However, several small organizations in Jerusalem believe the question is settled.
Next week Israel’s Ministry of Religious Affairs will sponsor a first-ever Conference of Temple Research to discuss whether contemporary Jews are obligated to rebuild the Temple. More recently The Temple Institute has begun to build the sacred vessels to be used in the Third Temple. In l982, after years of disagreement about methods of approach, three groups of devout Jews, The Jerusalem Temple Foundation, To the Mountain of the Lord and The Faithful of the Temple Mount combined their forces to plan for and build the Third Temple. Here are some media reports about what’s going on with regard to such preparations:
Even the cornerstones for the temple are hewn and kept ready. Now, how far have the preparations been made? Almost everything is ready to take off, including the foundation stones! All that is required now is for the Israeli government to give the green signal. The Temple Of Ezekiel’ by Lambert Dolphin – Groups such as The Temple Institute believe it is incumbent upon them to make all possible preparations in advance – and to build the Third Temple when the freedom to do so is gained…whether or not the Messiah arrives before or after a Third Temple is erected. Only a small number of Orthodox Jewish believers in Israel today believe that the coming Third Temple will be built by the Jewish Messiah when he appears. Some Jewish and Christian scholars think that the coming Third Temple will be followed by a Fourth or ‘Millennial’ Temple, which will be built by the Messiah when he comes. A model of the Third Temple, based on the prophecy in Ezekiel. Ezekiel’s temple is also very different in many details from the previous two temples. The new temple, which measures about 875 feet square, is much too large to fit on the present Temple Mount site. In Ezekiel chapters 40 to 47 is given a detailed description of the architecture and dimensions of this temple. In the Old Testament, there are several references to a future Temple in Jerusalem. The New Testament contains one reference to a Third Temple in Jerusalem at the end of the present age.įor that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. It was not the preparations for building the Temple itself that was the most incredible news to me, but the fact that this is probably the greatest of all signs that Jesus Christ is very probably coming in my generation, or surely in my children’s lifetime. It seemed incredible news, that a certain pivotal prophecy in the Bible should begin to be fulfilled in my lifetime for the building of the Third Temple is prophesied to occur just before the return of Christ. When I first received the news, about twelve years ago, that serious efforts were going on in Jerusalem to build the Third Temple, I was shocked. Which means the Jews as a nation are eagerly awaiting the construction of the Third Temple in Jerusalem. They pray three times a day for the restoration of the Temple. But there is another tradition that Jews have been observing daily up to the present day. This anniversary is known as Tisha B’Av, (meaning ‘9th of Av’), which is observed to this day in Israel. These two events were so tragic in the history of the Jewish people that the ancient rabbis declared the anniversary of the Temples’ destruction a day of mourning and fasting. The destruction of the two Temples took place about 656 years apart, but on the same day in the Hebrew calendar – 9th Av. This Temple was also destroyed, this time during the Roman siege of Jerusalem in 70 CE. The Second Temple was built on the site of the First Temple and was completed in 516 BCE. This latter temple was the Temple in which Jesus was dedicated, and where He taught and cast out the money changers on two occasions. Although modest in comparison to the First Temple, the Second Temple was later greatly enlarged and expanded by Herod the Great. Some seventy years later, approximately, Jewish exiles were allowed to return to Jerusalem to build an altar, the ‘Second’ Jewish temple, and finally the walls of the city. The First Temple, built by Solomon was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE – about 400 years after the Temple was constructed. There are three Temples in the lives of faithful Jews today. This event is among the surest signs that Christ’s return is imminent…very imminent.
Preparations for the construction of the Third Temple in Jerusalem have begun in earnest.
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