More Red Heifers and Temple Talk!

The buzz on red heifers continues to rise!

Why?

Because the Jews now want a Third Temple built because they want to start sacrificing animals to atone for their sins...and they can't enter the yet-to-be-built Third Temple unless they can purify the priests with the ashes of a perfect red heifer.

Numbers 19
19 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron: 2 “This is a requirement of the law that the Lord has commanded: Tell the Israelites to bring you a red heifer without defect or blemish and that has never been under a yoke.

Red Heifers In Israel Prompt 3rd Temple Speculation


The altar and sacred vessels have been reconstructed. The architectural plans are being drawn up. Now a group is taking another step toward fulfilling the biblical prophecy of a restored Temple by raising a group of red heifers in the land of Israel.

And evangelical Christian leaders are divided about what it means if the Third Temple, prophesied to play a key role in the end times, can actually be constructed in Jerusalem.

Before the Temple can rise, builders must secure a red heifer, or “para aduma,” a three-year-old female cow with totally red hair that is supposed to be able to restore a state of “purity” after ritual slaughter.

The Temple Institute, an Israeli organization dedicated to constructing the Third Temple, has launched a fundraising campaign on Indiegogo to breed such animals and has already succeeded in accumulating almost $15,000 in three days. The group’s previous campaign in 2014 succeeded in raising more than $100,000 to pay for the creation of construction plans that meet both architectural and Scriptural standards.

The group admits red heifers are not uncommon around the world, but claims a “para aduma” suitable for ritual use actually must be raised in Israel and meet painstaking specifications laid out in Scripture.

Therefore, instead of simply waiting for the appearance of a red heifer, the Temple Institute “has joined forces with an experienced cattle rancher” to use modern science to breed cows that meet the requirements.

Eventually, the cows will be used ritually as part of a “purification” process. The group further plans to train priests in the proper ritual use of the red heifers, identifying and selecting descendants of the “priestly tribe of Aaron” who are qualified to prepare the animals, and undertaking the “documentation and provision of the precise location on the Mount of Olives for the heifer’s preparation.”

However, the group may find more trouble when it comes to actually rebuilding the Temple itself. The Temple Mount is currently administered by the Jerusalem Islamic Waqf, and the Al-Asqa Mosque occupies the site of the Temple Mount.

Battles over access to the mosque and attempts by religious Jews to visit the site are also a continuing source of controversy. Still, the Temple Institute is ultimately hopeful about literally rebuilding the “Holy Temple.”

Joel Richardson, a filmmaker, evangelist, and New York Times bestselling author of “The Islamic Antichrist: The Shocking Truth About The Real Nature of the Beast,” warns the Third Temple is not an easy subject for those who believe in Jesus.

“The issue of the Third Temple is always a controversial matter among evangelical Christians. Some say that after the sacrifice of Messiah Jesus, it is a great offense to God to engage in any further sacrifices. Indeed, the Book of Hebrews says that the sacrifice of Jesus was ‘once and for all.’”

Read more at http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/July20/203.html#C2fIy6vu4vzSzOkJ.99

Love that last paragraph, because FOR SURE someone will be tempted to comment to me, "But Dennis, Jesus is the Temple and we don't need animal sacrifices...so this is all blasphemy!"

OK....let me try again and spell this out REALLY SLOWLY....religious Jews have NOT ACCEPTED JESUS AS MESSIAH!!  For this reason they are longing to build another Temple and start sacrificing animals to atone for their sins!  For them NOTHING HAS CHANGED from the Old Testament Mosaic law!

Temples and heifers has NOTHING TO DO with followers of Christ! Please tell me that makes sense.

The Jews who haven't accepted Christ are LOST IN THEIR SINS!  They are on the wide road that leads to destruction....just like ALL OF US WERE before we accepted Christ!

The buzz about Temples and heifers is exciting to prophecy watchers because it is just one more sign of how close we are to Christ coming for his bride and calling us all into the clouds!

1 Thessalonians 4
16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.

"But Dennis, I don't want Jesus to come yet!  I just retired and bought a travel trailer!"

"But Dennis, I don't want Jesus to come yet!  My family is still rejecting Him!"

"But Dennis, I don't want Jesus to come...because I don't believe he is ever coming back! What he meant when he said he would come back has already been fulfilled when he sent the Holy Spirit at Pentecost!"

Oh boy....guess you folks are just going to have to take all those comments up with Jesus.

As for me and my house, we are EXCITED to know the trumpet could blow any minute and the Age of Grace will be over and then we will be in the presence of our Savior FOREVER!