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Jewish Sanhedrin To Slaughter Lamb In Passover Sacrifice Rehearsal
Ancient Ritual Slaughter Unites Enemies For A Day
And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate (Daniel 9:27).
April 28, 2008
Jewish Sanhedrin To Slaughter Lamb In Passover Sacrifice Rehearsal
Headline News Staff Writer
http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=15644
Jewish Sanhedrin To Slaughter Lamb In Passover Sacrifice Rehearsal
A Bible-adherent Jewish group (the Sanhedrin) ritually slaughtered a young lamb in what is called a "rehearsal" for the renewal of the Passover sacrifice once the Jerusalem temple is rebuilt. The Temple Movement won approval to carry out the practice sacrifice from Israel's High Court after animal rights groups asserted that the lamb would be put through inhumane suffering. In its legal response, the Temple Movement explained that the slaughter would be carried out according to biblical standards, which is the same method used to slaughter lambs at kosher slaughterhouses around the country. The sacrifice and accompanying religious ceremonies were performed at a prominent yeshiva overlooking Jerusalem's Temple Mount, which is still occupied by several Muslim shrines.
Anyone who knows anything about Bible prophecy knows the next steps in prophecy include the destruction of the Dome of the Rock and the rebuilding of Solomon's Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The Old Testament sacrifices will be reinstituted and the daily sacrifices as described in the books of the Law of Moses will be performed in Jerusalem again. However, anyone able to count and believe the Bible knows the count down to the rapture begins when the anti-Christ makes a pact with the Jews, then later double-crosses them. The anti-Christ will then take away the temple sacrifice and set up his own abominable system of sacrifice and worship to the devil possessing his heart.
Ancient Ritual Slaughter Unites Enemies For A Day
May 4, 2007
Ancient Ritual Slaughter Unites Enemies For A Day
by Ed O'Loughlin
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/ancient-ritual-slaughter-unites-enemies-for-a-day/2007/05/03/1177788310674.html
Tradition thrives in dwindling Samaritan community, writes Ed O'Loughlin in Nablus, West Bank. IN 1867 the writer Mark Twain encountered in the Palestinian town of Nablus a "sad, proud remnant of a once mighty community," now only a couple of hundred strong. "I found myself staring at any straggling scion of this strange race with a riveted fascination," he wrote in The Innocents Abroad, "just as one would stare at a living mastodon, or a megatherium that had moved in the grey dawn of creation and seen the wonders of that mysterious world that was before the flood."
Today the Samaritan people are still there, practicing an ancient faith and rituals that have changed little in more than 3000 years. As the full moon rose on a Monday, the world's 740 or so surviving Samaritans were again gathered high above Nablus on the holy mountain of Gerizim, the Bible's Mount of Blessings, to celebrate Passover. The celebration of the Israelites' escape from Egypt is a festival that the Samaritans share with the Jews, although the dates sometimes vary. But unlike the Jews, the Samaritans still mark Passover in the manner prescribed in Exodus, with the ritual slaughter and consumption of a sheep for every family.
Israeli civilians and their military escorts were joined by fundamentalist Jews from nearby West Bank settlements. Fascinated, they climbed and pushed into the sacred enclosure or perched on rooftops surrounding the holy site in the mountain village of Kiryat Lusa. “The settlers never used to come before because of religious differences," a veteran Israeli photographer said. "For them it is very interesting but also worrying. They like to say they have the oldest religion in the world but what the Samaritans do here is like the same but even older." As dusk gathered, the Samaritan community crowded in, most men and boys dressed in ceremonial robes or white pants, shirts and overalls. The 50 sheep were lined up along a narrow trench, while the men chanted ancient prayers in the Samaritan language. Then, at a signal from Elazar ben Tsedaka haCohen, the Samaritans' 81-year-old high priest, family elders simultaneously cut the throats of the sheep.
