
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This is how
Jewish society receives,
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such a, "prediction."
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It's very offensive, you know.
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How come these
Christians are telling us
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to go to war for their cause?
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Are you
passionate about that, Sasha?
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Oh, yes, I am very
passionate about that.
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So how were they--
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if we're going back to
the prophecy of Ezekiel,
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where is there in that prophecy,
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where they're jumping
off in the wrong place.
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Well, I believe that the key
is to understand the last part.
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You know, you got to
read the entire vision.
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It's huge, it's from 40 to 48.
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You can't just glimpse at
it and say, that's' the temple.
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Since it was in
tribute it should be removed
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because the
prophecy is to be fulfilled.
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Well, first of all
people don't understand
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the function of
the prophecy you know--
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Or of the prophets.
Yeah, of the prophets.
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The prophet is to
change the way of the people.
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You know, it's the apocalyptic
books that predict the future.
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Prophetic books often
the prophecy is not fulfilled
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you know, John
is the best example.
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None of it was supposed to
be destroyed in the 40 days,
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it wasn't. So yes,
this prophecy was given,
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this was a vision that was
given to the people of Israel
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to the Judeans which were
in the Babylonian captivity
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and that's what
they were supposed to do.
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One other things which, why
this cannot be applied today
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is it's when you look at
starting from Chapter 43.
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That's' the
description and especially
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when you go to 46, 47,
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that's the
description of the prince.
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Right. Right.
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Yeah. This 46:2-6.
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Right. So let me
read a little bit of this.
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This is Chapter 46:2-8,
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"The prince shall
enter by the vestibule
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of the gate from outside,
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and shall take his
stand by the post of the gate.
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The priests shall
offer his burnt offering
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and his peace offerings,
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and he shall worship at
the threshold of the gate.
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Then he shall go out,
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but the gate shall
not be shut until evening.
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The people of the
land shall bow down
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at the entrance of
the gate before the Lord
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on the Sabbaths
and on the new moons.
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The burnt offering that
the prince offers to the Lord
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on the Sabbath day shall
be six lambs without blemish,"
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and it's going to go
on to this whole list
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of all of these offerings.
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And then
finally at the very end,
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"When the prince enters,
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he shall enter by the
vestibule of the gate,
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he shall go out
by the same way."
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Does this show
also then you know,
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the question is,
does this passage because
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it sounds like all
these offerings and everything
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I guess people want
to take this and go see
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this is the
prince, is the Messiah
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and look you have
all these offerings
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being establish after he comes.
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And what kind of sense is this,
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Messiah offering
sacrifices? Right.
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This is not right.
That would be weird.
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And who is that prince?
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You know, it doesn't look
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because in
evangelical perspective
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it's like the
antichrist, you know.
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So is this the antichrist
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or this is the
prime minister of Israel?
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Who is that prince?
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I guess the bottom-line is,
00:20:51.02\00:20:52.56
Sasha, that this
whole long passage
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of several chapters, is
this meant to be taken literal
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which is what
people are trying to do?
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This was literal to the
time-- But to the people.
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To the people,
no, not for today.
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This was a command which
Ezekiel was to communicate
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to the people of Israel upon
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when they would come
out of Babylonian captivity.
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The problem is that
not all Judeans went for--
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back home from Babylonian.
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Right and we know
that a lot of them
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stayed behind even
though many of them
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came out to build.
And that's the reason.
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You have to read
the Book of Ezra.
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In the Book of Ezra they laid
the foundation of the temple
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and it says that
the number of priests
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who knew the previous
temple they started crying
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because that
foundation was so small.
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In comparison to
what-- Comparison so.
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In fact we have a clear
description in the Book of Ezra
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that this task God
gave to Israel at this time
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was not fulfilled
because only the entire,
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all the people have to come out,
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otherwise there was
not enough resources.
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And therefore we have
to-- we cannot take it
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and bring it literal for today,
00:22:19.28\00:22:22.36
because as you can
see it's just knowledge
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just makes no
sense, the restoration
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of the sacrificial
system after the Calvary.
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Right. Right.
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Well, we'll jump on
that in just a minute.
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I want to go back to
that you've already alluded
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to 2 Thessalonians, right. Yes.
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And that is very commonly used
00:22:42.59\00:22:46.58
in the context
of the antichrist.
