A PERSONAL MESSAGE ON THE 9TH OF AV 2014
The destruction of three temples
On the eve of Tish B’Av, world leaders in Europe celebrated the BEGINNING of World War I, and Obama celebrated his birthday.
I’m not making a prophetic edict on this, but I do see a connection as he sets up America, Israel, and the world, for the BEGINNING of World War III.
Read the book ofLamentationsand see that what happened back then, and what is about to happen now!
II Kings 25:1-11; II Chronicles 36: The destruction of Solomon’s Temple by the armies of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, 586 BCE, and the deportation of His people to Babylon for 70 years of captivity.
Regarding thedestruction of Jerusalem and of Herod’s Temple,70 CE, under Roman Emperor Titus: Matthew 23:36-24:2:
36 “Truly, I say to you, all this shall come upon this generation.
37“Yerushalayim, Yerushalayim, killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to her! How often I wished to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, but you would not!
38“See! Your house is left to you laid waste,
39for I say to you, from now on you shall by no means see Me, until you say, ‘Blessed is He who is coming in the Name of יהוה!’
Matthew 24:1-2:
1And going out, יהושעwent away from the Set-apart Place, and His taught ones came near to point out to Him the buildings of the Set-apart Place.
2And יהושעsaid to them, “Do you not see all these? Truly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, at all, which shall not be thrown down.”
As you see from the picture above of the fallen stones in the Archeological Park in Jerusalem, along the wall that connects to the Ha Kotel, the Romans threw down every stone, as Messiah said would happen. A portion of the outside wall of the Temple Mount enclosure is called “Ha Kotel,” or, “the Wailing Wall.” Notice the picture, above, inside the Arch of Titus in Rome--a tribute to Emperor Titus who took Jews captive, and also the menorah from the Temple. Rome still has that menorah in the underneath caverns of the Vatican. Recently, in protest of the Pope’s coming to Jerusalem, one prominent Israeli rabbi said that the Pope should not be allowed to come unless he brought what Titus stole from the Temple – primarily the menorah.
Daniel 9:26: “…the people of a coming prince shall destroy the city and the Set-Apart Place…” “The people,” -- this begins is a prophecy of Titus in 70 CE, the destruction of Jerusalem and Herod’s re-built Temple. But, “a coming prince” prophesies of the coming man of lawlessness--anti-messiah, first Beast of Revelation 13--who will come from the same place – Rome.
Today, as on every Tish B’Av, the Jews mourn the destruction of the two Temples by sitting on the ground, weeping, and reading Lamentations.
It is believed that both temples were destroyed on the 9th of Av (Tish B’Av). But, many other things also happened against the Jews on this day in history.
Beginning with BCE ….
Hebrew Year / Common Year / Event2448 / (1312) / Spies return from 40 days in Israel with evil reports of the Land of Israel. Jewish people cry in despair, give up hope of entering the Land of Israel.
(587/586) / Destruction of First Temple by the Babylonians, under Nebuchadnezar. About 100,000 Jews killed during invasion. Exile of remaining tribes in southern kingdom to Babylon and Persia.
3830 / 70CE / Destruction of Second Temple by Romans, under Titus. Over 2,500,000 Jews die as a result of war, famine and disease. Over 1,000,000 Jews exiled to all parts of the Roman Empire. Over 100,000 Jews sold as slaves by Romans. Jews killed and tortured in gladiatorial "games" and pagan celebrations.
3892 / 132 / Bar Kochba revolt crushed. Betar destroyed - over 100,00 killed.
3893 / 133 / Turnus Rufus ploughs site of Temple. Romans build pagan city of Aelia Capitolina on site of Jerusalem.
4855 / 1095 / First Crusade declared by Pope Urban II. 10,000 Jews killed in first month of Crusade. Crusades bring death and destruction to thousands of Jews, totally obliterate many communities in Rhineland and France.
5050 / 1290 / Expulsion of Jews from England, accompanied by pogroms and confiscation of books and property.
5252 / 1492 / Inquisition in Spain and Portugal culminates in the expulsion of the Jews from the Iberian Peninsula. Families separated, many die by drowning, massive loss of property.
5674 / 1914 / Britain and Russia declare war on Germany. First World War begins. First World War issues unresolved, ultimately causing Second World War and Holocaust. 75% of all Jews in war zones. Jews in armies of all sides - 120,000 Jewish casualties in armies. Over 400 pogroms immediately following war in Hungary, Ukraine, Poland and Russia.
5702 / 1942 / Deportations from Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp begin.
5749 / 1989 / Iraq walks out of talks with Kuwait, leading to Gulf War I
5754 / 1994 / The deadly bombing the building of the AMIA (the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, Argentina) which killed 86 people and wounded some 300 others.