Blood was collected to mark the doorposts of each family in the manner prescribed in Exodus to be passed over by the Angel of God as he killed all the first-born in Egypt. Then the carcasses were skewered and roasted in giant fire pits, to be eaten after midnight. The Samaritans say that, like the Jews, they descend from the 12 Israelite tribes that accompanied Moses on the journey back from captivity in Egypt. As the Bible records, the Israelites split into two sometimes warring kingdoms - the Kingdom of Israel in the north known as Samaria, and the Kingdom of Judea (whence the name Jews) with its temple in Jerusalem in the south. According to Jewish tradition, the northern kingdom was destroyed by conquering Assyrians in the eighth century BC and its 10 tribes scattered, while Judea managed to survive in various forms until the early Christian era.
Samaritans beg to differ. They say they are Israelites who never left their northern homeland, maintaining an austere faith based solely on the first five books of the Bible, handed down by their only prophet, Moses. However, the Jewish Bible has 19 more books and numerous prophets. At one time numbering about 1.5 million, the Samaritans faced persecution at the hands of successive waves of conquerors - Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Persian, Arab, Crusader and Turk. Only 786 officially remain today, divided almost equally between Mount Gerizim in the occupied West Bank and the Israeli town of Holon. In Israel, which considers them to be Jews, Samaritan men usually perform their mandatory military service, but West Bank Samaritans prefer to avoid taking sides. In recent years many have been forced to abandon their original homes inside Nablus in the face of growing Muslim harassment.
Samaritan elders recognize that if they want to cling to their holy mountain it is necessary to maintain good ties with the peoples living around them. "People call Jerusalem the city of peace, but surely it's the contrary," said Benyamim Tsedaka, director of the Institute of Samaritan Studies. "But here for one day in the year… you will see Israeli officers and Palestinian officers sitting together, exchanging jokes and smiles. The day before they were maybe shooting at each other. That's why it's not only the Mount of Blessings. We are going to make it the Mount of Peace."
Sept, 2000
Behold, I Show You A Mystery
by Paul Brown
Perilous Times Press
Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand. And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days (Dan. 12:10-11).
But the wise shall understand. Anyone who has read their Bible knows the Christians are taken-up before the 7 years of tribulation. The Tribulation is further divided into two, 3-1/2 year periods of 1,260 days. However, the scripture in Daniel just quoted above gives a time period of 1,290 days. If you have ears to hear what the LORD is telling Christians: a warning, 30 days before the translation takes place. A person cannot date the rapture specifically but God is giving a warning-call one month before the event takes place. In the middle of the tribulation the anti-Christ will set up his image in the temple at Jerusalem for the world to sacrifice to the devil. This will be accomplished through peace treaties made with the Jews, thus allowing the Jews to make their Old Testament sacrifices at the temple before the Tribulation begins.
The scripture above is counting the days backwards from the middle of the tribulation. The rapture, to the middle of the tribulation is 1,260 days. The event that takes place one month before the rapture (1,290 days before the middle of the tribulation) is the taking away of the daily sacrifice of the Jews at the temple in Jerusalem. The daily sacrifice is different than the Passover lamb. The daily sacrifice takes place twice a day, in the morning and in the evening, every day. This is the offering made by fire which ye shall offer unto the LORD; two lambs of the first year without spot day by day, for a continual burnt offering. The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other lamb shalt thou offer at even....
What does this mean? That means Bible prophecy revealed the Jews returning back to Israel and reinstituting the the Old Testament sacrifices. Once Solomon's Temple is built, and yes the articles for the Temple are already fashioned (see TempleInstitute.org), and the daily sacrifices begin, the only sign left is for the anti-Christ to make a pact with the Jews and then slowly take away their rights with the daily sacrifices being the beginning of many. Once Christians witness that fact, you have thirty days for the trumpet to blow! He that hath ears let him hear.
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
(I Cor. 15:52).
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: (I Thess. 4:16).
