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Wearing a turban and a light blue tunic threaded with silver, a man stands in a workshop in Jerusalem's Old City beside spools of white thread affixed to sewing machines. A painting of high priests performing an animal sacrifice beside the First Temple illustrates the function of the room. On Monday, the Temple Institute started preparing to build a Third Temple on Jerusalem's Mount Moriah, the site of the Dome of the Rock and the Aksa mosque, by inaugurating a workshop that manufactures priestly garments. After Efrat Chief Rabbi Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, a Kohen himself, gets measured for his own set of Kohanim garments, Aviad Jeruffi, the clothing's designer, strums "To Ascend to the Temple Mount" on his guitar in celebration. Priestly garments have not been worn since the destruction of the Second Temple by Rome in 70 CE and cannot be functional until a Third Temple is constructed. Kohanim, priests directly descended from Moses's brother Aaron, are recognized by the Institute as such if their paternal grandfather observed the tradition. Today, they have special religious responsibilities; in days of yore they performed the most significant duties within the Temple.
Approximately one-third of the commandments in the Torah cannot be accomplished without a temple, including the obligations of the Kohanim. But a Third Temple seems a flighty dream with nightmarish political implications to many, as both a shrine, the Dome of the Rock, and the Aksa mosque, Islam's third holiest structure, currently stand on the Temple Mount. Rabbi Yehuda Glick, director of the Temple Institute, says he assumes Muslims will be supportive when the Temple is ready to be built: "We already have some Muslims who are secretly in touch with us," he says. When the Temple is rebuilt, Kohanim must wear the proper outfit to perform their obligations, Glick continues. Each set has a turban, tunic pants and belt and is individually tailored at a cost of NIS 2,500."If it were a bathrobe for watching SNL [Saturday Night Live], it would not be worth it. But we're talking about people who have a very strong yearning for working in the Beit Hamikdash [Temple]," says Glick. Years of diligent research was needed to create the garments in conformance with Jewish law. Special flaxen thread was imported from India and overseas travel was necessary to obtain the correct colors for the clothes, including to Istanbul, to purchase mountain worms from which the correct shade of crimson is derived. The secret of the correct shade of blue has been lost since the destruction of the Second Temple, as the identity of chilazon, the snail from which it was extracted, was uncertain until the Ptil Tekhelet nonprofit organization identified it as the murex trunculus, aka hexaplex trunculus, the banded dye-murex found near the Mediterranean Sea."The Temple is not a message just for the Jewish people. It reunites the world all around one central prayer house. All the prophets say that at the End Times all the nations will be coming to Jerusalem and take part of building the Temple," Glick says.
Approximately one-third of the commandments in the Torah cannot be accomplished without a temple, including the obligations of the Kohanim. But a Third Temple seems a flighty dream with nightmarish political implications to many, as both a shrine, the Dome of the Rock, and the Aksa mosque, Islam's third holiest structure, currently stand on the Temple Mount. Rabbi Yehuda Glick, director of the Temple Institute, says he assumes Muslims will be supportive when the Temple is ready to be built: "We already have some Muslims who are secretly in touch with us," he says. When the Temple is rebuilt, Kohanim must wear the proper outfit to perform their obligations, Glick continues. Each set has a turban, tunic pants and belt and is individually tailored at a cost of NIS 2,500."If it were a bathrobe for watching SNL [Saturday Night Live], it would not be worth it. But we're talking about people who have a very strong yearning for working in the Beit Hamikdash [Temple]," says Glick. Years of diligent research was needed to create the garments in conformance with Jewish law. Special flaxen thread was imported from India and overseas travel was necessary to obtain the correct colors for the clothes, including to Istanbul, to purchase mountain worms from which the correct shade of crimson is derived. The secret of the correct shade of blue has been lost since the destruction of the Second Temple, as the identity of chilazon, the snail from which it was extracted, was uncertain until the Ptil Tekhelet nonprofit organization identified it as the murex trunculus, aka hexaplex trunculus, the banded dye-murex found near the Mediterranean Sea."The Temple is not a message just for the Jewish people. It reunites the world all around one central prayer house. All the prophets say that at the End Times all the nations will be coming to Jerusalem and take part of building the Temple," Glick says.
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SHALOM!
My inspiration comes from an ever evolving revelation of just who the King of the Jews is. The gentile 'church' has stripped the meaning of Messiah away from it's Hebrew origins. As you know, 'Messiah' comes from the Hebrew 'Mashiach' which is an office that CANNOT be seperated from the nation of Israel. When Yeshua told Peter 'Upon this rock I will build my 'church', the Hebrew word He used was 'knesset' which means 'called out higherarchy' from the congregation of Israel. 'Called out' to spiritually rule and reighn along with Him, NOT to leave Judaism and form a new ‘religion! Just as Jethro advised Moses to select captains to judge over thousands, hundreds, and fifties, Israel has a 'Knesset' today, which gives us a 'preview' of the Messianic' Kingdom that will rule for 1,000 years in the redemption. I think it' exciting to know that the Sanhidran has been reconvened after 2,000 years! He created man (In His image) to have dominion over the earth in it's 'garden' state and He said in Malachi 'I am The Lord God, I CHANGE NOT', and it's still His will that man 'Be fruitful, multiply, and dress and keep the garden'. Isaiah 27:6 tells us that in the redemption, the whole earth will become the global garden as originally intended. The book of John tells us at the GARDEN TOMB resurrection, Mary 'thought' He was the GARDENER, and she was right! Hebrew gardener's apperal was almost IDENTICAL to that of the High Priest's (minus the breastplateof stones etc...), and as the 'Resurrected First fruit', when He rose from the dead, HE HARVESTED HIMSELF! AFTER the millinium reighn on the earth, Romans 8 tells us that 'The whole creation waits for the FULL manifestation of the SONS (GARDENERS) OF GOD! We will plant seeds of His Kingdom throughout the universe! Imagine as your 'Heavenly' reward, a canvas that spans GALAXIES, with comets for brushes! The Holy of Holies IS the enter of the Temple Mount, which is the center of Israel, which is the center of the earth where God The Father and The Lamb are the light of of the redeemed creation(Revelation 21), and it is byt his light that we get our 'spiritual' perspective for our next assignments!
The Church needs to realize that the term 'Messiah' is an office of the government of Israel where He ill rule and reighn in Rightiousness from Jerusalem. God promised David that his Son will have an Eternal (1)House, (2)Throne, and (3)Kingdom!
Both Jews AND Christians need to also realize there is no ‘OLD’ or ‘NEW’ testaments.
There is only one God and He only has one Word! That ‘WORD’ manifested Himself as Yeshua Ha Mashiach Ben David. He warned that many false ‘christs’ would come, but there’s only one Yeshua!
He's NOT coming to rule from London, Washington, or even The Vatican. The leaves from the Tree of Life in Jerusalem will be given for the healing of the nations that will come to Jerusalem three times a year to pay tribute to The King of Kings!
The 'oldest' proffession is NOT prostitution as the fallen world claims, it's Gardening! (Read John 15)
SHEMA ISRAEL ADONAI ELOHEYNU ADONAI ECHAD!
HEAR O ISRAEL, THE LORD OUR GOD, THE LORD IS ONE!
Shalom,
The Gardener
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