Chart by Rabbi Mordechai Becher, Ohr Somayach
I might add to this that the day after Tish B’Av, on August 15, 2005, under pressure from America, over 8,000 Jews were forced out of Gaza, and some in Samaria, to give the land and their property to their enemies. Since then their enemies have has fired thousands of rockets into Israel. Just in the last few weeks they have fired over 2000 rockets into Israel. The 2005 “disengagement” was one of the greatest tragedies for Jews in modern times. Today, August 5, 2014, the rabbinic 9th of Av in Jerusalem, Arabs rioted on the Temple Mount once again, throwing stones on the Temple Mount, and below to Ha Kotel.
Before 586 BCE, because of the horrendous sins of His people against Him in Jerusalem--like idol worship and sacrificing their children in the fire to their gods, rebellion and defiance against His Torah (teachings and instructions of the Kingdom of Elohim), against His nature, ways, and thinking--He had to send “His servant,” Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon,to destroy Jerusalem, the Temple, and many of His people. (Jeremiah 25:9)
Yahuweh sent His prophets years in advance to warn the people to change their ways, but they would not listen. Jeremiah was the principle Prophet there when the judgment fell. He had preached 23 years to them, after the death of good King Josiah, but hardly anyone listened.
Yahuweh’s plea, found in II Chronicles 7:14, was given to Israel as His requirement for stopping His judgment: “IF MY people, who are called by MY Name, will humble themselves and pray, and seek My face, turn from their wicked ways, THEN I will hear from heaven and forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
What land is He talking about? Not America! He’s talking to those in Jerusalem around 585BCE. He’s talking about the land of Israel. Today, we, as His people, can humble ourselves and pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Psalm 122:6) We know from His prophets that Jerusalem will soon be destroyed, but He’s asking for humility and repentance so that it won’t be totally destroyed. He’s already pronounced total destruction on America!
He’s asking all those who know His Name, who are in Covenant with Him, to humble themselves! But, just like in the days before the destruction, most of His people in Western nationsare haughty, know-it-alls, religious intellectuals, and rebellious--whose nature is that of “selfish flesh.” Few know Him, and few heed His warnings of what is coming to the entire world because of sin. Pride, haughtiness, and rebellion is what brought His judgment then, and what will bring it now. But, hardly anyone is doing anything to allow His Spirit to humble them and transform their nature.
Isaiah 66:1-2: “For thus says Yahuweh, `The heavens are My throne, and the earth is My footstool…All these things My hands have made, and all that exist,’ declares Yahuweh. `Yet, to such a one I look: on him who is poor and bruised in spirit, and who trembles at My Word.’ ”
Isaiah 57:15: “For thus declares the high and exalted One who dwells forever, whose Name is set-apart, `I dwell in the high and set-apart place,
with him who has a bruised and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the bruised ones.’ ”
In 27 CE, when Messiah began His one-year teaching ministry in preparation for his death, He warned of the destruction of the rebuilt Temple by King Herod, an Idumean--an Edomite. The Idumeans migrated from Edom into Israel. They found favor with Romans in Jerusalem and in Rome.From 325 CE to today, the spirit of Esau has openly ruled Rome through its Roman Catholic Church.
The people of Messiah’s day worshipped the beauty of the Temple that Herod the Great built for them, but their hearts were far from Yahuweh. So, He sent His servant Emperor Titus in 70 CE to destroy it.
Today, we face the world reign of the 4th Beast of Daniel 7, the feet and toes of Daniel 2, the first Beast of Revelation 13--the Beast out of the pit in Revelation 9, 11, 17, and II Thessalonians 2. Isaiah 24 is just one example in the Word that tells of the destruction to come.
As the spirit of Babylon, and Nimrod its founder, began to move west, Rome became known as “the second Babylon.” Nimrod tried to build his tower to reach into the throne of Yahuweh so that he could kill Him. The whole foundation of Babylon/Rome is hate for Yahuweh, His Name, His Torah, His Messiah, and Their right to rule the earth. The spirit of Nimrod/Satan moved west across Europe as the Pope grew in power and dethroned emperors who would not bow to him. Then it crossed the Atlantic into America. America was founded for the very purpose of reincarnating and returning Nimrod to rule the world. The chief man-god of the Lucifer-worshipping Masonic elite is Nimrod, not Hiram Abif. Nimrod was given many names in many cultures, like Osiris in Egypt, and Apollo in Greece. Revelation 9:11 tells of the rising of Apollyon in our day. In II Thessalonians 2, describing the world ruler to come, he is called “the son of destruction.” The Greek word for “destroyer, or destruction” is “apolia,” from Apollo/Apollyon.
This Tish B’Av Jews mourn. But, they know that Elohim allowed the destruction of both temples because of the sin of His people. They long for the building of Ezekiel’s Temple, which will be built when Messiah comes. (Ezekiel 40-46; Zechariah 6:12-15)
But, how many born-again “believers,” today are mourning the near destruction of the temples of Yahuweh’s Spirit within His people?
I Corinthians 3:11-23:
11For no one is able to lay any other foundation except that which is laid, which is יהושעMessiah.
12And if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,
13each one’s work shall be revealed, for the day shall show it up, because it is revealed by fire. And the fire shall prove the work of each one, what sort it is.