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Oh, yes. Okay.
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As I talked about that He
is going to make this deal
00:22:49.53\00:22:53.13
with the Jewish people
for the three and half years
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and then he's going to break it
00:22:55.14\00:22:56.28
and he's going
to defile the temple
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and sit in the seat and so on.
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See, this is all fantasy
which is not in the Bible.
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So what do you think
Paul is really talking about?
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Well, the Paul is talking about
00:23:05.33\00:23:07.37
someone sitting
at the temple of God,
00:23:07.40\00:23:10.57
no talk about the
deal with the Jews,
00:23:10.60\00:23:12.63
no talk about
all these defilement.
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Somebody sits at
the temple of God.
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What is the New Testament,
what is the temple of God?
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Where is the temple of
God in the New Testament?
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It's clearly up in heaven.
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Hebrews talk about this,
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Revelation is
talking about this.
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So that antichrist
affects the sanctuary in heaven.
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And we don't have
time to talk about this
00:23:36.63\00:23:39.13
but the Book of Daniel
7, in the Book of Revelation
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Chapter 13 is very clear
that this antichrist is a system
00:23:42.31\00:23:48.90
of false priesthood
that exist in a church.
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The priesthood
that for many centuries
00:23:53.29\00:23:56.16
during the Middle
Ages prevented people
00:23:56.19\00:23:59.14
to enter the real
heavenly sanctuary
00:23:59.17\00:24:02.04
by creating a
counterfeit sanctuary system
00:24:02.07\00:24:06.52
including even the
counterfeit sacrifices.
00:24:06.55\00:24:09.47
Right. Well, in
previous programs
00:24:09.50\00:24:15.81
we've talked a couple of times
00:24:15.84\00:24:17.38
now about the temple.
00:24:17.41\00:24:21.10
Where is the temple now?
00:24:21.13\00:24:23.04
And when we ask
somebody where is the temple,
00:24:23.07\00:24:25.71
we typically get two answers.
00:24:25.74\00:24:27.76
Temple is in heaven, yes.
00:24:27.79\00:24:31.42
But we've seen the temple
also existed in another place.
00:24:31.45\00:24:36.27
Temple exist, as Jeremiah said,
00:24:36.30\00:24:40.38
in the hearts to God's people.
00:24:40.41\00:24:42.17
So I guess the
punch line is when we say,
00:24:42.20\00:24:45.80
will the temple be rebuilt?
00:24:45.83\00:24:47.70
I could
probably comfortably say,
00:24:47.73\00:24:49.50
it already has. Yes.
00:24:49.53\00:24:51.89
At Pentecost, the temple of God
00:24:51.92\00:24:54.87
was rebuilt in the
hearts of the true followers
00:24:54.90\00:24:58.04
that we now are the
traveling temple wherever we go.
00:24:58.07\00:25:01.51
As I had said in previous
shows we are the Mishcon
00:25:01.54\00:25:04.08
which is the
tabernacle in the wilderness.
00:25:04.11\00:25:05.55
And that's' what
God wants us to do.
00:25:05.58\00:25:07.33
He wants us to be
able to move and present
00:25:07.36\00:25:09.78
His truth to
people wherever we go.
00:25:09.81\00:25:13.32
Rachel, it's time for a song.
00:25:13.35\00:25:15.42
Sasha is going to tell
us all about your song.
00:25:15.45\00:25:17.71
Yismach Moshe, Moses rejoice.
00:25:17.74\00:25:20.71
The song talks
about how Moses received
00:25:20.74\00:25:23.28
Ten Commandments
on the Mount Sinai.
00:25:23.31\00:25:26.22
Wow, Rachel.
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It's a fun song,
uh? That's a fun song.
00:27:31.91\00:27:33.40
Well, that's a
vocal workout too.
00:27:33.43\00:27:34.75
Yeah. Beautiful, beautiful.
00:27:34.78\00:27:37.75
So when someone
asked you the next time,
00:27:37.78\00:27:40.71
what do you think when
will the temple be rebuilt?
00:27:40.74\00:27:43.04
You can just patch yourself
and say, it already has.
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If you know Jesus,
it's in your heart.
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So may the Lord bless you
00:27:49.25\00:27:50.63
and keep you all
the days of your life.
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Join us once
again as we celebrate
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the Hebraic roots
on Back to our Roots.
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