14If anyone’s work remains, which he has built on, he shall receive a reward.
15If anyone’s work is burned, he shall suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved, but so as through fire.
16Do you not know that you are a Dwelling Place of Elohim and that the Spirit of Elohim dwells in you?
17 If anyone destroys the Dwelling Place of Elohim, Elohim shall destroy him. For the Dwelling Place of Elohim is set-apart, which you are.
18Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become foolish, so that he might become wise.
19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with Elohim. For it has been written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”
20and again, “יהוהknows the thoughts of the wise, that they are worthless.”
This morning, as I was drinking my morning green tea, not quite fully awake yet, Abba spoke to my spirit: “Today mourn the destruction of the temples within My people.”
In Acts 2, we read howMessiah poured out the Spirit of Yahuweh on those who chose to follow Him as Messiah and Master, as promised (Luke 3:16). When a person is born of the Spirit, there are 40 distinctive things that the Spirit of Yahuweh does within us to transform us into His likeness--His nature, ways and thinking--as we die to “self,” and become the servant of a new Master, in Covenant with Yahuweh.
“You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a set-apart nation, a people for a possession, that you should proclaim the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.” (I Peter 2:9)Are you proclaiming His praises to this generation?
Yahuweh and Yahushua grieve at how few have heard of Their gift of redemption and salvation, so that they might receive eternal life. In the West, “the laborers are few” because of selfishness. In eastern countries, especially in countries of persecution of believers, people understand that when they receive eternal life, it is their calling to share Him with all the people as possible. Because they have been “saved out of darkness, into His marvelous light,” and their sins have been forgiven, it is their joy to share His love with all possible. They “love not their lives, even to death.”
How weak and deficient is the gospel of the churches of the West! The attitude of many is that salvation is a grab-it-for-me deal, and a “fend for yourself” deal for everyone else. Oh the judgment that is coming on the “household of faith!”
Salvation is NOT about accepting a belief-system and joining a religion. It’s about laying down your will--your life--to pick up His will--allowing the Spirit to transform you into an entirely different creation. (II Corinthians 5:17-21) [Refer to: “The True New Birth” and other articles under “The Mikvah of the Spirit” on comeenterthemikvah.com]
But, with all those 40 things that Yahuweh’s Spirit does to set us free from the kingdom of darkness and transfer us into the Kingdom of Light, so that we are born from above, born again, He does NOT enter into our new born spirit to dwell until we ask Him. We have to ask Messiah to baptize us into the Spirit of Yahuweh, as He said He would. Then He comes in, He brings an increase in the fruit of the nature of Messiah (Galatians 5:21-24), His power, His gifts, and His Presence. His entrancebrings a transforming action that opens an eternal portal within us into Yahuweh’s realm, so that we might be taught by His Spirit from within us, be led by Him, be comforted, be encouraged, be exhorted, be loved, and grow up into maturity. He, Yahuweh, begins a His work in us when we put faith in the death and resurrection of Messiah Yahushua, and enter into Covenant with Him. Read the book of Acts!
When we are filled with His Spirit, which is Yahuweh Himself (II Corinthians 3:17-18), we humbly and contritely obey the Master as child-like servants, in training for reigning. We begin to grow in our relationship with Him. Slowly our flesh-oriented, sin-prone mind, emotions, intellect, and will, become aligned to the Spirit who dwells with us, as once He dwelt over the Ark in Jerusalem. Upon receiving His Spirit within our re-born spirit, our spirit becomes like the Most Set-Apart Place behind the veil, where Yahuweh abode with His people in the Temple of Solomon. His coming into us is similar to how He came down over the Ark at the dedicated of the Temple by Solomon. (II Kings 8:1-14) His entrance was powerful--the people knew He was there over the Ark of the Covenant!
By receiving the salvation of Messiah Yahushua by faith, and receiving the Spirit of Yahuweh within your “temple,” your spirit, you enter the Covenant of Yahuweh. You become a citizen of the Kingdom of Elohim! (Philippians 3:20-21) Bysubmission to His Wordour wild-horse rebellious mind is subdued and brought into alignment to His Spirit.
Psalm 32:8-9: “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go. I will guide you by My eye. Be not as the horse, or as the mule, which has no understanding, whose mouth must be held in by bit and bridle…”
When the Spirit rules us, our mind is under His control, and remains at peace. Then we are not head-strong, stubborn, and rebellious, but gentle and pliable in His hands. Our nature slowly but surely becomes consistent.
Yahuweh has allowed something horrible to happen because of man’s lust to do as he wills/sin. It began subtly in the 19th century, became more intensely concentrated in the 20th century, and has come to full-blown unbridled evil in the 21st century. Man and Satan have aligned to restore the dream of Nimrod, to wipe Yahuweh and His Torah off the earth once and for all, destroy His people, and wipe His image in human kind from earth by trans-human and transgenic creations. Yahuweh is preparing to send Messiah Yahushua with the full fury of His wrath on the whole world, beginning with Israel. The Word is full of descriptions of this happening.